Tennis at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Monzanator 4,498]

Donna Vekic beats Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-4 6-0 in the second women's SF.

 

Zheng will be a favorite in the final but it's women's tennis so anything can happen.

[copravolley 253]

8 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Donna Vekic beats Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 6-4 6-0 in the second women's SF.

 

Zheng will be a favorite in the final but it's women's tennis so anything can happen.

Vekic has been stable at a high level for two big tournaments at row.

Edited August 1 by copravolley

[Monzanator 4,498]

8 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Vekic has been stable at a high level for two big tournaments at row.

Yes, it's been no surprise on grass but very much on clay. Let's see how Zheng does as a clear pre-final favorite. Despite being Top 10 ranked she's not used to playing in this position and Vekic has nothing to lose having overachieved in this tournament already.

[hckošice 14,822]

Team Slovakia

Day 6

THURSDAY 01.08.2024

 

Tennis W Singles Semifinals

4th Match on Court Philippe-Chatrier

Anna Karolína Schmiedlová vs Donna Vekic (CRO-13)

4:6, 0:6

Qualified For the Bronze Medal Match

 

Next Match: Bronze Medal Match, Day 7 (Fri. August, 2nd) Match 2 on Court Philippe-Chatrier

Anna Karolína Schmiedlová vs Iga Swiatek (POL-1)

 

 

[Makedonas 2,155]

6 hours ago, ivanmar said:

Andreeva/Shnaider (first time as a pair) defeat Krejčíková/Siniaková (Tokyo Olympic champions and winners of many major double titles) in two sets (6-1, 7-5) and advance to the semifinal!

They could be the only AIN medal in Paris 2024? I don't know about some of the other sports though.

[Makedonas 2,155]

5 hours ago, sounak said:

I do not know if anyone else has noticed this but the tennis TV scoreboards have been behaving strangely. It shows Tsitsipas as unseeded today . A few days back it was having a hard time pointing to the correct server 

Yes, it's been terrible, and some Greeks who don't closely follow tennis now might think Tsitsipas was unseeded or something 

 

At the beginning of the event it was worse, the scores kept not updating or we had to keep score ourselves and the cameras after every few points would show the scoreboard in the stadium. Sometimes there were no scoreboards on screen at all...

[Makedonas 2,155]

Sad for Tsitsipas, he wasted 3 set points on serve in the second set against Djokovic, but maybe with a better draw he could've snuck a bronze. He probably won't get another Olympics on his beloved clay. Oh well...

[rybak 3,217]

29 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

They could be the only AIN medal in Paris 2024? I don't know about some of the other sports though.

They have real chances for 3 medals tomorrow, in men's single sculls in rowing and two in trampoline gymanstics.

[Gonzaxene 11]

2 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Sad for Tsitsipas, he wasted 3 set points on serve in the second set against Djokovic, but maybe with a better draw he could've snuck a bronze. He probably won't get another Olympics on his beloved clay. Oh well...

It wasn't a draw thing, and i would say his draw wasn't bad at all. He never reached his potential because of his backhand and his limited mental strenght, if you look at his better results, most were against players of his level.

Edited August 2 by Gonzaxene

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2 hours ago, Makedonas said:

They could be the only AIN medal in Paris 2024? I don't know about some of the other sports though.

Likely AIN's best medal shot is in men's trampoline tomorow.