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Men’s Tennis Power Rankings. From Sarah. Thanks.

SARAH

Men’s Tennis Power Rankings: Roger Federer Is Still the One
July 30, 2009
by J.A. Allen…

http://www.tosports.ca/?p=5766

I cannot freaking stand these ‘texting while driving’ nut jobs.

They say that these morons, on an average, are not looking up for five freaking seconds at a time. That, on a freeway, is like covering a length of a full American football field. Can you freaking believe that?

That makes ‘drinking and driving’ look like a misdemeanor. At least those idiots are looking up.

And it even makes the fact that ‘whether you are holding your phone or are on hands free device – doesn’t matter. You are equally impaired’ look pale in comparison.

Add to it the kicker that NONE of the texts have anything meaningful to say or are even remotely urgent.

You have to to be a complete moron to be texting. Period. Forget about while driving. Then you are a freaking criminal.

Federer opting for Davis Cup mean anything?

Maybe not. But with ALL major pot holes already covered, professionally and personally, you cannot help but look at this as an effort to produce a much rounded legacy for himself.

With pots on front burners ready, is it time to connect as many dots as possible to knit a more comprehensive weave to leave nothing for the critics?

What’s next? Doubles? Mixed doubles? Mixed of a different kind doubles?

There’s no doubt that visible and significant gains at office and at home are bound to take away some of the hunger on the court. To break away and create meaningful separation from a current ALL-TIME record requires immense motivation.

It’s like Graf going for No. 22 after surpassing the ALL-TIME No. 18.

While there’s a natural exhale when reaching a standing goal, adding extra mustard from home can only make it worse – unless YOUR goal from the start was already set much higher.

Lure, competition and the prospects too tempting for Nadal?

Anytime you are not confident of moving forward after an injury specially related to knees, ankles and back, you can be sure you have not recovered completely. Duh!!!!

You have had enough of that crapshoot many times already. Now you are at a point where it’s either that bunch of carrots or your career – or maybe even your ability to walk straight for the rest of your life.

Granted, practically every professional player plays with some kind of discomfort and even injury of a minor kind, but to push aside something that’s been building for about five years by coming out to run in the jungle with mean wolves – prematurely – is beyond being stupid.

Obviously his decision to defend Montreal title was the basis for return and not the condition of the knees. How freaking moronic do you have to be to be making that decision, after having been burnt a million times already over and over freaking again.

Although it’s understandable to get panicky with the prospect of your rank plummeting forcing a much stronger effort to get back on track along with other million such scenarios, but you cannot let that cloud your judgement when what’s on the other side of the scale is far more vital and basic.

Either you have no faith in your own ability to fight the tomato cans to regain what you lost or you are just plain dumb. How can anyone not see this?

Heard of Serena – or Venus? OK, there are so many other variable in play there, but it’s been done in mens game as well. Agassi? Didn’t he have to play what do they call ‘minor leagues / challenger events” to start all over again?

Just freaking close down that shutter and stay inside UNTIL the green light appears. Anything short of it and you may break Borg’s record – this time it may not be the one you will like.

Safin better start losing fast – and bad or else….

Or else, he will either have to suspend retiring or retire with guilt. He has now defeated Sampras, Ginepri and Gulbis back to back to freaking back.

Last year, win over Djokovic at Wimbledon provided the spark and made that hiking disaster a distant memory. But if he has a reasonably decent hard court season with even a quarterfinal showing at the US Open, look for Safin to keep on keeping on.

If a midget like Santoro can do it, why can’t Safin? Add the fan support he corners everywhere he goes, this is one retirement-revert that many will actually celebrate.

He just needs a close-to quarterfinal berth at just ONE Slam per year to carry on – along with a near-child abuse treatment of anyone of today’s youngsters like Gulbis. Taking down any of the top four wouldn’t hurt either.

With both Nadal and Djokovic clearly vulnerable, it shouldn’t be that out of range on his day.

Freaking point is this: You want to retire ONLY because you have to. While the reasons for your ‘have to’ may be different from the next guy, the principle is still the same. Reasons for Sampras or Borg retiring may be diagonally opposite, but it was still the maturation of that ‘have to’ bone in their system.

In Safin’s case, early losses to tomato cans in straight sets – consistently – will deliver the big ‘R’ for Safin. Only stroke that can dampen the impact now will be an upset deep in a significant event of any top ten player.

But given his popularity both amongst players and fans along with very little ego to defend, shouldn’t he drive the car until it cannot move at all – just for the heck of it or because there’s nothing else to do? Check with Sampras for motivation on that.

Update on David Nalbandian’s progress. From Jenny. Thanks.

JENNY

An Update on David Nalbandian’s progress.

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/07/18/deportes/d-01960831.htm

Sorry I couldn’t translate, but I found the following:

The 27 year- old said that since the surgery, everything was going well “I’m doing swimming, gymnastics, cycling. I would have to practice (tennis) for a full month without feeling discomfort and then start playing matches”

Q: As time passes, do you make any plans? Do you see yourself returning to the tennis court?

David: ” No, I’m still far from being able to return to the tennis court, and that should keep you from asking more of questions like that. I cannot even say when I’ll start training because I’ll have to do it little by little, 20 minutes one day, then half an hour on the next. But I know that the goals are still the same I’ve had before. I think that I’ll enjoy coming back and I that will be ready to compete at the highest level. ”

Still gloriously tetchy!