Greg Sharko @SharkoTennis 7m7 minutes ago
Last time @rogerfederer saved at least 5 MPs: ’03 @CincyTennis 1R, saved 7 MPs in 46 63 76(10) 1R win over Scott Draper.
In other words, pointless, unless you are a Djokovic fan. Or, to put it more succinctly, the Fall season exists solely to afford Djokovic the opportunity to showcase his consistency.
RITB: 5:10
What is the point of the Fall part of the ATP Tour?
Same argument used to be made for clay. Prior to the big 3 of Rafa/Nole/Roger it was typically the Spaniards and Argentines winning everything. I remember all the tennis fans complaining about the long useless clay season and waiting for grass so Edberg/Becker/Sampras could win something. Me? clay is my favorite time of the year. I’m with you on the indoor season #zzzzzzzzzzzzz
SI Tennis @SI_Tennis 1h1 hour ago
Roger Federer called that his “greatest escape”. Said it was all luck. Feels Mayer deserved it and feels bad. Also dealing with a cold.
ATP World Tour @ATPWorldTour 13m13 minutes ago
Watch how close @rogerfederer came to defeat at @SHRolexMasters. Here’s 1st of 5 MP saved http://bit.ly/1rXsrMO #ATP
So Federer for the umpteenth time is nominated for the ‘Sportsman of the Year’ award.
This year he is a genuine candidate – more so than any of the others on the list IMO –
but as Cheryl once asked after he’d won it in the year he was also fined for unsporting behaviour ‘ What PRECISELY makes a Sportsman of the Year? I mean, what’s the criteria?’
I remember it in my previous existence as Carrie. Reason has never had anything to do with the nomination; it’s always Roger and any other. Roger hasn’t done anything more sportsmanlike this year than any other year more than any other player. IMO.
Commies were suggesting that Nole should win it because he conceded a point to Andy forgetting about how he played the ball in Andy’s half of the court then argued find was awarded the point. Players concede points all the time.
It would help to understand the choices if the nominations included the citation for each player. This may be churlish of me but I can’t help feeling it sends out the wrong message to include Cilic at this point in time because he won the USO.
“That Rafa loses against Coric, no one could have expected. I was surprised,” said Federer. “He should not be defeated by someone I have ever seen play.”
Yes, Headmaster. Rafa should only be beaten by people you’ve seen play.
Fed’s implication is that his decision making would be different from Rafa’s, that he himself always does things the right way. Guess he’s already forgotten that just last year he entered extra tournaments and played poorly which he blamed on his bad back and said afterwards that in hindsight he never should have played.
Did Rafa ever question Fed’s decision making then? No, because it is not his style. He has class. But then, what else is gonna hoist Fed into the headlines these days? Oh of course, beating up on an over-rated David Goffin in Basel.
I laughed out loud the first time I read it. No hostility towards Fed on tenngrand? Just own it like Ruan does. You cannot be serious. Hilarious @rafaisthebest! Truly epic. You outdid yourself.
Here’s my guts for you. You’re welcome. Maybe, in the future, you can return the favour.
rafaisthebest says:
October 21, 2014 at 12:04 pm
Maybe it’s my over-developed gallows humour, but I have not seen any hostility towards Fed here on Tenngrand, especially since he hasn’t beaten Rafa in ages and is not a threat to Rafa anymore as he gets older. I think most people here treat him more like an annoying Uncle now………..
Bingo! Knew you would drag that out. Okay, listen carefully: I meant the general Tenngrand community is not hostile to Fed, that does not have to include me. Okay? i.e. everybody is nice towards Fed except me.
Interesting, but not surprised, that you see hostility in my comment about Fed’s comment and choose to zero in on that but choose to ignore Fed’s hostile (in my view) comments about Rafa’s decisions. You are a tennis fan, I am just a Rafan.
Everyone but you? Incredulous. You’re joking right? 95% of people here are hostile towards Fed (including yours truly, just not to the same extent as non-tennis fans).
There’s only about five regular posters left. Ricky is basically the only poster left not hostile towards Fed.
Makes for a very unbalanced site but ok. But at least see it for what it is.
Oh you and gussie are so special! Not only can’t the rest be good Rafans, but now you have exclusive rights to hostility towards Fed!
And seriously, ***OF COURSE*** you weren’t including yourself in your post.
It’s so ***OB-vious*** now.
Don’t know ***HOW*** I missed it.
***HOOOOW*** did I ***EVER*** doubt you.
(Maybe @augusta08, our local WordPress and being a proper Rafan expert, can show me how I might infuse my posts with dripping sarcasm. I try my best for sure, no? But alas, I’m just a poor tennis fan victim forced to leave tenngrand. sniff. sniff. God it’s KILLING me!!!)
