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Superb analysis. He serve volleyed 6 times in the first set and a half and converted 5 out of 6! That's an incredible success rate against Nadal who punishes anybody who comes to the net. Mixing it up well is what Fed tried to do all these years but always failed in the execution.
அப்படியே பார்சல் அனுப்பிட்டாலும்!Quote:
Originally Posted by VinodKumar's
Same kind of analysis appeared when Djokovic started winning against Nadal and it became a show for some years / some grand slam finals. Anyway, the year 2014 and 15 will tell us more about where Stanimal stands and delivers.
By the way, the comments section of that analysis has lot of interesting insights from many. Good time pass.
:lol:. ATP site is a good one. Their professional standards are quite high.
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Originally Posted by venkkiram
Ada paavigala 17 granddslam-la kedaikadha perumaya davis cupla kedaikka pogudhu!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-2...wrinka/5221622
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"Giant," headlined Le Matin, including a signed poster of the player inside a 14-page spread dedicated to the triumph of the native of Saint-Barthelemy, a village which was renamed "Stan-Barthelemy" by its mayor after the victory.
STATISTICS
Stan's Rankings Rise Is Biggest In 10 Years
Wawrinka's Rapid Rise
by Greg Sharko
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28.01.2014
ATP stats and information guru Greg Sharko looks at the numbers behind Stanislas Wawrinka's run to his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.
RANKING JUMPERS IN TOP 10
Wawrinka climbed from No. 8 to No. 3 in the Emirates ATP Rankings following his biggest career title. He is the first player to move at least five spots within in the Top 10 since Andre Agassi and Tommy Haas after the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in May 2002. Here are the players who have jumped at least five spots within the Top 10 after a tournament title in the past 24 years in chronological order:
Player
Ranking Jump
Tournament
Stanislas Wawrinka
+5 (No. 8 to No. 3)
2014 Australian Open
Andre Agassi
+6 (No. 9 to No. 3)
2002 Rome
Tommy Haas
+5 (No. 7 to No. 2)
2002 Rome (finalist)
Marat Safin
+5 (No. 7 to No. 2)
2000 US Open
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
+7 (No. 10 to No. 3)
1999 Australian Open
Petr Korda
+5 (No. 7 to No. 2)
1998 Australian Open
Goran Ivanisevic
+5 (No. 9 to No. 4)
1997 Vienna
Andre Agassi
+5 (No. 7 to No. 2)
1994 Paris (Bercy)
Jim Courier
+5 (No. 9 to No. 4)
1991 Roland Garros
OLDEST FIRST-TIME GRAND SLAM TITLE WINNERS
Wawrinka is the fifth-oldest first-time singles Grand Slam champion in the Open Era (since 1968). Here is a look at the Top 10 oldest winners:
Player
Age
Tournament
Previous Best Slam Result
Stanislas Wawrinka
28
2014 Australian Open
SF - 2013 US Open
Goran Ivanisevic
29
2001 Wimbledon
Finalist - Wimbledon (3 times)
Petr Korda
30
1998 Australian Open
Finalist - 1992 Roland Garros
Andres Gomez
30
1990 Roland Garros
QF - Five times (3 RG, 1 W, 1 USO)
Andres Gimeno
34
1972 Roland Garros
Finalist - 1969 Australian Open
WAWRINKA AGAINST TOP 10 OPPONENTS
Last season, Wawrinka won a career-high nine matches against Top 10 opponents and at the Australian Open he defeated three Top 10 rivals in a tournament for the first time. He began last year with an 0-4 record against Top 10 competition before securing his first win at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in April. Since that time, Wawrinka is 12-8 against the Top 10 during that stretch and he's defeated every opponent he's played. (He has not faced del Potro, Federer.) Here is the breakdown since April 2013:
Rank
Player
W-L
1)
Rafael Nadal
1-4
2)
Novak Djokovic
1-3
5)
David Ferrer
2-0
6)
Andy Murray
2-0
7) Tomas Berdych 4-0
9) Richard Gasquet 1-0
10)
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
1-1
-With assistance from Joanna Mather
http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Ten...tatistics.aspx
Why I wanted to boo Nadal too
Charles Happell
Written on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:24
I was at Melbourne Park for the men's final on Sunday and, to all those sanctimonious types who've wailed about the crowd's heckling of Rafael Nadal, I must say I felt exactly the same way as the boo-boys.
