At this rate, we could see the record broken for the latest ever finish to any professional tennis match which I think is a few minutes short of 5:00am set recently; IIRC it involved either Daniil Medvedev or Alexander Zverev.
Of course we also cannot forget that classic between Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis which didn’t finish until around 4:30am at the 2008 Australian Open.
I can give you an update on that: The match being delayed was Sramkova-Maleckova, the final match being played on Center Court.
4:45am AEST is when it finally ended. If you take out all the rain delay, the match finished at 2:24am.
Let that sink in.
This morning, Alcaraz tweeted that he’s not playing at NBO either. His injury did not recover in time.
Forgetting the R16, at this rate you will not know any players on even the second round.
There were bizarre scenes at the Canadian Open on Thursday morning (AEST), with a highly unusual moment forcing the umpire to overturn his decision.
During the second round match between Gabriel Diallo and Matteo Gigante, the latter called for a review while on serve after claiming his rival’s return went through the net.
Hey so Davis Cup is coming up next month (over 2 days). Was just wondering which Aussie players are playing across the two days? Anyone know what day Alex is playing, or will he be across both days?
Alex De Minaur is a member of the Australian squad. The full team line up will be confirmed in mid August.
Quite a sight to see the lineup tomorrow at the National Bank Open. Everyone was here because they defeated a higher seed at the semifinal through a tiebreaker (except the doubles pairs.)
On BeIN 1 from 7am and Sportsnet from 9:30am:
On BeIN 2 and Sportsnet One from 8am:
Yesterday morning at the Cincinnati Open:
7:15am AEST - Power outage, all video feeds gone black
https://x.com/NoleLisickiFam/status/1955020193324773878
9:35am - Service resumes
Sometime after 10am - LED screen malfunctioned in the Sinner/Diallo match
Half-hour after that - Fire alarms went off, but players decided to play through
2:16pm - Day ended with Rybakina defeating Mertens
Today, we have a short rain delay around 10:27am
for only 15 minutes. Play quickly resumed, but for only 30 minutes.
A lightning delay is in effect, therefore play will not resume until at least noon… never mind, play will not resume at all.
Australian tennis player Thomas Fancutt has accepted a ten-month suspension for a doping violation by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).
Lleyton Hewitt named his side to face Belgium in Sydney in September: Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Jordan Thompson and doubles specialist Matt Ebden.
Roger Federer will play a celebrity doubles match in Shanghai on October 10, alongside 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles champion Jie Zheng and Chinese actors Wu Lei and Donnie Yen.
I want to bring you some horrible breaking news out of the Cincinnati Open.
Carlos Alcaraz has won the tournament.
The scoreline? 5-0, 23 minutes long. That’s it.
We don’t have a reason given immediately for why Jannik retires yet, but it will come today, I’m sure.
It appears he is sick with a bug
Thought someone had died for a moment. Not someone WDing from a final.
Well, it’s the final, the one you expect a WD the least. The emotion got me in selecting that word.