“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. ”
So said Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-1834), book II, ch. IV
Now you know why I refuse to have any truck with sarcasm………….
“saved” 5 MPs and wins
Roger doing the gigglings already…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzcD1sMCYAEkwQK.jpg
Mayer about to cry
More little gigglings…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzcEIhRIMAAL8_y.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzcEIhRIMAAL8_y.jpg
I was earlier mistaken.
With that win, Roger is now guaranteed No. 2 spot on Monday. Rafa to No. 3.
How does that saying go?
#WhileTheCatsGotAppendicitis
Standards have really fallen on the ATP.
anyone see Mayer’s second MP?
Have you tried looking under Leo’s tears of regret pile?
Low standards. Sure, I love Roger more than sitting in traffic (well, it’s close anyways)…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzcFr86CIAEYrwV.png
that sign is EPIC
Greg Sharko @SharkoTennis 7m7 minutes ago
Last time @rogerfederer saved at least 5 MPs: ’03 @CincyTennis 1R, saved 7 MPs in 46 63 76(10) 1R win over Scott Draper.
#ReturnOfTheWeakEra
Draper hahahaha
Mayer hahahaha
What is the point of the Fall part of the ATP Tour?
Discuss.
That discussion belongs on the Djokovic page.
well done, sir
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so that fans dont have to sit around for 4 months without tennis
nothing else
In other words, pointless, unless you are a Djokovic fan. Or, to put it more succinctly, the Fall season exists solely to afford Djokovic the opportunity to showcase his consistency.
Eureka!!
#Let’sDoThis
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RITB: 5:10
What is the point of the Fall part of the ATP Tour?
Same argument used to be made for clay. Prior to the big 3 of Rafa/Nole/Roger it was typically the Spaniards and Argentines winning everything. I remember all the tennis fans complaining about the long useless clay season and waiting for grass so Edberg/Becker/Sampras could win something. Me? clay is my favorite time of the year. I’m with you on the indoor season #zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Now I know how non-Rafans feel when its clay season time……….
LOL! That’s the best answer I have heard yet for the fall part of the ATP tour! Too funny!
Roger’s “I’m sick too” moment…
SI Tennis @SI_Tennis 1h1 hour ago
Roger Federer called that his “greatest escape”. Said it was all luck. Feels Mayer deserved it and feels bad. Also dealing with a cold.
It’s my least favourite time of the tennis season but I enjoy it more than the three week off-season.
this
Yes!
OMG this is just sick!!!
ATP World Tour @ATPWorldTour 13m13 minutes ago
Watch how close @rogerfederer came to defeat at @SHRolexMasters. Here’s 1st of 5 MP saved http://bit.ly/1rXsrMO #ATP
https://twitter.com/TheTennisTalker/status/519931617440444416
Times have changed. The pendulum has swung back, no?
#Vitamins
Here is a historical list of the 20th ranked over-30 tennis player. For example, today there are 20 tennis players in their 30’s in the Top 67.
In 1996, there were only five 30+ players in the Top 67 and you’d have to look at the Top 326 to find 20 such players at that time.
Today – 67
2012 – 75
2011 – 77
2010 – 125
2009 – 116
2008 – 124
2007 – 152
2006 – 140
2005 – 122
2004 – 139
2003 – 142
2002 – 186
2001 – 185
2000 – 198
1999 – 294
1998 – 227
1997 – 308
1996 – 326
http://tennisabstract.com/reports/rankingsByAge1996.html
Today there are 47 players in the Top 200 30 or older.
In 1996, there were only 16, roughly one-third.
23.5% vs 8%.
So Federer for the umpteenth time is nominated for the ‘Sportsman of the Year’ award.
This year he is a genuine candidate – more so than any of the others on the list IMO –
but as Cheryl once asked after he’d won it in the year he was also fined for unsporting behaviour ‘ What PRECISELY makes a Sportsman of the Year? I mean, what’s the criteria?’
Hands up anybody who remembers this blog
http://tinyurl.com/ycocsxx
ed251137 (at 12:36 pm)
—What PRECISELY makes a Sportsman of the Year? I mean, what’s the criteria?’—
Sponsors’ wish.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0EAti-IgAAh3Re.png
why is Djokovic not on this?
I remember it in my previous existence as Carrie. Reason has never had anything to do with the nomination; it’s always Roger and any other. Roger hasn’t done anything more sportsmanlike this year than any other year more than any other player. IMO.
