Australian Open tennis 2020

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got barty playing my favourite in petra kvitova

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barty and kvitova is going to be a close game ive got petra to win though in 3 close sets a lot of the experts are writing off petra but petra is a fighter

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Barty won to become the first Oz woman in decades to make the SF.

Meanwhile, Federer is in trouble, seemingly with a back injury.

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Federer and Sandgren are into a 5th set, after Federer, looking a bit freer now, won the 4th-set tiebreak. Federer has had to save 7 match points to get it this far.

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Bit of a choke from Sandgren should have won the match instead its in a fifth set rodger will now go on and win it

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Federer won the last set 6-3 I told you so Sandgren choked it

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Fed said it's a groin (not back) injury.

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Djokovic has cruised to a 2-sets-to-love lead against Raonic.

(Update: Djokovic won in straight sets.)

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"Austrian fifth seed Thiem – who faces world No.1 Rafael Nadal in the quarter finals – has been handed a $4500 fine for receiving coaching during a match.

The incident took place during his second-round, five-set epic win over local hopeful Alex Bolt.

Since that match, Thiem has confirmed that he has now parted ways with coach and former world No.1 Thomas Muster, but has been unwilling to go into the specifics."

(Fairfax)

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Winners today should be:

kontaveit
Muguruza
zverev
nadal

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I think Halep is the only player between barty and the trophy

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Deep in the first set, Nadal & Thiem have traded breaks.


[In the crowd, one of the three greatest post-war Oz batsmen watches on. Sitting next to him is Steve Smith (who of course is a flat-track bully with defective technique and an embarrassing streak of selfishness -- but that's a topic for a different thread).]

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Shortly before 9pm, Thiem wins the first-set tiebreak.

Courier thinks Wawrinka & Federer may have better cross-court backhands, but Thiem the best down the line.
(I'm not so convinced about Federer's backhand.)

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Shortly after 11.30pm, leading 2 sets to 1, Thiem serves for the match, but fails and the match continues.

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Thiem wins in four sets, 76 76 46 76.

There will be one new finalist and one old finalist.

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Barty loses.