Miami Open Masters 2016

[nehmeth]

With your 8 posts why are you attacking a valued poster or the message boards?

Took me fewer than 8 posts... :snicker

Well, that was on tennis.com, back-in-the-day. It was more like the wild west and posters pummeled each other with impunity. :cover

 

[lob]

I found it interesting that Nadal got sick in the heat. Isn't this the guy who lived to play 5-6 hour matches on clay? Getting old kinda sucks, don't it, Nadal? :lolz: He'll be 30 in about 2 months and he's finding out the hard way that things he could do even 2-3 years ago...just ain't all that easy anymore.

Not referring to this post or any one post in particular but I feel great sympathy and respect for Rafa. Never thought I'd feel this way. It is sad to see him struggling like this and even sadder that many of us can't wait to dance around the aging lion on its last legs. I have never been a big admirer of his physicality, his playing style, his gamesmanship or his uncle. But the guy is pure strength, balls, cunning, audacity and opportunism rolled into a tennis player. A wiseguy in the best sense of that word. Who would have predicted in 2005 that the kid will go on to win 9 FOs, 2USOs, 2Ws and an AO? Back then, anyone suggesting that would have been considered hallucinating. The man deserves more respect. Borg, Maradona and Schumacher are not remembered for their sportsmanship or for how their ended their careers. So with Rafa.

 

[pavlik89]

Gael Monfils vs Grigor Dimitrov #MAZING POINT MIAMI OPEN 2016

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDjopRkCfnG/?taken-by=pavliktns

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAGRseFQ9g[/video]

 

[Carol]

And Monfils wins, if he could play like that more often, more seriously, too much talent but little used :nono

 

[pavlik89]

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

 

[Puppet Master]

Grigor loses to Monfils being a set up. Bloody, useless idiot.

 

[Kieran]

Grigor loses to Monfils being a set up. Bloody, useless idiot.

Monfils in the quarters? That's a waste of space.

The QF line up:

Novak v Birdman
Goffin v Simon
Milos v Nick
Kei v Monfils

Impossible not to see Novak reach the final at least. Birdman always books a flight for the morning after the quarters - religiously - and then there's two lads who are game but not up to this level.

The really interesting match is Milos v Nick. I prefer Nick, but I like the new Milos, he's a cut above the rest of his old classmates...

 

[Kieran]

Young Nick had yet another vain and pointless altercation with the umpire, and he dragged Rafa's name into it. Is this the second time he's done that?

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

the thiem will soon be rising to the top.

 

[isabelle]

2 froggies in quarter, I must be dreaming !! too good to be true

 

[herios]

Grigor loses to Monfils being a set up. Bloody, useless idiot.

Not an idiot. Just too much expectations. By now, everybody should have noticed.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Young Nick had yet another vain and pointless altercation with the umpire, and he dragged Rafa's name into it. Is this the second time he's done that?

Kieran, Isnt it astonishing how there is a such a huge bias or a lot of jealousy against Rafa. IMO

 

[Mile]

I have feeling Thiem is good option for next No.1

 

[herios]

the thiem will soon be rising to the top.

He will rise, but which top, is to be seen. I also fancy his chance to get into the top 10 soon, mainly because we enter the clay season and that is where his game is suited the most.

 

[Mile]

Maybe he wont be Jerzy Janowicz.

 

[nehmeth]

The really interesting match is Milos v Nick. I prefer Nick, but I like the new Milos, he's a cut above the rest of his old classmates...

Seems the only thing the Canadian had damaged in the desert was his pride. :snicker
Street vs. Orc? I think Raonic takes this one.

 

[nehmeth]

Maybe he wont be Jerzy Janowicz.

Thiem has a 139 mph serve, and his ground strokes are light years ahead of anything JJ will ever have.

 

[herios]

Maybe he wont be Jerzy Janowicz.

Thiem has a 139 mph serve, and his ground strokes are light years ahead of anything JJ will ever have.

Not a chance to be Janowicz. He will clearly be a top 4-5 clay court player, if not there already. We will find out soon.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Impossible not to see Novak reach the final at least. Birdman always books a flight for the morning after the quarters - religiously - and then there's two lads who are game but not up to this level.

Novak might have to play in Simon in the SF? Remember AO match between them?