I'd been mesmerised by Stan Wawrinka's play over the first set and a bit. It was tennis of the most sublime quality - backhand winners peeled off down the line, crunching off forehand winners - that rendered Nadal's power game almost impotent.
The crowd had turned up hoping for some sort of contest - anything but the straight-sets bore-athon which had been predicted by just about every expert - and they were loving the way Wawrinka was, in his first Grand Slam final, totally dismantling the world No.1 and raging favourite.
Here was a sporting moment that every underdog-loving Australian could revel in: a no-hoper - tennis' Buster Douglas - playing the match of his life to give the world champ not just a bloody nose but a standing count from the ref.
I was actually, by some ticketing quirk, sitting in Row A, right in the corner of the court, above the Chinese characters that apparently denote the ANZ Bank. Close enough to feel the hoardings reverberate every time a Wawrinka serve crashed into the signage just below me; close enough to see the despair on Nadal's face as his opponent bullied and bossed him around the court in a way that few, if any, players have done before.
When Nadal came back on to the court after his medical time out, at 1-2 in the second set, he walked towards the ball boy just below me to collect a handful of balls, his brow furrowed even more deeply than usual as boos echoed around the stadium. He couldn't seem to comprehend the crowd reaction: they're booing me?
Four nights earlier, I'd seen the usually imperturbable Roger Federer feel aggrieved enough at Nadal's antics to complain to chair umpire Jake Garner about the Spaniard's grunting and time-wasting.
Channel Seven flashed up a stat at one stage of that match, indicating Nadal was taking an average of 28 seconds betweeen points on his service, Federer 20 seconds, the maximum time permissible under ATP rules. So why was Nadal allowed eight seconds longer than everyone else? And why isn't he more regularly called out on that?
Federer wanted to know as much, calling on weak offials to clamp down on the Spaniard's serial gamesmanship.
He later said Nadal had been given just two time violations in the 33 times they'd met, covering 80 hours or more of tennis. Two measly violations. - What bull shit is this!!
Which is why I felt Eva Asderaki, the Greek chair umpire during Nadal's round-four match against Kei Nishikori, deserved some sort of Australia Day medal. There was Nadal serving, with the third set locked at 4-4 and deuce, and taking his usual interminable time between points when Ms Asderaki piped up: ''Time violation, Mr Nadal'', meaning the gobsmacked world No.1 had to forfeit his first serve. :clap:
For me, an absolutely priceless moment that should feature in any tournament highlights package.
(Just to illustrate how Team Nadal doesn't get it, uncle Toni later told Spanish radio it would be better if umpires were drawn from a pool of former players who knew what it was like to be out on court in a pressure situation. "We had a problem with a girl (Asderaki)," uncle Toni gallantly explained to the interviewer.) - :fatigue:. Dayyy just coach your nephew don't try to set game rules.
Nadal's flirtation with gamesmanship - bolder commentators (of the sort you don't tend to find in the Seven commentary booth) might go so far as to call it cheating - has been going on for years.
Here's the start of a piece in the New York magazine from July 2011 about the very same subject:
''Rafael Nadal is in acute distress. He's just lost the game, he's facing a momentum-defining tiebreaker, and his opponent has his second wind. Rafa's just hit yet another impossible shot from an impossible angle, and one foot seems to have borne all the acrobatic brunt. He's in deep crouch, trying to gauge the extent and implications of the pain. Then he heads to his chair and calls for the trainer; the tiebreaker will have to wait; his opponent, oozing adrenaline, will have to cool his heels. After a tense interlude during which his opponent, visibly upset, remonstrates with the umpire to restart, Nadal returns, takes the tiebreaker, and romps. The press waits with bated breath to hear the results of the MRI — will he be able to carry on and defend his title? The results show nothing of any concern, and Nadal smashes his next opponent in four sets, fresh as a daisy...''
That account of Nadal seeking medical attention mid-match took place during his fourth-round US Open victory over Juan Martin del Potro. After days of speculation about the Spaniard's injury, he dismissed Mardy Fish in the next round, telling reporters that he was using a heavy anesthetic to numb the pain in his foot.
