Has Djokovic "earned," finally, his French Open championship? Do his career accomplishments thus far warrant a FO, at last as a gift from the tennis gods? The draw is unbelievably favorable for the world's #1. We previewed it earlier and clarified his fortune, but we need to reiterate how incredibly soft is his top half …
Category: Stan Wawrinka
Clarification and More FO Conjecture
I actually already clarified my hyperbolic enthusiasm for the Rome QF between Novak and Rafa in a post in which I broke down that first set leading unto the 12th game; that's where the level became more classic; the second set saw better overall tennis then did those first 11 games of the first set. I'll …
2016 French Open Men’s Draw
The draw. For starters, the Federerless draw is a terrible reminder that life is short, and that we're all going to die. Like most big sporting events, picking grand upsets seems more a move to draw attention to oneself. This tournament should more or less play-out according to the seedings; but, because it's clay and some …
The Twelfth Major
Indeed my title is a play on my previous post, but I (we) also need to know that this next chapter in the 2016 ATP tour is all about Djokovic finally securing the elusive FO, which would be his 12th major title. If he can win RG, he'll be locked and loaded to make all kinds …
Rome
I got a chance to see Djokovic, Federer, Wawrinka and Nadal play among others a bit as Rome has gotten underway. Djokovic vs. Robert was vintage Djokovic. Unless he's really not going to invest much in Rome to save himself for RG, this was just typical Novak doing enough in the early rounds to survive …
Dumbed Down
There is no better way to describe tennis on clay than tennis dumbed down. One of my favorite readers/commenters, blackspy, put it this way: "Clay is a surface that favours power & patience over technique, since points are won in a pretty specific way, most of the time." I one-upped you, comrade. Yours is a …
Monte Carlo QF
A couple of things I need to make clear. The clay court remains. . . how should I say this and not alienate too many people. . .inferior. Poor. Sure, I could resolve to say it is simply a different surface, gives the professional sport a little diversity, adds to the calendar, the seasons, etc. But …
Federer at the French and “Be Like Mike”
Djokovic's loss Wow, a lot of shit went down on the clay today, so I have to address that, but I had planned to write a little about the night in the NBA and my thoughts on Federer, having had a chance to see him play yesterday against Garcia-Lopez, his first match back from injury. Don't read …
The Big 3
As we look to Monte Carlo and the start of 2016 clay, what are the big 3 up to as they prepare for the start of the season of the dirt? Stan He said so himself: 2016 so far has been something from which one might want to hide. But the clay just may bring out …
Indian Wells SF
The Indian Wells final four will be complete after tomorrow, the first half getting decided today/nite with Raonic taking care of Monfils and set to join Goffin, who followed his victory over Wawrinka with a straight set win against Cilic. You know, bias is a funny thing. I was called biased by a commenter a …
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