Folks, my Miami post is coming; I just wanted to mention the delay is work, my job (I have an excuse); I will get a chance to write this afternoon or late evening PST (California). Sorry for the delay. We will talk a bit about the match, I will toot my own horn about HRFRT …
That’s a lot of Fs, if you know what I mean. We have another Fedal final, this time in a Masters tournament, so the past keeps coming back to haunt the tennis world in a worst-nightmare kind of way (if you fail to see the historic brilliance). First, obviously, we got the AO Final that …
The only tennis I missed this morning was the first set TB of Cilic v Querrey and the third and final set of Federer v Berdych. I replayed the final frame of Fedych and learned via news source that Cilic let slip a 4-1 lead in that first set TB. His ability to regroup and …
Continue reading Cilic and Federer Set 2017 Wimbledon Men’s Final
What a fortnight of tennis, ending in what will go down as an historic final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Despite whatever criticism a viewer might have of some of the actual tennis in the final, Federer’s wayward FH, for instance, or Nadal’s failure to convert breakpoints (both respective cornerstones of these titans’ games), …
Continue reading 2017 AO Final: Federer Beats Nadal and Secures 18th Grand Slam Title
Might just be in the math. I standby by my 2019 Wimbledon Final analysis as much as anything I’ve written, knowing that Federer could make me eat crow. I have strong opinions and arguments about sports and life. Getting proved wrong is part of the exercise. As far as that 2019 WB Final is concerned, …
How do we organize and develop this post? How many directions can one go on this? These are rhetorical questions, mate. I can go in many directions. How do you all like that HRFRT concept at this point? I’ve said this many times: my HRFRT treatise in its current form is a very rough draft, …
So, let’s pick-up where we left off. Let’s make make some observations about our main cast of characters: Quick rehash of Dominic Thiem We already touched on his elevated play. He certainly played a tighter, more offensive style of tennis, the DTL BH improved immensely. That shot from all of the one-handers proves to be …
Splendid runs from these two tennis power houses. Ah, but the Kyrgios claim to fame is a bit more complicated than that, no? I see mentioned that only hours before his final v Zverev, he was jet skiing. The guy lives and breathes to a different set of rules, but this can get overplayed if …
Continue reading Federer to #100 in Dubai and Kyrgios Vacations in Acapulco
Match begins in about 30 min, unless the women’s match currently in Arthur Ashe goes on and on. There’s been some ambivalence regarding Federer’s form for sure. This, along with that age, forces everyone to entertain a Federer loss, especially given the nature of sport (anything can happen on any day — that’s why they …
By Roland Garros 2016, Djokovic winning a significant tennis tournament was a foregone conclusion. He won everything, had been basically doing so since 2014. 2015 and 2016 were arguably peak Djoker. Fedal were no where to be found. Murray and Stan made little cameos here and there. The tour belonged to Novak Djokovic. Then Djokollapse, …
Continue reading 2018 Cincy Final: Djokovic Routines Federer 4 and 4