Yet that sequence of events could have been from any number of Nadal matches in the past five years. In 2010 at Wimbledon, in the third round against Germany's Philipp Petzschner, Nadal was trailing by two sets to one. Petzschner, as anyone who was watching the game could see, was in the zone and serving bombs that Nadal was simply not able to get a racquet on. - No wonder he calls for lesser fast courts!!
Nadal called for the trainer several times on the way to a hard-fought five-set victory yet never appeared injured, a tactic his opponent characterized after the match as "pretty clever." He did the same thing to disrupt Federer's rhythm during the first set of the 2011 French Open final. In each instance the timing was impeccable, and unsportsmanlike.
So that's was the backdrop to Nadal's injury time out against Wawrinka on Sunday night. That was the reason for the crowd's booing. That was why Wawrinka went ballistic in his courtside seat, berating the chair umpire and gesticulating to uncle Toni and Team Nadal sitting across from him in the stands. - Well done Wawrinka :smokesmirk:
Those who follow the sport for longer than two weeks a year - the ones being derided by Angela Pippos in the New Daily, Cameron Tomarchio in the Herald Sun and Will Brodie in Fairfax as ignorant and boorish - understood exactly what was happening.
That this was Nadal's tried-and-tested fallback position, his modus operandi, when his opponent has all the momentum and he needs to do something to stall proceedings and win himself back some breathing time.
The Swiss player clearly felt he was being duped as well, complaining to chair umpire Carlos Ramos that he deserved an explanation about the nature of Nadal's injury.
The crowd picked up on Wawrinka's annoyance and started slow hand-clapping the Spaniard who was still doing whatever he was doing underneath the Rod Laver stands.
And then when Nadal finally appeared, well that's when they gave it to him with both barrels.
Critics have labelled the booing of Nadal as un-Australian. Yet this concept of what constitutes 'Australian' and 'un-Australian' behaviour - nebulous at the best of times - is now so blurred as to be rendered utterly meaningless.
This country's cricket fans booed England's Stuart Broad for two whole months this summer for doing what every Australian Test cricketer (with one notable exception) has been doing since Ian Chappell had sideburns: not walking after edging a catch. So is that Australian or un-Australian behaviour?
What Australians don't like (if I can indulge in a little racial stereotyping here myself) is shysters and conmen.
And they felt on Sunday night that they - and Wawrinka - were being conned. - :clap:
The Swiss blew him off the court in the first set and then broke him to love in the opening game of the second set (have a look at that on YouTube if you want to see a small slice of tennis perfection) and suddenly Rafa starts grimacing in pain and clutching at his back.
Well that's mighty convenient, isn't it?
Of course he was hobbled by the back complaint but cynics will wonder just how badly. Will he, for example, front up next week, as bright as a button, claiming the back problem was just a momentary spasm and everything is A-OK now? That he's taken a 'heavy aneasthetic to numb the pain'. We'll see.
Nadal is a wonderful champion and gracious winner, always heaping praise on his vanquished opponent. It's this descent into gamesmanship when he's losing, though, which is threatening to become a blot on his career.
http://www.backpagelead.com.au/index...-boo-nadal-too
Pretty scathing stuff. Hard to argue with, though. Not to be discriminatory, but Spaniards have a fine track record of gamesmanship. I remember years back a bitter Davis Cup final in which USA (I think) accused Spain of cheating (final was played in Spain IIRC). People are going to pin him down more and more for these strategic breaks because there seems to be a pattern. And IF indeed he gets injured, again, he shouldn't complain so much about fast courts or ridicule the Sampras era as boring which he did.
In win-obsessed world, Nadal offered education in defeat
The Straits Times;Tuesday, Feb 04, 2014
Joan Solsona is painting a competitive picture. Rafael Nadal, he beckons me to imagine, is skipping stones across the water. A friend is winning this idle competition, so Nadal cannot stop. His compulsion is to be the better man.
"He has to be a winner," says Solsona, "otherwise it's like he cannot sleep. If he doesn't win, everyone must keep playing. In golf, it is the same. These are his hobbies, imagine what he is like in tennis, his professional life."
My conversation with Solsona - a Spanish journalist who has known Nadal since he was 12 - occurs an hour before the Australian Open final last Sunday as I try to comprehend Nadal's urge to win. If his appetite for victory suggests a primitive stone-age man with a club, it also makes him a more evolved competitor than his peers. Yet this idea is transplanted after the final by a even more baffling consideration. If winning is so essential to his being, how does he lose so well?
