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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
This (sort of) breaks my heart
Rafa readying himself to "resign"...
....from his #2 position, before ever having tasted being #1.
Can't help it that it breaks my heart, sort of.
Especially as he's been the undisputed #2 all these years, trying so hard to catch up to Roger... only to now potentially drop back to #3, surpassed by Djokovic (of all people). >:-(
C'mon Raf... keep up the spirit! Your Vamos days aren't over yet!
-tmsh-
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Nadal resigned to rankings drop
Rafael Nadal believes he will lose his world number two position to Novak Djokovic by Wimbledon at the latest.
The Spaniard lost valuable points when his defence of the Rome Masters title ended in the second round, while Djokovic went on to lift the trophy.
"The logical thing is that he goes past me here in Hamburg, or at Roland Garros or Wimbledon," said the 21-year-old.
Nadal was hampered by blisters in Rome but he said: "I've had a few days off, and I'm much better."
Earlier in the season, Nadal had an outside chance of overtaking world number one Roger Federer, who had a poor start to the season by his high standards.
However, Nadal now finds himself with a stack of ranking points to defend from now until Wimbledon and any slip could see Djokovic move up a place.
The Serb has been the form player of the season so far, winning the Australian Open as well as the Masters Series events in Indian Wells and Rome.
"He's a great player and he's doing things very well," said Nadal of his Serbian rival.
"If I'm number three I'm number three. When it happens I just have to accept it and fight to get the position back."
Nadal, the world's best player on clay, has complained bitterly about this year's schedule, which has three clay-court Masters Series tournaments, plus Barcelona, crammed into four weeks.
The Spaniard successfully defended his titles in Barcelona and Monte Carlo but saw his 17-match unbeaten run in Rome ended in the second round by compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero.
Nadal will lose his place if he fails to pass the quarter-finals and Djokovic reaches the semis of the Hamburg Masters Series on May 11-18, 2008.
Source: bbc.co.uk
....from his #2 position, before ever having tasted being #1.
Can't help it that it breaks my heart, sort of.
Especially as he's been the undisputed #2 all these years, trying so hard to catch up to Roger... only to now potentially drop back to #3, surpassed by Djokovic (of all people). >:-(
C'mon Raf... keep up the spirit! Your Vamos days aren't over yet!
-tmsh-
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Nadal resigned to rankings drop
Rafael Nadal believes he will lose his world number two position to Novak Djokovic by Wimbledon at the latest.
The Spaniard lost valuable points when his defence of the Rome Masters title ended in the second round, while Djokovic went on to lift the trophy.
"The logical thing is that he goes past me here in Hamburg, or at Roland Garros or Wimbledon," said the 21-year-old.
Nadal was hampered by blisters in Rome but he said: "I've had a few days off, and I'm much better."
Earlier in the season, Nadal had an outside chance of overtaking world number one Roger Federer, who had a poor start to the season by his high standards.
However, Nadal now finds himself with a stack of ranking points to defend from now until Wimbledon and any slip could see Djokovic move up a place.
The Serb has been the form player of the season so far, winning the Australian Open as well as the Masters Series events in Indian Wells and Rome.
"He's a great player and he's doing things very well," said Nadal of his Serbian rival.
"If I'm number three I'm number three. When it happens I just have to accept it and fight to get the position back."
Nadal, the world's best player on clay, has complained bitterly about this year's schedule, which has three clay-court Masters Series tournaments, plus Barcelona, crammed into four weeks.
The Spaniard successfully defended his titles in Barcelona and Monte Carlo but saw his 17-match unbeaten run in Rome ended in the second round by compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero.
Nadal will lose his place if he fails to pass the quarter-finals and Djokovic reaches the semis of the Hamburg Masters Series on May 11-18, 2008.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
More on the topic of retirement (tennis, not work) ;-)
Retiring Types: How often the top men quit a match
By Kamakshi Tandon
"Typical," went the reaction to Nikolay Davydenko and Novak Djokovic's recent retirements against Roger Federer. But were they? We took the raw data and used it to draw some rough conclusions.
