General Sports Thread

True, but he's a born winner. Reason why he's won 7 World Championships (alongside his talent) is his desire to win. Went wrong today but you can't knock him for it.

 

Great end to the race that and some great individual performances out there today too.

In terms of the title fight I'm glad that Lewis messed it up like that. Looking like the most interesting season in years.

 

Vettel did brilliantly today, but that was largely due to ALL the other teams bottling it off the soft tyres way too early. Vettel kept his going at the same speed as the hard tyre runners for ages longer, and Perez was still doing fastest laps on them when RBR brought him in (too early) for his first stop. Was a bit of a strategic mess today.

 

Apparently, he accidentally hit the switch that shifts the brake bias to the front. I would suggest that switch shouldn't be somewhere that you can accidentally trigger!

 

Surely, Sunday will see one of the big three "next generation" (Zverev, Tsitsipas, Medvedev) players finallly become a Grand Slam champion. It just means beating Nadal (possibly Djokovic) in the final. They have youth, strength, athelticism and surely aquired smartness to overcome a 35 year old Nadal?

 

Tsitsipas for his first GS title this afternoon? Djoko is conceding 12 years, speed, strength, athleticism. Also, history is against Djoko as no man has won all four grand slams twice in their career. Having said that, does Tsitsipas have the ability to get inside the Djokovic mindset?

 

I thought he did get into Novacs head , but 2 sets all now and Novak with a break in the 5th.

 

Well. What a brilliant Champion Novak Djokovic is considering the weight of history was against this happening (the first guy to win each of the slams twice since the Open era began), let alone facing a powerful, younger and very talented opponent. So he has put 2 of the pretenders to the sword. Perhaps he'll do it again at Wimbledon to a third (Zverev)

 

The first champion in the modern era to win all four majors twice. A true champion.

 

The last oñe to do it being Rod Laver, once as an amateur, his second oñe being in 1969.

 

I feel this win means something very special to Djoko. He also gives his interviews in French at Roland Garros. He is quite a multi-linguist as well. In comparison, I am still trying to get to grips with Spanish.

 

Southampton's very own Richard Bland is due to tee off in his first US Open, the best of British to him.

 

Three British players in the quarter finals at Queens....so of course it's pissing down

 

He is the halfway joint leader on -5 and must be pinching himself as a 48 year old journeyman pro who only won his first notable career tournament, The British Masters, recently to qualify for the US Open.

 

Max screwed up turn 2, gifting Hamilton the lead.

 

Going to the wire this race ……

 

Crikey this is tense.

 

Mercedes royally ballsed this up.

 

I think it’s huge credit to Max too. He did a Hamilton on Hamilton.