Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome ATP 1000, 2018

[herios]

When Novak beat Nishi last time, Nishi was also coming back from injury. Now, Nishi is seasoned and may shield Novak from Dirt Devil.

Or maybe Fabio shields him LOL

 

[Moxie]

How could I forget that?

Even more interesting are Rafa's Clay Losses. Here is a catalogue of losses till MC 2014 . Interestingly, he had only 12 losses until then. But, has accumulated double that number (24) since then.
Will the 37th loss be covered by Fog? :scratch:

No, that's not all of them, those 12. They're just ranking what they thought were the most significant 12. (He's 403-36 on clay.) They didn't even mention Djokovic beating Rafa at RG in 2015. And rightly...everyone and their grandmother beat Nadal in 2015.

 

[Moxie]

When Novak beat Nishi last time, Nishi was also coming back from injury. Now, Nishi is seasoned and may shield Novak from Dirt Devil.

Kei came up gimpy at one point late in the Dimitrov match. Again, sadly, not sure if he's healthy.

 

[Mastoor]

Now we know for sure, the God of tennis is back.

He still has to answer a couple of questions, like how soon he will start playing his best tennis consistently and if he is able to play 3, 4 or 5 sets if required to beat Nadal, but answer to all the other questions are with us – he is back - No1e, No1issimo.

 

[Moxie]

Now we know for sure, the God of tennis is back.

He still has to answer a couple of questions, like how soon he will start playing his best tennis consistently and if he is able to play 3, 4 or 5 sets if required to beat Nadal, but answer to all the other questions are with us – he is back - No1e, No1issimo.

I appreciate that you are the ultimate fan, but I'm watching the replay, and he didn't close out the match when serving for it. You think he's 100%?

 

[GameSetAndMath]

No, that's not all of them, those 12. They're just ranking what they thought were the most significant 12. (He's 403-36 on clay.) They didn't even mention Djokovic beating Rafa at RG in 2015. And rightly...everyone and their grandmother beat Nadal in 2015.

Sorry, have to resort to the cliché of "having trouble with reading comprehension?". Read my post again.

 

[Moxie]

Sorry, have to resort to the cliché of "having trouble with reading comprehension?". Read my post again.

I see now. Sorry. But why be so shitty about it? You didn't mention that you'd dug up an old article from 2014. Talk about cataloguing Nadal's defeats. :demon:

 

[monfed]

Nishikori will expose faker's form.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

I see now. Sorry. But why be so shitty about it? You didn't mention that you'd dug up an old article from 2014. Talk about cataloguing Nadal's defeats. :demon:

I said in my post that they were his losses till MC 2014. The point that I was trying to drive at was your man had 12 losses in the first 9 years, from 2005 to 2014 and then he had 24 losses from that point to now which is about 4 years.

 

[Chris Koziarz]

I said in my post that they were his losses till MC 2014. The point that I was trying to drive at was your man had 12 losses in the first 9 years, from 2005 to 2014 and then he had 24 losses from that point to now which is about 4 years.

Your point confirms that Nad had a little slip in his form in recent years. Well, in years 2014-2016 to be precise where he fell well below his average 1.3 losses per year beforehand.
But looking at last two years - 2017 and 2018 - he had only one loss per year precisely. That's better than his average before 2014! What do you think of that
Of course 2018 is not over yet & he must win both Roma & RG (possible) to live up to that.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Your point confirms that Nad had a little slip in his form in recent years. Well, in years 2014-2016 to be precise where he fell well below his average 1.3 losses per year beforehand.
But looking at last two years - 2017 and 2018 - he had only one loss per year precisely. That's better than his average before 2014! What do you think of that
Of course 2018 is not over yet & he must win both Roma & RG (possible) to live up to that.

Unlike other Feddies, I actually want him to perform much better than his average from 2014 to 2016. I will settle for 3 this year. :bloodsucker2:. Actually, I would be happy even with just 2, as long as the second one does not happen this week.

 

[britbox]

Now we know for sure, the God of tennis is back.

He still has to answer a couple of questions, like how soon he will start playing his best tennis consistently and if he is able to play 3, 4 or 5 sets if required to beat Nadal, but answer to all the other questions are with us – he is back - No1e, No1issimo.

Jumping the gun a bit eh? Definitely, an improvement over the rest of the year but today is another good test.

 

[Ricardo]

Now we know for sure, the God of tennis is back.

He still has to answer a couple of questions, like how soon he will start playing his best tennis consistently and if he is able to play 3, 4 or 5 sets if required to beat Nadal, but answer to all the other questions are with us – he is back - No1e, No1issimo.

Oh boy now making a qf to a ms1000 and you write home about, that’s seriously sinking low even by your lofty standard.....it’s almost like you are mocking Novak sarcastically and deliberately, in a backhanded way too....

 

[isabelle]

oh yes, we'll finally have the Fog vs the king of clay, can't wait, it should be good

 

[monfed]

push push push push, all dull does. What a cancer to tennis

 

[monfed]

Roast him Fog, cmon you can do it!

 

[britbox]

Nadal in the driving seat but at least Fog has made a match out of it.

 

[britbox]

Nadal breaks for 5-2. All over for Fog barring a miracle.

 

[DarthFed]

Damn Fog, he always seems to take a set from Nads and then reality sets in

 

[Carol]

Nadal breaks for 5-2. All over for Fog barring a miracle.

britbox, when I'm going to check the scores it doesn't show the results of game by game and set by set