Click here for a calculation of where the top men and women stood in this category 14 months ago. (Note: criteria varies slightly)
Roger Federer’s aura of invincibility may have been fading fast, but over the past week and a half he’s quite literally recovered some of it by default. Three times he's faced his nearest challengers in the rankings, and twice they've handed him victory.
First came Nikolay Davydenko, who quit with a leg injury in the Estoril final. He had lost the first set in a tiebreak and was up a break in the second set. Then in Monte Carlo last week, Novak Djokovic stopped after going down a set and a break to Federer in the semifinals.
The retirements attracted particular attention for two reasons. One was timing: neither involved a mid-match injury that made carrying on impossible. Davydenko still looked competitive in the match, while Djokovic was just a few games away from losing and seemed capable of playing till the end.
Here's how often the top 10 have retired during a match, compared to the amount of matches they've lost during their career. The total number of retirements is given in brackets.
*ATP main draw, Grand Slam and Davis Cup matches only.
The other was the players involved. Both Davydenko and Djokovic have acquired a reputation for dubious defaults in precisely such situations. “I have a little injury and I can't finish the match,” Davydenko told the Estoril crowd, later assuring reporters that he would be ready to play at Monte Carlo in three days’ time.
Djokovic, who received a few boos from the crowd as he left the court on Saturday, made his problem sound even more tepid. “It’s a sore throat. I feel dizziness a little bit in the last three days,” he said afterwards. “I asked the doctor yesterday but he said I don't have nothing, which I really don't believe. I think he didn't give me the right diagnosis, obviously.“But obviously when you're playing against the No. 1 player of the world, you get a lot of balls back and longer points, and I just couldn't get enough energy back after each point... the previous opponents were not that tough and I didn't have long rallies against the previous opponents like I had today.”
So were their actions typical? Yes and no. They've done it before, but it's hardly something they do all the time. They just do it a little more often than most, and a little more dramatically to boot.
The numbers show that Djokovic tends to retire more often than any other top-10 player, but just as significant is the fact that he chooses memorable occasions to do so. Three of his five retirements have come against either Federer or Nadal in the semifinals of big events. Those are also the only times he’s retired facing a big deficit in a match, suggesting he doesn’t want to give his biggest rivals a clean win when he’s unfit.
Most notorious is Djokovic’s French Open meeting with Nadal two years ago, when he pulled the plug after losing the first two sets but declared he felt he had been “in control” of the match. His retirement against the Spaniard at rain-hit Wimbledon last year was more understandable, given that he had played nine hours in the previous two days to defeat Lleyton Hewitt in four sets and Marcos Baghdatis in five. His other two retirements were attributed to the breathing difficulties that plagued him early on and were eventually fixed with corrective surgery.
Here's how often the top 10 have retired while significantly behind in a match, compared to the amount of matches they've lost during their career. The number of retirements while trailing is given in brackets.
*ATP main draw, Grand Slam and Davis Cup matches only.
At other times, however, Djokovic has shown he’s willing to fight through physical problems, starting with a cult match against Gael Monfils at the 2005 US Open when he huffed and puffed his way to victory in five dramatic sets. A gasping Djokovic called numerous injury timeouts during the match, including one during the late stages that delayed Monfils’ service game. Monfils later admitted he had gone cold during the break.
That match also established another damaging perception that clings to the Serb – a habit of calling the trainer during tough contests. “I think he’s a joke, you know, when it comes down to his injuries. The rules are there to be used, not abused,” said Federer after a Davis Cup match in 2006.
Along with James Blake, Federer is the only member of the top ten never to have retired during a match.
Richard Gasquet comes out second on both lists, which only adds to the hits he’s taken for showing a lack of toughness. Accusing of ducking a Davis Cup match with Andy Roddick a couple of weeks ago, he could instead do with the kind of performance he produced against Roddick at Wimbledon last year, coming from two sets and a break down to win their quarterfinal match.
