Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were not a part of the Japan stop on the International Premier Tennis League circuit, but they will be making their presences felt soon enough.
Federer will play for the UAE Royals in New Delhi, Dubai, and Singapore. New Delhi, the third leg of the tour, is hosting the action from December 10 through 12. Dubai takes center stage December 14-16 and Singapore wraps up the proceedings from December 18 through 20.
Nadal will preceded Federer on the schedule as the fifth-ranked Spaniard is suiting up for duty with the Indian Aces this weekend in Manila.
Novak Djokovic, who had been scheduled to make a second straight IPTL appearance, ended up pulling out due to fatigue. The recent World Tour Finals champion–and winner of just about everything else dating back to the start of the U.S. Open–was penciled in as the marquee name on the Singapore Slammers.
“I had a great experience in the inaugural edition of the IPTL and was eagerly looking forward to playing in the second season, especially in front of the home crowd in Singapore,” Djokovic explained. “It’s been a long year for me and my body needs some extra time to recover. I wish the team the very best and will join them next year.”
The Slammers wasted no time in finding suitable replacements for the world No. 1 in the form of Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka.
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Haha naturally kyrgios beats Raonic and berdych in first two matches then loses 6-3 to dodig.
Bizarre
Too bad there won’t be a Fedole IPTL match.
Last year’s was epic played at a scintillating level.
Both guys wanted the win.
Fed, within the rules, let the shot clock run down ala NFL to seal the win.
Highlights…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aIbxRbXRQ
EPIC.
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?? This match was epic. lol! do you?
No, I don’t think he does.
TG is like a morgue when Rafa isn’t playing.
Hah! You noticed! 🙂
its called “the offseason”
You obviously haven’t been to many other tennis forums then.
this isnt a forum LOL
Lots of tennis discussion on tennis blog sites similar to this except with fans of all the top four not 90% Rafa. TX for one.
#Semantics
this is a website on which a lot of people comment. Although with this new format i now have the power to make a forum as part of the website. But am not goin to.
Lots of IPTL conversation on other forums for example. I’m sure it will pick up once Rafa starts playing.
#RafaGrand
https://twitter.com/iptl/status/673192430255005696
Rafa’s team will start to play on Monday at 4 pm (local time).
The schedule:
http://www.iptlworld.com/schedules-fixtures
This site isn’t Rafa centric. It is Djoker centric. hawkeye and amy try to drive Rafa out from Rafa threads by posting pictures of Djoker. And the objectives try to drive Rafa fans out from all threads by hounding them with “opinion” and hurling “blind and unreasonable” and similar insults at them.
doesnt matter what it is or isnt. No need to discuss it. But i guess you got Mary to work!
No she’s not actually talking about tennis so no work for that.
amy and vr drove away RITB from this site. I really miss RITB. She had such a unique brand of humor.
No RITB just wrongfully became ashamed of her own moniker.
Rafa is still the best IMO of all time so nothing wrong with that.
Nobody has the power to drive anyone away from this site. We all are able to make our own decisions. It’s just another way of trashing some good posters. Vamosrafa has one of the best tennis minds with Luckystar right behind him. Amy has also contributed with some intelligent discussion as someone who likes both Rafa and Novak. One doesn’t have to be a fan of only one or the other.
well these same posters claimed augusta had driven away luckystar. If augusta can drive away luckystar by mildly disagreeing with her, amy and vr can drive away ritb. vr attacked her viciously and amy hysterically denounced ritb’s post as garbage and made ricky delete it.
Mary DECEMBER 6, 2015 AT 6:23 PM
these same posters claimed augusta had driven away luckystar. If augusta can drive away luckystar by mildly disagreeing with her
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No one could present any evidence. (I asked.) 😆
I did (I posted a link to when it happened). 🙂
hawkeye63 (AT 8:53 PM),
You have posted a zillion non-proofs. You have tried hard! 😆
No, it was proof.
It wasn’t proof. It just showed luckystar was leaving voluntarily. However RITB’s last post was attacked hysterically by amy, supported by hawkeye, who forced Ricky to delete it and we have no ritb since then clearly establishing cause and effect.
RITB has emailed me a few times. Dont count on a return anytime soon.
Ricky, does this mean you banned her because of amy’s hysterics?
no. it means she told me she’s not coming back anytime soon.
ok, thanks!
No, shortly after she was criticized and judged by RITB and augusta, she announced she was leaving.
Of course she left voluntarily. She got tired of it all.
hawkeye has admitted his proof was no proof, luckystar left voluntarily.
Never said she didn’t lol. She was bullied.
RITB is still here occasionally. She just changed her moniker because she no longer thought Rafa is the Best but I do.
Nobody bullied luckystar. She took offence and left. But RITB was bullied for no reason at all although she had practically “got religion”. But this innocent bystander was dragged into your battle and even though Ricky gave witness that she was not me,vr continued to harass her. Miffed by this, ritb responded with a classic ritb post. Still cool and low key but stunning in its impact. The rest is history.
all future comments on this subject will be deleted. Entirely irrelevant to tennis and there is nothing left to discuss.
Nativenewyorker DECEMBER 6, 2015 AT 6:12 PM
Nobody has the power to drive anyone away from this site.
