I suppose we're a bit off-season right now with a little news trickling in about this or that but with the ATP on break, most of the on-court drama has been put on pause. That's fine. Two things have my attention right now (tennis wise), which I intend to write about; any comments here for insight …
Category: Tennis
Federer and the Field
I need to keep this short and as clear as I can. The last post meant to clarify this but it was lost. I'm afraid readers thought I was writing about the GOAT debate. No way. If anything, I was saying to all of the Djoker GOATers, slow your roll: you have much work to …
Where Do We Go from Here?
The WTF championship came and went, like a little bird flying overhead and dropping a little turd in our way. The analogy suggests the match happened too fast and really wasn't all that interesting, even left a bad taste in our mouths. I'm not talking about the Federer perspective; I'm referring to fairly predictable, uninspired …
London Final
Is the final surprising? Afraid not. Granted, Stan has beaten Roger before; we saw quite the demonstration of this at the FO QF 2015. Straight sets. Staminal was on a sort of mission then, mission impossible, mission cannibal, baseline missile mission, what-have-you. But beating Roger Stan has not done very frequently, at all. Trivia time: …
London SF
We could not have asked for a better final four. I just finished the Stan v Murray match; Stan moving-on has to be what most non-Brits/Scots would like to see. Stan, on form, can be pretty breath-taking. That's more or less what we saw in the Murray match, but a few questionable stretches and some …
Group Nasty
Even a mere tennis fan knows the kind of free pass Nadal got from the WTF administration. Getting put into a group with two of the most inconsistent "heavy weights" on the tennis planet is, well, a way to get Nadal into matches with higher stakes. Stan is down 1-4 in the first to Ferrer, …
London QF
What a shame that Stan could not play a more leading role in his sequel with the Spaniard. Who knows what was on Stan's mind, with the Paris terror, etc. The surface, conditions and recent beating he put on Nadal gave credence to the idea that Stan would be a win away from the SF …
Stan v Rafa
I'm going to try and shorten my posts, and quadruple my production! I meant to write this after I watched the replay of this a day after it played live. Paris QF. Brilliant stuff. Stan is like a super hero. Stan is a monster. Stan the man the ball One-handed backhand Leaves fall in a park …
Tennis is Better than Ever
I have taken-up the argument of this Roger-is-now-better-than-ever debate and declared it bankrupt. It's complete wizardry, poppycock and tomfoolery. People, don't believe a word of it. It's an episode of Mission Impossible where all the cool agents get smashed and killed. Roger is quite advanced in age when it comes to competing on a regular basis vs. the …
Paris QF
I assume you all watch the tennis live/taped or follow the matches via mobile device if you have a job/life. Seems a bit redundant for me to constantly update the blog with each-round-drama. Of course, the most unpredictable thing happened today in Paris R16: Federer lost to Isner. Oh, it's not that surprising? Yet another …
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