Davydenko stands out for the sheer number of times he’s abandoned a contest, but his marathon schedule means he also plays (and loses) the most matches. He owns the most infamous retirement in men’s tennis, a 6-2, 3-6, 1-2 defeat in the second round of Sopot that made headlines when betting exchange Betfair voided all wagers on the match because of strange betting patterns. Happily for his sporting reputation but intriguingly for match-fixing theorists, a number of Davydenko’s main draw retirements have come when he was even or leading in the match.
Clearly something had to give when Djokovic and Davydenko met in a Davis Cup match earlier this month. And so it proved: Djokovic retired up two sets to one at 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 0-0.But while they’re high on the list of top-ten players, both fall short of some perennial offenders like Tommy Haas and Juan Martin del Potro, who have repeated retired a game or two away from losing a match. It’s tough to condemn either one too heartily given how many injuries they’ve had to content with, but still, reaching the finish line is clearly not one of their priorities.
Haas takes the cake for once retiring down 6-4, 5-0 to Andrei Pavel in Montreal because of a back injury which flared up during the first set. But it’s just as tricky not to start a match as it is to not finish it: he’s also taken flak for giving Federer walkovers in their past two meetings.
In del Potro’s case, a staggering one-fifth of his 40 career defeats have been unfinished matches, including perhaps the second-most famous retirement in men’s tennis - a 6-1, 3-1 loss to James Blake whose side-effects ended ATP’s experiment with round-robin events. The Argentine was earmarked as a future top-ten player before his physical frailties became obvious - if he ever does get there, he may end up making Djokovic look indefatigable.
from tennis.com
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Djoker, you're such a Joker indeed. Or a Choker. Both apply.
OTOH, Fed has NEVER retired from a match. (And Blake, credit to you, too.) All 701 matches Fed's had in his career, he's played them to both the W and the L.
That says it all about who truly deserves to be #1.
-tmsh-
By Kamakshi Tandon
"Typical," went the reaction to Nikolay Davydenko and Novak Djokovic's recent retirements against Roger Federer. But were they? We took the raw data and used it to draw some rough conclusions.
Click here for a calculation of where the top men and women stood in this category 14 months ago. (Note: criteria varies slightly)
Roger Federer’s aura of invincibility may have been fading fast, but over the past week and a half he’s quite literally recovered some of it by default. Three times he's faced his nearest challengers in the rankings, and twice they've handed him victory.
First came Nikolay Davydenko, who quit with a leg injury in the Estoril final. He had lost the first set in a tiebreak and was up a break in the second set. Then in Monte Carlo last week, Novak Djokovic stopped after going down a set and a break to Federer in the semifinals.
The retirements attracted particular attention for two reasons. One was timing: neither involved a mid-match injury that made carrying on impossible. Davydenko still looked competitive in the match, while Djokovic was just a few games away from losing and seemed capable of playing till the end.
Here's how often the top 10 have retired during a match, compared to the amount of matches they've lost during their career. The total number of retirements is given in brackets.
*ATP main draw, Grand Slam and Davis Cup matches only.
The other was the players involved. Both Davydenko and Djokovic have acquired a reputation for dubious defaults in precisely such situations. “I have a little injury and I can't finish the match,” Davydenko told the Estoril crowd, later assuring reporters that he would be ready to play at Monte Carlo in three days’ time.
Djokovic, who received a few boos from the crowd as he left the court on Saturday, made his problem sound even more tepid. “It’s a sore throat. I feel dizziness a little bit in the last three days,” he said afterwards. “I asked the doctor yesterday but he said I don't have nothing, which I really don't believe. I think he didn't give me the right diagnosis, obviously.“But obviously when you're playing against the No. 1 player of the world, you get a lot of balls back and longer points, and I just couldn't get enough energy back after each point... the previous opponents were not that tough and I didn't have long rallies against the previous opponents like I had today.”
