Actually, the Olympics is very different from a regular tour tournament. On the tour, if you win the doubles you get less prize money and a different (usually smaller) trophy than the singles. At the Olympics, you get the same prize money (zero) and the same gold medal and the same pride and recognition for your country.
What are you talking about? I've been watching a lot of the doubles (as well as the singles) ALL ONLINE! The first and ONLY live tennis they have shown on any channel on TV was the Nadal-Djokovic semi, and I had to go to MSNBC to see it. Before that, there was very little tennis shown at all on TV, and only bits and pieces on tape, no complete matches and NONE live.Yeah that is why we haven't seen one match in doubles the whole Olympics. Yes I'm sure it means just as much as Singles or Michael Phelps Medals.
Is a gold medal in the 100M butterfly more "prestigious" than a gold medal in the 100M freestyle? A gold medal means you beat everyone else and you're better than everyone else.Federer fans now reduced to arguing that a doubles win is as prestigious (or meaningful) as a singles win :shock: This is so unreal I have to pinch myself
Who said? Have you asked everyone in the world who has ever played tennis? :roll:
You remember who won the gold in singles at the last Olympics? I do. I even remember when Agassi won it. Do you remember who won the doubles? Frankly I don't and I doubt you'll find many people who will. It's good for the country and for the athletes themselves but you can't be serious saying the impact between doubles and singles wins is no different...
Gonzalez and Massu won the gold in doubles at the last Olympics. I do remember it.
Federer fans now reduced to arguing that a doubles win is as prestigious (or meaningful) as a singles win :shock: This is so unreal I have to pinch myself
Roger looks more pumped up in doubles! Oh Roger are you going to leave singles to focus on doubles like Navratilova?
Federer has proven himself a million times as a singles player at the most important singles events in tennis. He is already considered the greatest singles player ever by many, at the age of only 27. To have a gold medal in singles, as opposed to doubles, would be a more important achievement for someone who had not done well in the Slams, like Massu or Gonzalez, but not Federer. A doubles gold demonstrates his consummate skill and versatility as a tennis player. The guy's talent is complete. Some singles players cannot play doubles well and some doubles players cannot play singles well. Federer can do both at the highest possible level. A doubles gold just confirms his completeness.
And singles is mainly for players who can't play doubles...that's why Nadal lost in the 2nd round, and Djokovic and Blake both lost in the 1st round.
Chill. She didn't say anything bad about Federer at all.Just becoz he lost in singles does not mean he is not focused!!! r u capable of posting comments tht make any sense at all?? or r u u so in love with rafa tht u will type anything to make fed look bad?
get a life and stop dreaming abt rafa all the time! lol
Thanks for letting me know that but i'm not interested in a relationship...
So I guess we can call Michael Phelps a complete and utter failure then since he didn't win the gold in the 100M freestyle? :-?
Agassi is only remembered because he's arguably the most famous, well-known, and popular tennis player (and one of the most famous sports persons in general) in history, and also because he won in Atlanta, inside the U.S. Do you remember who won the singles gold medals in 1988, 1992, and 2000 without looking it up?
What are you trying to achieve? Nothing. I just like to discuss the sport I love. Unfortunately, *******s make Fed legendary for a doubles title.
I'm 25 and I got bad shoulders and knees. I would love to play tennis like I used to but that is not an option anymore. I take out my hostility out on this site occasionally as well as the excitement of Nadal proving you haters wrong. I wouldn't know what to say to Nadal if I met him but I'm still a big fan.
Not everyone is built the same. The fact I was never that strong didn't help my causes. It made my tendons more vulnerable to injury. Too bad I didn't think about this earlier.
You don't love the sport. Geez...you barely even play it. You just love Nadal. Period.What are you trying to achieve? Nothing. I just like to discuss the sport I love. Unfortunately, *******s make Fed legendary for a doubles title.
Geez...you'd better stop trying to play like Nadal then. Bad shoulders and knees at the young age of only 25? I'm more than two decades older than you and I have no problems at all with my shoulders nor knees and I've been playing on hard courts all of my life. Better learn to serve and volley, kid.
Yes, equal in worth to the person who won it and to the country they're from. Not how many people remember who won it years later. That was your point, not mine. You brought up Agassi, not me. If some much lesser known player won the gold in singles in 1996, I doubt you would have remembered who is was today. Like I said, I doubt you remember who won the singles gold medals in 1988, 1992, and 2000 without looking it up. So it's not a matter of if it was in singles or doubles. It's a matter of who won it.
