I am unfamiliar with the sporting forum, and wandering around I could not find the Australian Open Thread
Then when I delve further I find that there is no Tennis Grand Slam thread at all on Teakdoor, not even a Wimbledon thread.
....that means I get to start The Teakdoor Tennis Grand Slam thread..... just before the forum folds with no admin keys.... Awesome!
I am starting to warm to this Medvedev character
When I first saw him I thought he looked a bit sickly and not very sporty. More like a mad russian scientist than an athlete with his big greasy forehead.
But he got properly fired up, MacEnroe style, at the umpire tonight for letting Tsitsipas get coaching during the match, and rightly so.
I like his character - and he is a top Chess player too apparently - as seems to be the case with lots of russkie kids.
Anyway I am gonna be cheering him in the final against that dago.
The Aus Open crowd are an embarrassment, booing a perfectly good player who has not stepped out of line just because he is Russian, and then doing the daft 'Siuuu' noise to put him off.
But there seems to be no truly likeable male tennis stars now since Federer has faded down the ranks a bit.
I liked Sampras in his hey-day too.