So were their actions typical? Yes and no. They've done it before, but it's hardly something they do all the time. They just do it a little more often than most, and a little more dramatically to boot.
The numbers show that Djokovic tends to retire more often than any other top-10 player, but just as significant is the fact that he chooses memorable occasions to do so. Three of his five retirements have come against either Federer or Nadal in the semifinals of big events. Those are also the only times he’s retired facing a big deficit in a match, suggesting he doesn’t want to give his biggest rivals a clean win when he’s unfit.
Most notorious is Djokovic’s French Open meeting with Nadal two years ago, when he pulled the plug after losing the first two sets but declared he felt he had been “in control” of the match. His retirement against the Spaniard at rain-hit Wimbledon last year was more understandable, given that he had played nine hours in the previous two days to defeat Lleyton Hewitt in four sets and Marcos Baghdatis in five. His other two retirements were attributed to the breathing difficulties that plagued him early on and were eventually fixed with corrective surgery.
Here's how often the top 10 have retired while significantly behind in a match, compared to the amount of matches they've lost during their career. The number of retirements while trailing is given in brackets.
*ATP main draw, Grand Slam and Davis Cup matches only.
At other times, however, Djokovic has shown he’s willing to fight through physical problems, starting with a cult match against Gael Monfils at the 2005 US Open when he huffed and puffed his way to victory in five dramatic sets. A gasping Djokovic called numerous injury timeouts during the match, including one during the late stages that delayed Monfils’ service game. Monfils later admitted he had gone cold during the break.
That match also established another damaging perception that clings to the Serb – a habit of calling the trainer during tough contests. “I think he’s a joke, you know, when it comes down to his injuries. The rules are there to be used, not abused,” said Federer after a Davis Cup match in 2006.
Along with James Blake, Federer is the only member of the top ten never to have retired during a match.
Richard Gasquet comes out second on both lists, which only adds to the hits he’s taken for showing a lack of toughness. Accusing of ducking a Davis Cup match with Andy Roddick a couple of weeks ago, he could instead do with the kind of performance he produced against Roddick at Wimbledon last year, coming from two sets and a break down to win their quarterfinal match.
Davydenko stands out for the sheer number of times he’s abandoned a contest, but his marathon schedule means he also plays (and loses) the most matches. He owns the most infamous retirement in men’s tennis, a 6-2, 3-6, 1-2 defeat in the second round of Sopot that made headlines when betting exchange Betfair voided all wagers on the match because of strange betting patterns. Happily for his sporting reputation but intriguingly for match-fixing theorists, a number of Davydenko’s main draw retirements have come when he was even or leading in the match.
Clearly something had to give when Djokovic and Davydenko met in a Davis Cup match earlier this month. And so it proved: Djokovic retired up two sets to one at 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 0-0.But while they’re high on the list of top-ten players, both fall short of some perennial offenders like Tommy Haas and Juan Martin del Potro, who have repeated retired a game or two away from losing a match. It’s tough to condemn either one too heartily given how many injuries they’ve had to content with, but still, reaching the finish line is clearly not one of their priorities.
Haas takes the cake for once retiring down 6-4, 5-0 to Andrei Pavel in Montreal because of a back injury which flared up during the first set. But it’s just as tricky not to start a match as it is to not finish it: he’s also taken flak for giving Federer walkovers in their past two meetings.
In del Potro’s case, a staggering one-fifth of his 40 career defeats have been unfinished matches, including perhaps the second-most famous retirement in men’s tennis - a 6-1, 3-1 loss to James Blake whose side-effects ended ATP’s experiment with round-robin events. The Argentine was earmarked as a future top-ten player before his physical frailties became obvious - if he ever does get there, he may end up making Djokovic look indefatigable.
from tennis.com
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Djoker, you're such a Joker indeed. Or a Choker. Both apply.
