How Did Karlovic Lose This? (ATP Tennis) 

Honestly I am wondering how Karlovic can even lose matches

@@Grivian Slower/homogenised courts giving baseliners more opportunity to make returns

Thank you so much. Will do my best to create similar quality content going forward.

Yeah hard for an almost 7 foot tall guy to make that change mid career.

Yeah a little crazy he didn’t do better in tiebreaks. He actually somehow had a losing tiebreak record in his career (398-403).

@@tennisoutlook7571 50% of the time hes not serving in the tiebreak so yeah

Yeah he was quoted as saying that is his biggest regret and if he could do his career over again he would learn how to hit a two-handed backhand when he was young. Direct quote from Ivo “ I don’t see how would I lose a match with a good two-handed backhand. Ever.”

And a good return

True. Anderson alone is a few tiers above Isner, though (notwithstanding Big John taking Rafa to 5 sets on clay at RG!)

what a mind... Fokina having 5 match points too...

Djokovic was for sure more gracious but hard to read anything into it. Karlovic and Djokovic could just be friends. Also nothing wrong with what Fed did. He was probably pissed about missing the 2nd serve return to lose it.

Also that was right after the loss in Wimbledon 08. He was playing awful, with no life on his shots. I remember watching that match as a kid thinking "oh no, he hates tennis now🥺". But yeah Novak is always more gracious in defeat 😅

​@@tennisoutlook7571 Come on dude, everyone knows that Djokovic is the most gracious tennis player in defeat especially if we compre him to Roger that is one of the least gracious in defeat.

@@eminakaratas11 Now you're exaggerating... Roger is far from the least gracious he's just professional, Djokovic feels to need to congratulate his opponent more and that's fine, but he's probably not the most gracious loser. PS 50+ broken racquets

@@eminakaratas11 Problem is, Novak is a poor winner.

Yep ADF blew 5 match points and he actually lost 7 straight points to lose that tiebreak. Unfortunately he is known as a bit of a choker.

@@tennisoutlook7571 a choker? I would've used a different epithet in that statement, but I guess "choker" works too xD

It did look a little long, there are a lot of bad calls on the challenger tour.

Classic matchfixer like 90% precent of players

Interesting

The match on the video was absolutely not fixed

No one would fix with 8 match points. What if Giron just hit out or in the net, double fault

@@SmaukGames - Exactly

I appreciate the comment and mostly agree with what you said. The reason I highlighted the two service points in my vid is those are the points he was supposed to win. (6-3 Point) In the match he had won 80% of first serves and in my opinion Giron did a great job at getting the ball back but I don't think Ivo judged the return well. If he did he would not have gotten himself so far up in the court. The slice he hit was so close to his body which is why he hit it out. Had he judged the return better he would have given himself more space to hit a deep slice and charge into net. Then on the 6-4 point he has a second serve and it's not a difficult volley but he hits it long. He had been winning around 70-75% of second serves in the match. You can also tell by his reaction how he feels about it. It's a volley he normally makes. I think on those points he choked and we probably just have a difference of opinion there. You are totally right on the return points as he isn't really supposed to win those. Props to Giron for making every ball down 6-1.

Top comment 👍🏻 I didn't think he choke neither

@@ramifishpokerUmm… he choked lol call a spade a spade.

dudes still top 1000 player w out a serve. 10000 is ludicrous

@@pants1359 he literally has no backhand lmao

Just goes to show how dominant his serve was. The fact he was able to play and win matches at age 42 says everything. I will say for a big man he had some solid volleys, and good luck passing that wingspan at net or trying to lob a 6'11" guy.

@@pants1359 bro did you watch the video

@@bsrussian dude ive been ranked top 10000 and i think he has better ground strokes than me. they arent great for a pro but they are good enough to break serve against top players occasionally

Yeah, hard to believe.

I still think this is rare. I know this happened recently with Davidovich Fokina but I can’t think of another time a big server lost a tie break being 6-1 up.

@@tennisoutlook7571 good, ok, but that kind of rarity actually happened many times before - definately not super rare or a never happened before moment