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Current ranking: 14

Last result: Australian Open second round (lost to Mackenzie McDonald)

Next tournament: Roland Garros

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      • nny, hope you don’t mind my wading in above??? i thought that something needed to be said but nevertheless felt quite awkward in doing it as i am new here…

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    • amy,

      I certainly don’t mind you stepping in and saying what you felt. Being new here doesn’t mean you are any less than anyone else. You have a right you say something and I appreciate it very much.

      I am glad you addressed your concerns directly to Ricky. I think you were able to see what is going on here and that it can drive away good people who want to come here and have some decent tennis discussions.

      Thanks for standing up for me. It helps! 🙂

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      • nny, sorry had friend calling round so haven’t been able to get on here and have to get back to trying to do some work almost straightaway….
        but am glad i didn’t put my foot in it….i just really don’t like the way that ‘mary’ ,whoever that is, treats you…
        here’s to many more great tennis conversations….!!

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  3. How big of a role does confidence play in all-time great players, and are you struck that even these legends can lose confidence?

    Paul Annacone says:

    You see it in every sport. No matter how great you are, you have ebbs and flows and peaks and valleys. In tennis, you can’t hide behind any of it, because it’s just you. If there’s a frailty, if there’s a lack of confidence in something, there’s nowhere to go. The strongest players and the most diligent players are the people that don’t lose that self-belief. That takes incredible talent, but also incredible intestinal fortitude. While everyone else is panicking, they are just going about their business.

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  4. amy,

    I just wanted to add one more thing. I have been trying to ignore it. That’s not to say that I think it’s okay at all. It’s not. But I have tried to just focus on tennis discussions with you, vr and hawkeye and chloro when he’s around.

    I just can’t get over how you are so new here, yet you are so perceptive. You have some extraordinary insight into what’s been going on.

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  11. @amy, great posts above regarding the malicious trolling that has been going on and on and on… you nailed it. Oh, and so much patience shown by NNY and hawkeye.

    Anyway, Rafa playing hamburg. Keeping his mental woes and the need to hire a new coach aside, I think it is good for him to play on clay and find some confidence. Win some good matches rafa and get a 500 tourney win.

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    • Double standards!!! When you harass augusta and nadline for months, it is tennis, when I play back to you your exact words used on them, it is malicious trolling!!! Hilarious!!!
      What hypocrisy!. The worst offender is native who claims I am a stalker because I know she is in Florida. Did I find that info by doing background check on her? No. She has this annoying habit of giving minute details of her everyday life but if someone remembers anything, that person is stalking??? Somebody who doesn’t want people to know details about herself shouldn’t be providing it in these columns. Simple! That’s not rocket science. Take the example of augusta. She doesn’t provide any personal details about herself.

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      • vamosrafa says:
        July 20, 2015 at 10:24 pm,
        — Oh, and so much patience shown by…. hawkeye—
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        Oh, constant trolling is called ‘patience’ by vr! I believe that it requires patience to keep malicious trolling continuous. 😆

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      • LOL…someone is such a coward …cannot even use — real moniker to attack people. Getting owned in tennis discussions was too much to for ….. LOL

        @augusta, your tendency to become a victim is bemusing here. i was NOT referring to you in that ‘malicious trolling’ comment. It was for fake Mary.

        Don’t worry I will address you by name because at least you are not fake augusta! I dont need to make indirect references as far as you are concerned.

        and remember, rafa is the best 🙂

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      • @vamosrafa, why do I get the feeling you have bought into @hawkeye63’s “aside” that @Mary IS @rafaisthebest?

        Would be beyond epic if you do! side-splittingly so……..

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      • I don’t have to buy into hawkeye’s ‘aside’ . i have been saying some stuff even before hawkeye. And it is all too obvious..has been from the beginning. Poorly concealed..

        And remember, rafa is the best!!

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      • …unless of course I have the mis-fortune (or fortune, whichever applies) to share a moniker with the latest in tongue in cheek Rafa-disses (which of course I would not “get” being so dumb an’ all), in which case I apologise profusely for my dim-ness.

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      • vamosrafa says: July 21, 2015 at 1:14 pm

        I don’t have to buy into hawkeye’s ‘aside’ . i have been saying some stuff even before hawkeye. And it is all too obvious..has been from the beginning. Poorly concealed..

        And remember, rafa is the best!!

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        OMG. YOU. DO. BELIEVE. I. AM. @Mary

        This is beyond parody. Best to leave well alone.

        Sorry, but I am speechless right now. Takes a lot to render ME speechless.

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      • it takes a lot more for someone to get all so cool and calm all of a sudden when we know the past too well.

