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*Official* Tennis Thread

Swingpanzee

Swingpanzee

International Regular
That match was so diappointing. Federer was in awesome form that tournament, right from his first match I had the feeling that that tourney was his for the taking. Had he won that first set....

Nadal played well as he always does against Fed, but I will always see that as a huge lost opportunity for Fed to beat him in the FO.
 
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Anil

Hall of Fame Member
if nadal is healthy enough to play, he will always beat fed...that is the one match i think he always goes in expecting to lose...such is nadal's psychological stranglehold over him...
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Swingpanzee said:
That match was so diappointing. Federer was in awesome form that tournament, right from his first match I had the feeling that that tourney was his for the taking. Had he won that first set....

Nadal played well as he always does against Fed, but I will always see that as a huge lost opportunity for Fed to beat him in the FO.
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If you can't win a set from 5-2 and 2 set points or whatever he had, he wasn't taking 3 sets off Rafa. He'd played his final in the semi.
 
Swingpanzee

Swingpanzee

International Regular
Anil said:
if nadal is healthy enough to play, he will always beat fed...that is the one match i think he always goes in expecting to lose...such is nadal's psychological stranglehold over him...
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Eh. Would pick Fed to beat him on an indoor surface.

And Jono, yeah that's why I found the final so diappointing...that semi-final was so awesome it was never likely he could replicate that magic in the final.
 
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Anil

Hall of Fame Member
Swingpanzee said:
Eh. Would pick Fed to beat him on an indoor surface.
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except he lost the last time they met indoors...that was the last frontier for federer after nadal started beating him regularly on grass and hard courts...it does not mean that nadal is the better player on grass or hard court, he clearly isn't, means that federer has a big mental block against nadal that has just kept growing bigger over the years...
 
Swingpanzee

Swingpanzee

International Regular
Anil said:
except he lost the last time they met indoors...that was the last frontier for federer after nadal started beating him regularly on grass and hard courts...it does not mean that nadal is the better player on grass or hard court, he clearly isn't, means that federer has a big mental block against nadal that has just kept growing bigger over the years...
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so just because nadal beat fed the last time they played indoors (that was in 2013 of all years, fed's worst by far) you would pick nadal to beat him everytime now indoors?

agree with you that if they met in any of the gs then nadal would beat fed in 3 or 4. but indoors i would still back fed.
 
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Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Swingpanzee said:
And Jono, yeah that's why I found the final so diappointing...that semi-final was so awesome it was never likely he could replicate that magic in the final.
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If Fed plays as good as he did vs. Novak in the 2011 French semi he still loses to Nadal though.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Can't believe Ana lost. Actually heaps of quality lost today - Ivanovic, Kerber, Safarova, Lisicki - i wouldn't have been surprised to see any of them in the fourth round/quarters. Pavlyuchenkova and Bencic also lost as seeds..
 
dermo

dermo

International Vice-Captain
im not sure what riggins' opinion on the matter is but i really struggle to support a bloke with the haircut/eyebrow slits/jewellery of kyrgios
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
I wonder how much the crowd matters in that situation, they were so involved at the end. Something commentators play up a lot and maybe exaggerate but I was watching with just crowd noise and no commentary and they were so loud, and so hostile to Gulbis. Had to have an effect. And he was responding to them too, telling them to shut up etc.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
FaaipDeOiad said:
I wonder how much the crowd matters in that situation, they were so involved at the end. Something commentators play up a lot and maybe exaggerate but I was watching with just crowd noise and no commentary and they were so loud, and so hostile to Gulbis. Had to have an effect. And he was responding to them too, telling them to shut up etc.
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Gulbis is a loose cannon. He's the type of player that an outside court crowd atmosphere like that would affect. Would affect a Robredo or Gilles Simon less.
 
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