Tennis

Indian Wells and Miami coming up ahead of the European clay-court season. As I write lovebirds De Minaur and Katie Boulter are having a stellar time. The Australian has just won Acapulco, beating...

https://www.606v2.com/t71416-iw-miami-and-the-clay-court-season-2024

If you look back at the 60s/70s/80s/90s my recollection of it is that most top male players peaked around 20-26. Most slam winners, and certainly most first time slam winners, were around that ag...

https://www.606v2.com/t71462-most-top-male-players-are-in-their-20s-now

So, after Thiem finally broke through to win US Open, who do people think will be the next player to win their 1st slam? Got a feeling this poll may not last quite as long as the previous one, bu...

https://www.606v2.com/t69783-next-player-to-win-their-1st-slam

The draw is out for the AO which has a Sunday start this year. Djoko has Sinner in his half, meaning Alcaraz and Medvedev are in the other half. Andy Murray begins against Echeverry and could mee...

https://www.606v2.com/t71360-australian-open-2024

Anyone seen this. On Netflix. On last episode of second season. It’s really good. Good to see a bit of behind the scenes and some good rivalries. Not heard of Shelton or Paul before this show, ...

https://www.606v2.com/t71373-break-point

The whole merry-go-round is about to start again. The main story surrounds Rafa, who makes his long-awaited comeback in Brisbane shortly. Djoko has said he expects great things from Nadal and rep...

https://www.606v2.com/t71343-2024-predictions-run-up-to-ao-24

Still plenty of big tournaments left this year, with some of the big boys back on court for the Asian swing. Alcaraz and Medvedev head the field in Beijing, with Murray having a tough opener v De...

https://www.606v2.com/t71235-tournaments-to-end-of-season-2023

Draw about to take place for the USO with singles starting on Monday. Difficult to look beyond Alcaraz and Djoko for the men's title, although the USO has been, statistically, the least predic...

https://www.606v2.com/t71200-us-open-2023

Post-Wimbledon events now in full swing ahead of the USO. New York is arguably the most open and hardest-to-predict Slam. It's the only one that since 2008 has not been dominated by the Big Three...

https://www.606v2.com/t71171-summer-tournaments-leading-up-to-us-open-2023

Wimbledon draw is published today. Should Djoko and Alcaraz progress at least they won't have to meet before the final unlike RG. There might be less pressure on Carlos next week as most will hav...

https://www.606v2.com/t71129-wimbledon-2023

Attention switches from clay to grass, with tournaments already underway. Andy Murray won Surbiton last week and is in the final again at Nottingham today. In Stuttgart Struff takes on Tiafoe in ...

https://www.606v2.com/t71116-grass-court-season-running-up-to-wimbledon-2023

Alcaraz and Djokovic drawn in the same half. Alcaraz projected to meet Norrie in R4. FAA projected to meet Tsitsipas in R4 - also projected to meet Alcaraz in the 1/4 finals. Djokovic pro...

https://www.606v2.com/t71093-roland-garros-2023

Thats all I can say. Thanks its been an incredible career. Greatest claycourter of all times and one of the best tennis players in history. 2024 will be his last year, and he will probably...

https://www.606v2.com/t71081-nadal-thanks

After IW and Miami attention switches to the European clay-court season culminating with RG. Monte Carlo starts next week. It was initially reported that Rafa would make his return at MC but the ...

https://www.606v2.com/t71022-clay-court-season-the-run-up-to-the-french-open-2023

Recently a thread was created based on Fed's chance to regain a #2 ranking with maybe a view to getting to number 1. It has been argued that Fed woudl not care much as his goal was winning slams ...

https://www.606v2.com/t27277-nadal-s-slippery-slope

Alcaraz roared back from a long lay-off by taking the title in Buenos Aires, beating Cam Norrie in straight sets. Medvedev's title in Rotterdam means he's returned to the top 10. Fritz was also a...

