The revolution will be blogged! There’s a lot this great country of mine is doing to make us all (locally to globally) pretty frustrated and/or worse, but this blog is not Twitter or some other sort of forum that aggregates that kind of activism and media. Do I put it past this recent political and …
I referenced the tennis status quo in yesterday’s post, where I’m trying to qualify one particularly distorted view. Found this in the mainstream today: Tim Joyce from RealClearSports.com wrote a piece about the Federer/Djokovic USO final. Here are a couple of passages: “But consider: what if it were Rafael Nadal across the net from Federer on …
Yesterday’s Part I simply clarified that this year’s U.S. Open gave us another rendition of tennis in the Djokodal era. Who gets the better draw (who gets Federer — which in these Bo5 tournaments, other than WB, means less and less)? Who has the most health? The history of tennis in the 21st century involves …
I saw a thread on Twitter recently that projected and simultaneously asked for responses on the final tally of career Majors for the Big 3. The tweet along with the several responses were all in the same ball park with various iterations: Novak finishing with 24, Nadal 22 and Federer 20; or Nadal 23, Djokovic …
The Joker That’s Roger more or less. Remember the TSQ? The public, per usual, has a lot of the reading on these matters a bit off, perhaps way off. They call Novak the Djoker. Wrong. Roger is the one goofing around, having fun; his whole enterprise is an exhibition. Start with the way he hits …
Obviously the Nadal match today was the most interesting turn of events. Remember what I said a couple of times in probably a couple of posts: Nadal, in my humble opinion, is not as dominant as he was last year, let alone five years ago. Yet this is what the TSQ will have you believe. …
Oh the clay confidence must be pouring from the tanned pores of the Spaniard’s camp. His spokes-people sure are confident. Remember the TSQ we defined some time ago? This is their footprint. Here’s part of Tignor’s generous consideration of the rest of the Roland Garros field: “But there’s more to a major than the winner, …
Welcome to Mcshow Blog. If you’ve never been here before, this is how we do this. I have original takes on the sport (e.g. HRFRT, Djokollapse, etc.) and like to occasionally enter into certain conversations that need a dose or two of lucidity and/or levity; my crap-detector picks-up the smelly trace, we trap the perpetrator, …
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For starters, we might say there a few surprises to this tennis season, beginning with #2017 Fedal. That these ATP elder statesmen have, combined, won every major championship and every Masters level tournament, minus Rome (that’s 3 majors and 4 Masters tournaments between the two) is a bonafide trip down memory lane. To round-off the …
Indian Wells 2017 R3 is where, we’re told, the drama begins. Most tournaments see some solid matches at this point, anyway. Of course, this is all about the bottom half, the “quarter of death,” to be specific, or whatever it is people are calling this tournament draw. Jon Wertheim a pretty respectable tennis scribe and talking head …
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