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*Official* Tennis Thread

SirBloody Idiot

SirBloody Idiot

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ohtani's jacket said:
Roddick was spent. If they'd played a tiebreak, both guys would've had a fairer shot at winning it. I don't like watching tennis matches were a guy loses because he's drained and has nothing left. Federer couldn't do anything with the Roddick serve until Andy began to tire.

I don't wanna take anything away from Federer, he held serve on 8-8 when he was down 15-40 and served his way to victory, but with both struggling to get points off each other's serve, what's the point of playing 30 games? They were serving to stay in the game over and over again. Take it away, force the tiebreaker and you have a shorter, more dramatic form of what actually happened.
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But how often does this happen? Very rarely.

You can't tell me a winner-fest like Gasquet-Gonzalez back at the Australian Open would've had a more fitting conclusion in a fifth set tiebreaker.
 
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dontcloseyoureyes said:
Yeah man, I was ****ing gutted. Feel so bad for Roddick, this could be harder to swallow than last year and it could really destroy him. Hopefully it doesn't.

Find it hilarious that Jono made a post about Henin not being a good server and saying that makes her an incomplete tennis player, then two players put on the best display of serving you'll ever see under immense pressure and people are saying it was rubbish tennis. Wake up to yourselves.
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The result leaves me a little empty for some reason. I dunno, seeing Roddick there completley broken is one of the saddest things I've seen in sport. It's not like Federer breaking down in the Australian open, he just had this look on his face I can't get out of my mind.
 
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Jono said:
I get what you're saying, but for one, her serve wasn't anywhere near as good, and that's a big part of having a complete game. She had a very attractive game to watch, but no way was it more complete than Serena, let alone Federer (since you said tennis player, not sure if you just meant women).

Anyway, part of a person's tennis 'game' is winning clutch points/moments. Henin didn't have that at times. At her peak she couldn't win Wimbledon. Lost to Bartoli in a semi-final after being a set up. Couldn't win in 04-06 when she was peaking and the Williams sisters had dropped off.
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I was indeed just referring to women (no one is more complete than Federer).

I don't think you can criticise her for being a choker when she won seven GS singles titles while only playing until she was 25. Her serve wasn't anything special but there was a lot more to her game than Serena IMO, who always looks to overpower opponents. And to watch (purely as a tennis player) she was as good as any women's player has ever been IMO.

The only thing that stops her from being considered a great is longevity. Which is fair enough really.
 
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dontcloseyoureyes said:
Find it hilarious that Jono made a post about Henin not being a good server and saying that makes her an incomplete tennis player, then two players put on the best display of serving you'll ever see under immense pressure and people are saying it was rubbish tennis. Wake up to yourselves.
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It was awesome tennis. But not brilliant to watch. Really exciting, but nowhere near as good as last year's IMO. Although i may feel differently had Roddick won :(.
 
Jono

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It was awesome tennis. But not brilliant to watch. Really exciting, but nowhere near as good as last year's IMO.
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Yeah true, but I don't think its necessary to compare this year's final, which was an awesome match IMO, to last year's which has been agreed upon by many to be one of the greatest ever.

The fact is that this year's Wimbledon final is in the top 5-6 matches so far this year. That makes it entertaining enough.
 
dontcloseyoureyes

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Just caught the great group love-in for Federer on the news. Thank God I went to bed without watching it.

Wretching aws.

IMO the crowd is still there chanting "Roddick, Roddick" over and over.
 
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Jono

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I was indeed just referring to women (no one is more complete than Federer).

I don't think you can criticise her for being a choker when she won seven GS singles titles while only playing until she was 25. Her serve wasn't anything special but there was a lot more to her game than Serena IMO, who always looks to overpower opponents. And to watch (purely as a tennis player) she was as good as any women's player has ever been IMO.

The only thing that stops her from being considered a great is longevity. Which is fair enough really.
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I do think she bottled it at Wimbledon many a time, and the fact is, even had she continued her career, she'd have fallen short of some others with the lack of a Wimbledon trophy in her cabinet.

Lovely player on the eye, that's for sure.
 
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Samuel_Vimes said:
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Only bought the game Saturday, and considering how epic a weekend of sport it was, have only played multiplayer sparingly in between watching footy/tennis and friends' birthdays.

Multiplayer is good fun. Will no doubt have a tournament with my mates in the coming weeks.

Accidentally cracked my mate under the eye with the tennis racquet thingy you get with the Special Edition virtua tennis. Has a solid bruise on his cheek.
 
Pratters

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ohtani's jacket said:
I gotta disagree with this.

In 1989, Graff won every GS except for the French, which she lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. The next year had four different winners -- Graff, Seles, Navratilova and Gabriela Sabatini.

It's more or less the same as now, except for the fact that women's tennis was more compelling in 1989-1990.
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You are right. It was indeed tougher to win the slam on a particular date 20 years ago compared to today. I meant generally the field is so much more competitive that it is tougher to win slams today than it was in the past.
 
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