Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy, USO

[markus1]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

that is pretty bad for Nadal
so it's time for Novak to be the first

 

[the AntiPusher]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Recent video of Nadal practicing wearing the wrist support.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xgMvTw_yl2w[/video]

Thanks Front.. My top Dawg Rafa looks like he is ready to hunt, I am feeling encouraged..

 

[El Dude]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Anti-Rafa Conspiracy Theory: The wrist injury is fake and just Tonifael paving the way for a loss to Novak at the US Open.

:laydownlaughing

relax...i'm only kidding

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

I heard he had a scan a day or two ago, how long is his wrist immobile for ?. muscle waste will be happening.

 

[Front242]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

You don't really have a whole lot of muscle on your wrist. You're either born with genetically big wrists or small. You can build up your forearm muscles but wrist curls pretty much only build forearm strength and muscle.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

oh Christ, lets all point out the obvious. forget it baby. unless someone has something useful to say don't bother.

 

[TennisFanatic7]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

I'm more interested in the poker part - looks like he has some work to do on that front.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGaxWVwyfm0[/video]

 

[Kieran]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Grounding the Rafa-talk in the real-world again, this article by Barry Cowan suggests a similar thing to what Murat said when we first heard the bad news: that the choice of strings might be causing wrist injuries.

I don't know if this is true or not, but if there is any truth in it, then it may actually have the effect of showing us that in until a fix is made, technological advances have reached an interesting point. I think this is only speculation at the moment, and speculation is like a good-looking woman at a party, she's never lacking for company, but since it's Rafa's right wrist that's affected, I'd withhold judgment on this until there's proof...

 

[GameSetAndMath]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Talking of Rafa's serve, he had a great serve at USO 2010. Even in 2013 when he had a great
year, his serve was not comparable to that of his 2010 serve. Once he realized that his serve
in 2010 was working great (which was obvious), why didn't he continue that? Another mystry.

 

[Kieran]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Well, I've often wondered about Rafa and his US open serve, why he doesn't carry it around with him. He's used it elsewhere, too, but I think his mind is at fault: he's a big lad, but he swivels and places that serve like a WTA girlie with a crush on her opponent.

Hopefully he punches his weight this time, but like I say, I don't fancy his chances without matches. All the rest of the tour is goofing about playing matches in Canada and Rafa is posting LOLOLOL on facebook... :nono

 

[Front242]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

^^so what about this new blood marker passport drugs testing thing that the atp are bringing in anytime now..?

surely that's a good move to be helping with stamping out any potential drug cheating ??.

Here's a good example of just how utterly pathetic blood testing and testing in general is in tennis.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/28/tennis-open-drugs-idUKL4N0AX0HO20130128

"You get blood tested at the slams, usually after you lose, but I've never been blood tested out of competition," said American Mike Bryan, who won a record 13th grand slam title together with twin brother Bob Bryan in the men's doubles on Saturday.

Bryan told Reuters he is probably tested around 20 times a year, but out-of-competition, through the whereabouts programme, it has only ever been urine tests.

Urine tests can detect many drugs, including EPO, one of several taken by Armstrong and other leading cyclists but only blood tests can detect HGH, human growth hormone.

^ That's a disgrace.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Not really given how infrequently they test for HGH and the window they have to test before it's undetectable. Imo as I mentioned earlier anyone getting a treatment should have an independent WADA doctor present during the treatment to do testing before and after to clamp down on the possibility of abuse going on. The way it is now is beyond a joke. A player's own doctor can do what he or she wants and better still if the guy is a doping control specialist. They know how to beat the system better than anyone. Tennis is a shambles.

The problem is difficult to solve. Even if they say that WADA doctor should be present,
the "dope" doctor can give clean treatment when the WADA doctor is present and then
can have a separate session behind the scenes without the WADA doctor in attendance.

The moment you allow a treatment that can mask doping, it will be difficult to
detect if the person going through that treatment is really doping or not.

So, it might seem that it is best to ban the treatment itself. However, that just
is not right as one should not ban a treatment that can improve the health of an
athlete in view of extraneous reasons.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Guys, mono, stereo, who cares?