        Beyond parody! Now very soon the the log in log out operation will be performed and the malicious troller will be back to try to turn this into a ‘parody’ .

        LOL

        Rafa is the best! vamos!

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      • hawkeye63 says: July 21, 2015 at 1:20 pm
        @ritb, why do I get the feeling that you don’t deny being Mary. Would be beyond epic if you do! side-splittingly so……..

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        Et tu, Brutus??? I am laughing so hard right now………..speechless.

        Like I said, best to leave well alone…….

        *shakes head*

        I do miss @Conspirator………..

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      • “Best to leave well alone. Sorry, but I am speechless right now.”

        @ritb is too honest to deny she is Mary. That much I know about her (which is why I put it out there).

        @ritb is Anakin to Mary’s Darth Vader.

        Too funny and don’t forget Rafa is the best!!! (I know somewhere in there Mary still believes).

        #QED
        #Humb1e

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      • Do I really, REALLY, souncd like @Mary???

        You guys, your civil war is in danger of being unfunny if you are beginning to “see things” like this…………….

        Seriously though. Seek Ricky’s help if you are that deluded (and here I was thinking this was nothing but a running joke…………). He can easily confirm if @rafaisthebest is the same as @Mary.

        Get help.

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      • “@ritb is too honest to deny she is Mary.”

        I will take the back-handed compliment: yes, you are right, I am honest….to a fault. That much you know about me.

        But you are wrong: I am not @Mary. *still laughing side-splittingly*

        @Conspirator is busy laughing with me too I know!!!!

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      • vamosrafa says: July 21, 2015 at 1:25 pm
        it takes a lot more for someone to get all so cool and calm all of a sudden when we know the past too well.
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        *Agog*

        And what “past” do you have in mind @vamosrafa? And who’s “we”? Don’t answer, purely rhetorical.

        Seriously though, I feel like I am peeking at a car crash……………horror mixed with fascination.

        Anyway, this was funny while it lasted. Thanks @hwkeye63 and @vamosrafa for confirming my suspicions: somewhere along the line @hawkeye63 latched onto the idea I was @Mary (which I thought was one of @hawkeye63’s funnies), @vamosrafa tagged along and voila!.

        Phew!

        You 2 have given me the best laugh in a while…………..thank you!

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      • vamosrafa says:
        July 21, 2015 at 12:58 pm,
        —@augusta, your tendency to become a victim is bemusing here. i was NOT referring to you in that ‘malicious trolling’ comment.—
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        What??? You referred to amy’s posts and I knew that she&you were referring to Mary!
        I have no idea why you made the wrong conclusion! 😆

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      • You know, lately, I was in serious danger of getting jaded with Tenngrand, what with all the endless capping, snideness etc, etc. But thanks to @hawkeye63 and @vamosrafa today, I found my funny bone again, enjoyed Tenngrand again. Haven’t laughed this hard at a tennis forum convo in a long while………….

        Thank you guys. Sets the stage nicely for watching Rafa live next week!

        #Laughteristhebestmedicine

        Vamos!

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      • OMG……still laughing uncontrollably.

        And @Mary, you better not capitalize on this! Please, I beg………..

        #@hawkeye63isthebest
        #@vamosrafaisthebest

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    • vr, you obviously approve of hawkeye sabotaging Rafa’s thread with endless gifs of Federer and Djoker and Wawrinka in the nude with him and his followers jumping on anything siad that is complimentary to Rafa and striving to prove otherwise. You’d like to think you are above it all but you are in the thick of the Anti-Rafa Brigade. One of it’s founder members.

      To the Anti-Rafa Brigade, defending Rafa is a sin.

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      • hahahah…founding member of Anti-Rafa brigade LOL.

        ‘his followers jumping on anything siad that is complimentary to Rafa and striving to prove otherwise’

        Examples please? If you are going to say rafa has the best ROS or that he is the best hard court player in the game, I will obviously disgree. If you say rafa has the best forehand , or he is the best clay court player ever, or he has the most amazing footwork, GOAT passing shots, I will certainly agree. I cannot agree with everything ‘complimentary’ when those compliments are fake compliments.

        And I have never shown any appreciation towards nude gifs of stan have I? Why I don’t say anything? because they are not directed at me! but the malicious troller, the fake we have here , is taking names of posters in almost every post and abusing them. THAT is the difference.

