2017 Wimbledon Championships - Men

[rafanoy1992]

In all honesty, I do not want to talk about court conditions and the changing of tennis balls.

But, I DO want to talk about the Round of 16 matches in both the men's and women's field. Seriously, one of the most interesting Rd of 16 matches in recent years.

The three matches that should have a straight forward results are:

Murray over Paire
Djokovic over Mannarino
Cilic over Bautista-Agut

Unless there are some major circumstances, those three matches should be over in three sets.

Now for the other five Rd of 16 matches, all five of them could be VERY interesting.

Nadal vs. Muller
Raonic vs. Zverev
Thiem vs. Berdych
Anderson vs. Querrey
Federer vs. Dimitrov

In the matches mentioned above, any one of the men could win their respective matches. I hope we could see some popcorn matches...

My picks in the 5 mentioned matches:

Nadal in four
Zverev in five
Thiem in four
Anderson in five
Federer in four OR five

By the way, if the higher seeds do prevail tomorrow, just like in Roland Garros, 7 of the Top 8 seeds will occupy the Quarterfinals slots. Coincidentally, the 5th seed is the only seed not to reach the Quarterfinals in both slams.

 

[Moxie]

In all honesty, I do not want to talk about court conditions and the changing of tennis balls.

But, I DO want to talk about the Round of 16 matches in both the men's and women's field. Seriously, one of the most interesting Rd of 16 matches in recent years.

The three matches that should have a straight forward results are:

Murray over Paire
Djokovic over Mannarino
Cilic over Batista-Agut

Unless there are some major circumstances, those three matches should be over in three sets.

Now for the other five Rd of 16 matches, all five of them could be VERY interesting.

Nadal vs. Muller
Raonic vs. Zverev
Thiem vs. Berdych
Anderson vs. Querrey
Federer vs. Dimitrov

In the matches mentioned above, any one of the men could win their respective matches. I hope we could see some popcorn matches...

My picks in the 5 mentioned matches:

Nadal in four
Zverev in five
Thiem in four
Anderson in five
Federer in four OR five

By the way, if the higher seeds do prevail tomorrow, just like in Roland Garros, 7 of the Top 8 seeds will occupy the Quarterfinals slots. Coincidentally, the 5th seed is the only seed not to reach the Quarterfinals in both slams.

Nice over-view. I will only differ in that I'm picking Yosemite Sam to beat the South African.

 

[brokenshoelace]

Nobody can dispute that the courts are playing slower but guys like Anderson and Querrey making it should at least imply that this isn't quite "medium hard courts." Then again, only one person is pushing that narrative.

 

[britbox]

In all honesty, I do not want to talk about court conditions and the changing of tennis balls.

But, I DO want to talk about the Round of 16 matches in both the men's and women's field. Seriously, one of the most interesting Rd of 16 matches in recent years.

The three matches that should have a straight forward results are:

Murray over Paire
Djokovic over Mannarino
Cilic over Bautista-Agut

Unless there are some major circumstances, those three matches should be over in three sets.

Now for the other five Rd of 16 matches, all five of them could be VERY interesting.

Nadal vs. Muller
Raonic vs. Zverev
Thiem vs. Berdych
Anderson vs. Querrey
Federer vs. Dimitrov

In the matches mentioned above, any one of the men could win their respective matches. I hope we could see some popcorn matches...

My picks in the 5 mentioned matches:

Nadal in four
Zverev in five
Thiem in four
Anderson in five
Federer in four OR five

By the way, if the higher seeds do prevail tomorrow, just like in Roland Garros, 7 of the Top 8 seeds will occupy the Quarterfinals slots. Coincidentally, the 5th seed is the only seed not to reach the Quarterfinals in both slams.

I'm going with your picks except I think Raonic will beat Zverev (even though I'll be rooting for the opposite as a Zverev fan) and I'll lean toward Querrey beating Anderson.

 

[britbox]

The courts are less than ideal according to a lot of players. Natural surface... it is what it is... unpredictable. Same for both players in any given match. That's Wimbledon for you... own it or you're gone.

 

[mrzz]

After a long thought, here´s my unbiased predictions:

Paire over Murray in 5
Mannarino over Djokovic in 5
Bautista-Agut over Cilic in 5
Muller over Nadal in quick 3
Berdych over Thiem in 5 (19-17 in the fifth)
Anderson over Querrey in 5 (15-13 in the fifth)
Raonic over Zverev in 5 (37-35 in the fifth)
Federer over Dimitrov in 2 ( 6x0 2x0 ret)

 

[DarthFed]

Nobody can dispute that the courts are playing slower but guys like Anderson and Querrey making it should at least imply that this isn't quite "medium hard courts." Then again, only one person is pushing that narrative.

Yeah there is no way Anderson could beat Verdasco, Seppi, and a no-name on a medium hard court. Run of the century there. And didn't Querrey win a hard court event this year beating Goffin, Thiem, Kyrgios and Nadal. So I guess your point is he'd have no prayer vs. Tsonga on a hard court...mega upset clearly.

 

[mrzz]

Watching a bit of center court action it seems they did a good job on the court on middle sunday, seems quite better. Let´s see by the end of today..

 

[kskate2]

There's rain in the forecast for this afternoon. Will undoubtedly help w/ the courts. Meanwhile cough drop comes through in straights over RBA.

 

[kskate2]

RN w/ the first BP

 

[kskate2]

quickly snuffed out w/ some monster serves by GM

Berd takes the opener over Domi

 

[kskate2]

and now GM w/ a BP

 

[rafanoy1992]

Looking at the Murray-Paire match, the winner of the Cilic-Nadal or Muller match will reach the final. Murray's level right now is horrible. Murray's serve is bad and he has been broken three times already.

 

[kskate2]

And Nadal is broken 4-2 to GM

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Come on!

Go Muller!

 

[kskate2]

Yes a very sloppy match between Muzz/Benoit

 

[kskate2]

big hold. 5-2 GM

 

[rafanoy1992]

It looks like Muller will win the 1st set. We will see if Nadal can read Muller's serve or will Muller continue to serve well.

 

[kskate2]

Uncle Sam up 2 sets to 1 and now in a 4th set TB

 

[kskate2]

first blood to GM 6-3