That Nadal fought on against Stanislas Wawrinka was an answering to the coding of his DNA. Expected you might think, yet fellow athletes, who understand effort better than us, swooned. Joel Selwood, an Australian Rules football captain, from a physically brutal sport, tweeted: "Would love #Nadal as a team-mate!" But if Nadal had quit, this might have been understandable. Accosted again by injury he was agonised by it, but never let it win. This victory he didn't allow.
He played on for he answered another code, a worthy, unwritten one, that demands you complete a match. To finish is to not hand the other man an amputated victory and in effect you are honouring the man who is destroying you. But if Nadal said he did this for Wawrinka, and the fans, he also did it "for me". To finish is to practise not giving up, it is to give yourself a chance - Wawrinka might have collapsed - and it is later a reflection of who he is: the man who gave everything. Or else is nothing.
Sainthood is not on offer in athletic arenas for to expect it is to strip sport of its different complexions and to misunderstand its madness. If we are hostile in the stands, imagine the middle. Imagine the fury, the exhaustion, the want. The athlete is immersed, even lost, often deaf, in this reactive, instinctive world of no respite. That he can think clearly is staggering, that he might hurl an unsavoury epithet at himself or a toss a racket is human.
Yet as much as we relish the mercurial man, we must marvel at how Nadal kept a hold of himself while his world fell apart. There is unkind chatter over his medical time-out as a calculated ploy - a tennis version of football's diver - but if he returned immediately to 195kmh serves and unaffected sprints then a case might be made. But no, he was hurt, it was evident, and the issue instead was his ability to reach into a decency when the moment was uniquely indecent to him.
The endurance of Nadal lies not in miles run but conversely in days of sitting idle as the instrument that is his body was being repaired. He endured pain in the knees, he endured frustration as other men rose while he had fallen, he endured even as his stationary life reversed the very idea of his existence.
Everything must be rebuilt, over months, first body, then movement, then precision, then hope, and then another body part, this time the back, mutinies. You want to smash every racket at this bullying by life - why me, why again - yet after the match, with no time for calmness to settle, Nadal says: "Just a tough day. But lot of people in the world have a lot of very tough days. I am not this kind of person, so I feel very lucky."
Nadal's uncle forbade the throwing of a racket for it was disrespectful to an instrument many kids ache to own. Such tutoring by family to distinguish between athletic disappointment and real suffering has kept him from an excessively self-centred view of life. Taught by the example of Roger Federer, he has found the balance between sport and life. Educated by the brutality of his sport - "You're out there alone. You really are. It's the ultimate one-on-one sport," said Pete Sampras - it has bred a particular respect: you are alone, but you understand so is the next man.
Nadal did not skip his press conference, for tennis demands the athlete must confront rival, crowd and then interrogation. This is his job, yet here also lay his mettle. On the third question on his injured back, he responded: "It is not the moment, as I said after the first question. This is not the moment to talk a lot about the back."
To a query on the briefly petulant crowd, he noted: "You never will hear me talk badly about the crowd here."
Winning tells grand stories as it did about Wawrinka's urge to improve in athletic middle-age, but the champion is not enough in sport. To decode sport, we need the defeated man. For everyone is defeated and only in the emotional, public whirlpool of loss can we appreciate the core of the athlete. We see them wear masks, resort to cliche, show defiance - and why not, they are hurt - but also lift. Such athletes reveal to us not mythical hero, but fine human player.
And, if we can - and must - look past this tribalistic and mundane view of tennis, where to elevate Federer we must diminish Nadal, and vice versa, we will find a grateful education. For by being weepy yet never whiny, Nadal defeated self-pity. Like a stone thrown over water, he, the competitor, skipped over sports' demons and found grace on the other shore. This is victory in itself.
http://news.asiaone.com/news/sports/...eat?page=0%2C1
It is. Isn't it?
An absolute gem of a comment where in a fellow tables all "such instances" in the same article.
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May be except for 2011 (when Djokovic bashed him fair-and-square) and late last year, but from 2009 (not looking at earlier instances), almost all of Rafa's losses have been "attributed to injury", in one way or another. Or "fatigue".
