After a long wait of 'one week' the Roland Garros 2012 is finally here. This is a highly awaited RG for many reasons. Can Nole claim RG and become the first player since Laver to hold all 4 slams together. His form looked shaky and he does look under pressure. He lost 2 finals to Nadal and didn't win any clay title this year. But he is still #1 and as they say the best players always keep their best game for the best occasions.
Roger Federer's form has been good this whole year. This clay season he won in Madrid and lost in Rome semis. His 17th slam is long due and his fans are hoping he can do it this time.
Nadal is looking to get to the 7th RG title and that will put him ahead of Borg's 6. He won 2 Clay masters and 1 ATP500 coming into this and looks good in form. He complained about some injury in MC but we must know this by now that Nadal's is always injured.
Not many important matches for the day, most top seeds starting from tomorrow. The ball has been 'different' this year and how that turns out to be, we just will have to wait and see.
Daily Prediction game will start from TOMORROW. Participants will have to make predictions for the matches of the day. For the people who are new, the rules in my article titled "MOTD and daily predictions game: Rules"
Some filter prevents me to post the link here
( very simple they are ) . The stakes are higher since this is a Grand Slams and the unseeded player's values is [33] points. So make your choices very carefully.
Tenez is the winner of the last edition.
Some important matches of the day:
1. Juan Martin Del Potro(ARG)[9] vs. Albert Montanes(ESP)
2. Nicolas Mahut(FRA) vs. Andy Roddick(USA)[26]
3. Fabio Fognini(ITA) vs. Adrian Mannarino(FRA)
4. Michael Berrer(GER) vs. Jurgen Melzer(AUT)[30]
5. Kevin Anderson(RSA)[31] vs. Rui Machado(POR)
PS: I had my first 10,000m (10KM ) run today morning in the open World 10K 2012 . It was an amazing experience.
ATP Matches Of The Day: RG 2012, Day 1
posted on 27/5/12
Forgot to add that Djoko does not moonball either
posted on 27/5/12
That's right WOW, world ain't black and white, and thank God for that
posted on 27/5/12
Nadal is not anti tennis!FACT!
posted on 27/5/12
Yes he is quite defensive at times but some of the shots he produces as well as his topspin is great to watch as a tennis fan!
posted on 27/5/12
wow wrote:
IMHO Nole can play on variety of courts and can adjust his game
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I think this is to some extent true, but I would still say that his tennis is significantly more defensive than Roger's.
NITB, you yourself said at one point that what you liked about Nole was how he would soak up the pressure and then go for the kill. I think that decribes current Nole quite well. It also coincidentally describes Rafa pretty well. Now, clearly their tennis is not identical and no doubt Nole can be far more aggressive, but their current bread-and-butter is defence, that is what makes both of them stand above the rest. The same cannot be said of Federer.
posted on 27/5/12
HB wrote:
If I'm really fussy would be nice to filter someone from your own threads but be able to see their comments elsewhere. I guess that isn't possible though.
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Yes, I have felt exactly the same. But the feature is very nice as is (I think much better than not having it at all - even though I have not filtered anyone yet myself), so I am not exactly complaining.
posted on 27/5/12
"The same cannot be said of Federer."
For a guy of his abilities he is playing way too much baseline tennis. Now you tell me why that is.
posted on 27/5/12
"If I'm really fussy would be nice to filter someone from your own threads but be able to see their comments elsewhere. I guess that isn't possible though."
Actually there is a way of reading the junk the filtered posters post, I worked it out by accident when I looked at ja 606 from the computer in my gym
I wanted to check something and was aghast to see the comments I hadn't seen the day before...all it was - I wasn't logged in.
posted on 28/5/12
I wasn't logged in.
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Ha! Of course! Did not think of that.
posted on 28/5/12
nitb wrote:
For a guy of his abilities he is playing way too much baseline tennis. Now you tell me why that is.
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Well, they all do these days. But there is still a pretty big difference between how much Nole relies on defence and how much Federer does.
Anyway, I am not holding it against Nole, or Rafa for that matter. It works for them so why would they do anything else. Tennis is not ballet, I want them to focus more on winning than on the style and if defence is what wins it for them, good for them.