Between little posts like this and comments from you all, we should be able to keep the tennis IQ pretty high as these men enter battle in a couple of days for a very prestigious title at the 2017 Nitto ATP Finals. Let's get this out of the way: seeing someone other than Fedal win …
Category: 2017 Fedal
2017 Nitto ATP Finals Draw
Singles – Group Pete Sampras [1] Rafael Nadal (ESP) [4] Dominic Thiem (AUT) [6] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) [7] David Goffin (BEL) Singles – Group Boris Becker [2] Roger Federer (SUI) [3] Alexander Zverev (GER) [5] Marin Cilic (CRO) [8] Jack Sock (USA) There you have it. We suspect, only just beginning here to sip our …
Qualifying 2017 Fedal
See my previous post where I addressed the rise of Nadal to #1, in retrospect, and how that might have stung with my apparent insight over a year ago when I buried him along with his kitchen sink (as the saying goes). But I hint at the end of that last post that this year, …
Nadal and My Stream-of-Consciousness
I'm in the business of trying to explain myself. That's how this works, this blog at least. My last post was all over the place, but still an impressive piece of stream-of- consciousness. No? Well, let's just agree to disagree on that one. 😀 Thanks again to Wilfried for his article on top players' connections …
Nadal Injured in Shanghai?
Scroll to 5:00 on this highlight where Nadal dumps his volley into the net and loses his serve, after trying to consolidate his break of Cilic in the second set. He's pissed. https://youtu.be/mihsuaJmA7U So pissed that he takes two swipes at his right knee with his racket. Is that good for the knee? Probably not. …
Shanghai Final: Federer def. Nadal 64 63
This was about as anti-climactic as the U.S. Open final. Actually, that's all I pretty much thought about during this routine win from the Swiss #2 in the world. If his back was 100%, Del Potro more than likely goes down and we have a Nadal v Federer SF (essentially F) at the 2017 U.S. …
Shanghai 2017 Fedal Preview
From my "draw analysis": Man, the rich get richer, no? Even the name of this week’s Masters event, the title of this post, makes me a little queasy. So, what are Fedal up to this week? Who has the bumpier route to that tight hug at the net with his BFF in the proposed final …
Shanghai Rolex Masters 2017
Man, the rich get richer, no? Even the name of this week's Masters event, the title of this post, makes me a little queasy. So, what are Fedal up to this week? Who has the bumpier route to that tight hug at the net with his BFF in the proposed final followed likely by a …
Utter Shambles II
Just to clarify in case one thinks that I'm just burned-out on the tennis, the U.S. Open wore me out, or whathaveyou: the meaninglessness of the play in the far east or the tour in general comes down to the firm establishment of #1 and #2 in the world, their separation from the rest of …
