Fed glued to the base-line....

"NITB is a nice poster. I wouldn't mind you doing that to socal. "

Hihihi, I have filtered nitb as she has been caught with a Fed picture in her wallet, kept when it gets tough down the Pub talking about tennis and she can claim she's a Fed fan after all

I like social (the other Djoko fan out of 2), he at least has a calculated pathological obsession for Djoko and can be amusing on a rainy day.

Moving forward now, that's much better. I want to see that mid-court inside out forehand as much as possible

Ungur can surely play tennis

the nole fans i know on here and v2 are nitb (the good, very knowledgeable one), socal who annoys me no end and isn't a nice person and then jersey who is kinda funny, mind the 'bump'

Thank you Leedstillildie

(that was a gigantic spelling effort )

Fed coming under bit of pressue. Never heard of this guy (unguru) before ?
NITB, you win my vote as well.

thanks wow, I try not to be too big a pain with my fanaticism

no worries bud just being honest and kudos on that effort.
I really don't like socal though!

Fed getting workout from little known Unguru. Well done mate.

Fed's mobility is gone!

wastes a match point

set point ungur

NOOOOOO!!!

But is not moving half as well as he was in the first 2 sets. He might win today but that is the same as what happened in Wimbledon last year.

I think it's the niggle he had in Madrid and Rome that reappeared.

Can't belve this.

Yep - it's clearer and clearer. Sad really!

Jersey is creating havoc on v2

I'm still recovering from the stress in dealing with my local post office so missed all the action in the last hour

I have a big qestion on Fed's mobility. He was not moving at all in that 3rd set. Then Ungaru lost his concentration in that 4th set.

Next match will tell us more.

Ungaru had a nice backhand, mens depth so much stronger then the womens.

Hi junkie. Haven't seen you before. Are you new to tennis boards or have been posting in the past? Do you have any other pseudo?

More on the balls, this time not from the horses but bull's mouth :

"Yesterday Rafael Nadal added his thoughts about the 2012 verstion of the Babolat ball: “It's fast. The ball is fast,” was his immediate, blurted answer, though he modified that assessment slightly as he went along. Nadal eventually concluded that, thus far, after one match on a hot day, they were a little slower than last year.

What did Babolat do to the balls, exactly? I asked Sylvain Triguigneaux, who runs the company’s equipment program at Roland Garros and other tournaments. He said that, despite having what he believed was a successful debut in 2012, “Some of the players complained that the ball was too hard. So we had a meeting with the FFT, who requested that we make an adjustment. We softened the ball a bit for this year’s tournament.”

Triguigneaux also said that the Babolats are used in the Nice, Brussels, and Strasbourg run-up events to Roland Garros, but getting them installed in Monte Carlo, Madrid, Rome, and other big events is difficult, because each of those tournaments negotiates its own ball deals.

There has been a ball change in Paris this year. It’s just that, not all that surprisingly, the players can’t agree exactly what its effect has been."

(from S. Tignor's article)