Talk About Tennis 2.0

This is a Sunday start.

There are no entry lists out yet but this is the general discussion thread so I think it's okay to start a thread like this.

i wonder what conditions will be like - is Australia getting hotter like everyone else? or is it only a northern hemisphere thing? The heat and humidity are often a major factor - especially Europeans from cold climes struggle a lot here - Americans do well, because they are used to heat and humidity in Florida etc.. I wonder how Sabalenka manages it so well.. trains in Dubai maybe?

Argentina, in the Soutern Hemisphere too, is getting hotter. Australia will be unpredictably hot too.
Or not. By now, we need to expect that.

There are 6 men and 6 women competing in this year's AO using protected rankings which seems like a lot.

On the men's side, Nick Kyrgios, Pablo Carreno Busta, Reilly Opelka, Jenson Brooksby, Kei Nishikori, and Dominic Stricker

For the women, Belinda Bencic, Caty McNally, Saisai Zheng, Jodie Burrage, Danka Kovinic, and Julia Grabher

any sign of Kvitova?

It's got to be a terrible feeling finishing between 99-104 and the rankings, starting your off-season, and then halfway through it finding out you are not in the main draw of AO

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2024 10:02 am any sign of Kvitova?

I don't see her coming back. She strikes me as somebody who was already leaning towards retirement and now her life has those new aspects.

I read an interview a few months ago where she said she is planning to come back in 2025 sometime, but had a difficult childbirth that led to an emergency C-section, which has had a long recovery time.

Fastbackss wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2024 11:14 am It's got to be a terrible feeling finishing between 99-104 and the rankings, starting your off-season, and then halfway through it finding out you are not in the main draw of AO

And instead Jodie Burrage is…

For context the current 99-104 ranked players are Nuria Parrizas Diaz, Yuliana Starodubtseva, Rebecca Marino, Harriet Dart, Alycia Parks, and Sara Errani.

For the men it’s Jacob Fearnly, Federico Coria, Lucas Pouille, Dominik Koepfer, Mattia Bellucci, and Marton Fucsovics

I am looking forward to Rybakina coming back strong.. dont expect Swiatek to win this.. conditions are too fast for her, perhaps.. Sabalenka again, then, or Coco - possibly Rybakina..hoping for Noskova and Andreeva to do well..

Probabilities:
Sabalenka 40%
Coco 40%
Rybakina 10%
Field 10%

Men;
Sinner 80%
Djokovic 10%
DeMinaur 5%
Alcaraz 5%

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:22 pm This is a Sunday start.

There are no entry lists out yet but this is the general discussion thread so I think it's okay to start a thread like this.

Actually, according to the website (https://ausopen.com/schedule#!pre-tournament), this is a SATURDAY start. According to the website, not only is the tournament adding an additional day of Round 1 play, but they are also shifting the tournament one day earlier. So, whereas the tournament went Monday - Sunday in 2024, in 2025 the tournament appears to be going from Saturday to Saturday.

This doesn't make complete sense to me. I suppose it is possible the website is wrong, but I will plan as if the website is correct.

Nope. The website is set to YOUR LOCAL TIME. Because you are in the US, you are seeing SAT to SAT because you are too far back in the time zones. The tournament is actually SUN to SUN.
Go to the top and click off the SHOWING LOCAL TIME button. That way you see the Melbourne schedule.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:22 pm Nope. The website is set to YOUR LOCAL TIME. Because you are in the US, you are seeing SAT to SAT because you are too far back in the time zones. The tournament is actually SUN to SUN.
Go to the top and click off the SHOWING LOCAL TIME button. That way you see the Melbourne schedule.

Thank you! Thought they went insane, thought "local time" meant local time in Melbourne.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2024 7:06 am Probabilities:
Sabalenka 40%
Coco 40%
Rybakina 10%
Field 10%

Men;
Sinner 80%
Djokovic 10%
DeMinaur 5%
Alcaraz 5%

Revised -
Coco 50
Saba 35
Rybakina 10
Swiatek 4
Field 1 (people here don't like 0!)

Sinner 80
Djokovic 5
Alcaraz 5
DeMinaur 5
Field 5