General tennis news 2013-2014

[NADAL2005RG]

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tented warned me about people like you, and that "You may want to note that you're from Australia. That will give your post a different effect. Kind of a 'laughing with you' not 'laughing at you' difference."

The entirety of my PM is what you copied -- I did not "warn" you about people like Moxie (or anyone else).

Okay, well I certainly took it as a warning of how people such as Moxie would perceive it.
Its exactly what happened.

For the record, I don't think anyone's poor perception of you has anything to do with your being from Australia. And it's not aided by your paltry attempts to sew divisions. Tented was trying to help you in finding some humor about yourself. We have been trying to find a way to fit you in. You seem to resist.

Its ok, you have my approval :clap
I "liked" your post too.

There is no way 99% of your posts are tennis analysis. They're annoying Nadal is best and Federer sucks posts most of the time. That's not analysis. You actually joke more than you realize btw :snigger Try reading your posts as if you weren't a Nadal fan and you'll see what I mean. In fact, your posts make many Nadal fans here embarrassed such as claiming he's had a "perfect year" (how could anyone sane claim that?!) and making progress at Wimbledon.

I've never said Federer sucks. That's a word you guys like to use. That and "goat".

Since last year I have been forecasting that Nadal's best shot at Wimbledon would be 2015 because there will be an extra week between the French Open and Wimbledon. So making the 4th round in 2014 was as good as we could expect, because it got Nadal some grasscourt matches/confidence which he can build on in 2015 when he has time to better recover from clay. And he actually played extremely well on grass this year, but was outgunned by the Kyrgios zone.

And Nadal's year is also perfect because he's been able to rest during the most damaging time of all - the never-ending hardcourt season which goes from August-lateMarch.
I've always preached that Nadal needs to reduce the number of hardcourt events, and that what happened in 2012 should be the norm eventually.
I've also spoken of how important the Double-Career-Grand-Slam is, so why would he need the US Open and Wimbledon? But I'd also want to see him play some events toward the end of the year, because you don't want to enter Doha/Australia having not played on hardcourts since lateMarch.
So playing the World Tour Finals and another indoor event or 2, is perfect (plus he's never won the World Tour Finals, and he's made the final twice, so its worthwhile).

Anyway, you don't want to hear about the positive things in Nadal's year.....

The only positive thing for Nadal this year really of note was winning the French Open and you know it. Nadal has no knee problems for quite some time now so missing the US Open is not perfect unless you're a raving lunatic. Not being able to compete properly in the AO final was not perfect, not making the 2nd week of Wimbledon was not perfect. You should really look up the definition of perfect online. You say why would Nadal need Wimbledon or the US Open? Why do you think? It's 2 more slams. Duh. Ministry of the bleedin' obvious.

Winning nothing but RG every year is not perfect despite what you may think, the diversity of winning other slams is a lot better. Sure the AO would be great for him but there a lot of potential obstacles now standing in the way and not playing for months isn't the way to go about winning it except in your own "perfect" world. As I said, the one and pretty much only perfect thing for Nadal this year (by his standards) was winning the French Open and you know it. The rest did not work out as planned.

Well here's my take:

The most diverse achievement in the Open Era is the Double Career Grand Slam (or 2 Calendar Year Grand slams obviously, but nobody is going to do that in the Open Era, anytime soon anyway).
Tick that box if Nadal wins the Australian Open again (and in my opinion he will win the Australian Open again).

And the most incredible achievement in tennis is to win one slam event A DOZEN times (and I think Nadal will win Roland Garros a dozen times). It is so incredible because it means Nadal literally takes ownership of the history of a slam event (or you could say winning TEN of them is enough for ownership), to the extent of almost deserving to have it named after him. This is huge, considering none of the other 3 slams events even have a clear-cut leader.

So if Nadal is resting his body in the middle of his 10th slam-winning year, I say he's increasing his chances of winning the Australian Open and also increasing his chances of reaching A DOZEN French Open titles.

But, I realize there are a hundred different opinions and permutations and combinations of what matters most in tennis, that's why I have no problem with your opinion. You won't hear me try to censor your opinion, ever.

Anyway, we are talking a lot about Nadal. And that's forbidden. So that's all I have to say about that :clap

 

[brokenshoelace]

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The irony is, 99% of my posts are tennis analysis.

:nono

 

[herios]

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Listen, if he's overwhelmed in September about being "the next Hewitt" then this guy isn't the next Sampras, or even Djokovic - or even Courier...

Maybe it is just not his time, right now, maybe he is planning for future. If he has a really break out year next year, would you then consider that his decision was wise?

Maybe you just like going against Moxie and me on this.:blush:

No, I'd never "just go against " you and Moxie. :nono

I don't mind Nick taking a rest, but I'm surprised at the reasons. Not 100% surprised, but still surprised. I have high hopes for Nick, but I never heard of one single great player who became so sensitive after one or two good results. Not ever. Not 17 year olds, or 18 years olds, or 19 year olds. Not Becker when the whole world descended on him.

Could be Nick will be the greatest of them all. Could be, he learns from this and develops and wins 2 majors next year. But I can only judge it on what I see and what I have seen in the past, and this surprised me, I must admit...