Cases in point - loss to Soderling at RG09, loss to del Potro at USO09, WTF09, retirement at AO10, WTF10, loss to Rosol, Darcis and now, Stan.
Similarly... He was "fatigued" in his losses to Roger at WTFs in 2010 and 2011 (where he was pummelled, btw), but the very next week - he most certainly was fresh as ever and took his country to Davis Cup victories.
Of course, many other matches which I haven't bothered mentioning (e.g. walkover to Murray at Miami 2012), the numerous "dubious" timeouts during a match [v. Del Potro at Wimbledon 2011 (not the US Open like you've mentioned), v. Federer at RG 2011, etc.] and the like.
Some instances I could quickly pen down... I am sure there are more.
2006 - Roger Federer calls out Toni - midmatch - for illlegal coaching.
2006 - Ivan Lubijic got pissed off with Rafa's time wasting and made it clear everyone wanted Federer to win the French.
2006 - Scolding Tomas Berdych who made a "Shhh" gesture to the crowd after beating Rafa.
2007 - Robin Soderling, at Wimbledon, for time-wasting and butt-picking before every point.
2008 - Medical time-out against Federer in Hamburg while he was losing.
2010 - Retires against Andy Murray at the Australian Open (but "bravely battles" David Ferrer next year)
2010 - Medical time-out against Philipp Petzschner and illegal coaching
2010 - Wimbledon; against Robin Söderling. Argues and threatens umpire Carlos Ramos, I think. Even had the crowd jeering. Can you actually imagine Wimbledon center court crowd jeering Rafa!?!
2010 - World Tour Finals. Against Berdych. Argues with umpire Bernandez (one of the respected fellows) and threatens to not play.
2011 - Wimbledon; against Juan Martín del Potro. Takes a time out to get some tape cut, hobbles before MTO, comfortable goes on to win (despite tough DelPo fightback) afterwards.
2012 - Indian Wells; doesn't take a loo break before Federer serves for the match (play had already been suspended due to rain); but rushes for one just before *match point*.
2012 - Madrid; Blue clay is fine when he beats Nikolay Davydenko but dangerous when he blows a lead to Fernando Verdasco.
2012 - French open; conditions are good when winning and bad when losing.
2012 - Wimbledon; complaining about opponent, time wasting, illegal coaching and bumping on opponent (Lukas Rosol).
2013 - "Pain" after loss to Steve Darcis; nothing when winning almost everything all year!
2013 - Paris; Mysteriously loses to Ferrer, cites "rustiness", but handily defeats the same opponent four days later at the O2.
2014 - Australian Open again. Needn't elucidate.
Oh btw - returning to that fourth rounder you've referred to - he gave Asderaki an earful following the match, chatted sheepishly with Courier later and et voila! Eva was nowhere to be seen again
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Originally Posted by crimson king
Asderaki ran afoul of Serena as well. That time, Serena was the one who got berated but Asderaki didn't account for the diabolical powers of the problem solver. Hate the way ATP pays blind obeisance to Nadal in particular and the top guys in general. It's time for things to go full circle; it's the players who are getting too big for the sport. Not a comment on Federer by the way. Bad loser he may be, but he is pretty old school when it comes to time taken between serves and such.
He was welcomed with a wide ace match point :)Quote:
2012 - Indian Wells; doesn't take a loo break before Federer serves for the match (play had already been suspended due to rain); but rushes for one just before *match point*.
ATP Rankings (February 17, 2014)
1. Rafael Nadal(ESP) 14,085
2. Novak Djokovic(SRB) 10,580
3. Stanislas Wawrinka(SUI) 5,620
4. David Ferrer(ESP) 5,440
5. Juan Martin Del Potro(ARG) 4,960
6. Thomas Berdych(CZE) 4,950
7. Andy Murray(GBR) 4,795
8. Roger Federer(SUI) 4,305
9. Richard Gasquet(FRA) 2,950
10. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(FRA) 2,885
11. Milos Raonic(CAN) 2,440
12. Tommy Haas(GER) 2,435
13. John Isner(USA) 2,320
14. Fabio Fognini (ITA) 2,260
15. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 2,170
4th-ranked David Ferrer of Spain loses to 54th–ranked Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 4-6, 4-6 in the Rio Open semifinal;
and 1st-ranked Rafael Nadal struggles past 40th ranked fellow Spaniard Pablo Andujar 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (12-10) in the other semi.
