Aside from the blow-smoke-up-Rafa's-ass line of reasoning that I'm all done with and hope to burn to the ground, the Roger-is-a-mental-midget crap is getting thrown-out the backdoor, too. Keep in mind, the latter is very much fueled by the former. Indeed, Rafa's bloated legacy offers life-support to the amateur punditry that, in some cases, demoralizes …
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Let Me Finish Rafa
Too much delay in writing, especially when I return to talk again of Nadal. My job has kept me more than enough busy though I have been reading, of course, and as far as Nadal goes, I've had it. Do you know that expression? It might be quite American, more a dialect of sorts. It means …
Nadal v Federer Part Two
The Nadal/Federer H2H Where does one begin with this positively over-hyped, misunderstood trivia? Well, we begin, of course at 23-10. Before we begin, one of the main reasons I want to address this "issue" is how unanimous "everyone" seems to be, Federer fan and non-Federer fan alike, on how Nadal just owns Federer. You, who so …
The TSQ (The Tennis Status Quo)
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 …
Nadal v Federer Part One
Having been a tennis fan most of my life, I have been happy enough to simply watch the big matches through the years and have a few light-hearted conversations about this match or that player with friends or family. We keep things sensible, i.e., defensible, since saying something too hyperbolic or absurd pretty much kills the conversation. More recently, …
The Federer Reminder: Cincinnati 2015
In light of the sensational year Novak Djokovic is having, this 2015 campaign usurping his legendary tennis of 2011, Roger Federer's dominant 7th Cincinnati Masters over the weekend reminds us, again, that he is still here and he's the greatest to ever play the sport. This has never been clearer. Those who disagree, I am eager …
Men’s Tennis Of Course
Of course we see predictability this week in Cincinnati as this dramatic USO series gets closer and closer to New York City. Of course, we're all excited about the big apple's men's major tennis opera starring Novak and Andy in leading roles, with Roger playing the older, more subdued crowd favorite. Nothing really "off" course at this …
2015 Rogers Cup: The Takeaway(s)
Tennis is a brutal sport. Last night, I was watching replay of Murray beating Isner in Davis Cup play earlier this year and one of the announcers recalled a poignant, intimate exchange with Murray where the Scot basically said tennis is a brutal sport. There were so many examples last week of this tough merciless atmosphere these …
2015 Rogers Cup in Montreal
So that's where we are this week: Montreal. I'll try to keep this short since there's a lot of tennis to watch, patterns to develop, form to be found. A little re-cap of the Citi Open in Washington D.C. From my American perspective, I was disappointed to see Jack Sock go down in the QF …
On the Eve of Hard Courts
The hard court season is upon us, with Washington D.C. beginning this week, followed by two consecutive ATP 1000s in Montreal and Cincinnati, and a final tune-up at Winston-Salem before we're dropped at the doorstep of the United States Open. Anticipation without a doubt builds for this final major of 2015. We know the stakes for the …
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