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They are coached about when to take them, sports psychologists are part of the entourage, it's a tactic like grunting!

If Ash missed a trick it was taking her own medical time out when momentum swung!

One day the event will degrade into a medical intervention tit-for-tat, the tennis version of a soccer swan dive, I'm predicting this to happen between some European players and the match will be declared a nil all draw!

These are professional athletes, being paid hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars by tax payers, and they secure victory by very very questionable tactics.

Start billing/fining them for medical timeouts, maybe 10% of prize money per incident, don't bill/fine them if they retire hurt from a match. I'll predict the frequency of timeout incidents greatly diminishes because most are disingenuous.

As much as I love seeing our Ash Barty in the contest and ranked No.1, I have to say I think Naomi Osaka is the world's best at the moment by some margin.

Nine for Novak the GOAT.

He's certainly in the conversation. There's no clear cut GOAT at the moment IMO. What I personally find disappointing is that there is no player outside the big 3 who looks like an heir apparent. There's a few that have a big win here or there, but none look like they can win multiple slams and be dominant for an extended period.

And Kyrgios should take a leaf out of Djokovic's book. Instead of wasting time telling the world how much you don't like him, start winning some tournaments, because while you gob off, Novak focuses on the important stuff. Although I think it's too late for Kyrgios to change.

True, early on in his career Novak wasnt like much either and was thought to be a bit of a pratt.

There appear to be plenty who still think Novak's a prat.

To me Djoker's poor behaviour is more by design than involuntary like Kyrgios, while Tomic is 100% pure a55hole!

Can't watch Djokovic play.  His on court persona is horrid, while he is a great tennis player, I'd rather watch a brick wall.  Hopefully Tsipsaris and Thiem can improve and not be the 'Andy Roddick's' of years gone by.

I'm not saying anything about Tomic.

To me Djoker's poor behaviour is more by design than involuntary like Kyrgios, while Tomic is 100% pure a55hole!

Tomic's problem is simply as dumb as a box of rocks. If he couldn't hit a tennis ball, he'd be either on the dole or flipping burgers at Maccas with kids half his age. His father makes him look like a Rhodes Scholar. I think Djoker has been misunderstood for a long time, his steely determination to be the best and prepare himself as such rubs people up the wrong way I reckon. He is probably less talented than Raffa and Fedexpress, but his is more competitive and prepares perhaps a fraction better (no disrespect to Raffa). Kyrgios is as talented and marketable as they come, I to date he has been poorly managed and immature. I think he is growing up and whilst he aint gonna win 20 or even one grand slam, I think he will grow up to a fine young man who does a lot int he community. For Tomic, a career in porn with his GF beckons.