Is it just me, or does the bottom half look incredibly weak in the last 16...
let me check ..maybe a little...not excessively. I honestly think Djokovic will stroll past Seppi and Warwinka/Tsonga. I will be surprised if he is taken to 5 sets. I think Federer could be the one to give him his first really tough match.
Should have made those 2 separate comments. The first part referring to the bottom half with Nadal and the second part referring in a separate discussion to the top half with Djokovic.
The thing with Djokovic that's so important is his strength on both wings. With Rafa and Fed if you keep it on their backhand they can long average.
Really enjoying watching Nole tonight, sheer elagance of movement
WOW, DID YOU SEE THAT SHOT
Federer 30 his movememt always going 2 b in decline each year, like in football when u turn 29 u start losing speed, Henry, Van nistlerooy
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Carl Lewis made his best 100m time at 30! So Christie at 34! No-one is going to see a drop of pace from 29 to 30 with a naked eye, let alone within a tennis match due to age!!!!
Fed is not moving as fast and freely as he was 3 days ago. That people could not see it in that Ungur match fine but against Mahut it was bloody obvious.
At least you can acknowledge that I wrote about it before Federer lost a set v Ungur. Now that he lost another against an injured Mahut...maybe you can ask yourself questions.
NITB - The media don;t talk about it cause they have no right to do so if the player don;t want to talk about it. A journalist asks him in the presser after the Ungur match and and Fed said he was fine.
He learnt his lesson in Wimby 2010 when he was labelled a bad loser when he said he was not 100% after his defeat v Berdych....despite saying he was "perfect "a few days before.
Nitb i could not watch nole's game but i did see the score for firdt 2 sets.
Oh, he was great
I really enjoyed it...
In fact, I enjoyed the entire day, so a lot of matches (bits of them) as it was hard to see them all, it was really a pure feast
Really happy for Gaffin, hey, into the last 16 against Fed !
Then The great tennis from Mahut, then a slug from Stan and Simon, then Nole
I even saw a few points from Ana Ivanovic earlier on, and a few other points from other courts as they were showing them for short periods during changeovers of the main ones I was watching.
It was LOVELY !!!
I nearly forgot!
Thanks for being such a great Haiku host today, wow !
Dr Misha... you've just got to love the guy
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/news/articles/2012-06-01/201206011338552294204.html
And to finish MY day here on a light note, here's a clip that has nothing to do with Roland Garros, just some players wearing suits and answering non-tennis questions. I stumbled across it just now and it made me a bit nostalgic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=tz-QcFsHbK8
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posted on 1/6/12
Is it just me, or does the bottom half look incredibly weak in the last 16...
posted on 1/6/12
let me check ..maybe a little...not excessively. I honestly think Djokovic will stroll past Seppi and Warwinka/Tsonga. I will be surprised if he is taken to 5 sets. I think Federer could be the one to give him his first really tough match.
posted on 1/6/12
Should have made those 2 separate comments. The first part referring to the bottom half with Nadal and the second part referring in a separate discussion to the top half with Djokovic.
posted on 1/6/12
The thing with Djokovic that's so important is his strength on both wings. With Rafa and Fed if you keep it on their backhand they can long average.
posted on 1/6/12
Really enjoying watching Nole tonight, sheer elagance of movement
posted on 1/6/12
WOW, DID YOU SEE THAT SHOT
posted on 1/6/12
Federer 30 his movememt always going 2 b in decline each year, like in football when u turn 29 u start losing speed, Henry, Van nistlerooy
========================
Carl Lewis made his best 100m time at 30! So Christie at 34! No-one is going to see a drop of pace from 29 to 30 with a naked eye, let alone within a tennis match due to age!!!!
Fed is not moving as fast and freely as he was 3 days ago. That people could not see it in that Ungur match fine but against Mahut it was bloody obvious.
At least you can acknowledge that I wrote about it before Federer lost a set v Ungur. Now that he lost another against an injured Mahut...maybe you can ask yourself questions.
NITB - The media don;t talk about it cause they have no right to do so if the player don;t want to talk about it. A journalist asks him in the presser after the Ungur match and and Fed said he was fine.
He learnt his lesson in Wimby 2010 when he was labelled a bad loser when he said he was not 100% after his defeat v Berdych....despite saying he was "perfect "a few days before.
posted on 1/6/12
*Not NITB but HB!
posted on 1/6/12
Nitb i could not watch nole's game but i did see the score for firdt 2 sets.
posted on 1/6/12
Oh, he was great
I really enjoyed it...
In fact, I enjoyed the entire day, so a lot of matches (bits of them) as it was hard to see them all, it was really a pure feast
Really happy for Gaffin, hey, into the last 16 against Fed !
Then The great tennis from Mahut, then a slug from Stan and Simon, then Nole
I even saw a few points from Ana Ivanovic earlier on, and a few other points from other courts as they were showing them for short periods during changeovers of the main ones I was watching.
It was LOVELY !!!
posted on 1/6/12
I nearly forgot!
Thanks for being such a great Haiku host today, wow !
posted on 1/6/12
Pleasure is mine
posted on 1/6/12
Dr Misha... you've just got to love the guy
http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/news/articles/2012-06-01/201206011338552294204.html
posted on 1/6/12
And to finish MY day here on a light note, here's a clip that has nothing to do with Roland Garros, just some players wearing suits and answering non-tennis questions. I stumbled across it just now and it made me a bit nostalgic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=tz-QcFsHbK8
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