Yeah, that was the game FAA double faulted three times in a row and Tsitsipas still couldn't break.

He got a couple BPs in the first set as well, it wasn't just that game. FAA was just overpowering him constantly

some guy named Fratangelo with early break on Joker

Jinxed it.

Had bet on Osaka, but her histrionics had me rooting for the stoic Mladenovic by the end.

Wonder if her coaching change, #1 ranking, age etc. will negatively impact her season.

She legit called for her new coach after winning the first set because "she was nervous."

Yeah that's weird.

But she's already had a better career than 95% of the pros, so it's mostly a never ending freeroll for her anyway.

Fed looks good in white!

GOAT

Tuned in to see Garbine win seven straight games and Serena waddle off to the discard pile. Still as enjoyable as ever.

Fognini in a 2nd set tiebreak now after being bageled in the first set vs Albot.

Isner in the mix for a double bagel vs Popyrin (?).

6-0, 4-0 now.

ETA-- he's on the board! 4-1.

Been kinda hyped for the Kyrgios/Fritz v Kubot/Melo match but it keeps getting pushed back by this long ass Wawrinka match.

yeah Stan kinda ****ed up the tiebreak. hopefully he takes care of business this set. I wanna see Stan/Fed (even tho it always ends the same way).

Fucsovics saved 3 match points on serve, then was able to break to keep the match going vs Wawrinka.

Wow.

5-5 now.

Fun day at Indian Wells today. Got there around 10 and watched a few players in the practice courts: Raonic (he's a giant!), Mugurza, Rafa, and the Williams sisters. Pretty cool that you get to see all of those players up close on the practice courts.

Then watched Goffin who was playing fairly well except that he couldn't serve for **** and ended up double faulting a couple of games away which ended up being the difference.

Next was Nishikori vs Manarinno. We got there at the start of the third set which ended up going to a tiebreak. Extremely fun to watch. Nishikori's backhand is a thing of beauty, but Manarinno would put everything back in play with what seemed like lazy shots but that had great placement. In other words, he's the ATP version of Hsieh.

After lunch we watched a few games of Ostapenko and then headed over to watch Cilic. Although he won in straight sets it was a pretty close match with lots of games going to deuce.

That match was followed by Shapovalov-Johnson. Wow, I'm now a Shapovalov fan. He hit some amazing shots, but also seemed to go for winners every other shot. If he tones that down a little he will be at the top for sure.

Tomorrow we have Stadium 1 tickets for the day and night sessions so I'm hoping for competitive matches. The following players are scheduled to play in stadium 1: Raonic, Venus, Zverev, Osaka, and Djokovic.

Some photos from today:

Djoko/Fognini played out a whole doubles match in the time Wawrinka played his final set.

Wow, that looks awesome.

Pretty jealous.

Rain on the forecast for tonight. I hope it doesn't mess with the evening session.

Kecmanovic is really taking advantage of his LL. Just took the first set 6-2 against Djere.

First time I saw him was when he was 16 years old, playing a Futures final against Shapovalov 3yrs ago

Zverev out, doing the thread title proud.

Rooting for Kecmanovic so that FAA doesn't have to play Djere again.

Thread curse continues. Wow.

Aliassime time

Just turning it on. Third set in the FAA match seems to have just started a few minutes ago.

0-2 Nishioka though!?

Real curious to see what this version of Gael has for Nole

ok back on serve

at least 2 match-points saved

like Aliassime's countrymen sang....