https://www.606v2.com/t70973-feb-march-2023-tournaments

The AO starts on Jan 16 with some notable absentees including number one Alcaraz, Naomi Osaka and Simona Halep. As I write Djoko has just won a three-hour battle with Korda to take the Adelaide t...

https://www.606v2.com/t70933-australian-open-2023

It's that time of year again to make forecasts for 2023. This will be the first "normal" year since 2020 due to Covid, Djoko bans, "pointless" Wimbledon etc. I'm tipping Djoko for the AO and, pro...

https://www.606v2.com/t70912-predictions-for-2023-season

A conversation I am having with Chat GPT. It's hit and miss but overall impressive. Note that chat GPT had the internet of some point in 2021 given to it, but doesn't have much info beyond a cert...

https://www.606v2.com/t70953-a-conversation-with-chat-gpt

We didn't have very many takers for the 2021 predictions so let's hope for a bigger response for 2022. Looking back to 2021, Djoko was favoured for Wimbledon and Nadal for the French. No one pred...

https://www.606v2.com/t70479-predictions-for-2022-season

After the Federer final farewell, we move on to the rest of the season. The race is on to be year-end number one in the men's, while Swiatek is far away at the top among the women. Djoko will be ...

https://www.606v2.com/t70837-tournaments-to-end-of-season-2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/63347377 Adverse result in doping test. Provisional banned.

https://www.606v2.com/t70867-halep-banned

Roger Federer has announced that the Laver Cup in London next week will be his last ATP event. So this is finally the end for the great Swiss superstar. Has he been, and will he remain, the be...

https://www.606v2.com/t70820-roger-federer-to-retire-official

Not been here in ages. With the sad news today thought of you guys on 606v2 with which I had so much fun back in the day. The GOAT debate, time violations, being banned by Julius for my spirited ...

https://www.606v2.com/t70822-end-of-an-era

Former US champion Dominic Thiem awarded as wildcard. Venus Williams also awarded a wildcard.

https://www.606v2.com/t70793-us-open-2022

Andy Murray is in Newport, Rhode Island, where last night he demolished Querrey with the loss of just two games. Andy is seeded 6th - and I'm not sure how long it's been since he was last seeded ...

https://www.606v2.com/t70760-summer-tournaments-leading-up-to-us-open-2022

34 32 today! May his fans rejoice in his presence and enjoy his brand of Tennis for a long time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7GtFhRaJMI

https://www.606v2.com/t47049-happy-32nd-birthday-to-roger-federer

Djokovic has spent a lot of time complaining about COVID restrictions during the pandemic. But I don´t recall him yet missing a big tournament as a result. For at least one tournament, I seem to...

https://www.606v2.com/t70467-djokovics-dilemma

Serena Williams has been granted a wildcard and will play

https://www.606v2.com/t70717-wimbledon-2022

For the first time since 2003: Djokovic, Nadal, Federer (or Murray) don't occupy a spot in the ATP Rankings top two. Federer was at No. 3, behind No. 1 Andy Roddick and No. 2 Juan Carlos Ferrero,...

https://www.606v2.com/t70718-atp-rankings-top-two

Andy Murray’s run at Surbiton ends in the semi finals as Denis Kudla comes from a set down to see off the former #1. 5-7 7-6 6-3 Think Murray will be generally happy with how things went th...

https://www.606v2.com/t70702-grass-court-season

Draw sections 1- Djokovic (possible R4 Schwartzmann or Dimitrov) 2 - Nadal (possible R2 - Wawrinka, possible R3 Fognini) 3 - Zverev 4 - Alcaraz (possible R4 Norrie/Thiem) 5 - Ruud 6 - Tsitsipas (...

https://www.606v2.com/t70683-french-open-2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/61401519 Basically means Djokovic will lose his #1 sometime after Roland Garros.

https://www.606v2.com/t70686-atp-strips-wimbledon-2022-ranking-points

IW and Miami are done and attention switches to the clay-court season culminating in RG. How much of this period will involve Medvedev playing is uncertain, while Rafa will miss part of the clay ...

https://www.606v2.com/t70619-clay-court-season-the-run-up-to-the-french-open-2022

F A-A has beaten Murray and Cameron Norrie on successive days to reach the semis in Rotterdam. He's doing really well. Djoko is expected to be back in action soon. Be interesting to see crowd rea...

https://www.606v2.com/t70550-feb-march-2022-tournaments

After the Novaxgate saga, we get down to action for the AO 2022 with no Djoko and a chance for someone else to win the men's title. In Novax's absence, I would think that one of Medvedev, Zver...

https://www.606v2.com/t70508-australian-open-2022

After what could be described as a sensational USO, we move into the autumn tournaments that will round off the 2021 season. The big tournament coming up is Indian Wells which has been moved from...

https://www.606v2.com/t70381-autumn-2021-tournaments

A huge, global, media spotlight continues to shine on our recently-crowned teenager USO Champion Emma Raducanu, whose professional career began just a few short months ago. There has been much sp...

https://www.606v2.com/t70392-the-ever-growing-wealth-of-roger-federer

The draw has been made and, as has been mentioned in the previous topic, Murray has the short straw this time - Tsitsipas in the first round. Cameron Norrie has a tricky first round, against Spai...

https://www.606v2.com/t70354-us-open-2021

https://www.espn.co.uk/tennis/story/_/id/32218094/long-toilet-breaks-men-tennis-the-atp-source Maybe Tsitipas will have to wear a nappy going forward...

https://www.606v2.com/t70377-atp-grew-a-backbone

Thought it was worth putting up a joint thread to cover the Olympics tennis tournament in Tokyo and the hardcourt summer swing build up to US Open. The inclusion of tennis in Olympics seems to be...

https://www.606v2.com/t70309-tokyo-olympics-north-american-hardcourt-summer-swing

Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Monfils! Gael & Elina Tie The Knot Congratulations to the new couple.

https://www.606v2.com/t70300-congratulations-g-e-m-s

The draw is out for Wimbledon, with defending champ Djoko opening against GB's Jack Draper. Djoko is, of course, clear favourite and won't have to play Rafa or Thiem who have had to drop out alon...

https://www.606v2.com/t70258-wimbledon-2021

Only two weeks of grass court play this year before Wimbledon. Two 500-pointers at Queen's and Halle already underway. As mentioned earlier on the French Open topic, there was an excellent win by...

https://www.606v2.com/t70242-pre-wimbledon-grass-court-tournaments-2021

RG starts tomorrow (Sun May 30) and such is the long list of women's champs that two GS winners - Azarenka and Kuznetsova - will meet on the first day. Thiem, Zverev, Tsitsipas and Osaka are all ...

https://www.606v2.com/t70211-the-french-open-2021

Big tournaments at Madrid and Rome to come before the slightly-delayed French begins. Rafa, naturally, will be favourite. In some ways there was more chance of an upset last autumn when Rafa had ...

https://www.606v2.com/t70136-run-up-to-french-open-2021

With the AO over, it's time to look ahead to spring. There are plenty of tournaments going on and we await the return of a certain 39-year-old Swiss to the action. Having reached the final of an ...

https://www.606v2.com/t70026-march-april-2021-tournaments

So, the draw has been made, with Thiem in Djokovic's side of the draw.  Can Thiem capitalise on his US Open success and go a step further than last year?  Is Nadal physically fit enough to last...

https://www.606v2.com/t69971-2021-australian-open

Shall we try and predict next year's slam winners, Olympics winner, and year end no. 1? Might be worth predicting which of these will actually go ahead while we're at it! I expect the slams will ...

https://www.606v2.com/t69897-2021-predictions

3 week delay for the opening major of the year. Season will commence on January 8 with events in Delray Beach and Antalya. Australian Open qualifying has been moved to Doha starting January 1...

https://www.606v2.com/t69885-australian-open-start-pushed-back-until-february-8