Australian Open Day 11

[Xtreme]

Sam Smith: "Let me tell you a bit about the time Angie and Simona first met on court."
Baz: "Nup. Let ME tell you about Chocko Williams for absolutely no reason."

Halep leading 4 - 0
Kerber in trouble early................

You don't say Basil!!!!!

 

[ChookMFC]

And the Kerbinator begins her comeback…

 

[estibador]

What a weird first set.

 

[Hamingja]

No Basil Kerber doesn't feel closer to the first set than Halep at 3-5 you idiot.

 

[pepsi]

Get lost Basil you incompetent fool.

 

[Hamingja]

So the warm up has completed

 

[BobbyMorri]

going to miss the rest of this

 

[pepsi]

Cue another baby crying.

 

[ChookMFC]

Kerber's trying to hit her balls too flat. She's being too aggressive and is putting random balls into the net as a result. Needs to just lengthen the rallies.

 

[Arbuckle]

Cue another baby crying.

Yep. Sigh.

Why on Earth does anyone *ever* take a baby to a professional tennis or golf tournament?

 

[Hamingja]

Does Halep not have an apparel sponsor? AO hat and doesn't look like anything on her dress?

 

[Acinath]

Does Halep not have an apparel sponsor? AO hat and doesn't look like anything on her dress?

Correct, I remember them saying something about this in an earlier match

 

[Arbuckle]

Does Halep not have an apparel sponsor? AO hat and doesn't look like anything on her dress?

Yep, correct. Used to be with Adidas but that ended recently.

 

[pepsi]

Does Halep not have an apparel sponsor? AO hat and doesn't look like anything on her dress?

No she doesn't! From what I can read into it, Adidas did not offer her enough to renew her contract. Not blonde, not American, not from a popular country. So despite being number 1 and a possible title winner here, she is uncontracted to an apparel sponsor. She bought this "lucky red dress" online before the tournament started.

 

[juice t]

Does Halep not have an apparel sponsor? AO hat and doesn't look like anything on her dress?

It turns out Adidas didn't want to pay a world number one

 

[pepsi]

Halep is playing a great match by the way.

 

[ChookMFC]

Halep is just destroying Kerber right now. I mean it makes sense, she's the world number 1.

 

[ChookMFC]

Kerber needs to be willing to play long rallies but she's just not right now.

 

[Hamingja]

Bit of everything really. Halep playing well. Kerber playing poorly. Combine those two points with Kerber's serve always being a bit of a liability and we are where we are at.

 

[ChookMFC]

Go Angie! Holds to get it to 4-4 despite facing 2 break points.

 

[ChookMFC]

Drop shotting a serve? Well when it's 112 kph it makes sense.

 

[ChookMFC]

Hoo-wee! Angie breaks and gets to serve for the second set! C'mon Angie!

 

[ChookMFC]

Wow. We're going to 3 sets. Wouldn't have thought it possible after those first 4 games of this match. But Kerber has settled a bit and (most significantly) Halep has revived old bad habits.

 

[Marcus DuQuesne]

lol.

In current form how is Halep v Kerber ordinary?

Ist semi was a shocker...jury still out on the next one..should be a better contest you would hope. For the money these girls are taking money under false pretences. Kerber one dimensional..Halep should win.

 

[Hamingja]

Halep turned on the error machine at the end of that set. Gets tight the girl.