Ramara

Zverev is on your poll twice! And Karatsev isn’t on it at all.

It isn’t so much that Rafa “hates to lose”. It’s that he LOVES to win! Rafa once said that winning a tournament – any tournament – was good for a week or two of happiness. I assume that after that he goes back to […]

Well, the good news is that Rafa’s back to #2! Hopefully he’ll keep his ranking heading into RG. After that it’s up to the draw gods. And, as Rafa always says, you can’t win a grand slam without facing tough […]

Wooohoooo! Vamos Rafa! That match damn near gave me a heart attack, but very happy-for-the-win! Oooohhhh, swimming pool time now!!!

Hope so, but Berretini has not had great results for quite awhile now. Djoker looked to be in form this week. I know he couldn’t care less about winning a 250, but I think he did hope to win in his home […]

Sympathies! I would have bet money on Djoker pulling that one out in the 3rd. I have my doubts about this Karat guy – don’t want to go into them here – but he can play.

Thanks for the welcome, Amy, but I’m just old Ramara. For some reason the forum has been slotting in my real name unless I remember to change it.

As Rafa would say, “Gonna be a tough one.” But if he loses it will not be for lack of effort.

Rafa and Tsitsi to the finals, both in 3.

Domi is having a bit of struggle between injuries (toe and knee, I think, haven’t kept up that much) and a sort of hangover after finally winning a slam. Kind of questioning whether it’s worth all the dedication, […]

LOL! Well said, Amy!

I don’t dislike Tsitsi either, but he is rather full of himself. Ain’t nobody like our dear Rafa!

Another nerve frazzler! At least Rafa seems to be playing well SOME of the time! Maybe he can get it together and play well all of the time?

2015? Perish the thought! Rafa looked much more like himself in the 2nd and 3rd sets, so let’s hope that lasts.

Don’t think Rafa had played Ivashka before; he’s mostly a challenger player. But Rafa’s game in the first set was MIA! He looked more like himself in the 2nd and 3rd sets. Let’s hope he can keep that up tomorrow!

Rafa looked pretty awful in the first set. First serve a disaster area, second not much better, lots of backhand errors, forehand pretty much MIA. As for dropshots and lobs, less said the better. Not sure he even […]

Ummm, Sampras? Becker? Borg? (Shortish career for him, by choice, but if he’d played longer he might have bested both Rafa on clay and Fed on grass! Maybe. We’ll never know. Never won a hard court slam […]

Tsitsi is young, healthy and ambitious. I think he’d love another 500 ranking points. Rafa used to play all four (MC, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome) clay events and then tear up RG.

I haven’t yet seen Alcaraz play but he’s supposed to be really good on clay so I picked him. Musetti, too since as noted above, clay is really not Feli’s best surface. Now if this was grass..

I hope we can both […]

What Cheryl said. 🙂 Rafa and the Djoker return to normal — for them.

I expect he tried but the match put me to sleep…Disappointing, I had looked forward to it.

Me either. I leaned Ruud for pretty much the same reason, but Rublev is a tough young nut so who knows? Glad you “made up” with him. Rafa certainly doesn’t seem to have a problem with his personality, although his […]