Tennis!

[Baddar]

Nishioka has taken the first set.

EDIT: And the second, but Murray won the third set on a tiebreak.

And now a 5th set decider. I didn't want an early night anyway.

Murray takes it!

[Chris2K]

Hot damn. I know Nishioka isn't exactly elite, but Murray's tenacity is out of this world.

[Bobfoc]

A 33-year-old with two hip surgeries winning a near five-hour Grand Slam match against a top 50 player is quite stunning. It's a great achievement, even if he loses in the next round.

[Adam]

Carla Suarez Navarro has Hodgkin Lymphoma.

[Baddar]

Kyle Edmund just took the first set against Djokovic on a tie break. Djok had won his last 10 tie breaks before that.

[Szumi]

Novak just got kicked out of the US Open

 

[Colly]

Feels a bit harsh to me, it's not as if it was deliberate or particularly forceful. That said he's been a twat this year so I don't really care...

[gunnar hendershow]

Any other player would have gotten the same treatment. You hit a line judge like that, even if it's a total accident (which this was), and you're gone. I'm glad he didn't get preferential treatment.

[Colly]

Is there much precedent? I don't watch a huge amount of tennis outside the majors and I'm sure it must happen, but I can't remember seeing it.

[Chris2K]

Nalbandian a few years ago at Queens when he kicked an advertising board into the shin of a line judge during the final and Denis Shapovalov in the Davis Cuo are the most recent big ones, Henman at Wimbledon 1995 in the doubles is more accurate to what happened here.

According to the court mics, Djokovic's defence was:

"She doesn't have to go to the hospital for this." He added: "You're going to choose a default in this situation? My career, Grand Slam, centre stage."

I assume you can just injure anyone in the vicinity and it's fine if they don't have to go to hospital.

[DFF]

Pretty much all media, reporters, tennis players are all saying it's the correct decision in the context of the sport and, if anything, that they debated it for so long was probably down to the stature of the player - a lesser ranked player would have been DQ'd immediately. 

[Colly]

I remember the Nalbandian one having watched it again, that one was right nasty.

[Bobfoc]

That's such a silly thing to do. It was a bit of an oversell by the line judge, though. Maybe it was all part of an angle.

[Adam]

He's done it before too, at the French Open but the ball just missed hitting the line judge so he wasn't DQed.

It's the right decision. His pleading arrogance sums him up, he did it accidentally but also out of frustration because he'd just had his serve broken and it put Carreno Busta on the brink of winning the opening set.

[Baddar]

The video BBC are showing of his "I'm above everyone so I'm not arsed about this issue" from 4 years ago speaks volumes. Definitely the right call to DQ him, accidental or otherwise.

[Bobfoc]

So the finals will be Osaka vs. Azarenka and Thiem vs. Zverev. This is a rare occasion on which the men's competition has been more open than the women's.

Thiem or Zverev will become the first male singles Grand Slam winner born in the 1990s, which is quite amazing. Tennis used to be thought of as a young person's game, so it's a testament to how good Federer, Nadal and Djokovic has been that there are no male Grand Slam winners under the age of 30.

[Lineker]

Impressive win from two sets down from Thiem.

[Bobfoc]

I'm glad for Thiem. He lost his previous three Grand Slam finals and had the harder route to the final, so he was the sentimental favourite.

A piece of trivia I found interesting was that Naomi Osaka was the first woman to win the final from a set down since 1994. You'd think that would be more common in three-set matches.

[Bobfoc]

Nadal has won his 13th French Open and equalled Federer's record of twenty Grand Slam singles titles.

[Lineker]

There are now unanswered questions as to whether the Australian Open will be going ahead.