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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 10:42:15 GMT -5
Post by Traveling Man on Jun 6, 2012 10:42:15 GMT -5
Uh-oh ... is Sly Andy's revival going to come in the first set this time? Isn't it enough that Ali's Mariabot sailed into the SFs; must he have Mopey there, too? ;D My Kvitty made it too! And honestly, I wouldn't mind Muzza losing today. Ali slept with all RG organizers. And risk having Laura Robson call me a slut too?
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 10:47:47 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 6, 2012 10:47:47 GMT -5
Muzza/Fezza is not the most thrilling match to watch. Lots of long rallies ending in errors when one or the other tries to be aggressive.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 11:14:39 GMT -5
Post by Old Hag on Jun 6, 2012 11:14:39 GMT -5
Indeed. This Muz/Fez matchup is never a pretty one. And fuels the pusher haters like Corswandt.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 11:32:52 GMT -5
Post by Grarliner on Jun 6, 2012 11:32:52 GMT -5
I love it when Corswandt is fueled!
LOL at Petra needing three tight sets. At least she won, I guess.
Kaia! That ain't right!
Well, folks, I think Shitra is our last, best hope. Stosur is not beating Maria. Errani ... lol. It's either Petra or no one, I think.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 11:38:15 GMT -5
Post by Lady on Jun 6, 2012 11:38:15 GMT -5
Lenglen totally got the better matches today. At least both of those were intense.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 11:48:21 GMT -5
Post by Lady on Jun 6, 2012 11:48:21 GMT -5
Oh, play suspended! Rafa won just in time
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 11:52:03 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 6, 2012 11:52:03 GMT -5
Errani's in the doubles final already. Maybe she's ready to take over the world!
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 11:54:46 GMT -5
Post by Old Hag on Jun 6, 2012 11:54:46 GMT -5
Thanks for starting at 2, Wusses.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 11:59:55 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 6, 2012 11:59:55 GMT -5
I did think back to when I bitched about SEWTA fans not recognising the greatness of Nole and Rafa. This is what they were complaining about.
Errani for the double crown.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 12:11:01 GMT -5
Post by Old Hag on Jun 6, 2012 12:11:01 GMT -5
The greatness of the top of the men's game should be recognized, even if you hate watching it. For example, I can't tolerate any Rafa topspin to Fed BH exchanges for 3+ hours, but I know they're awesome.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:14:25 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 6, 2012 13:14:25 GMT -5
Now this match is annoying to watch. I should've stuck with my idea to take a day off watching RG.
But oh, now we see Rafa lying on the table in the training room! Wearing tennis shorts, no shirt on, but some towel lying on his torso, tant pis! Ice on the famous knee.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:17:03 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 6, 2012 13:17:03 GMT -5
Mopey getting sloppy. I'm glad, but still not fun to watch.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:30:54 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 6, 2012 13:30:54 GMT -5
Ferrer getting bery nerbous now. Rushing and erroring. Slow down, kid!
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:36:06 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 6, 2012 13:36:06 GMT -5
"Ferrer fights and claws his way to a 5-2 lead!" says Patrick McEnroe.
It was fun watching him get over his nerves. Men's tennis! :lovelovelove:
Of course I don't want to get ahead of myself; there's still plenty of time for David to choke the match away.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:40:29 GMT -5
Post by Lady on Jun 6, 2012 13:40:29 GMT -5
Wow, this is gonna be Ferrer's first RG semi? Feels like it should have happened before already.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:40:56 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 6, 2012 13:40:56 GMT -5
Andy serving: 0-15 0-30 -- Ferrer and I are so jumpy! 2nd serve .... 15-30 great FH DTL from AM 15-40, sloppy miss from Scotsboy! 30-40, I don't even want to discuss this point 2nd serve ... And sad scotsboy sends a FH wide! So excited for him!
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:41:42 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 6, 2012 13:41:42 GMT -5
Wow, this is gonna be Ferrer's first RG semi? Feels like it should have happened before already. It should have! Other guys should have let him in before now.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:47:05 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 6, 2012 13:47:05 GMT -5
Ferrer's third Slam SF. Very deserved. I was looking back at former ATP top players' Slam records in lieu of paying real attention to this match until the last stages. God, the top players around the turn of the century were so useless in comparison. Moya only made three Slam SFs ever! So did Kuerten! Murray does that every year. Ferrer has matched it! Rios only reached ONE Slam SF
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:51:26 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 6, 2012 13:51:26 GMT -5
Wow, this is gonna be Ferrer's first RG semi? Feels like it should have happened before already. I was thinking the exact same thing. He already has a USO and AO semi, right? Both at the expense of Nadal, I think, too (whether he beat him or just took his spot in the draw).
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 13:52:15 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 6, 2012 13:52:15 GMT -5
Moya only made three Slam SFs ever! So did Kuerten! So that means every time Guga made a Slam SF, he won. Like Myskina and Majoli
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 15:35:00 GMT -5
Post by Grarliner on Jun 6, 2012 15:35:00 GMT -5
Wow, this is gonna be Ferrer's first RG semi? Feels like it should have happened before already. I was thinking the exact same thing. He already has a USO and AO semi, right? Both at the expense of Nadal, I think, too (whether he beat him or just took his spot in the draw). He beat him at both of those tournaments. A long time coming for Ferrer at this tournament. I hope he gives Rafa a match instead of the usual 7-5 7-6 6-2 loss.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 19:35:01 GMT -5
Post by Old Hag on Jun 6, 2012 19:35:01 GMT -5
Ferrer has a poor history at RG, none of his losses came to the Big 4 here either.
