Running 2018 Tennis Thread

[Gator]

Patriots fans can learn from Federer.

We do not dislike dominance. We dislike the way it handles itself sometimes.

And how is that?

 

[BTExpress]

People generally appreciate champions who win with class.

They tend to look unfavorably among champions who always seem to have a chip on their shoulder about one thing or another. And who engage in skullduggery.

One of those applies to Federer. The other applies to the Patriots. I'll leave it to everyone else to figure out which goes with which.

 

[service_gamer]

People generally appreciate champions who win with class.

They tend to look unfavorably among champions who always seem to have a chip on their shoulder about one thing or another. And who engage in skullduggery.

One of those applies to Federer. The other applies to the Patriots. I'll leave it to everyone else to figure out which goes with which.

To be fair, it's not hard to find obnoxious Fed fans online. I don't think it's apples to apples to compare certain Pats fans to Federer himself.

 

[MileHigh]

Fed is so classy. It was fun to watch that this morning.

The King is Fed.

 

[BTExpress]

To be fair, it's not hard to find obnoxious Fed fans online. I don't think it's apples to apples to compare certain Pats fans to Federer himself.

That's why I also included skullduggery. The Patriots themselves don't do their case any favors.

 

[Gator]

Interesting because these guys were Olympic teammates at the London Games.

 

[Della9250]

Something tells me the French Open is going to wish they seeded Serena

 

[BTExpress]

How come? From their point of view, I don't see how it makes any difference. Heck, it makes for better early-round matches.

Unseeded Kim Clijsters won the 2009 U.S. Open after taking months off for maternity leave. And unseeded Serena won the 2007 Australian Open.

Everyone knows why she's unseeded. She took a year off and was 2-2 since coming back entering the tournament. It's not like the French Open is going to have egg on its face or anything.

From today's story from French Open:

Williams was asked about Sharapova’s book, which was published last year. It contains quite a bit of material about the American, including a reference to Williams crying in the locker room after losing to Sharapova in the Wimbledon final 14 years ago.

“As a fan, I wanted to read the book, and I was really excited for it to come out, and I was really happy for her. And then the book was a lot about me. I was surprised about that, to be honest,” Williams said. “I was, like, ‘Oh, OK, I didn’t expect to be reading a book about me – that wasn’t necessarily true.’”

Absolute bull****.

There is about ONE PAGE on Sharapova overhearing Serena crying in the locker room and then hearing third-hand Serena say, "I'll never lose to that ***** again." There were a couple of minor references about Sharapova being at the Wimbledon ball (as a junior) and seeing Serena there as champion.

I'm 99 percent sure --- having read all the autobiographies --- that Agassi and Sampras referenced each other in their books more than Sharapova referenced Serena in hers.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Serena withdraws today, citing pectoral muscle injury. Might not be back for Wimbledon.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Serena withdraws today, citing pectoral muscle injury. Might not be back for Wimbledon.

That's really too bad, but she's getting to the age where injury problems become more frequent and harder to recover from.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I watched a little of Serena taking care of Julia Görges over the weekend. She handled the match, but to me, at least, she didn't look completely right, whether it was rust being harder to get rid of with age or her just not being in the same physical shape now.

US Open presale tickets went on sale this morning. ... We got our tickets for labor day weekend, and I am psyched.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[da man]

It means her PEDs are better than theirs?

 

[da man]

Who needs Serena anyway?

TWO American women in the French Open semis!

 

[BTExpress]

It means her PEDs are better than theirs?

Better, or just (wink, wink) "approved".

Like they were for the Rio Olympics. Along with Venus and Simone Biles.

 

[da man]

Wow, not a word about Rafa winning his 11th French title. Guess it really isn't news anymore.

 

[da man]

Let's throw in this quote from Thiem's coach, Gunter Bresnik, about Nadal: "It’s so, so difficult to compete with the guy because he is the best competitor in a sport in my opinion of all time. It doesn’t matter what sport."

 

[Big Circus]

I realize that winning any tennis major is difficult, but at this point, does it make sense that people shrug when Nadal wins the French? Even so, winning six Slams outside of your best surface (as recently as last year) is still pretty impressive. And there are clay-court specialists who never sniff his success.

Nadal breaks down as 11 French, 3 U.S., 2 Wimbledons, 1 Aussie, right? Federer is 8 Wimbledon, 6 Aussie, 5 U.S., 1 French. His distribution is more balanced and he has more. Nadal has the head-to-head, but they played a lot on clay early on, and Federer has had his number recently.

An interesting question is why the wave below Federer and Nadal never got over. The guys that will eventually push them out are guys in their late teens/early 20s. But there's a generation of guys between them and Federer who never had their moment. Both of those guys outlasted Djokovic and Murray.

 

[da man]

I realize that winning any tennis major is difficult, but at this point, does it make sense that people shrug when Nadal wins the French? Even so, winning six Slams outside of your best surface (as recently as last year) is still pretty impressive. And there are clay-court specialists who never sniff his success.

Nadal breaks down as 11 French, 3 U.S., 2 Wimbledons, 1 Aussie, right? Federer is 8 Wimbledon, 6 Aussie, 5 U.S., 1 French. His distribution is more balanced and he has more. Nadal has the head-to-head, but they played a lot on clay early on, and Federer has had his number recently.

An interesting question is why the wave below Federer and Nadal never got over. The guys that will eventually push them out are guys in their late teens/early 20s. But there's a generation of guys between them and Federer who never had their moment. Both of those guys outlasted Djokovic and Murray.

Is it too late for Djokovic to get it back? Hell, I thought both Federer and Nadal were done three years ago.

 

[cjericho]

Anyone going to the US Open? Don't really watch too much tennis, but seems like it's not as well attended in
past years.

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