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Author Topic: The Cricket, and maybe some other sports as well  (Read 9388 times)
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reebty
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« Reply #75 on: Jun 23, 2010, 01:52:51 PM »
FOT. THE. WUK.
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« Reply #76 on: Jun 23, 2010, 02:01:32 PM »
Streaming here: http://www.atdhe.net/20580/watch-wimbledon-mahut-vs-isner
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« Reply #77 on: Jun 23, 2010, 02:04:09 PM »
this is like a tennis match TO THE DEATH
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« Reply #78 on: Jun 23, 2010, 02:08:56 PM »
Craziness!
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« Reply #79 on: Jun 23, 2010, 02:55:38 PM »
Isner, 50-49. Approaching the 9-hour mark.
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« Reply #80 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:06:49 PM »
Isner is fading fast, but he's still in there. 51-51.
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« Reply #81 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:12:45 PM »
Quote from: edison on Jun 23, 2010, 01:41:46 PM
39-39 right now. I wanted to wait until the match was over to make dinner, but I'm afraid I'll starve.

And I was waiting to start my homework, but I'm afraid it will never get done.
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« Reply #82 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:19:19 PM »
Isner's gotta win it here...he's got some momentum. 53-52.
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« Reply #83 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:21:14 PM »
....sigh.
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« Reply #84 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:25:57 PM »
You'd have to put your money on Mahut to win this, but Isner keeps winning the points he needs to stay in it. And the standard of tennis is really quite high, extraordinarily so in the context: Isner in particular in putting in a few tired strokes and sub-standard serves, but he's still got a mean forehand in him.
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« Reply #85 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:27:50 PM »
Oh shit...Isner's two away!


....aaaaand he couldn't get 'em.
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« Reply #86 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:45:21 PM »
113 games in the 5th set...and ZERO break points...this is unreal
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« Reply #87 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:46:30 PM »
Actually, Mahut had two which Isner fended off.
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« Reply #88 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:47:38 PM »
ah, my bad...i've been tuning it in and out at work...still, even if there have been 2 break points, that's pretty incredible over 113 games

edit: it looks like there have been 5 break points in the 5th set...2 for Mahut and 3 for Isner...Mahut has only had 3 break points in the entire match...Isner's serve is ferocious
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« Reply #89 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:53:49 PM »
Isner's two away again!

Update: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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« Reply #90 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:57:08 PM »
If I have to leave for work before this is over I'm gonna be pissed.
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« Reply #91 on: Jun 23, 2010, 03:59:10 PM »
Mahut is sprinting and diving in the 117th game of the 5th set.  I have no idea where his energy is coming from.
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« Reply #92 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:01:07 PM »
Mahut still looks like he's got more in the tank, but it seems like he's starting to score fewer points.
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« Reply #93 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:05:44 PM »
As dramatic as this epic match is, isn't it actually evidence that men's tennis is broken? If it's that difficult to break the other guy's serve, it's not much of a game, is it?
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« Reply #94 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:07:36 PM »
This isn't usual, you know!
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« Reply #95 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:07:46 PM »
Quote from: dumbfish on Jun 23, 2010, 04:05:44 PM
As dramatic as this epic match is, isn't it actually evidence that men's tennis is broken? If it's that difficult to break the other guy's serve, it's not much of a game, is it?

I mean, sure, if this happened all the time, but this is a freak occurrence,  I think, and I'd be hesitant to draw too many conclusions on the state of the game from this single match.
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« Reply #96 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:09:18 PM »
Isner is/was looking tired, Mahut less so. Mahut has almost no body fat! Don't know what's going on, 'cause I cant stream it right now, the TV coverage ended and the news reports are all about whether Australia is about to get its first female Prime Minister. Who the hell cares about that?
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« Reply #97 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:10:29 PM »
Yeah, but it seems like the extreme case that highlights the general problem. Too many service winners in men's tennis.

Aces are like strikeouts. I don't know if strikeouts are fascist, as Bull Durham said, but they are boring.
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« Reply #98 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:12:05 PM »
I tend to agree with Dumbfish that the game would be more interesting and entertaining if they made the serve box narrower or something. The impression I get is that when you get two evenly matched players together, too often they win something like 90% or more of the points they serve on. And there are too many aces, which are pretty boring.
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« Reply #99 on: Jun 23, 2010, 04:12:25 PM »
They've gone off for the end of the day! It's going to go into a third day! I haven't seen endurance play a part in the game like this outside of test cricket.
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