It took a while to get used to the same guys dominating every slam. Even in the Sampras days, he'd lose early sometimes and we always had RG. Then from 1997-2002, nothing made sense. Largely thanks to stupid Marat.
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Day 11.
Jun 6, 2012 22:06:59 GMT -5
Post by Traveling Man on Jun 6, 2012 22:06:59 GMT -5
Ferrer has a poor history at RG, none of his losses came to the Big 4 here either. It took a while to get used to the same guys dominating every slam. Even in the Sampras days, he'd lose early sometimes and we always had RG. Then from 1997-2002, nothing made sense. Largely thanks to stupid Marat. Honourable mention for US '03 not making sense either, although it wasn't in the 1997-2002 period.
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Post by Wagasi on Jun 7, 2012 0:03:46 GMT -5
Oh God, Nalbandian really should've won that match. What a different era that was. On the women's side we had a huge crop of promising players. On the men's we had bug servers, olds who refused to retire, vultures, single surface specialists, chokers and lazyasses, randoms who made it to GS finals and Potato Hewitt as our number 1. Federer's getting his shit together changed everything.
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Post by Grarliner on Jun 7, 2012 1:39:47 GMT -5
Ferrer has a poor history at RG, none of his losses came to the Big 4 here either. It took a while to get used to the same guys dominating every slam. Even in the Sampras days, he'd lose early sometimes and we always had RG. Then from 1997-2002, nothing made sense. Largely thanks to stupid Marat. I consider 1997 to have been business as usual. Yes, Guga surprised at the French and Rafter at the USO but in both cases that was their emergence as top players. As for the rest of the year, Sampras was #1 again and he won the other two Slams. Pretty regular Sampras-era year. I'd say the odd period from 1998-2003 was really more due to Pete fucking phoning it in than anything else. Do you really think Marat should have won more than he did? Beyond AO 2002, I don't think he was ever in with a chance late in a Grand Slam. What I don't get is what went on with Sampras. He worked really hard to remain #1 in 1998 and then it gets funky. Blew off AO 99 because he was "tired". Pretty much every FO after that was a formality. He probably only showed up to avoid a fine. Was it all about he started boning Bridget? Did she sap his manly, sport-playing essence? You know, it is almost totally ruined by what happened at USO 2002 (which was probably the worst tournament ever - Sister final and Sampras title), but I still love that Bastl loss at Wimbledon. Now that was comedy.
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Post by lexpretend on Jun 7, 2012 2:55:26 GMT -5
Definitely agree with Wagasi's characterisation of turn-of-the-century ATP and what Grarliner said re: Sampras phoning it in. That's why, when I first started to follow tennis, the WTA became my preferred choice.
There were also a lot of "lost" talents during those years, players like Rios, Philippoussis, Enqvist etc who were hyped as potential top players but never even reached Safin levels. Probably a few more that I forget.
God, we had such random Slam SFists in those years. Meligeni. Squillari. Voltchkov. De Wulf. Stoltenberg. Escudé. Lapentti. And then it all culminated in Jiri Novak, Top Five. I'm still not sure how that happened.
I don't think it was just Pete phoning it in...so many of the players who "should" have taken advantage just didn't seem interested in going out of their comfort zones. Moya and Kafelnikov had really disappointing careers considering their talent and era, they could have mopped up a lot more.
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Day 11.
Jun 7, 2012 10:33:32 GMT -5
Post by Wagasi on Jun 7, 2012 10:33:32 GMT -5
Let's also recall how Martina sapped Magnus Norman's manly, sport-playing essence. Well, the back injury probably helped. The post Sampras generation really was Gen. Suck for the men.
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Day 11.
Jun 7, 2012 11:31:17 GMT -5
Post by Grarliner on Jun 7, 2012 11:31:17 GMT -5
Definitely agree with Wagasi's characterisation of turn-of-the-century ATP and what Grarliner said re: Sampras phoning it in. That's why, when I first started to follow tennis, the WTA became my preferred choice. There were also a lot of "lost" talents during those years, players like Rios, Philippoussis, Enqvist etc who were hyped as potential top players but never even reached Safin levels. Probably a few more that I forget. God, we had such random Slam SFists in those years. Meligeni. Squillari. Voltchkov. De Wulf. Stoltenberg. Escudé. Lapentti. And then it all culminated in Jiri Novak, Top Five. I'm still not sure how that happened. I don't think it was just Pete phoning it in...so many of the players who "should" have taken advantage just didn't seem interested in going out of their comfort zones. Moya and Kafelnikov had really disappointing careers considering their talent and era, they could have mopped up a lot more. What about Thomas Johansson and Albert Costa being Slam champions! I will say that time will tell whether this era or that was the exception. Nole, Rafa and Roger may one day be replaced by all Rioses.
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