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Bionic Poster
Well what do you know. Federer surprises everyone and somehow manages to reach the 3rd round.
He's here Bernie. He's coming to get you.
He's here Bernie. He's coming to get you.
Well what do you know. Federer surprises everyone and somehow manages to reach the 3rd round.
He's here Bernie. He's coming to get you.
I want Fed to shut Tomic up, don't like Tomics nonsense at all.
Bernie has too much power for Federer. roger's finesse game won't work against tomic. and tomic is in better form with Sidney win
Do we really need two threads for this match?
Use batz's....
mines was first, bro
Tomic had trouble against Brands today, Federer was on fire beating Davydenko today. 3 sets for Federer. 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
I don't know what you were watching, but he was far from "on fire" against Davydenko...
Federer was serving great and hit a total of 42 winners. Yes he also hit almost as many unforced errors but that was because Davydenko was exchanging bullets with him, it's normal to get a lot of unforced errors when they were hitting with that pace. The regular Federer would have lost a set against the Davydenko that was playing today.
Ha ha. I love people's assessments of matches here - it is a good insight into how much/little they really watch or understand tennis.
Davydenko was hitting bullet groundstrokes compared to Ryan Harrison on average. If you can't tell that much - especially by how often Federer was majorly rushed, as Davydenko is renown for doing to opponents - having watched both matches then I don't know what on earth you were watching while the tennis was on.
Davydenko from yesterday would have beaten Harrison hands-down. His ability to take the ball early and change direction with his groundies would have had Harrison tied in knots. Davydenko has excellent court craft compared to most of the young guns. Find a video of him thrashing Ferrer at Doha the other week for a demonstration of his skills.
This will be a great match, one of the big ego's will be put in his place and it'll be so satisfying to see.
Im going for federer in 4 relatively close sets.
If Federer wins in "4 relatively close sets", Tomic's ego will only go uptown. It needs to be a straight-set beat-down.
Ok fair point, i hope federer wins 7-6 6-7 6-1 6-0. Better?
Tomic will be lucky to win 5 games.
Federer will hit 35 winners by Tomic. Tomic is the slowest player in the top 100 now Soderling's gone, and the weakest server along with Dudi Sela.
I stand by this prediction.
Do you see that Tomic actually plays more old-school tennis than Fed does?
He hits pretty flat if that is what you mean
After some of Federer's shots in the first set I am going to hazard a guess he's got a thigh/lower back strain of some kind. He was lunging at the last moment on quite a few forehands. Sure, Tomic hits flatter than most so they skid through a bit quicker but Federer was way too late on a fair few.[...]