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Toronto R2: (Q)Harrison def. (9)Isner 7-6(3) 6-7(4) 6-4

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#1 · (Edited)
LOLsner bricking a generic overhead putaway at net on BP at 4-4 30-40 in the third set after Harrison barely reached a DTL shot and sent a weak lob reply was predictable.

Unclutchner continues his march, eighth close match lost this year.

Isner was quite ugly at net today despite a few great volleys, but many more missed shots.
 
#4 ·
Good to see Harrison win some ATP-level matches rather than perpetually losing in Challengers. He was in the top 50 four years ago at age 20 and I thought he would be a Sock/Johnson caliber player by now. His decline has been baffling. Hopefully the last couple of weeks will give him some confidence and he can at least get back into the top 70, top 80 or so. Or maybe he will disappear again, like he did after Acupulco last year.

He showed some mental toughness and maturity today, which is a good sign. Who knows? Maybe he can beat Berydch.
 
#11 ·
Isner continues to be unclutch at least in half of TBs he plays which is quite unusual for him.
Isner has still been clutch in TBs against lesser players (Granollers, Kudla, Millman, Barton) or greater chokers (Baghdatis, Gabashvili), but against anyone who isn't choking and plays close to whatever level Isner brings himself, he is smoked in pressure situations again and again. I'd excuse his losses in the majors because he lost to better players (Ferrer, Murray, Tsonga), even though he could have been clutcher, but the only non-Slam loss out of 10 this year in which Isner was actually outplayed for the duration of the match was the Houston loss to Sock. Seven times Isner choked tie-breaks and twice (against Agut and Harrison) he choked service breaks in crucial moments. Hilarious choking from someone who used to be very clutch in TBs (won 65+% TBs in 2009-10 and 2012-14), but last year his TB clutchness went down to 2011 level (60%), and this year it is down to 55%, and that thanks to playing a lot of TBs against weaker opponents.
 
#12 ·
Somewhat surprising, but Isner has not been in top form and this is only their 2nd ever meeting on a HC and 1st on FHC, Isner still should have taken it.
 
#15 ·
Unclutchner back after some odd decent patch. This was Canada anyway, not USA, so I don't think he will lose some :zzz: over this result. OTOH great week for Harrison :cheerleader: thought he would lose his calm facing those BPs in the third as usual, but he held it together somehow :lol: Also, he stays unpigeonized against Isner :p Nothing to lose against Berdych now
 
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