*Official* Tennis Thread

[vic_orthdox]

haha yeh, poor bloke is doing it tough trying to become a professional golfer now isnt he???

"You call this a fairway? It is more like a potato patch. You can't play on this"

Plays poker too.

"I don't play for this sort of money. It's not worth it; see the tournament in Nevada? The pot there is much bigger, we should have the same"

 

[Jono]

Russians are always the best characters in tennis.

 

[masterblaster]

Mahesh Bhupati and Sania Mirza have won the Mixed Doubles Australian Open Title!

Top effort by both of them and well deserved too. I hope they keep raising the profile of Tennis in India and I hope more people in India take up the game.

 

[duffer]

Mahesh Bhupati and Sania Mirza have won the Mixed Doubles Australian Open Title!

Top effort by both of them and well deserved too. I hope they keep raising the profile of Tennis in India and I hope more people in India take up the game.

ohmigod!

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

****ing BCTI ruining tennis...

Just getting in early.

 

[duffer]

Very good.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

****ing BCTI ruining tennis...

Just getting in early.

Wouldn't it be BTCI?

 

[duffer]

Board of Control for Tennis in India.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Thought it was Board for Cricket Control in India tbh, guess I was wrong.

 

[inbox24]

Hoping for an epic 5 setter to make up for the direness in the cricket.

 

[vogue]

I enjoyed many women's matches throughout the tournament but yeah the final was an absolute shalacking. This is why women shouldn't be paid the same as men in Grand Slams.

I can understand the prize money being equal in the other tournaments where both ***es play 3 setters though.

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I wouldn't envy the person sitting through a five-set Women's match at the French, though.

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...agree with both sentiments here...think I said nearly same somewhere before in the thread.....anyways, really hoping for a good game today....managed to miss the Verdasco match(..)...........Nadal to win cos however much I admire Federers game....I love to watch Nadal,who just seems that little more passionate about winning...would like it to be a 5 setter....

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Rubbish final thus far.

 

[pasag]

Some amazing games, though Fed's looked pretty nervous and all over the place for a lot of it. Looks a completely different player from the last two matches.

 

[vogue]

So Nadal takes the first set...Federer not playing his best and making some mistakes...

lets hope he ups his game in the second..

 

[Magrat Garlick]

55 % first serve and about a third unforced errors.

Up your game chaps.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hopp Schwyz, hopp Roger

 

[Dydl]

2nd set to Federer. Should be a good match now that he's playing better.

 

[vogue]

...One set all and some decent tennis....

 

[ohtani's jacket]

I have no idea why Nadal spooks Federer so much. Thank God he salvaged this set, otherwise it was heading for another French Open style match.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

*stolen from Eurosport commentators*

Federer's backhand isn't much cop - can't hit many winners with a one-handed - and as a leftie Nadal is much better placed to aim at his backhand. Plus that Nadal runs up 80 % of his forehand winners.