solid fight. very close. but i'd give that to Porter, he just worked more/harder.
Lol when I read solid fight I was thinking it was mcgregor vs khabib fight then I see porter, then I knew you accidentally posted in the wrong section lol.
OMG WHAT a fu**ing amazing fight. Any close rounds which I doubted I gave to danny garcia and I had it 7 rounds to 5 shawn porter. Garcia during the middle rounds didn't really know how to handle the pressure shawn was coming with and would wait and pick his shots, some very good left counter hooks but shawn porter just going in to the body and some interesting counter punches. First few rounds I saw shawn won the majority danny waiting and picking his shots, porter did miss a lot of shots to when swinging but he putting the pressure to garcia, who just freezes. In the middle round it was going both ways, garcia starting to put the pressure but when he gets hit he starts to back off the pedal a bit and counter. I think he gave those rounds away and the last round I gave to garcia and round 11 to shawn porter.
I don't like when shawn goes messy but in this fight I liked it because it wasn't too messy a lot of targeted aggression just chasing him with some mess in there. Shawn got tired a little but he knew that if he put on the pressure he was going to win. some carelessness from porter with wild hits especially when he hits comes low and his head unguarded and giving garcia opportunity, there was one time where it was open a lot that garcia targetted it late and porter leaned back.
great fight of the year candidate.
Highlights of kovalev vs alvarez, I'm sure you saw the garcia vs porter fight.
first, the chair should have simply warned both sides (& perhaps coaches as well). To give Serena a violation like that at such a critical time, without warning, is absolute garbage. That caused Serena to "lose it". ie, "here we go again".
I feel that's excusing Serena's subsequent behaviour,
it's not excusing it at all. but that call set things in motion.
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to blame the umpire for not warning her about a very well-known violation in the game.
well known? that's never called.
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I disagree with 'warnings' for offences in general. What's the point of the rule if it's arbitrarily enforced depending on context?
tennis is all about concrete rules. how do you apply one of the few subjective rules without giving a warning? I've watched tons of tennis, i've rarely seen that rule enforced. Also, i've seen chair umps give warnings more than i've seen an actual violation.
you can only enforce a subjective rule arbitrarily.
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It's a weird rule anyway (coaches are paid to coach IMO) but I understand that tennis has a gladiatorial spirit where the players should be battling their opponent with no outside influence. If she should be mad at anyone, it should be the coach, not the umpire.
coaches often "instruct" during the match, doesn't mean the athlete is actually looking at them receiving the instructions. coaches coach, even if the athlete isn't looking at them.
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Then compounding it by racket-smashing and abusing the ump is just bad situational awareness/brain fade, like not knowing how many fouls you have.
imho the racquet smashing isn't even a problem. she never even mentioned it. she knew she'd probably get a violation for it. men smash their racquets all the time, especially guys like Djoko / Murray / Kyrgios / Roddick etc.
I don't like racquet smashing but it shouldn't really be a "bad sign" of anything. It's just a rare sign of extreme frustration. Plenty of the greatest tennis players smash their racquets on occasion. Here's a Djoko racquet smash compilation:
Her worst offense (to me) was calling the chair a "thief". That was stupid. But again, i've seen people chew out chair umps all the time and not get violations. Here's Federer dropping F bombs:
She lost her composure, that's all on her. However, that first coaching violation was still bullshit.
Serena is probably already on "edge" with some of the treatment of female athletes vs men. She's not someone who can just ignore it. Some of the stuff that happened in this US Open adds context to her meltdown - I mean she even mentioned this incident. Here's a woman receiving a violation for turning her shirt inside out:
Tennis has historically been a "boys club", that shit drives Serena crazy. I think it factors in to some of her blowups.. Boys club & "race" issues are always on her mind, she deals with alot of it.
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This is the third US Open final where Serena has completely overshadowed the effort of the eventual winner with meltdowns (Clijsters 2009 and Stosur 2011). I think it really sucks to put an asterisk on someone's title like that, i.e. "if the other player hadn't melted down and given a game away, maybe they would have won, but I'll never know etc". This was the worst of the three by a mile though.
