2021 Roland Garros...ATP 2000...Paris, France

[jthb1021]

Tsitsipas second serve percentage points won
set 1. 67%, set 2 57%, set 3 38%, set 4 30%, and two service games in the fifth 33%

he’s not getting the match he wants

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Nobody can go away during a match and re-engage like Novak ever. Rope -a-dope, rope-a-dope, rope-a-dope.....

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4th set Nivak had much better winners to errors numbers than Stef. Do not know exactly how much better as NBC coverage continues to blow.

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Oddsmakers have Novak now at 75% implied probability of winning, about where he was at the start of the match.

[don_budge]

Now it’s time to see how good Taitsipas serve really is. He isn’t comfortable and isn’t in a good place mentally right now. I am with Budge I don’t think he has the serve to close out slam finals at the moment. The second serve is getting weaker as the pressure grows and he isn’t winning those points anymore. At the moment he’s going to have to grind it out from behind the baseline behind lots of second serves and average placed first serves the rest of the way.

Good point.

[don_budge]

This is turning into a massacre.

[jthb1021]

Now it’s time to see how good Taitsipas serve really is. He isn’t comfortable and isn’t in a good place mentally right now. I am with Budge I don’t think he has the serve to close out slam finals at the moment. The second serve is getting weaker as the pressure grows and he isn’t winning those points anymore. At the moment he’s going to have to grind it out from behind the baseline behind lots of second serves and average placed first serves the rest of the way.

[jthb1021]

Bit of a cheat Tsitsipas. Ringing marks and pointing out knowing full well they aren't. That might fire Novak up who is about the fairest man on tour...honest as they day is long.

So true!

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NBC in their unrelenting terrible coverage did not supply us with the 3rd set stats, but I am certain Novak for the 1st time in the match had better looking winners to errors numbers that Stef.

[don_budge]

To serve or not to serve out the set...that is the existential question for Novak Djokovic. To be or not to be.

[stotty]

Terrible commentary on my channel. They aren't watching the same match as me. Might as well turn the sound down.

I won't see the end of this as I am off to work soon. I've seen better matches, but seeing if Tsitsipas can close out will be interesting if it comes to that. He wants it so, so badly.

[stotty]

Novak seems to have re-engaged here, but that is the peril of the rope a dope. Stef does not seem to want to go along with the Novak re-engagement.

Well he knows what could happen and he is fighting like mad to stay on top of Novak. He didn't do too much wrong. Novak just played too well...3-1 Novak

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Novak seems to have re-engaged here, but that is the peril of the rope a dope. Stef does not seem to want to go along with the Novak re-engagement.

[stotty]

Tsitsipas has to win the match right here lest Novak wakes up and starts going to work. Make no mistake, Novak could turn this round given a peep of a chance.

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None of the commentators are close to defining what is going on with Novak. Tsitsipas cannot believe his luck. He is not even having to play for this. One thing is for sure, it's going to be over very soon unless Novak snaps out of it.

So so true. I know DB is not a fan of the Tennis Channel commentators sometimes, but to me they are way way better than NBC.