IMO, there is more than the "emotionally spent" reason behind the scenes, causing the decision for him to withdraw from the last few events.
Nick Kyrgios has I think grown quickly into his lanky body and I see him as not as fit as he would need to be to be able to tackle a 50-60 matches at high level year on tour.
He has already had a history of injuries: elbow last year when 18, right shoulder back in January and again in august forcing him out of Cincinnati.
I think his team took a smart decision in trying to rather pace him than throw him into a grueling full time commitment.
Do you prefer to see someone this talented with a career plagued by injuries? And lets not forget, all this injuries are in relation to his serving arm, and that is for him his best asset.
I thrust Nick and his team know what they are doing.
Sometimes, these quickly grown young man do not have the most solid joints and for him strengthening exercises for a few months might be better at this time than banging the ball around the world.

 

[Front242]

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^ There are rumours he's hooking up with Azarenka who he was flirting with online start of this month and she's just taken the rest of the year off too.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

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^ There are rumours he's hooking up with Azarenka who he was flirting with online start of this month and she's just taken the rest of the year off too.

I heard those rumors. But, I also though Azrenka was hooking up with Monfils. Remember,
she asked the cold NY crowd to sing happy birthday to Monfils. May be that was just friendship
and not romance.

Meanwhile, redfoo has cryogenically frozen his love for Azrenka and plans to revive it
at the right time.

 

[Iona16]

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Tennis - Spain appoint first female captain of Davis Cup team

http://news.yahoo.com/tennis-spain-appoint-first-female-captain-davis-cup-201211823.html

The Spanish tennis federation have appointed former WTA player Gala Leon Garcia as the country's Davis Cup captain, the first woman to hold the position.

She replaces Carlos Moya who stepped down after the five-time winners were relegated from the World Group for the first time in 18 years by a defeat to Brazil last week.

 

[NADAL2005RG]

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^ Extremely crafty.
I like it, I like it a lot.
This unique angle may work.
Some males are scared to offend the females :idea:

 

[GameSetAndMath]

RE: General tennis news

^ Extremely crafty.
I like it, I like it a lot.
This unique angle may work.
Some males are scared to offend the females :idea:

You mean, when a woman asks how many men can say "No".:laydownlaughing

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

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borna coric won a challenger tourney in turkey..:clap

myself and I'm sure I can say all at tennis frontier shriek out "hurrah n huzzah" from the rooftops at this joyous news, and dance merrily across the moonlit roofs just like dick van dyke did in the film mary poppins (cor blimey guv'nor).

anyway..coric won 6-1, 6-7, 6-4..(i think) v abloke rank in the 90s, so its prob a career highlight along with beating jerzy j in davis cup and qualifying for usopen and winning his 1st match in main draw of a major, the cheque and 110 rank points will be welcomed by him as well probably. but no boozing down the pub (if they have pubs where he is).

he will be in the top150 rank when the new rank charts are out in a bit. :

 

[Moxie]

RE: General tennis news

borna coric won a challenger tourney in turkey..:clap

myself and I'm sure I can say all at tennis frontier shriek out "hurrah n huzzah" from the rooftops at this joyous news, and dance merrily across the moonlit roofs just like dick van dyke did in the film mary poppins (cor blimey guv'nor).

anyway..coric won 6-1, 6-7, 6-4..(i think) v abloke rank in the 90s, so its prob a career highlight along with beating jerzy j in davis cup and qualifying for usopen and winning his 1st match in main draw of a major, the cheque and 110 rank points will be welcomed by him as well probably. but no boozing down the pub (if they have pubs where he is).

he will be in the top150 rank when the new rank charts are out in a bit. :

Actually, that's great! I'm sure we are all beaming and proud to be on the inside with Coric, due to your early scouting of him.

(As to Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins, I fear that my entire nation will never live that shame down. I was hoping after 50 years we could be spared the reminder. :blush: :snigger )

 

[tented]

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(As to Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins, I fear that my entire nation will never live that shame down. I was hoping after 50 years we could be spared the reminder. :blush: :snigger )

:laydownlaughing

Yeah, that's up there with Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

 

[Front242]

RE: General tennis news

(As to Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins, I fear that my entire nation will never live that shame down. I was hoping after 50 years we could be spared the reminder. :blush: :snigger )

:laydownlaughing

Yeah, that's up there with Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Yeah that was a real case of...

 

[Moxie]

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OMG, I'm in a national shame spiral. What about Natalie Wood in West Side Story with brown make-up and a really lame Puerto Rican accent?

 

[Front242]

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^ :cover

 

[Kieran]

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I watched Ronin last night and Natasha McElhone's Oirish accent was up there with one Tom Cruise attempted some time back. In the world of ugly Oirish accents, Iain Glen maybe gets the rotten potato for his marble-mouthed butchery in a woeful series called Jack Taylor.

I never heard old Dick van Dyke try one, but yeah his cockney is 'avin' a larf, sparra!

 

[Front242]

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^ Far and away was embarrassing. All the accents were atrocious.

 

[Riotbeard]

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What about the James Bond movie (You Only live twice) where connery becomes Japanese for deep cover. That is maybe my personal favorite. Then he scales the inside of a volcano to find spectre's lair.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM7HQjIcc08[/video]

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

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and we won't mention Carry on up the Khyber (1968?)..Ok then I will mention it..some white blokes "brown up" to play oh so convincing Indians..and not only that, but they do dismal indian accents too.

 

[isabelle]

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Monfils pulled out of the Asian tour (knee injury)

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

RE: General tennis news

in a brazil challenger; Christian garin lost a close 3 setter 7-6(6) in the third..it was a last 16 match so he won one lost one here..possible career high next Monday but maybe not (I dunno).