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Rafa Nadal vs. Feliciano López, 6-7(5), 4-6, Aegon championships.

Nadal vs. López, tie break 1er. set 6-7(5).

[Federer vs Kohlschreiber] – Halle 2010.

What’s the freaking rationale of calling coach a coach – over and over freaking again?

Have you heard these clowns interviewing NBA, Football, Baseball etc. coaches. Every freaking question will start with ‘Coach’. Will he turn into a cobbler if not reminded every freaking second? Nobody freaking calls player with “Player” or Umpire or lawyer or engineer………..

Thoughts of reporters and players at pressers.

Players: What a freaking loser. I can freaking buy him on the spot. Couldn’t he find ANYTHING better to do than to beg for answers? I bet he is making minimum wage.

Journalists: I can feel the arrogance. The guy is in the sunlight for just a few more years. We will still have a job while these clowns begin the suicide routine, the financial meltdown drama, the relationship woes etc. soon after retirement. Heck, some are already there.

Is World Cup partly responsible for the recent meltdown of seeds?

If yes, shouldn’t we expect it to spill over onto the courts of Wimbledon? But how do you explain Roddick’s lame loss? I think it was largely because he got carried away with the enormous attention he has been getting from fans down there. He is the kind of guy who can be swayed by such display of emotion – either way.

I bet Nadal’s first thought after his loss today was the additional time he will now have to watch soccer. Federer, Murray and Djokovic should be equally affected by this. Federer is just taking a little longer as his team may be coming up later.

Over here, more than half the people don’t have a clue that a soccer event is even under way. The ones who do have never heard of U R GAY, forget about locating it on the freaking map. I wonder how can ONE country be so detached and completely oblivious of such a massive event just across the pond. Luckily we are the greatest country the world has ever seen, otherwise we would have been called all sorts of names – publicly.

The ONLY response to the World Cup here is from immigrants of countries like Mexico etc. Other than that we have no freaking clue why or what’s happening over there. Nobody freaking cares.

Semifinal pairing at Queens and Halle.

Halle:

Federer vs Pet Detective.

Hewitt vs Becker.

Queens:

Fish Turtle vs Lopez.

Querrey vs Schuettler.

Federer passes toughest test of the event in straight sets but……

………….he is still waiting for a memo to inform him that it’s OK to break more than once in a set. At two of the three wins here, he has broken just once in each set after serving at over 70 percent for his first serve and maintaining a double-digit ace count per match. The latter part doesn’t affect your break record but it should however eliminate multiple BP offerings.

First match: Offered 3.

Second match: 2.

Third match: 1.

Translation: He is winning with the minimum of margins and we are talking about early rounds of an already ‘depleted to the basement’ field. While a win is a win, under the conditions these matches may not do much in bolstering the morale and confidence, if they are not hurting that is. After all, this is Federer’s surface of choice leading to the Slam of choice. Shouldn’t he be at least matching if not exceeding Nadal’s showing on his surface of choice – even if those were 1000 events on clay – to keep hopes of winning HIS backyard Slam alive?

Nadal switched from hard to clay seamlessly to throw out the ‘new surface’ alibi. Federer desperately needs a string of statement games right here right now not just for the rest of the field but for himself. With title here more or less a foregone conclusion since his next two matches are against some guy who likes pets and Hewitt, this is a good time to bring out the artillery to post matches named ‘destruction with no mercy’. If not the close albeit straight set wins will begin tipping over in the wrong direction.

But today, all that may be just fine since all seeded players at Queens have been sown back in the ground for fresh growth. Nadal’s lopsided loss to Lopez may prove to be a blessing in disguise if the discomfort or injury is weak enough to be healed before Wimbledon. Or was this all planned? With No. 1 rank secured irrespective of what happens at Wimbledon – that might have played into this result / plan.

If Nadal is more concerned about denying Federer those last 7 days at No. 1 needed to overtake Sampras more than his own obsession with the position, it would be far more sensible to let whatever injury it is to heal by skipping Wimbledon and concentrate at the US Open instead, as that’s where it (No. 1 rank) is more likely to get contentious. But if Wimbledon aggravates the problem, US hard courts will destroy him and the top rank title thereby releasing the seven-day hold.

And is anybody else interested in playing tennis anymore or should we start recruiting from WTA / WNBA /BoardgamesBA? Geeeeeeezzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photos.

What happened to the freaking pathetic hugs?

World Cup thread.

RICKY

Hi TP, what about a World Cup thread? There might be soccer addicts here and it could distract us while waiting for and during Wimbledon as this tennis season doesn’t spark with incredible achievements

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Nadal’s comments after winning against the medicine called Istobin.

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