OTOH, Fed has NEVER retired from a match. (And Blake, credit to you, too.) All 701 matches Fed's had in his career, he's played them to both the W and the L.
That says it all about who truly deserves to be #1.
-tmsh-
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Spot-on article about Djoker's SF retirement
April 26th, 2008
Djokovic Taps Out Again, Sets Up Federer v. Nadal Monte Carlo Final
by Sean Randall
When the going gets tough, sometimes the tough and the not so tough quit. And that’s just what the not so tough Novak Djokovic did today, just as he has done before, hitting the eject button when things turned against him in a big match.
Today in the Monte Carlo semifinals, Djokovic retired with a breathing illness to Roger Federer after getting broken to go down 6-3, 3-2. The retirement follows a mysterious pattern of in-match withdrawals by the Serb, who pulled a similar act against Nadal at the French Open, Nadal at Wimbledon and even against Davydenko this year in Davis Cup.
And I feel confident in speaking for many tennis fans in saying that we are tired of this act.
You play to win. You don’t play to quit. If Novak’s looking to make fans and gain their respect, this isn’t how to do it.
In Novak’s defense, I understand he’s had a breathing problem, one that was serious enough to require surgery. So it’s there. That’s a fact. It’s been an issue. But Novak, what I cannot understand is if it’s that serious how come you don’t ever retire when you are winning? And why is it only against the top guys and at moments when you feel like the match is no longer within grasp that decide to wave the white flag?
I think it’s safe to say the guy has a game of a No. 1 player, but much like Richard Gasquet, his fate is going to be determined by what goes on between his ears. And right now he’s not right up there.
Sure there’s a physical component, but it’s seems to be more mental with Novak because he feels it more in the tougher times. And his ego maybe does get the best of him.
Part of being a great tennis player is being a great fighter. And Novak really hasn’t shown much of that fighting spirit up to this point in his career. Even today, if this guy needed to draw some inspiration to continue and possibly come back – it wasn’t like he was playing bad either! – all he needed to do was to look across at the net at Federer who could have easily mailed it in when in the second round Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo had him by the throat up 5-1 in the third set. To his credit Federer didn’t quit and now look how nicely it’s paid off. Federer didn’t get to No. 1, didn’t win 12 Slams, by being a great frontrunner. There’s more to it.
Novak is going to need to learn that. And last I checked - and I’m no tennis historian - but I don’t recall too man guys with a history of retirements ever reaching the No. 1 ranking. Marcelo Rios had a lot of injuries, so did Gustavo Kuerten. Andy Roddick had issues early in his career, but he’s overcome them. And has Roger Federer ever retired from a match? I can’t remember.
So Novak, you can’t retire your way to No. 1. It’s not going to happen that way. Few doubt your game, but what’s going on between your ears is another matter. You have a lot of money now, hire a psychologist or two and a good trainer and get it worked out in your head. And stop sapping your strength by bouncing the ball a thousand times (I get dizzy also just watching that!), re-adjusting your hat and doing imitations. Save your energy for actual play.
(Imitating Novak would be easy. Just bend over in exhaustion, take a few deep breaths, fall to your knees a few times, look distressed and then signal to the chair umpire. That’s Novak. You don’t even need to do the ball bounce routine.)
As for the match, Federer continued his high level he had set from his Nalbandian win. He looked that good, that impressive. (Did Fed really yell at Novak’s parents telling them to “Shut up” as the announced hinted? If so that was great!). But will it be enough tomorrow against Nadal? Will he continue on this revenge tour? Probably not. I have to stick with Nadal in that one.
I think it will help Federer in getting such a quick match today after a few three setters this week, but this is Nadal’s surface, Nadal’s time of year. He’s built for clay supremacy. And of course Nadal’s got Fed’s number, especially on clay.
Federer, though, I think is playing at a level now where if Nadal is off his game the Swiss can take it. And he’ll be playing without a lot of pressure. But Roger’s going to have to play impeccably and aggressively. Attacking when it’s right and even using that new drop shot of his.