Commies were suggesting that Nole should win it because he conceded a point to Andy forgetting about how he played the ball in Andy’s half of the court then argued find was awarded the point. Players concede points all the time.
Hands up for anyone …
I do 🙂
Ricky says: “why is Djokovic not on this?”
For getting his girlfriend pregnant and then making an honest woman of her 😀
It would help to understand the choices if the nominations included the citation for each player. This may be churlish of me but I can’t help feeling it sends out the wrong message to include Cilic at this point in time because he won the USO.
Why is Stan not nominated?
do you?
That’s what his relationship with his birth town tournament organizers are (No wonder):
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0w6YJtIUAAgGXF.png
http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2014/10/federer-nadals-loss-was-not-rafa-we-know/53137/#.VEylp01xnIU
“That Rafa loses against Coric, no one could have expected. I was surprised,” said Federer. “He should not be defeated by someone I have ever seen play.”
Yes, Headmaster. Rafa should only be beaten by people you’ve seen play.
What a git.
Passive aggressive Fed, as usual.
Fed’s implication is that his decision making would be different from Rafa’s, that he himself always does things the right way. Guess he’s already forgotten that just last year he entered extra tournaments and played poorly which he blamed on his bad back and said afterwards that in hindsight he never should have played.
Did Rafa ever question Fed’s decision making then? No, because it is not his style. He has class. But then, what else is gonna hoist Fed into the headlines these days? Oh of course, beating up on an over-rated David Goffin in Basel.
No disparaging remarks towards Fed my ass.
At least have the guts to own it.
#MartyrFan
Where did I say I have not made disparaging remarks towards Fed?? At least have the guts to show me the post.
And why do I have to be nice about Fed, especially if he is not nice about Rafa?
I laughed out loud the first time I read it. No hostility towards Fed on tenngrand? Just own it like Ruan does. You cannot be serious. Hilarious @rafaisthebest! Truly epic. You outdid yourself.
Here’s my guts for you. You’re welcome. Maybe, in the future, you can return the favour.
rafaisthebest says:
October 21, 2014 at 12:04 pm
Maybe it’s my over-developed gallows humour, but I have not seen any hostility towards Fed here on Tenngrand, especially since he hasn’t beaten Rafa in ages and is not a threat to Rafa anymore as he gets older. I think most people here treat him more like an annoying Uncle now………..
https://tenngrand.com/social/fantasy-tennis/comment-page-1/#comment-141003
Bingo! Knew you would drag that out. Okay, listen carefully: I meant the general Tenngrand community is not hostile to Fed, that does not have to include me. Okay? i.e. everybody is nice towards Fed except me.
Interesting, but not surprised, that you see hostility in my comment about Fed’s comment and choose to zero in on that but choose to ignore Fed’s hostile (in my view) comments about Rafa’s decisions. You are a tennis fan, I am just a Rafan.
Everyone but you? Incredulous. You’re joking right? 95% of people here are hostile towards Fed (including yours truly, just not to the same extent as non-tennis fans).
There’s only about five regular posters left. Ricky is basically the only poster left not hostile towards Fed.
Makes for a very unbalanced site but ok. But at least see it for what it is.
Oh you and gussie are so special! Not only can’t the rest be good Rafans, but now you have exclusive rights to hostility towards Fed!
You’ve outdone yourself again.
Hilarious!
“Exclusive hostility towards Fed!”
Hmmm, that has a nice ring to it, I’ll take it! Shame I can’t own it since, as you say, 95% of people here are hostile towards Fed, you included.
As for this site being unbalananced, whose fault is that? Thanks for trying, but I certainly do not feel an obligation to “balance” it up!
You really think me and Gussie are special? I like that, thank you! ;D
And seriously, ***OF COURSE*** you weren’t including yourself in your post.
It’s so ***OB-vious*** now.
Don’t know ***HOW*** I missed it.
***HOOOOW*** did I ***EVER*** doubt you.
(Maybe @augusta08, our local WordPress and being a proper Rafan expert, can show me how I might infuse my posts with dripping sarcasm. I try my best for sure, no? But alas, I’m just a poor tennis fan victim forced to leave tenngrand. sniff. sniff. God it’s KILLING me!!!)
You were FORCED to leave Tenngrand?? Is that why it is so fragrant around here?? So, who the hell am I talking to, myself?
You may be the only one here who knows how to hate on Fed here but your grasp on sarcasm is sorely lacking.
Oh woe is me!!!
Simply priceless.
“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. ”
So said Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1833-1834), book II, ch. IV
Now you know why I refuse to have any truck with sarcasm………….