        Hope that helps

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  12. hawkeye, aided and abetted by chloro and vr and egged on by native has been harassing augusta for months, stalking her and calling her gussie bot. According to vr that is an example of hawkeye patiently putting up with trolling! But hawkeye is at least amusing. chloro has some redeeming features too despite the deplorable tendency to join in the mob attack on augusta. But no excuses for native who has been instigating fights among fans ever since I can remember using her stock phrases to encourage attacks on nadline whom she clearly hates.
    amy seems to be very credulous and she has bought wholesale ” innocent” native’s story. Well good luck to her!!!

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  13. hawkeye when you go for your tapas chat with Beni, do not forget to warn him that if something is not done double quick about pulling Rafa from his slump, a big chunk of his fans are going to switch allegiance to Djoko. The gang of 4, distinguished members of which have the longest noses, have already signaled their intention by declaring Djoko has the best ROS even though stats prove Andy and Rafa’s are better. If Rafa does not soon discover his winning ways, they are going to do a RUAN. They will then declare Djoko is the GOAT because ” most of the experts” say so!!!!

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  14. Dr Allen Fox was a player of some repute in the 60s, reaching the quarter-finals of Wimbledon in 1965 and beating the great Roy Emerson in the final of the Pacific Southwest Championships in 1966, and he later became a sports psychologist and the author of Tennis: Winning The Mental Match.

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/jul/19/richard-gasquet-roger-federer-rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic-andy-murray

    Would you say Jacob Sternberg is dropping a hint to the Nadal camp……

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      • Sanju,

        I read this article. While it’s true that he did not say anything about Rafa, some of his thoughts on what it takes to handle the pressure of this sport, are quite interesting. I don’t think he’s dropping any hints to Rafa’s camp, though. If he wanted to say something, then I think he would have come right out and said it directly to Rafa.

        However, I think this article shows the value of hearing from a sports psychologist. Tennis is so much mental. You are out there along and it’s all on you. It’s about dealing with losses and victories and the incredible pressure to stay at the top.

        There is a reason why sports psychologists exist. It’s to help players deal with the mental stress, expectations, difficulties and sometimes the problems that they cannot work out on their own.

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    • Sorry @ed251137, maybe I am just being my usual dense self, but I did not see any special message for Rafa and/or his camp, oblique or otherwise.

      Good article though. Following caught my eye:

      “The true greats – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray – are relentlessly driven onwards and upwards by a fear of failure which separates them from the rest”

      If I recall, you @ed251137 have previously commented that the fear of failure may be one of the reasons behind Rafa’s recent and current slump. Interesting that the writer thinks all of the “Big 4” (don’t tell Marion Bartoli I just included Rafa in that) suffer from the same affliction.

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      • Only Rafa has called his fear of failure a source of motivation in his bio.

        I don’t recall any of the other Top 3 players making such statements and suspect that the writer is editorializing.

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      • You’re right. He doesn’t single out Rafa in the context of the fear of failing but it struck me the timing of this article – in view of the debate which is raging – is an oblique message to his camp.

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      • I haven’t read his book and know nothing about Allen Fox. However his credentials as a successful player, his experience as a coach, and his academic training all suggest he might be somebody worth listening to.

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      • Steinberg on Rafa:

        **Nadal looks like someone has told him fishing has been banned in Mallorca when he loses a point**

        Loved his analogy – so apt.

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  17. Amy is too smart to buy into anything! She saw what is going on and said something. Too bad if the new resident troll doesn’t like it.

    My point about knowing I live in Florida, is that there are regular posters here like hawkeye who thought I lived on the west coast. Why? Because he’s not obsessed with me and where I live! For the record, the only reason I said that I relocated was because there was another poster here who lived in Oregon, the only other west coaster. She still thought I was on the west coast and was talking about the time differences in matches, so I felt the need to at least let her know that I relocated to Florida. That was the only time that I mentioned it! Over a year ago! Yet the resident troll remembered it and is now once again attacking me for daring to mention anything personal about myself.

    For someone who pretends to be new here, yet apparently knows so much she is forgetting that people here talk about themselves and their personal lives all the time. Going on vacation, health issues with family members, referencing family members.. The idea that I am the only one who says anything personal is absolutely 100% false. But that is just “Mary’s” way of rationalizing her stalker behavior. She was called out properly for her bullying, so now she comes back here and goes after me again. Of course, it’s always my fault. Notice how her posts are mainly directed at me and the worst is reserved for me.

    Why? Because I am a horrible person who deserves it? That seems to be her bizarre and irrational logic! Her goal is to make it so unbearable for me that I will just leave.

    I said it before and I will say it again. I am not going anywhere! So too bad, “Mary”!

    Augusta and nadline have both been party to attacks on others here, for the simple reason that they cannot tolerate anyone who has a different opinion. One more thing that Amy said is that she doesn’t think this has anything to do with Rafa. That’s true.

