RIO OLYMPICS 2016

[Kieran]

Andy's Olympic win comes with four asterisks.

* He did not play Federer
** He did not play Rafa
*** He did not play Novak
**** He played a dead tired guy with wrist issues in the final and even he took him to 4 sets and 4 hours.

For good measure, he almost lost to unknwons such as Steve Johnson, not to mention struggling against Fog.

I know you're only kidding but if we apply that method to about 15 of Federer's slams, the bloke would have more asterisks than Phelps has Olympic (and WC) medals...

If there was a medal for best serve placement, best forehand, best slice, best tweener, best lob etc, I am sure Roger would have won more gold medals than Phelps. :snicker

Unfortunately in all his efforts in the real Olympics, all he has is a consolation gold in the couples event...

 

[isabelle]

That was the highest quality level of tennis seen in a very long time last week at the Olympics , Rafa v Delpo and the final were amazing matches. Best both Rafa and Delpo have also played in a long long time. Maybe they should scrap DC and make an olympic style tournament every summer instead.

Also is winning tennis gold the most difficult gold medal to win , it took Murray 4 hours , compare that to someone like Bolt who wins a gold in 10 seconds :-/

agree with you, I enjoyed Rio very much it was great tennis