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[leosimha]

Nadal defeats Harrison 6-4 6-2 6-2

[Arvind Srinivasan]

செப்டம்பர் மாதம் - நியூயார்க் பகுதிக்கு மழைப் பருவம். தெரிந்தே இதையெல்லாம் எப்படி ஏற்பாடு செய்கிறார்கள் எனத் தெரியவில்லை. ரசிகர்களுக்கு இழைக்கும் பெரிய அநீதி. அரையிறுதி / இறுதிப் போட்டிகளுக்கு டிக்கட் எடுத்தவன் எல்லாம் வயித்துல நெருப்பைத் தான் கட்டிக்கிட்டு இருக்கணும். எந்த நேரத்திலும் ஒத்திப் போடப் படலாம் போட்டிகள். வார இறுதியில் நடக்கும் போட்டிகள் திங்கள், செவ்வாய் போன்ற நாட்களுக்கு சென்றால் அவ்வளவுதான். ஆட்டம் ஆரம்பிக்கும் நேரம் கூட மாறுபடும். ஒரே கூத்துதான். கூரை போடுவதற்கு நல்லாத் தான் யோசிக்கிறாங்க்ய!

So from what you said, I guess the retracted roof is long overdue. Glad they are thinking of doing it atleast now. It is unfortunate for the fan though .

[venkkiram]

Sloane Stephens இன்னைக்கு ஜெயிச்சதே பெரியவிஷயம். தாவு தீர்ந்திடிச்சி அம்மணிக்கு! மொதோ ரவுண்டே மூன்று செட்கள் வரை நீடித்து டை பிரேக்கர் வரை போயிடுச்சி! நான் கூட, இந்த முறை செரினாவை வீட்டுக்கு அனுப்பக் கூடிய ஒரு வீராங்கனை என நினைத்துக் கொண்டிருந்தேன்.

[omega]

More "meaningless" ATP statistics

Roger Federer

(Source: http://www.usopen.org/en_US/players/...w/atpf324.html )

Age: 32 yrs
Career Singles Titles: 77
Career Doubles titles: 8
Career matches won: 910
Career matches lost: 209
Year to date matches Won: 32
Year to date matches lost: 11
Current rank for singles: 7
Career prize money: US$ 77,775,114
Year to date prize money for singles: US$ 1,757,971
Year to date prize money for doubles: US$ 2,365

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Rafa Nadal

Source: http://www.usopen.org/en_US/players/...w/atpn409.html

Age: 27 yrs
Career Singles Titles: 59
Career Doubles titles: 8
Career matches won: 636
Career matches lost: 125
Year to date matches Won: 53
Year to date matches lost: 3
Current rank for singles: 2
Career prize money: US$ 56,910,697
Year to date prize money for singles: US$ 6,838,849
Year to date prize money for doubles: US$ 10,020


Wow!! I mean waareh wow!!

Absolutely!! Amazed that the Bull has lost 125 career matches.... How the hell did that happen??

[raagadevan]

Absolutely!! Amazed that the Bull has lost 125 career matches.... How the hell did that happen??

It happened the exact same way as "Chocolate" losing 209 career matches!!!

[leosimha]

scratching my head. nadal has won 83.57% of the matches against feddy's 81.32%.

[raagadevan]

raagavendran, I am very poor in statistics. though I can see the statistical figures, I really can't deduce anything out of it. can you please explain the H2H statistical record of Federer vs Nadal and why it is meaningless?

leosimha: The head-to-head statistics show that 27-year-old Rafa Nadal has played extremely well on all surfaces, and against all the other top 30 top players on the ATP tour. His record against all players, including 32-year-old Roger Federer, is very impressive. He still has (hopefully) at least five more years of play left; and he could and would surpass and break many, if not all, present records. For that reason, I believe the statistics are indeed very meaningful.

scratching my head. nadal has won 83.57% of the matches against feddy's 81.32%.

Be careful making such statements; there are people who still think H2H comparisons are "meaningless"!

By the way, it is raagadevan; not raagavendran!

[JamesDap]

I think ALL records is really stretching it because he has only two Wimbledon titles as of date. So matching or surpassing Federer's 7 is going to take some doing. He MAY surpass Borg's 3 French-Wimbledon doubles but they won't be in three consecutive years....unless he has a fresh streak of back to back RG and SW for three years in a row. A lot of it depends on his fitness. He was simply amazing in Cincinnati but so too he was amazing in the 2012 and 2013 clay court seasons. Injury has hampered his schedule for the last couple of years. Any which way, it's good to have Rafa back for now because Djoko-Murray matches are very boring IMHO.

[leosimha]

aiyoo aiyoo crimson tide.....shall we say it the other way, can federer match nadal's 8 FO? Nadal beat Federer on French Clay, Aus Hard Court, and on Wimbledon Grass. Now there is a very probable chance of Nadal meating Federer in the QF of US Hard Court.....this is it....hoping for an entertaining match...if we are saying aging Feddy, then we will have to say creaky knees of Nadal...so it is going to be creaky knees vs aging....

And I guess Borg had 5 FO-Wimbledon doubles consecutively....

[leosimha]

thanks for the clarifications raagadevan