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Tennis Discussions / Re: 2013 ATP Masters & WTA Premier 5 Rome (13-19 May)

« Last post by Babblelot on Yesterday at 05:01:51 PM »

TB

Jan saves 2 BPs.


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Tennis Discussions / Re: 2013 ATP Masters & WTA Premier 5 Rome (13-19 May)

« Last post by Babblelot on Yesterday at 04:55:43 PM »

Hahaha!!!

I would say some of Jan's ROS are Roddick-like if only they were a lot better.

6-5 Fed


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Tennis Discussions / Re: 2013 ATP Masters & WTA Premier 5 Rome (13-19 May)

« Last post by Babblelot on Yesterday at 04:52:44 PM »

Fed breaks! 5-5


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Tennis Discussions / Re: 2013 ATP Masters & WTA Premier 5 Rome (13-19 May)

« Last post by Babblelot on Yesterday at 04:50:59 PM »

Just saw a 144 serve and some otherwise shoddy tennis.

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Tennis Discussions / Re: 2013 ATP Masters & WTA Premier 5 Rome (13-19 May)

« Last post by Babblelot on Yesterday at 04:43:45 PM »

Started watching Fed-Jan at 2-1 2nd set. Is this Wimbledon circa 1990? Steady diet of 3 shot rallies (as I suspected).

Jan is who I thought he was.

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Tennis4you Chat Threads / Re: Ye Olde Castle Vol. 16 | Some must follow & some command, all are made of Clay

« Last post by nick the greek on Yesterday at 04:15:35 PM »

News  flash:Player formerly known as Djokovic will from now on  go under the name of Dumbassovic.

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Tennis Discussions / 2013 ATP Masters & WTA Premier 5 Rome (13-19 May)

« Last post by Dallas on Yesterday at 03:32:29 PM »

Well, I do not see how Jerzy's game translates to clay so his success he is shocking to me; I think he's just a fair player, nothing special.

6-1 set to Gulbis would have been interesting to watch.

Good on Paire for a big win over Delpo!


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He's a very good mover and has enough power to hit through anyone.
The way he moves you wouldn't believe he's 6'8".

What else do you want to know?   

That's all dandy, and I would think it would help him on fast surfaces. In 2013, his results haven't been special. I haven't seen him on clay but my guess is he's had a nice draw, no grinders, enabling him to keep the points short.

roger is not exactly a "grinder" either, so this also might help his opponent. I just hope Roger takes care of business. It's always difficult when paying someone for the first time.

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Tennis4you Chat Threads / Re: Ye Olde Castle Vol. 16 | Some must follow & some command, all are made of Clay

« Last post by Clash on Yesterday at 03:18:47 PM »

 

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Fill-In-The-Draw / Re: Fill-In-The-Draw (FITD) Düsseldorf

« Last post by Nirjhor on Yesterday at 02:22:58 PM »

R32
Tipsarevic
Qualifier 2
Goffin
Troicki
Monaco
Qualifier
Kamke
Tursunov
Brands
Donskoy
Sijsling
Kohlschreiber
Nieminen
Bautista Agut
Dodig
Haas
R16
Tipsarevic
Goffin
Monaco
Tursunov
Brands
Kohlschreiber
Nieminen
Haas
QF
Goffin
Monaco
Brands
Haas
SF
Monaco
Haas
F
Haas

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Tennis4you Chat Threads / Re: Ye Olde Castle Vol. 16 | Some must follow & some command, all are made of Clay

« Last post by swish on Yesterday at 02:04:57 PM »

That's a bunch of sets Nadal has lost in the clay court season this year. He's still finding a way to pull out the wins, but his days of invincibility on clay are over. Also this points to the idea that he won't win any grass/hard events in the 2nd half.

The field is getting better.

Nadal grinds and lets the errors come but players don't take advantage by playing a little safer themselves till an opportunity presents itself, they continue to go for higher risk shots.

Ferrer gave away so many chances on crucial points, I was just waiting for it to happen and it did.

Gulbis had things going his way but tried to force the issue by pounding every ball he could instead of waiting on balls that are safer to blast. He's smart though and will adjust as well as get his game more consistent.

If Nadal has problems on clay then elsewhere he'll have more problems.

Nole didn't push very hard, he looked a little tired or wasn't quite ready to put forth high intensity tennis.
All he wants is RG, he could care less about Rome I think.