AO Semi: Stan Wawrinka (4) vs Roger Federer (17)

[britbox]

See you @mrzz have a good one mate.

 

[brokenshoelace]

Stan is done? Didn't he just win the last major?

 

[brokenshoelace]

See you mrzz

 

[Moxie]

OK, call me wrong when I am. What's the average Major haul post-31?

 

[Federberg]

he didn't look lucky when he was crushing Novak. That was brutal superiority. Luck shouldn't be anywhere in any sentence about his achievements

 

[britbox]

Pretty small... Was Sampras 30 or 31?, Agassi... Not sure about the old schoolers like Laver, Rosewall etc... but let's discount them.

 

[Federberg]

I do think that their is a higher age threshhold for top level chess than a few decades ago

 

[Federberg]

*there

 

[britbox]

Chess?

 

[Moxie]

Sorry, I know...touchy word. But he should have won today, by rights. I think he has had a small window, and it's closing or closed.

 

[Federberg]

what's that BB?

 

[britbox]

I don't really go with the "should have won" unless they flunk a volley on match point... If Stan did win then we could have said "Fed should have won", he was two sets up.

 

[brokenshoelace]

I don't think Stan should have won today

 

[brokenshoelace]

Roger was up two sets to love.

 

[britbox]

You said about age threshold and chess...did you mean tennis?

 

[brokenshoelace]

It's hard to make such a claim in a match where neither player played well

 

[Federberg]

y. I think we need to respect the result. Short of a Williams - Capriati umpire intervention.. it is what it is

 

[britbox]

The tennis was ordinary today

 

[Federberg]

hahaah!

 

[Federberg]

sry my bad