    This is not about supposedly true blue Rafa fans defending him. Because Rafa would never sanction this kind of vicious behavior.

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    • –nativenewyorker7 says:
      July 21, 2015 at 1:43 pm,
      —Augusta …have both been party to attacks on others here, for the simple reason that they cannot tolerate anyone who has a different opinion.—
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      NNY, the dishonesty in your posts is extreme!

      THIS poster can’t stand an opinion that’s different from his and he’s attacking other posters for that:

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKccQnVVAAAyrXA.png

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      • you are hell bent on proving you are gussie-bot? this is really bot like behavior! HOW do you dig out all this and keep taking screen shots. LOL …good for you… yeah, you are absolutely right 😉

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      • augusta,

        You remind me of a kid in grade school who gets called out for doing something bad by the teacher and tries to get out of it by pointing to someone else and saying – ooh, ooh, look at what he did!

        It would be funny if it wasn’t so insulting. Please stop using what others say as an excuse for your behavior here. As I have said before and will continue to do so, what other people say or do is not a justification for you to follow suit.

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      • PERFECT analogy. All her posts are based on point out something about others !

        ”Please stop using what others say as an excuse for your behavior here. As I have said before and will continue to do so, what other people say or do is not a justification for you to follow suit.’

        This is very accurate.undeniable.

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      • nativenewyorker7 says:
        July 21, 2015 at 2:37 pm,
        —You remind me of a kid…—
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        You don’t remind me of anyone, your dishonesty is extraordinary!
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        nativenewyorker7 says:
        July 21, 2015 at 2:37 pm,
        —Please stop using what others say as an excuse for your behavior here.—
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        Others? Your shadow (aka the malicious troll) ?

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      • and augusta, and i don’t ATTACK other posters LOL. Even if I disagree with them, I critique their opinions and ‘analysis’ . two, very very different things. One day, I hope you will understand. and this is the very reason i almost always ignore troll posts.

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    • NNY
      it is quite clear the malicious troll is after you. Don’t demand logic from a troll (that too a malicious one). Such a coward that a new moniker had to be created to do this and keep the reputation of the original moniker safe. We know you are not trolling anyone here. You are discussing tennis and only RESPOND to the vivious trolling and then the trolls create confusion and say everyone is involved . haha.

      Dont feed the troll!

      and remember, rafa is the best! no doubts!

      @hawkeye , notice how my pointing out that the login log out operation will now commence has actually stopped it from happening so as to ‘fool’ us. LOL LOL. Too funny isn’t it.

      Who can forget the obsession with ROS argument and the same venom! hahahahhaha

      and naming vr, hawkeye , nny,, chloro in one of her first posts here. fake Mary. hahahahha..

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  18. vamosrafa,

    I am trying my best to ignore it. But it’s not okay when the troll says that Amy is under my spell and that’s why she said what she did. That is positively bizarre! Gee whiz, I didn’t know that I had the power to put someone under my spell! LOL!

    The point here is that “Mary” is not someone new and is not someone who came here in good faith to discuss tennis. She is here as a troll to attack. Pure and simple. Whoever it is hiding behind that name doesn’t matter. It’s the fact that she is here posting for the wrong reasons

    Amy made a good point when she said that having someone like that on this site, will drive away other posters who really do want to talk about tennis. But maybe that’s really the whole point when it comes right down to it. 🙂

    The fact that a new poster saw what is going on and felt the need to call it out is the important thing. No one is fooled by the fake troll.

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    • No one is fooled by the fake troll! you said it!

      fake Mary will be back and will lose her mind reading this. LOL.

      ‘But it’s not okay when the troll says that Amy is under my spell and that’s why she said what she did. That is positively bizarre! Gee whiz, I didn’t know that I had the power to put someone under my spell!’

      LOL.. who is going to buy into this nonsense anyway? you can tell it is the purest form of trolling lol. @Amy is a great poster… and her insights on tennis are very good too.

      but remember just always remember, rafa is the best!

      #Burn.

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      • oh I was only referring to this portion ‘‘But it’s not okay when the troll says that Amy is under my spell and that’s why she said what she did..’ haha

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  19. At least Rafa will be playing next week. At least then we can talk about him and tennis again. I just hope that Amy will still post here.

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  20. oh ok i see have just skim-read really fast back 2 posts and apparently i am under your spell!! say’s who? mary??
    do they really think i am that dumb that i can’t see all too clearly when someone is being gratuitously attacked?!
    no-one made me say anything…it was my decision solely……

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