Some people might be saying "if she didn't melt down you never know", but Osaka was on fire, I doubt Serena wins that match without the melt down. Though, Serena was up 3-1 in the 2nd set when that coaching violation call happened. She went directly to the chair and states she didn't receive instructions and she's not a cheater. That call really messed her up, the idea that she was "cheating". A warning would have been a good idea. A warning would have also been a good idea before taking a game from her, ie: "Serena if you continue I will have to take away a game".
IMHO the foot fault reaction/threat is the worst. This was the biggest meltdown because it played out over several games.. but that foot fault/"threat"/DQ on match point (to her opponent) was the worst IMHO.
Finally. From what i've seen:, most everyone seems to be coming out AGAINST that coaching call violation. Former/current pros, analysts etc, everyone saying that was pure bullshit. Most people don't seem to think the thief comment is a violation either, given that men get away with worse.
This is some AMAZING running. 26:46 10k by Rhonex Kipruto, 3s off the WR.
he's 18...
man he is flying.. looks like 0% vertical oscillation. upper body/head look completely still. short arm swing. great lean. high turnover. blistering pace.
also if you want to relax.. listen to these announcers. lmfao. they are so relaxing, it's funny.
Disappointed that khan got chin checked again, the glass jaw, he still has not learned his lesson from the previous knockouts. But still won a fight by UD. samuel vargas was not really that good but he is a brawler who can take a lot of shots to the face. like a proper mexican brawler. But lacked the boxing skills and defence.
damn! can't learn chin.
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will watch the garcia vs porter fight
You can check out the twitter page for @DAZN_USA they have the entire event uploaded on twitter.
garcia/porter should be good!
tbh i'd like garcia to win. don't enjoy watching porter, he makes fights so messy/mauling/holding style.
garcia has some solid power, hope he catches porter
Definitely agree with you there. porter is definitely a messy fighter and he brawls and hopes on his messy style to bring him out on top. If garcia can be composed and smart and just pick his shots he can get porter out of there, but you have to becareful of headbutts with porter's style. like his fight with brook, bone (or something like that don't remember the name) but he never wins convincingly he gets into a brawl and hopes to come out on top.
to me, the 2nd/3rd violations were justified.. but, it's all based on that first violation (coaching instructions), which was absolute bullshit.
first, the chair should have simply warned both sides (& perhaps coaches as well). To give Serena a violation like that at such a critical time, without warning, is absolute garbage. That caused Serena to "lose it". ie, "here we go again".
very unfortunate, especially for Osaka.. she played incredible. She looked really distraught over how it turned out :/
never saw anything like that in tennis.. other than maybe serena being ejected after the "threat".. but this was pretty unique, especially because of the fan/crowd reactions.
going to be sick. I predict Jake will drop the hammer early, try to hurt everyone early, no comfort, all pain. If he executes that, he'll get his sub60 half & beat Mo. Should be a great race.
Disappointed that khan got chin checked again, the glass jaw, he still has not learned his lesson from the previous knockouts. But still won a fight by UD. samuel vargas was not really that good but he is a brawler who can take a lot of shots to the face. like a proper mexican brawler. But lacked the boxing skills and defence.
damn! can't learn chin.
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will watch the garcia vs porter fight
You can check out the twitter page for @DAZN_USA they have the entire event uploaded on twitter.
garcia/porter should be good!
tbh i'd like garcia to win. don't enjoy watching porter, he makes fights so messy/mauling/holding style.
garcia has some solid power, hope he catches porter
serena gets some "coaching violation" .. then breaks her racquet, gets another violation, automatic point deduction, then goes off on the chair.
lots of stuff happens to serena in tennis.
no idea if she received instructions or not from her coach, but i'd take her word for it that she didn't. she was adamant that she didn't receive any instructions. she demanded an apology from the chair. kinda crazy.
she just got broken afterwards, hope she can get back in this :/