Hi all! This thread is the thread for covering Racket Sports at the Olympics this year. This includes the following sports: Badminton, Table Tennis, Tennis. Feel free to discuss all the ins and outs of the sports, any predictions you may have, support for the athletes and anything else you notice as we kick off on Saturday!

Probably one of those times that I'll pay attention to our Indonesian badminton team. Hoping for at least a gold!

Edited July 22, 20241 yr by CowTzy

Not a great start for our WD team Rahayu/Ramadhanti with 2 losses already. Ramadhanti's far from her prime era, but we definitely won't defend the gold medal.

Incredible for Dan Evans and Andy Murray to see off five match points to win against Japan. Murray's career not over yet!

Obviously not expecting them to go much further but excellent to see Murray's final tournament having a good comeback moment and not being ended in the first round.

That comeback from Murray/Evans was insane. Evans must be feeling the pressure to perform. Must be gutting for Nishikori, who lost to Draper earlier in the day also

Nadal beating Fucsovics yay

and now Nadal-Djokovik today, think poor Nadal is gonna be demolished

Great win from our MD's badminton Alfian/Ardianto against the home team Corvée/Labar.

bye bye Nadal, there was a tiny speck of hope in the 2nd set when he won 4 games in a row but alas Nole proved too hard to bet for Rafa

The Jack Draper loss was hard to watch.

 

He had like 8 break points (including 0-40 up) in the second set and didn't take any. Then got broke repeatedly and lost 2 sets to 1......

Another hard fought tiebreak and Murray & Evans are into the quarter-finals :o

By the way the media are reporting it you would have thought it was just Andy Murray playing....

really love watching the double matches, never had before and didn't know they were so exciting and enjoyable. Alcaraz Nadal was a great watch.

Carlos Alcaraz is into the men's singles quarter-finals at Roland Garros after he was too good for Russian Roman Safiullin, winning 6-4 6-2.

too bad Nadal-Alcaraz are out in doubles, think they paid the lack of experience playing doubles from Alcaraz

 

some interesting battles ahead today in singles. Swiatek is playing terrible at the moment so could be a surprise goner

And that's Murray out. They definitely put up a fight though!

Swiatek out, not the most interesting female final ever :/

 

Zverev also out, really hope Alcaraz-Djokovik make the final in men

wow super super easy today for Alcaraz

 

glad Sviatek ended up 3rd

Happy to see Tunjung heading to the semi final, our last hope for the badminton category.

Zero gold medal for us this year, unfortunately. Hope Tunjung could steal the bronze so that it won't be too bitter for us.