US OPEN, Flushing Meadows, NY, USA, GRAND SLAM (Men)

[teddytennisfan]

Ask @britbox ...Safin didn't like tennis, or much. His mother forced him into it. Yes, he was a reader, and his distractions were more intellectual than Kyrgios', from what I can garner, (sometimes, though not always, by a long stretch,) but they are similar types: wild and wildly talented; crazily entertaining on court, often to their own detriment; and both with an uneasy relationship to the sport that makes them famous and rich.

so true. maybe they're just the type that never had the kind of ''obsession'' needed to be on top consistently. or even ''reach" it -

different perspective - after all -- compared to any of us FANS only -- they earn nice, hitting a yellow fuzzy ball. lol.

teh same fate nearly could have been for PETE SAMPRAS actually.

although HE did love tennis -- and was a genuine prodigy - he said that up until he LOST his defense of the USO to stefan edberg and then AGAIN the nexxt year finals -- that he sat with himself and realized ojnly then ''how much i hated losing - and vowed i'd be the best ".

and in his early years before becoming a USO champ in 1990 - was practicing for his matches as a newcomer in wimbledon --

JOHN MCENROE - natrually one of the big names still overheard hiom from the next court -- complaining about ''this grass -- it's SO unfair..so unrepdictable" blahl blah...and mcenroe gave him a tonque lashing:
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"hey - pete -- for someone so talented like you - especially on this surface -- youi've got a LOUSY attitude....get over it".

and pete said in those early years -- ''i was just happy to get to semis - hang around in the top 20 or top 10, whatever - i thought that was already a big achievement".

''but i later realized how my mom and dad sacrificed so much for their kids...my mom came first and worked her butt off doing laundry for people and cleaning their homes....and i swore i was going to give them a good life and had to fix my attitude".

 

[Moxie]

Third footfault called on JJ. I swear no tournament calls FFs more than the USO.

 

[Mastoor]

it ooks like it might go to four sets at least.

I think No1e will torture him little longer. there are not many who trash talked him publicly

 

[britbox]

Third footfault called on JJ. I swear no tournament calls FFs more than the USO.

Isn't that the truth... Foot faults galore at the USO every year.

 

[Moxie]

That was solid point from JJ, who is also one of the tortured souls of tennis. And again. EDIT: Big hold from 0-40 down.

 

[Moxie]

Isn't that the truth... Foot faults galore at the USO every year.

What the hell can that even be about?

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

djoko had 5 bp's on successive jj serve's..and jj steps in the court and saves them all.

 

[Mastoor]

ts-ts-ts No1e shouldn't have changed the wooden cross for this, whatever that is.

 

[teddytennisfan]

I think No1e will torture him little longer. there are not many who trash talked him publicly

haha...but first nole better get the 3rd set now -- it's 1-1 .
or else whatever might be bothering his arm is not a good thing after all that big power from JJ.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

lol..out of nowhere jj steals 2nd set......via some rather shite djoko serve's.

 

[teddytennisfan]

ts-ts-ts No1e shouldn't have changed the wooden cross for this, whatever that is.

jj starts 3rd set.

nole better make some inroads in this set.

 

[Moxie]

Janowicz' head zoomed away from him with the glory of taking a set off of Novak and he broke himself to start the 3rd.

 

[teddytennisfan]

Third footfault called on JJ. I swear no tournament calls FFs more than the USO.

has JJ that tendency in his matches? footfaults?

reminds me of that HUGE scandalously thingie a decade ago against serena, remember? wasn't that the one against STOSUR?

but also ohter matches like the one against capriati? oh my those were really controversial. NOT to mention that famous ''hand up" by HENIN which she denied -- and years later admitted, hehe.

 

[teddytennisfan]

Janowicz' head zoomed away from him with the glory of taking a set off of Novak and he broke himself to start the 3rd.

haha...tha'ts JJ

 

[teddytennisfan]

lol..out of nowhere jj steals 2nd set......via some rather shite djoko serve's.

HE did play really weall thought.

 

[Moxie]

has JJ that tendency in his matches? footfaults?

reminds me of that HUGE scandalously thingie a decade ago against serena, remember? wasn't that the one against STOSUR?

but also ohter matches like the one against capriati? oh my those were really controversial. NOT to mention that famous ''hand up" by HENIN which she denied -- and years later admitted, hehe.

I thought Serena was playing Clysters in that match. But there was a famous Safin meltdown over ffs also. The Capriati match was different - that was just general crap lines calling. I was in the house for that one...the match that gave us Hawk-eye.

 

[teddytennisfan]

oh come on commentators -- STOP talking UP querrey and that LONE beating of nole in wimbledon.

good grief -- it's as if nobody ever lost a match in wimbey that 's a world number one lke nole!

 

[teddytennisfan]

I thought Serena was playing Clysters in that match. But there was a famous Safin meltdown over ffs also. The Capriati match was different - that was just general crap lines calling. I was in the house for that one...the match that gave us Hawk-eye.

oh my god -- serena MUST have been the most ''robbed' PLAYER in US O history. tha'ts really someting like 3 titles worth, imo.

captriati, clijsters, stosur.

of course serena's responsibility was to keep cool and be in her game -- but there are times when the officiating gets SO overtly outrageous NO nhuman can be expected to stay 'cool".

 

[Moxie]

oh my god -- serena MUST have been the most ''robbed' PLAYER in US O history. tha'ts really someting like 3 titles worth, imo.

captriati, clijsters, stosur.

of course serena's responsibility was to keep cool and be in her game -- but there are times when the officiating gets SO overtly outrageous NO nhuman can be expected to stay 'cool".

Capriati and Clijsters I get, but I don't remember why she was robbed against Stosur. That wasn't even close.

 

[Moxie]

oh come on commentators -- STOP talking UP querrey and that LONE beating of nole in wimbledon.

good grief -- it's as if nobody ever lost a match in wimbey that 's a world number one lke nole!

That was a huge upset. I think you'll have to get over yourself if you're tired of hearing about it already.