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Always have and always will love me some JC Ferrero. So happy to see him winning. He still looks pretty good to me.
Sad he has to play Ferrer next since these guys seem to be so close. One is often watching the other play. Too cute.
Am I being overly critical or are the Shanghai fans so new to watching tennis that they don't know any of the customary courtesies? I thought sitting in the top of Ashe during the US Open was awful with the constant talking and walking around but that doesn't affect the players as much as it does the fans. The attendants in Shanghai let anyone in at anytime and the fans don't seem to realize they are distracting the players. What's worse....was watching yesterday when someone with credentials came in during play. Felt sorry to Mohamed Lahyani....no one seemed to be listening to him. Now that this rant is over......
It was great to see JCF winning! I have missed him on the tour!
Talking about Sampras and Federer, here is a good one:
http://bit.ly/nQAplv (Federer, Sampras and Emerson-The Myth of Invincibility)
Makes you realise that noone including Nadal and Djoker can remain invincible!
**so what if fans come in during points..the players are too precious they should get on with it and stop moaning. they are wanting fans to watch and they have a go at them. empty stadiums arnt great...at least the crowd was alot bigger for rafa/wafa...maybe the fans wearnt keen on watching the 1st rd when top 8 seeds wernt playing.
@Chris -
Is that really your name ?
Time and again on these blogs' comments I have seen some random name that makes some one-liner connection to a topic and points with a link to the same blog. Even the sense of language is the same. The name is different.
Are you just one person trying to use this as a place to do some indirect advertising for your blog to get some page-hits ???
In case of the remote possibility thata you ARE Chris and a genuine person who happened to use the same language to point to the same blog as others, without any selfish interest, except to point us readers to an opinion you liked, I apologize.
*** mono-chris or multi-chris. just who is the real chris ?????.
For the second day in a row, it's Ferrero fan-club time on here :) I said it yesterday, I'll say it again - I've been watching tennis for 15 years now, and Juanqui is my absolute favourite. The day he finally does go away will be a truly sad one. Agree about a shame he's playing Ferrer - David might come up one letter short in the surname department, but I fear he may out-mosquito the Mosquito. Wasn't it Ferrer who finally ended JCF's amazing South American clay circuit run last year in Acapulco, after JCF had one their previous final?
if ferrero bts ferrer without the o, he prob be top50 again...whoooo.
No comment on the tight Raonic/Ferrer match?
Milos at least looks good after returning from injury.
I enjoy Jason Goodall much more than the Doug Adler. Very eloquent.
I agree about Ferrero, on all counts. And I've seen him beat Nadal three times during Nadal's best years, showing he still has the tactical smarts of a top player. Long live Juan Carlos! A gentleman's player, for sure.
Goodall does a fine job, as do Adler and Koenig. It's funny when Sam Gore gets mixed in there with Robbie. Come to think of it, Sam's voice quality is similar to Jim Courier's and Goodall's (or am I mixing up Jason with Doug?). Sometime,s it takes me a while to figure out which is which.
The bit about Jason Goodall was clever. But what happened to the absolutely best part of it: "like any other veteran commentator who must rise to the occasion..."? I was laughing out lout when I read it. But Tignor maybe thought it was a bit too stingy and edited it out?
I thought I was alone in liking Goodall and Koenig. I'm glad I'm not. I like them together, working off each other. I keep hearing about how Robbie is biased in favour of Nadal but even if he is, which I'm not at all sure about, it doesn't seem major. Jason Goodall may go in for stock phrases, in fact they both do, but I enjoy Jason's occasional snarkyness too. Adler I'm less keen on, he seems very enamoured of his own opinions and with less humour.
I agree with Northernboy : Milos did very well, considering he is just back from a nearly 6 months interruption ! Welcome back, Milos !
the homepage title for this was thoughts from afar. never before noticed that afar=rafa backwards. how about that for a completely irrelevant fact?
"He's drawn first blood--almost"--ha ha,I think that's going to run through my head every time a BP comes up from now on! Rafa definitely has a tendency to tighten up on those second-serve BPs, but I don't think it's unique to him. Seems pretty common among players--they're either too conservative and end up hitting a floaty return into the middle of the court (Rafa, often), or, feel pressure to make something happen and smother it into the net (e.g. Roger). One (unfortunate) difference I've noticed this year in Rafa's game is that he's often tensing up on BPs against. Last year he saved so many he joked he was a "specialist"; this year, he's been giving a lot away with nervous UFEs and even some DFs. All part of the game, I guess.
Really enjoying these Shanghai journals, btw!
Steve...your posts are so poetic and beautiful,I don't need to go to Shanghai (or wherever) to see the match.I get satisfied just reading your *notebook* or *random thoughts*
But tell me this...do you get disappointed at so few *comments* when you pen your thoughts *for-the-world* at large?
And Mr.Bodo randomly posts those Around The World In 1000words and he gets a 1000comments,which are mainly absurd.Unfair,right?ya,I think so too.
Steve,can you pass on this message to the ATP commentary-team?Which is:"Please,please show yourselves on TV"
I so badly want to put a face to their wonderful,beautiful,fantastic commentary.I simply ADORE the guys.Robby's nasal accent...my,my,my...I like that!
And can you dedicate a post to Goodall,Gore,Keonig and Adler?Like who are they?Are they family-guys?Where are they all from?If they are so good just talking-tennis...how come they never went far,playing tennis?And do they like their *dream jobs*? OR do they crib,sulk and complain like the ATP players,about long year,long flights,and having to sit court side,and all else that come with being ATP staff/employees? I hope not.
I'm writing this as I'm watching Lopez V/S Berdych and boy,I cannot stop thinking about *Deliciano* and how yummy(handsome actually) he really is!But how can you blame Judy,right?If her son is shabby,un-kept and un-tidy,she better pick another guy!Hmmmmm.
And Lopez's serve and volley is simply aweeeeesome.
Tallboyslim,
That blog link is posted by one APEKSHA too,who comments here,occasionally.Or is Apeksha and Chris same?
Crazy and weird...
"He smells first blood?"
anyone is better than Luke "toppy lob!" Jensen
"He had gone through his usual series of poses—testy, sullen, surly, glum—and finished in exhausted resignation."
Lol. Pretty much sums up every Verdasco match, eh? :)
Love your write-ups, Steve. Something to look forward to every day. Thank you.
I'm pretty sure intentionally missing a first serve break point down against Nadal is a bad idea.
Nadal is out...maybe there was something wrong...
I liked this summation of the day!
Long Live Juan Carlos! You are my hero - the breakthrough for Davis Cup for Spain - nobody can take that away from you! Juan Carlos forever!
All Novak has done so far in this year is fantasic with only Roger Federer being able to beat him at an incredibly high quality match. Rafa is here to stay only if he is able to play at the somewhat higher level. He is a hussler, competitive athlete with great skills. Vamos Rafa!
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