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Really? If my memory serves me correctly, you have been very vocal in your support of the storyteller(s) who have tried to convince others that some posters have been driven away by some people. :LOL:
why does it matter? Discussing it wont change anything. Stick to tennis.
Ricky (AT 7:26 PM),
Some things are just worth laughing about. Especially when these things are continuous. 🙂
trying out a new chat option if anyone is on the site right now…
Ricky (AT 8:02 PM),
What do you want to chat about? 🙂
To see if it works!
Especially when it’s not about tennis as far as you are concerned! 🙂
How do we get the chat option?
is it not showing up in the bottom right corner of your screen?
yes it is, thanks!
Ricky (AT 8:19 PM),
It is.
are my chats showing up or is it blank?
Ricky (AT 8:21 PM),
I see this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVkarr6WsAA-bBI.png
ok thanks. I will have to figure out how to get the chat in progress to show up on the website as opposed to just the start a chat option.
My post @ 9:35 pm was in response to Augusta’s post @ 7:55 pm.
I wasn’t able to see the chat thing, but maybe that was because I wasn’t on the site at that time.
Yeah i took it down. Will work on it and put it back up.
OK i fixed it i think. Should be up while I’m here for a while.
ricky why don’t you email RITB and ask her to come back? Rafa fans dying, Djoker fans thriving, come back to save tennis!!!
Ricky,
Oh now I see it! But I can’t get on there to post anything. I see where you posted a “test” comment. I must be doing something wrong.
that tennis should read as tenngrand
Rafa fans dying, Djoker fans thriving, come back to save tenngrand!!!
Ricky!
It’s quite difficult to understand which ones are “parent comments” and which ones are “child comments” (= Replies). Could you make it more visible. 🙂
I am not sure exactly where to post this comment, but I did want to say that last night I happened to check out the tennis channel and saw Safin playing Philippousis! I don’t know if I got the spelling right on that one. But it was great to see these guys playing again. Then earlier today I saw Nishi and Raonic. I didn’t think the tennis channel was going to show this IPTL tournament.
NNY, a just saw some highlights. It was nice to see the old players! fun to watch
one of the best parts of the IPTL
Im surprised Poussis beat Goran. Goran has been playing great.
Goran has been on fire!
But he lost!
Hi Guys! have been very busy as I have exams coming up in 2 weeks. Just visited the site and thought of making a comment on this new version.
Ricky, this is really well done. The site looks pretty cool now. This was needed! I like this.
#VamosTenngrand
The last ritb post was actually a “ritb ” classic. Pity the objectives lack a sense of humor ( except hawkeye)
what is Nadal playing? Just singles? Doubles? Mixed? LEGENDS?
Nadal is not so old as to play LEGENDS!! I think he is only playing singles.
haha that was a joke
Mine was in a lighter vein too!
Of course Rafa is a Legend!
Rafa is scheduled to play singles and doubles (with Dodig) today.
Rafa’s team won all the sets! Rafa defeated Berdy 6-5(3).
Rafa played with his new racket he started to use this month. He practiced with it in Mallorca and it seems he can continue to use it. 🙂
he started off slowly and went down 0-3. Then played some good tennis to level at 3-3. Rafa served for the set at 5-4 after breaking Tomas at 4-4 thanks to a sizzling forehand winner DTL. Tomas broke back courtesy of huge hitting . It was all rafa in the tie break 🙂
While it’s only an exho and on it’s own wouldn’t be a problem but, with recent history, getting broken on his first service game continues to be an issue for him.
vamosrafa,
I couldn’t see anything on the tennis channel with Rafa. They have been showing matches starting at 10:30 am here, but it was not Rafa. I don’t know if they will show it on a tape delayed basis or what. I think now they are showing some doubles match. I would hope that I get a chance to see Rafa at some point today.
I appreciate your observations as always! 🙂
it hasnt been on yet. will be on tonight at 8.
Ricky,
Thanks for the info!
actually i’m not sure which match is on at 8. Could be on at 11. Could be not until tomorrow.
didnt see the whole thing, but Rafa looked pretty darn good while i was watching (singles. Havent seen doubles)
Ricky (4:04 AM),
On Monday, I posted full-match videos from both Rafa’s matches.
thanks.
Nadal/Dodig vs Nestor/Berdych, IPTL 2015, Full Match – 07/12/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWOXcWXKwaI
Ricky,
It was okay, because I set it to record at 8:00 pm. I kept checking back as I watched other things on TV to see if Rafa was on yet. I saw him playing doubles and then he was on last with Berdy.
So I did get to see him finally. I thought he looked sharp. Berdy also played well. I don’t analyze matches like this, but what I did see from Rafa was very good. He looked relaxed and happy and the crowd was going wild for him. Every time he won a point they were screaming and cheering. When they first announced him, they didn’t even get halfway through the introduction before the crowd went crazy. Nice to see the love for Rafa.
agreed on all points
Rafa vs.Tomas Berdych, IPTL 2015, Full Match (= Full Set) – 07/12/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPwiG24Z9v8
Rafa would be working hard to be in top form for next year. I am sure Team Nadal knows what they need to work on especially the serve. The problem is of course execution. Though some here believe there are easy solutions like getting him a new coach, getting his head examined etc
looks like Rafa enjoyed that selfie