Let's talk about more fun stuff, like, wouldn't it be nice if all doping was legal and players, frothing in the mouth, come up with 300mph serves and the fans were allowed to beat the player who lost with his own racket?

Come on, be creative...

Good man, Murat! It's Friday night, time to get ready and be really creative, eh?

Exactly...a little creativity never hurts...Example: There is a plastic explosive in one of the balls and it will only explode if a rally reaches 41 shots. Shot 41, boom! Wouldn't it be cool if shot 41 happened when both players were at the net ? Nah, not going to happen these days, but one can hope...

Of course, fans would be in it too...

-Say Norman, is it shot 38 or 39?
-How the F should I know...do we count the serve?
-Nevermind, DUUUUCKKK....:

Later...

-Norman, say, this dude has a great backhand, no?
-Man, are you really holding the back of his hand??? You are disgusting!
-Too bad he cannot sign it...


:snigger. Sometimes my Carlin side sneaks in . Sorry...

 

[Kieran]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

:laydownlaughing :clap

I like the exploding tennis ball! You might get some real wrist injuries outta that one... :snigger

 

[Kieran]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Not when I google it. For either.

Must be google defaulting to localized search based on country. Maybe America thinks he's a good guy.

Roger? Nah. Though that lovely old piece by David Foster Wallace comes right up.

A writer I'd like to read something of, but that article, that certainly made an impression...

If there's still a Fed fan out there who hasn't read it, they should. It's gorgeous. And Wallace was a tennis player.

Maybe Neil Harman was nicking from the wrong blokes. Here it is...

 

[Billie]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Rafael Nadal will undergo tests on his injured right wrist this week at Barcelona, and expects to make a decision about whether he’ll play the U.S. Open.

The Spaniard hurt his right wrist during practice ahead of the hard-court season and has since been practicing while wearing a splint. He has not been hitting backhands, and says the test results and his ability to play the stroke will be the reasons behind his decision about defending his Grand Slam title.

"Then I will know if the injury has improved or if I have to wait a little longer. If the tests show that it has improved, then I will have to try to see how much it hurts to hit backhand," he said to Spanish television channel IB3.

Nadal said he wants to play the tournament, but only if he is able to be competitive.

"But we have to consider what we have left is a week and a half. That does not give much room to force it, and I could not do it if I see that I cannot hit a backhand," he said.


http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2014/08/nadal-have-tests-wrist-week-decide-us-open/52412/#.U-mMO7kg-M8

 

[Kieran]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Fingers crossed, Billie! I don't fancy his chances there anyway, without proper practice or tourneys, but tennis ain't the same without young Ralph... :nono

 

[the AntiPusher]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Fingers crossed, Billie! I don't fancy his chances there anyway, without proper practice or tourneys, but tennis ain't the same without young Ralph... :nono

Moxie, I dont like what i am hearing from my peeps who have contacts over seas.. It appears that young Ralph is being "ole" by having another injury prevent him from participating in another GrandSalm. Darn, darn, da#n.

 

[Kieran]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Watch this and learn something about the sport, rather than the gosspi column BS you're hooked on. Rafa serving at speeds Roger handles routinely is obviously not about drugs, unless there's a load of them at it, including Federer.

Now, I'm not gonna get into seventy pages of your Roger fanboy sewage, I just expect that if Rafa skips the event then you'll have the decency to admit you're wrong.

We should know in the next couple of days, but from what I'm hearing, it's not good.

Anti-pusher, what's your source, buddy?

 

[the AntiPusher]

RE: Breaking - Rafa injured, out of Rogers Cup, Cincy

Watch this and learn something about the sport, rather than the gosspi column BS you're hooked on. Rafa serving at speeds Roger handles routinely is obviously not about drugs, unless there's a load of them at it, including Federer.

Now, I'm not gonna get into seventy pages of your Roger fanboy sewage, I just expect that if Rafa skips the event then you'll have the decency to admit you're wrong.

We should know in the next couple of days, but from what I'm hearing, it's not good.

Anti-pusher, what's your source, buddy?

Kirean, We have the same mutual friend. Send me a PM to discuss.