I guess the one bright side of Novak’s retirement is that we do get the Federer-Nadal matchup.
And we are assured no one’s going to hit the eject button during tomorrow’s final.
Source: tennis-x.com
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Man, this guy voiced my thoughts exactly.
-tmsh-
Djokovic Taps Out Again, Sets Up Federer v. Nadal Monte Carlo Final
by Sean Randall
When the going gets tough, sometimes the tough and the not so tough quit. And that’s just what the not so tough Novak Djokovic did today, just as he has done before, hitting the eject button when things turned against him in a big match.
Today in the Monte Carlo semifinals, Djokovic retired with a breathing illness to Roger Federer after getting broken to go down 6-3, 3-2. The retirement follows a mysterious pattern of in-match withdrawals by the Serb, who pulled a similar act against Nadal at the French Open, Nadal at Wimbledon and even against Davydenko this year in Davis Cup.
And I feel confident in speaking for many tennis fans in saying that we are tired of this act.
You play to win. You don’t play to quit. If Novak’s looking to make fans and gain their respect, this isn’t how to do it.
In Novak’s defense, I understand he’s had a breathing problem, one that was serious enough to require surgery. So it’s there. That’s a fact. It’s been an issue. But Novak, what I cannot understand is if it’s that serious how come you don’t ever retire when you are winning? And why is it only against the top guys and at moments when you feel like the match is no longer within grasp that decide to wave the white flag?
I think it’s safe to say the guy has a game of a No. 1 player, but much like Richard Gasquet, his fate is going to be determined by what goes on between his ears. And right now he’s not right up there.
Sure there’s a physical component, but it’s seems to be more mental with Novak because he feels it more in the tougher times. And his ego maybe does get the best of him.
Part of being a great tennis player is being a great fighter. And Novak really hasn’t shown much of that fighting spirit up to this point in his career. Even today, if this guy needed to draw some inspiration to continue and possibly come back – it wasn’t like he was playing bad either! – all he needed to do was to look across at the net at Federer who could have easily mailed it in when in the second round Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo had him by the throat up 5-1 in the third set. To his credit Federer didn’t quit and now look how nicely it’s paid off. Federer didn’t get to No. 1, didn’t win 12 Slams, by being a great frontrunner. There’s more to it.
Novak is going to need to learn that. And last I checked - and I’m no tennis historian - but I don’t recall too man guys with a history of retirements ever reaching the No. 1 ranking. Marcelo Rios had a lot of injuries, so did Gustavo Kuerten. Andy Roddick had issues early in his career, but he’s overcome them. And has Roger Federer ever retired from a match? I can’t remember.
So Novak, you can’t retire your way to No. 1. It’s not going to happen that way. Few doubt your game, but what’s going on between your ears is another matter. You have a lot of money now, hire a psychologist or two and a good trainer and get it worked out in your head. And stop sapping your strength by bouncing the ball a thousand times (I get dizzy also just watching that!), re-adjusting your hat and doing imitations. Save your energy for actual play.
(Imitating Novak would be easy. Just bend over in exhaustion, take a few deep breaths, fall to your knees a few times, look distressed and then signal to the chair umpire. That’s Novak. You don’t even need to do the ball bounce routine.)
As for the match, Federer continued his high level he had set from his Nalbandian win. He looked that good, that impressive. (Did Fed really yell at Novak’s parents telling them to “Shut up” as the announced hinted? If so that was great!). But will it be enough tomorrow against Nadal? Will he continue on this revenge tour? Probably not. I have to stick with Nadal in that one.
I think it will help Federer in getting such a quick match today after a few three setters this week, but this is Nadal’s surface, Nadal’s time of year. He’s built for clay supremacy. And of course Nadal’s got Fed’s number, especially on clay.
