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| Sneaky: Shabalov loves tennis. My friend went to a World Open in Philly many years ago and ended up playing him a number of sets on the hotel tennis courts. |
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| Riverbeast: I don't like the US's chances in the upcoming Davis Cup semifinal against Spain. US hasn't had a good clay court player since Agassi, Courier, and Chang. I'd be surprised if they won any of the singles matches. Sam Querrey is playing instead of Blake...He'll probably get rolled. And Roddick never could play on clay |
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| Jim Bartle: No chance for the USA. |
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Sep-11-08
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| chancho: So who'll be the next great American tennis superstar from the USA? I remember they did a piece about American tennis a number of years back, and they painted a very bleak future and sure enough, here we are... |
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| wolfmaster: I love to kibutz on your page, Bobbbbbbyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Fissssssssssshrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! |
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| Riverbeast: The USTA hasn't produced a real tennis star since Courier and Chang...Maybe you can add Roddick to that list, but he hasn't been a grand slam threat for a while Agassi, Sampras, and the Williams sisters were all trained by their parents, or outside the system (although Agassi did go to the Bolettieri Academy). There was an interesting article recently about how the USTA should take a page out of Richard Williams' book (he's the father and trainer of the Williams sisters). He told everyone a long time ago that his daughters would dominate tennis, and they all thought he was a braggart and a blowhard....Now, he's been proven correct. If there is another American tennis star in the wings, chances are he or she won't come out of the USTA junior programs....Bobby Fischer also proved that the very best players often don't come from established 'systems' |
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| Jim Bartle: What I can't figure out is how Spain just keeps turning them out, with eight players among the top forty or so. Argentina is strong, too, and this kid del Potro looks like a real threat to reach the top five. |
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| chancho: The last and only time Roddick won a slam was 5 years ago. He's been coached by Connors and nada. Blake can occasionally bring it to the likes of Federer and Nadal, but not more than that unfortunately. |
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| Jim Bartle: For such a good player, Roddick has obvious (and seemingly correctable) holes in his game. His approach shots are never deep enough, he just doesn't cover the net well at all, which negates a lot of the advantage of his great serve and big forehand. |
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Sep-11-08
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| chancho: Whatever happened to Taylor Dent? I thought he had some potential... |
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| Jim Bartle: I think Dent had some bad injuries. The guys who haven't really come through are Fish and Ginepri. My impression is that (with the exception of Blake) the American players don't have the blazing speed necessary to play at the top level. |
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| suenteus po 147: My hope is that Nadal's success will be some inspiration to an American parent. Right now there's a right-handed six year old who will become the #1 tennis player in ten years as a lefty :) |
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| Riverbeast: I think Federer is like 14-1 against Roddick.
Talk about ownership....I heard Roddick has to ask Federer's permission everytime he wants to use the bathroom. In the past US Open Roddick started making fun of Djokovic calling the trainer so often during matches, so Djokovic spanked him...Next time, he should keep his wisecracks to himself. Frankly, I never cared for his personality that much...And as a player he's nothing compared to Agassi and Sampras |
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| Helios727: Does tennis ever have a "closed" championship event like chess? Or are they all "open" events? |
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| Helios727: I think someone posted earlier that Karpov and Kasparov never beat a WC match opponent by a 5 game margin as Fischer did. That was incorrect since Kasparov did beat Short 12.5-7.5 in 1993. |
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| Jim Bartle: The only "closed" tennis event I know of is the year-end tour championship, which is limited to the eight players with the best records over the year. Most events are "open" as far as the rankings will allow, of course. If you're ranked #100, it's unlikely you'll reach the draw of a 64-player tournament. |
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| Sep-12-08 |
| docR: roddick plays hard has a great serve and forehand but a below average backhand no passing shots and limited net coverage.james blake has a better all around game than roddick but lacks a killer instinct. tennis like chess is prone to burnout. anyone who dominates for a long time really is great. |
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| technical draw: In tennis you switch sides after a set. So maybe in chess a player can have the option of switching sides once during a game. To rule out immediate switch back 5 moves must be made before the other player can switch. That would be more fun than FRC. |
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| Riverbeast: <I think someone posted earlier that Karpov and Kasparov never beat a WC match opponent by a 5 game margin as Fischer did. That was incorrect since Kasparov did beat Short 12.5-7.5 in 1993.> You may be referring to my comment, but I said Fischer beat World Champions by four and five point margins (forfeit excluded)...Kasparov did crush Short by five points, but Short wasn't the world champion.... Not to nitpick of course, they're both impressive scores. But we're getting off topic, talking about Fischer on the Fischer page! I thought the conversation was about tennis! :-) |
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| AnalyzeThis: Short played poorly in that match. Somebody needed to explain to him that you don't have to win every game, a draw is ok. |
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| Riverbeast: Maybe Short thought the best chance to beat Kasparov was to play aggressively and take the game to him. He got beaten soundly, but he did go down swinging, I'll give him that....He played attacking chess and there were a lot of very interesting games that match |
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| Helios727: <technical draw> Maybe you could have them switch sides of the table after move 25, but to simply flip the board around would be wrong. |
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| The Rocket: "I think Federer is like 14-1 against Roddick. "
Federer is 15-2... but in exhibition matches they are like 3-3 or even 4-3 to roddick now... I think it was something like that. Roddicks forehand has gotten really weak since I woould say a bit after australian open 2005... earlier you would see him still stay far behind the baseline and just smash inside out forehand winners! like in 2004 masters cup I saw him for the first time and we was smashing forehand winner frequently... now we just see aloth of topspinn balls from his forehand like against djokovic that arent really that agressive or fast as they used to be. |
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| Tessie Tura: Nothing against Roddick, but exhibition scores don’t mean anything. Roddick beat Federer in the Kooyong Classic exhibition final in 2007 and then Federer promptly thwacked him in the Australian Open semi that followed. <Joshka> I haven’t come across anything more than passing comments about that epochal San Diego tourney, unfortunately. I think Frank Brady mentions it in his book, but doesn’t say much about it except that Fischer didn’t win. <In the past US Open Roddick started making fun of Djokovic calling the trainer so often during matches, so Djokovic spanked him...Next time, he should keep his wisecracks to himself.> I don’t think there was any malice intended on Roddick’s part. And it really isn’t good form for Djokovic to talk constantly about his aches and pains, and he does an awful lot of that. |
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| Sep-13-08 |
| lamont: mes enfants:
all this fatiguing droning on re great
tennis players & their records
--domestic & foreign--
& not one of you includes
any discussion of
significant length to
the great women players of tennis
...there are great players w/ yings
as well as yangs...
ERGO
like we sez in deepest b/klyn
lemme attempt to combust a fire under
yr collective hard male fundaments by positing
this heuristic question:
how many players
of the testicular persuasion
hv/ beaten
Martina/s grand total of singles +
doubles slam wins ??
...answers to be turned in monday, grasshoppers
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