US Open Day 6: Saturday, August 31 - Order of Play

Ricardo

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Moxie629 said:
Clay Death said:
1972Murat said:
Clay Death said:
did I mention that I am not happy with the clay warrior?

I am not happy with having to wait all night to see Roger...and having to listen to Martina...

when martina talks, I turn off the volume.
quite often I turn off the volume anyway.
martina and pam shriver are totally useless to me.

Heresy! Martina has some 25000 titles*, and when she talks, she deserves to be heard. You don't have to like Pam, but Martina is the Grande Dame of Tennis. A certain amount of bending of the knee is in order.

( * Perhaps an exaggeration.)

I don't think Fed liked the way she talked about him. "he won't win any more slams and be number 1 again" which i heard some time ago, is simply weird. Why would a former player want to write off a top player so completely in front of the world?

and there is no way a player of Federer's status needs to bend for Martina - he is born a superior tennis player.
 

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Broken_Shoelace said:
Roger vs Rafa will be more interesting than most are giving it credit if Roger keeps up this level. I do think it will be close like their Cinci match (Rafa just can't get in every service game of his on this surface), but Federer needs to win the first set. I don't see him being able to physically hang in there if it's a tight, long match.

I'm interested in seeing how well Rafa serves. The one thing about their match-up that not many mention is that on all surfaces, Federer almost always gets inside Nadal's service games and rarely allows him an easy hold, but he just very rarely converts when it comes to break points. In Cinci, that wasn't the case, as Nadal was serving phenomenally well, and he held his serve pretty comfortably throughout. If that's the case again, I think Nadal wins.

I agree with this. IMO, it's foolish to think that Federer doesn't have a punchers chance in a potential quarterfinal against Nadal. This surface (coupled with a night match and less wind) does still favor Fed's game. Rafa will need to be sharp and opportunistic to win, IMO. I have a sneaky suspicion that soon enough Fed is going to beat Rafa in a big match when no one is expecting him to. While not as consistent as he once was, Fed is still too good to count out, especially on surfaces (and venues) where he's had tremendous success.
 

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ricardo said:
I don't think Fed liked the way she talked about him. "he won't win any more slams and be number 1 again" which i heard some time ago, is simply weird. Why would a former player want to write off a top player so completely in front of the world?

and there is no way a player of Federer's status needs to bend for Martina - he is born a superior tennis player.

Hmmm Martina has 18 slam singles titles, Roger has 17. She may have personal reasons for Fed not getting one more. :s
 

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ricardo said:
Moxie629 said:
Clay Death said:
1972Murat said:
Clay Death said:
did I mention that I am not happy with the clay warrior?

I am not happy with having to wait all night to see Roger...and having to listen to Martina...

when martina talks, I turn off the volume.
quite often I turn off the volume anyway.
martina and pam shriver are totally useless to me.

Heresy! Martina has some 25000 titles*, and when she talks, she deserves to be heard. You don't have to like Pam, but Martina is the Grande Dame of Tennis. A certain amount of bending of the knee is in order.

( * Perhaps an exaggeration.)

I don't think Fed liked the way she talked about him. "he won't win any more slams and be number 1 again" which i heard some time ago, is simply weird. Why would a former player want to write off a top player so completely in front of the world?

and there is no way a player of Federer's status needs to bend for Martina - he is born a superior tennis player.

strange for Navratilova to say that, she herself had a long gap between majors uso 1987 (?) - wimb 1990,

she managed to sneak in a last major despite graf and seles etc..