Federer, though, I think is playing at a level now where if Nadal is off his game the Swiss can take it. And he’ll be playing without a lot of pressure. But Roger’s going to have to play impeccably and aggressively. Attacking when it’s right and even using that new drop shot of his.
I guess the one bright side of Novak’s retirement is that we do get the Federer-Nadal matchup.
And we are assured no one’s going to hit the eject button during tomorrow’s final.
Source: tennis-x.com
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Man, this guy voiced my thoughts exactly.
-tmsh-
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Monte-Carlo Marquee Match-up
Tonight's top-dogs semifinal showdown
Not Before 1:30 PM (=7.30 PM Singapore time)
[2] R Nadal (ESP) vs [4] N Davydenko (RUS)
[1] R Federer (SUI) vs [3] N Djokovic (SRB)
---Nadal-Donkey should be a no-brainer. On the other hand, am sort of half-anticipating, half-dreading the Fed-Djoker match.
Nevertheless, it's gonna be a star-studded showdown!
PS: Rog's/Raf's QFs last night were top-notch, watch-worthy tennis. Recaps to come later.
-tmsh-
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Nadal & Djoko glam up in Monte-Carlo
#2 and #3 pose as penguins
Rafa & Djoker, clad in tuxes + bow-ties, visit the Casino before the start of Monte-Carlo:
Original source (higher quality streaming): ATP Masters Series Monte-Carlo
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It amuses me that Rafa managed to look either (1) bored, (2) indifferent, (3) annoyed at Djoker, and (4) did I mention bored?, throughout the whole ordeal :-)
PS: lack of presence of a certain #1 might have had something to do with it
-tmsh-
Rafa & Djoker, clad in tuxes + bow-ties, visit the Casino before the start of Monte-Carlo:
Original source (higher quality streaming): ATP Masters Series Monte-Carlo
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It amuses me that Rafa managed to look either (1) bored, (2) indifferent, (3) annoyed at Djoker, and (4) did I mention bored?, throughout the whole ordeal :-)
PS: lack of presence of a certain #1 might have had something to do with it
-tmsh-
Friday, March 28, 2008
My First Time... errr, Grand Slam
Wow, It's His First
One slam, and a book is out.
.....Hilarious. XDDDDD
Does this mean Roger has to publish 12 of his own 'memoirs' now? ^^;
And what does he mean by "monography"? Is that what a biography's called these days?
And what in the world are "oppenents"? Hahahaaaa...
(No offense to Djoker-vic fans... hehe... I just couldn't resist poking fun at the.. well, funny.) *peace*
Man, this guy is just making me LOL today... ^^
-tmsh-
One slam, and a book is out.
.....Hilarious. XDDDDD
Does this mean Roger has to publish 12 of his own 'memoirs' now? ^^;
And what does he mean by "monography"? Is that what a biography's called these days?
And what in the world are "oppenents"? Hahahaaaa...
(No offense to Djoker-vic fans... hehe... I just couldn't resist poking fun at the.. well, funny.) *peace*
Man, this guy is just making me LOL today... ^^
-tmsh-
[Miami] Djoker is OUT
...Crash and BURN
I'm ECSTATIC!!! Novak Djoker-vic just LOST his first round match in Miami!! Which means he loses about 500 points (which is HUGE - about half of winning a Slam), seeing as he's supposedly the defending champion. O_o
This pulls him down even further away from Rafa & Rogi's rankings. ^^ Good job, Kevin Anderson!
PS: There is JOY in the tennis world as testified by the front page of MensTennisForums.com, HAHAHAHAHA~
-tmsh-
I'm ECSTATIC!!! Novak Djoker-vic just LOST his first round match in Miami!! Which means he loses about 500 points (which is HUGE - about half of winning a Slam), seeing as he's supposedly the defending champion. O_o
This pulls him down even further away from Rafa & Rogi's rankings. ^^ Good job, Kevin Anderson!
PS: There is JOY in the tennis world as testified by the front page of MensTennisForums.com, HAHAHAHAHA~
-tmsh-
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