Not related to any of the above news items, just something that occurred to me was: why do people rant about David Ferrer reaching semis of US Open or QF of Wimbledon AND go on to add that clay courters getting that far in the 90s was unthinkable. Because it's not true. Corretja reached the QF in 96 US Open and stretched Sampras to 5 sets. Kuerten also reached QF stage at both US and Wimbledon BEFORE either surface was slowed down. Kafelnikov won Aus Open and reached the semis of US Open. MAYBE people didn't notice these things at that time with the domination of Sampras and other attacking fast court specialists but to pass that off as a factual statement is unjustified. I am not denying for a minute that conditions changed in the new millennium. But that it was impossible for players with a mainly clay court based game to do well on fast courts seems to be more of an, er, American media myth than reality. Wilander, Lendl won US Open in 80s and even before graphite racquets, Vilas was able to win that tournament in 1977. That he was not a good serve and volley player (at least by the standards of the time) is borne out by the fact that Borg decided to practice playing aggressively in the 1976 QFs against him so that he would be prepared for the final against Nastase. :mrgreen:
Rio semifinals - Highlights:
Source: ATP World Tour
http://www.atpworldtour.com/Media/Vi...W2dJlNZ7IWDq2Q
Alexandr Dolgopolov serves 10 aces, but also a double fault in the second set tie-breaker. Rafael Nadal wins the Rio Open 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).
Latvian Ernests Gulbis (ranked 23) wins the Marseille Open beating Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (ranked 10) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
Uncle Toni gives his take on Rafa's relationship with French fans:
http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2014/...ch-fans/50713/
What's up with this clown (Uncle Toni)??
Del Potro's injury sends Somdev into second round in Dubai
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...w/31002992.cms
Federer To Face Djokovic In Dubai SFs
http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Ten...-Djokovic.aspx
Murray Fights Past Simon; Ferrer's Acapulco Campaign Cut Short
http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Ten...ov-Gulbis.aspx
kadum porattam at Dubai.
Unnai poi nambunaen paaruya :banghead: .. as usual choking when serving for match :twisted:.
Roger upsets Novak to reach Dubai final.
Federer gets to the final in Dubai. Well done...:clap:
Great match. Fed was aggressive whenever he found an opportunity but also held his own from the baseline and even often on the backhand side. Djoko seemed to tire out a bit even as Fed upped the ante.
Federer's backhand and net points were solid today. Most important thing was his confidence and temperament. Glad today he did not choke at the important moments. Hope he gets some momentum from this match.
Federer now leads Djokovic 17-15 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.
Highlights of today's semifinal match:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ji5rM90FCI
Top stars in IPTL line-up; draft on Sunday
"Some of the biggest names in tennis -- world No.1 Rafael Nadal, No.2 Novak Djokovic and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray -- have signed-up for Mahesh Bhupathi's International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) which will have its player draft in this dazzling desert city on Sunday."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...w/31187600.cms
Must be the weakest era ever...Quote:
Originally Posted by crimson king
32 year old guy, way past his prime winning against a modern strong era player...
Has happened before, on the Grand Slam stage no less, Sampras beating Roddick in US Open 2002. Or Becker beating Chang in Aus Open 1996. Becker even joked at that time that his days were numbered while Chang was still young. I mean, sure, Becker wasn't that old but he was way past it already.
Also Federer is still much fitter than typical 32-33 year old washed up tennis stars. He looked much fresher and was more mobile than Djoko in the third set.
EDIT: Another startling instance now that I began to read up about old man heroics. How could I leave out the grand daddy Jimmy Connors? Beat Stefan Edberg in straight sets in US Open 1989!!! :shock: Would have been 37 at that time.
:banghead: ... ellathulayum business aaki naaradikirathae ivanunga polappu.
Rohan Bopanna (India) & Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pakistan) win the Dubai Duty Free Championship Doubles title beating Daniel Nester (Canada) & Nenad Zimonjic (Serbia) 6-4, 6-3.
Again kadum porattam in Dubai.
WOW! What a match! Federer wins 3-6, 6-4, 6-3! :)
He's got it...:clap: :clap:
He made it. :victory: ...
Back to back win against top 10 players ... he played good and aggressive tennis for last two days .. Keep it up Roger :ty:.
Well done feddy :thumbsup: