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Edited by Mulan at 25-1-2017 11:59 AM
Day 11: Thursday 26 January
RLA ONLY
ROD LAVER ARENA
11:00 AM
Men's Doubles - Semifinals
Bob Bryan (USA) [3]
Mike Bryan (USA) [3]
vs.
Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP)
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)
Not Before: 2:00 PM
Women's Singles - Semifinals
CoCo Vandeweghe (USA)
vs.
Venus Williams (USA) [13]
Women's Singles - Semifinals
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO)
vs.
Johanna Konta (GBR)[9]
or
Serena Williams(USA)[2]
ROD LAVER ARENA
7:00 PM
AUSTRALIA DAY CEREMONY
Not Before: 7:30 PM
Men's Singles - Semifinals
Roger Federer (SUI) [17]
vs.
Stan Wawrinka (SUI) [4]
Men's Legends' Doubles
Pat Cash (AUS)
Goran Ivanisevic (CRO)
vs.
John McEnroe (USA)
Patrick McEnroe (USA)
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wawawaaa.... exciting!
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One of the great stories of this years Australian Open: Mirjana Lucic-Baroni
So this has been talked about on the 2017 Australian Open WTA thread and I think this is a great story and just going to share it with you.
Mirjana was a very successful junior player. In 1996, aged 14 she won the junior girls US Open singles and doubles, a few months later she also won the 1997 junior Australian Open singles title.
She turned pro a couple months later in 1997 and entered her first WTA event in Bol. She qualified for that event and went on to win the title, defeating the world number 3 Amanda Coetzer in the SF. She then played her 2nd tour event in Strasbourg where she again came through qualifying and went on to make the final, losing to the great Steffi Graf.
In 1998, aged just 15, Lucic-Baroni played her first doubles tournament at the 1998 Australian Open. She partnered Martina Hingis and the pair won the womens Australian Open doubles title. She also reached the 2R in the singles. Lucic-Baroni also defended her Bol title later in the year that she won aged 15, making her the youngest player to defend a tour title, aged 16. She played her 2nd doubles tournament at the Tier 1 Tokyo Open and again won the doubles title with Hingis, aged just 15. She also reached the 2R of singles at Wimbledon and the 3R at the US Open.
In 1999, aged just 17, she reached the Wimbledon SF with wins over #4 Monica Seles and #8 Tauziat.
However, all through this, she was struggling with personal demons. Her father was attacking her and her family. She was another victim of the overbearing tennis father. In an article from 1998, she said
"Beatings... there have been more of them than anyone can imagine," the 16-year-old Lucic told the newspaper, Slobodna Dalmacija. "Sometimes it was because of the lost game, in other cases for the lost set. I don't want to even say what happened after the matches I lost."
Marinko Lucic, who was also his daughter's coach and adviser, denied the accusations that he mistreated her because of sporting failure: "If I slammed her, that was because she didn't behave nicely, never because of tennis."
She is seeking a restraining order to prevent her father from interfering with her at the US Open next week, where she plays Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands in the first round.
"When I was beaten in Wimbledon and when father attacked mother, I decided to start a new life," Lucic said.
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Aged just 16, she (along with her mother and 4 siblings) fled her country to the United States where they received political asylum. After arriving, she was diagnozed with PTSD from her fathers abuse. Following that Wimbledon SF run, she began suffering from health problems along with financial problems. She played sporadically during the 2000's, played no grand slams between 2004-09, and just two tournaments in total between 2004-06.
In 2007/2008 she began her return on tour again. She won some ITF titles and played some tournaments. Made some slam 2R and a few tour QF's.
In 2012, she reached the 3R of Wimbledon, defeating top 10 player Bartoli (who would go on to win Wimbledon the following year)
Her big break came in 2014. At the US Open, she defeated 25th seed Muguruza in the 1R and stunned world number 2 Simona Halep in the 3R to reach the 4R of a slam for the first time since Wimbledon 1999. She lost to Errani. A month later, she played a WTA event in Quebec where she won the title defeating former world number 1 Venus Williams in the final. As such, she has the record for the longest gap between winning a tour title. 16 years and 4 months betwen Bol 1998 and Quebec 2014. She also won the doubles event in Quebec!
In 2015, she again stunned number 3 Simona Halep at a slam, this time at the French Open where Halep was the defending finalist. She went on to reach the 3R. In 2016, she reached another tour final, again in Strasbourg, she lost to Caroline Garcia.
And now in 2017. Ranked 79th coming into the Australian Open, she won her 1R match against a Chinese player. Her first match win at the Australian Open since 1998 (19 year gap). In her 2R she stunned world number 3 Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets. She defeated Maria Sakkari in the 3R and Jennifer Brady in the 4R and is now into the QF of a slam for the first time since 1999. She is also into the doubles QF, partnering Andrea Petkovic.
Check out her on court interview after her 4R win today. Very good.
That's a bit on Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. Definitely one of the stories of the 2017 Australian Open in my opinion  Hope you found it interesting and sorry for the long thread!
I received some assistance from:
http://www.news.com.au/sport/ten ... 11429077876abd8d292
http://www.independent.co.uk/spo ... father-1174812.html
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Game nadal ni kan kalau tak 2-3 pagi..time org nk pegi keja
cuba ler turun court kul 5-6 pg time org dah bgn tidur,boleh la layan |
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AO Expert: Nadal's 'three serves'
Rafael Nadal has been dominating in three of the four service categories.
Photo by: Ben Solomon/Tennis Australia
Three serves.
You may not have noticed, but Rafael Nadal has been dominating with three serves at Australian Open 2017 instead of the regular two. Well, sort of.
Here’s the shakedown on the win percentage for Nadal for the four serves that are hit in a match to the quarterfinals in Melbourne this year.
First Serve Points Won = 73 per cent
Second Serve Points Won = 67 per cent
Second Serve Return Points Won = 55 per cent
First Serve Return Points Won = 34 per cent
Nadal has a winning percentage on three of the four serves that are hit in a match. You may as well hit three of the four serves if you own them statistically.
The spectacular number in these metrics is the 67 per cent points won on his own second serve. That leads the tournament this year. Nadal is actually career No.1 on the ATP Tour in second serve points won at 57 per cent. He is currently an astonishing 10 percentage points higher than that.
Stop and think about that for a second. Huge servers such as Ivo Karlovic, John Isner, Nick Kyrgios and his quarterfinal opponent, Milos Raonic, are not in the same ballpark on second serve points won. Raonic is winning a very respectable 57 per cent in Melbourne this year, but that’s still a significant 10 percentage points behind the Spaniard.
Nadal is serving like a man possessed, and also owning the baseline in a similar manner. He is third best for the tournament in baseline points won at 56 per cent (305 of 543). Nadal’s forehand is the engine room of his back court dominance, crushing 72 winners to only 15 off the backhand wing.
The tournament average between forehand and backhand winners so far is 69 per cent forehand winners / 31 per cent backhand winners, but Nadal’s forehand is currently running on high octane, hitting 83 per cent of his backcourt winners.
These are troubling numbers for Raonic.
How do you beat a guy with three serves, and a three-headed monster as a forehand?
Nadal is always looking to reinvent himself, change something slightly to get an improved result. In recent years we have seen him change his grip on his serve to hit it harder and flatter, and also stand much wider in the ad court to primarily take away being hurt by the cross court return.
Now we something else that’s new – the shotgun approach.
In the ad court, Nadal is serving here, there, and everywhere. We expect him to hit his nasty slider out wide almost exclusively, but that simply hasn’t been the case in Melbourne so far.
Nadal ad court first serve direction
wide = 52 (34 per cent)
body = 43 (28 per cent)
middle = 58 (38 per cent)
Nadal’s number one ad court first serve location has been right down the middle, directing 38 per cent there. He has also hit 28 per cent at the body. Against Alexander Zverev in the third round, he hit 17 body serves in the ad court, and 20 out wide. Almost the same.
Raonic’s main counter to his opponent’s guile and subterfuge is to simply take the racquet out of Nadal’s hand. The less Nadal gets to hit the ball, the better for Raonic.
Leading up to the quarterfinals, Raonic has played 75 per cent of total points in the 0-4 shot range, 19 per cent in the 5-8 shot range, and just six per cent in the 9+ shot range.
