Au Revoir Roland Garros, Welcome Wimbledon!

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Au Revoir Roland Garros, Welcome Wimbledon!

Postby Emiliano on Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:10 am

This year's Roland Garros was pretty exciting. Nadal took it for the 4th consecutive year beating Roger Federer for the 3rd consecutive year as well. Although Rafa's win was quite dominating (Nadal won 6-1 6-3 6-0) both players had a great tournament. Pretty disappointed with our Argentinian players since the clay surface is where we excel. Oh well...at least our up and coming young players like Schwank did a decent job!

Anyways, clay court season is officially over! Now, grass here we come. This year's Wimbledon is looking to be a really good one. Federer's dominance in Wimbledon ( 5 straight years as champion and still going...) in my opinion won't stop this year, specially with the motivation of coming so close yet again to winning Roland Garros against his long time rival! Grass courts are the quickest tennis surface so expect the hard-hitters to really flourish at Wimbledon. Hopefully Nalbandian does a good job again like he has done in the past!

Any tennis fans here? What are your thoughts about this year's Roland Garros and the upcoming Wimbledon tournament?
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Postby Drex on Mon Jun 09, 2008 10:16 am

Grass is for cows.






:lol:

It's Federer's tournament to lose, IMO.
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Postby Emiliano on Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:08 am

Drex wrote:Grass is for cows.


Or big Bob Marley fans...ahemp...me...ahemp... :wink:

I expect Federer to dominate, unless he starts to make the thousands of errors he made today against Nadal...unbelievable...
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Postby GoHornets on Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:12 am

I would like to know who's better, Federer playing on grass or Nadal playing on clay courts.
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Postby Emiliano on Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:42 am

That is really really though to answer. Federer won the last five Wimbledon tournaments and( Nadal had) the biggest winning streaks on their respective surfaces. They are both freaks of nature :shock: I would say Federer is more of a rounded player than Nadal since he is the best grass court player and the second best clay court player. However, Nadal is a master at clay but there are plenty of other that are better than him on grass. He is getting better at it though so Roger should be scared
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Postby L10 on Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:05 pm

Guys cant you remember last year exhibition game "battle of surfaces". Nadal won it :lol: Hope that can answer sth, anyway i know that match was a shit.
ps: btw i love tennis, hope to see nalbi making a good tournament (Y)
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Postby Emiliano on Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:39 pm

Wimbledon starts tomorrow! hahaha, I highly doubt anybody cares in this forum.

......I'll leave now.......
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Postby Fresh8 on Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:33 am

I'm hoping Safin can cause Fed some troubles in the Semis if they meet... but I don't see it happening unfortunately. :(
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Postby L10 on Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:42 am

In my opinion Ancic can cause more troubles than Marat not only because he was the last player to beat Federer at Wimbledon... i think Safin can have one of his bad days and play like shit :mrgreen:
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Postby LegoTP on Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:18 am

Heh well Marat and Roger will face off in the semis, it's gonna be a nice game :)
Still I'm expecting a good win this year again for Federer. Nadal reached a high level on grass though.
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Postby L10 on Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:27 am

Well another Roger-Rafa final !! Hope to see Federer reaching his 6th title here and his 13th Grand Slam title :P
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Postby Emiliano on Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:27 pm

It's actually so surprising how dominating Nadal is in this tournament as well as Roger. Everybody knew Federer was gonna cruise to the final but Nadal has not only reached his third straight Wimbledon final but I believe that it is the first time he looked so comfortable and confident out there! It's gonna be a pretty exciting Sunday (Y)
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Postby Drex on Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:11 pm

Exciting like a Roland Garros final?
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Postby BIG GREEN on Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:18 am

This is nadal's year...I garun-fucking-tee that federer is going down this year
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Postby Emiliano on Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:16 pm

Drex wrote:Exciting like a Roland Garros final?

That final was just so lopsided that it lost it's excitement from the get-go.

This is on grass. You never know what might happen.
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Postby shadowgrin on Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:15 pm

Grass always makes things more interesting. ;)
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Postby Patr1ck on Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:51 am

shadowgrin wrote:Grass always makes things more interesting. ;)


You've never smoked clay, have you?

Edit - Wow, I can't believe Federer came back and won that fourth set. Nadal had momentum and was going to break Roger's serve during a Deuce and they are now in a rain delay.

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And it's official. Great match.
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Postby ixcuincle on Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:18 am

Congrats to Nadal. That was a great match , shame I missed the sets after the first 2.
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Postby L10 on Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:13 am

Im so sad. Just hope to see Federer wining the US Open.
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Postby Jing on Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:54 am

So Nadal won? Congrats, if it was down to one of the two it'd be Nadal.
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Postby Drex on Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:09 am

What a great match (Y)
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Postby Emiliano on Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:53 pm

I feel the same way! Very exciting match! It was the longest Wimbledon final ever and how can it be any better with the two greatest tennis players of today. Amazing match, congrats Rafa (Y) (Y) (Y)
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Postby GoHornets on Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:32 am

Please stop Nadal. I'm getting tyred of watching him winning every single tournament... and he's only 22!
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Postby shadowgrin on Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:37 pm

"Please stop Nadal"

Hell no. I got tired of watching Federer win, it's time for him to go down. :twisted:
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Postby L10 on Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:41 am

shadowgrin wrote:"Please stop Nadal"

Hell no. I got tired of watching Federer win, it's time for him to go down. :twisted:

yeah probably yes
i love roger but i think he has to go down some day
its nice to see rafa and novak fighting up there but im just expecting to see federer getting 15 grand slams titles so then he can be consider the best player of tenis history with doubting about it.
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