ATP World Tour Finals 2017, London, UK

[DarthFed]

Fed wins the 2nd. Match is about 90 minutes long so not too bad. Hope he can win a quick 3rd here

 

[kskate2]

@DarthFed Or maybe he just doesn't want to lose to cough drop again. Would you really want that on your resume if you could help it?

 

[DarthFed]

Haha well I've always liked Cilic's game. He has a lot of it and there are a lot worse players out there to lose to. But obviously losing to a likely cheater is worse.

 

[DarthFed]

Fed breaks! Apply them screws and get out of there in 2 hours flat!

 

[kskate2]

Going to a meeting. I'll check in this afternoon and see who wins the battle of "good hair". Haha

 

[DarthFed]

KS, I think Sock Puppet is going to rep our great American tennis and advance to a meeting with Sir Grigor.

 

[DarthFed]

Roger about to hand out some carb-filled meds to Cough Drop

 

[Federberg]

Roger is just playing Betterer tennis now. Gutting it out then pulling away in the final set each time

 

[Moxie]

10th time to sweep the ATP finals RR group. That's pretty amazing.

 

[Fiero425]

10th time to sweep the ATP finals RR group. That's pretty amazing.

A little less amazing with so many other top players out; COME ON! You know better than that!

 

[DarthFed]

^ Fed still had the much tougher group, Sascha and Cilic are legit top 8 players even if there had not been a lot of injuries this year.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Fed sweeps RR once again (10th time)!

Just watched the last 4 games. Don't know what happened in 1st set. But, was not broken throughout the match.

 

[Moxie]

^ He did have the tougher group. Not that it matters, @Fiero425...10 years doing it is the point. And I'm sick to death of people making little of a player's accomplishments because they've judged the competition on a given day/tournament to be insufficient. (There's me defending Roger. What just happened?)

 

[Moxie]

Fed sweeps RR once again (10th time)!

Just watched the last 4 games. Don't know what happened in 1st set. But, was not broken throughout the match.

TBH, Cilic was very good in the first. Played relaxed and aggressive. I thought he'd fold in the TB, but no worries...he managed to fold, anyway.

 

[Busted]

Just saw that Roger beat Cilic in 3. At the start of the week - did anyone guess that Cilic would go 0-3 instead of Sock? Cuz I sure didn't see that coming. I didn't think he'd beat Roger but I didn't think he'd lose to Sock. Three 3-setters and he couldn't win the 3rd set in any of them. He may want to see if his mother knows any legit sports psychologist instead of home remedies for a cold...

 

[Busted]

Fed sweeps RR once again (10th time)!

Just watched the last 4 games. Don't know what happened in 1st set. But, was not broken throughout the match.

I was just looking at the match stats and Roger's numbers are all good - only 1 break chance for Cilic but he didn't get the break. And Roger's serving numbers are a lot better for this match than the Zverev match.

 

[DarthFed]

^ He did have the tougher group. Not that it matters, @Fiero425...10 years doing it is the point. And I'm sick to death of people making little of a player's accomplishments because they've judged the competition on a given day/tournament to be insufficient. (There's me defending Roger. What just happened?)

How dirty do you feel?

 

[Busted]

Nope, Roger has said that he will not do such a thing. In fact he has said that instead of disappearing at some point instantly, he would like to gradually disappear, sort of like going through phased retirement.

I think he's in the process of doing that now. He played 12 tournaments this year. Next year I bet he drops MIami and\or Stuttgart and skip the clay season again. He might play 10 tournaments. Then in 2019 - drop it to 8 and if he doesn't make the tour finals then he makes Basel his last tournament and rides off into the sunset...

 

[Moxie]

How dirty do you feel?

Ha! The parenthetical was for your benefit. I actually feel perfectly justified in saying that.

 

[Busted]

He says he wants to fade away slowly. This year he played only 12. I expect it to actually go up next year (not by much, but may be by 1 or 2). Afterwards, it will keep decreasing steadily, until finally he plays may be just 5 tourneys in his last year (Halle, Wimbledon, Cincy, USO and Basel).

His last year? He'll definitely play the AO because he's said in the past that the tourney - and Austrailia in general - has bean a lot to him (and his family) during his career. He'd probably play Dubai as well because it's been his training center\2nd home for nearly 2 decades. And he loves the IW and Shanghai events as well. So there's at least 9 that he'd probably play his last year...