That means that on three out of every four points, the maximum amount of shots in the rally are just two for each player. A serve, a return, and some loose change. If Raonic can keep close to that average against Nadal, then he is in with a real shot.
These two guys are in the quarters for a reason. They can both play ball. They definitely go about it in different ways, and whoever can make their opponent bend more to their own intentions will find themselves in the final four. |
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look at it this way... i pulak berbelah bagi antara nak balik awal dgn tanak balik... dup dap dup dap..
nak buat apa pun tak kena gaya 
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dok kat opis pon lagi tak tenang u
kejap2 nak check live score,tu blm kuar masuk pantry lagik buat kopi
hadoiiiii debar la
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steadylah baby Rafa
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Plsss Rafa....Ko kena menang in straight set utk mengubat hatiku yg lara atas kekalahan Pliskova! |
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Grigor lwn Rafa - tak tahu nak sokong sape..tawakkal aje la. Hahaha |
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2nd set memang sakit perut doh!
dengan tgk curi2 lagik..adoiii aii..nak jerit vamos pon tak boleh
seksa giler..
my baby is back.Yesss Rafa!!!
Fedal in semi,Williams sisters in semi..wow,bring back all the memories
mcm tengok tennis zaman2 2004,2005 gitu.absolutely love it
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Post time 25-1-2017 08:31 PM
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kikiharris replied at 25-1-2017 04:55 PM
steadylah baby Rafa
Huhuu.. i kan terlalu gabra nk tgk live scores.. derang punya match start 4:30pm waktu Msia.. i p buat kerja, mute kan hp siap2. Abis kerja still xde keberanian nk tgk scores. I p tuang myk keta la.. p psr mlm laa.. balik rumah mandi lama2 dulu dah tenang sket barulah bukak hp nk livestream.. huhuu.. Rafa dah 2-1 kat 3rd set.
So arini x merasa saspen & nak kena heart attack sgt .. tp of coz i happyyyyy sgt2 ..
Rafa bukan main lagi celebrate mcm la dah juara  & looking good.. confident... determined... shots menjadik... |
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Post time 25-1-2017 08:35 PM
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kikiharris replied at 25-1-2017 07:52 PM
2nd set memang sakit perut doh!
dengan tgk curi2 lagik..adoiii aii..nak jerit vamos pon tak bo ...
Yesssss... those were the days |
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Post time 25-1-2017 08:39 PM
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cyclops_psycho replied at 25-1-2017 07:00 PM
Plsss Rafa....Ko kena menang in straight set utk mengubat hatiku yg lara atas kekalahan Pliskova!
KaPlis tu injured ke? Kemarin katanya peha berbalut... td baca kata ada med time out.. |
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Post time 25-1-2017 08:47 PM
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cyclops_psycho replied at 25-1-2017 07:20 PM
Grigor lwn Rafa - tak tahu nak sokong sape..tawakkal aje la. Hahaha
Dimi byk improve eh...
vamos rafa!! |
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Mulan replied at 25-1-2017 08:39 PM
KaPlis tu injured ke? Kemarin katanya peha berbalut... td baca kata ada med time out..
Yes, cedera di kaki..hope dia okay lepas ni. |
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Mulan replied at 25-1-2017 08:47 PM
Dimi byk improve eh...
vamos rafa!!
Yup, sgt impress dgn Dimi..tak kalah lg utk tahun 2017..good start for him dan akhirnya menunjukkan potensi sebenar sbg salah sorang pencabar grand slam. |
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Congrats, champ! Rest well tonight. Mwahh!!
Bahahahhaha!!!
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tapi mmg berdebar u..time dah blh menang..time tu la unforced errors beranak ranak..stress!dgn nak kena tutup mulut tgk match..sengal betul.
amboi siap g pasar malam tau
ni mmg betul2 nk hilangkan nervous tu!
tapi mmg nampak dia puas hati celebrate mcm menang GS la..
kadang2 i mcm nak je Rafa & Venus jd champion..esp Venus sebab dah lama sgt tak pi jauh dlm GS
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Dimi & Stan bagi chance je pada Fedal boleh
we all semua nak tgk dream final ni.
makan tahun ooo tunggu..pleaselah |
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Post time 25-1-2017 03:33 PM
