Federer vs Paire - 2013 Rome SF

[TCG]

Both are playing like crap. Paire not letting Fed tank the match leaving no choice for Fed expect to take the set.

 

[Deleted member 77403]

Woohoo!!!!!!

The People's champ takes it. 7-6.

 

[rainingaces]

Federer likes to put his fans through it. 7-6.

 

[smoledman]

Federer in tiebreaks - he just can't lose them.

 

[Dark Magician]

hey gus my stream stopped at tie break 5-4 what happened?

 

[sportsfan1]

I don't know how Federer pulled that first set out - probably just experience. Paire was dominating him.

 

[romeo8880]

Geez Federer is lucky that Paire played like crap in that tiebreaker.

 

[Bud]

Paire had the set in his hands twice and his first serve deserted him.

 

[Say Chi Sin Lo]

Wow, do they have a pervy cameraman or what? Haha.

 

[Rozroz]

fun day tomorrow for Nadal. he probably even let's Xica or whatever her name is to give him a little BJ while he watches this circus.

 

[TennisFan3]

Fed's playing matter of factly. Almost distracted. At least he won the set.

Expecting bakery products in the second, if Fed wakes up.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Both of them being error-prone, gives me the reason to post this

 

[TheMusicLover]

Baaaaaaaad quality match so far, both far more errors than winners. Despite about the same game style as the Fed/JJ match, this is the reverse of it in terms of tennis quality.

 

[Terenigma]

That was a HUGE let off for Federer. Poor service from Paire in the TB at the wrong time and for once, Fed took his chance at the first time of asking and gets a set he could easily of lost. That will hurt Paire, can he recover from that?

 

[InspectorRacquet]

I can't see the match but I can see the score. Definitely looks up and down, but that's not news considering that's how Paire plays.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Why are they making such errors?

 

[TheMusicLover]

I can't see the match but I can see the score. Definitely looks up and down, but that's not news considering that's how Paire plays.

I think it's pretty fair to comment that Fed has had quite a contribution in making UEs as well... as I said, bad quality match so far.
Fed was lucky to chicken out that TB.

 

[WhiskeyEE]

Both are playing like crap. Paire not letting Fed tank the match leaving no choice for Fed expect to take the set.

pretty much my thoughts. fed doesn't want to play rafa on clay anymore. the h2h is surface skewed enough as it is and rafa never returns the favour.

 

[abmk]

not that good a set of tennis ... federer a bit lucky due to paire's inexperience showing...

 

[TheMusicLover]

not that good a set of tennis ... federer a bit lucky due to paire's inexperience showing...

Once again we agree.

 

[Steve0904]

Paire made a Masters SF for a reason. He's obviously a shotmaker. Nerves just let him down.

 

[Shangri La]

What's Fed wearing under his shirt? Something to support his back?

 

[Rock Strongo]

Speaking of errors, I managed to split the mayonnaise I was prepping for a test four times during or alloted prep day. With no time left to rescue it that day, I had to make it during the test the following day while stressing like crazy with my other dishes. Pulled it off, dish came together (although not the way I wanted really), and somehow passed the test.

So now I'm an educated chef...

 

[Magnus]

Fed's just thinking whether to tank or not. I guess he decided not to.

 

[-RF-]

All gone a bit pear-shaped for him :twisted:

 

[Warmaster]

Even when Federer is playing well these days he usually has 1 bad match in a tournament (for example Wimbledon '12 vs Benny). Let's hope he finds his form of the last days back if he does make the final.

If not, it will be painful to watch.

 

[TCG]

Fed will win the match and withdraws from final tomorrow citing back injury

 

[TheMusicLover]

What's Fed wearing under his shirt? Something to support his back?

I didn't want to bring it up, but yeah, Fed is wearing that undershirt again, which he wears every time he feels some kind of back trouble.

Disclaimer: this is no 'excuse' for whatever is happening - when one enters the court, one is ready to play! - but it does give some explanation on his subpar serving in this match.

 

[Say Chi Sin Lo]

Fed will win the match and withdraws from final tomorrow citing back injury

Better than Shriekapova's excuse.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Tweener time!

 

[kalyan4fedever]

Paire should be in top 10.......

 

[TennisLovaLova]

It's compression shirt.
It's kinda cold in rome at night

 

[pds999]

Fed is going to get killed tomorrow if he keeps the UE count so high like tonight. No real rhythm at all.

 

[Say Chi Sin Lo]

Federer you can't let Paire show you up like this, hit a tweener!

 

[TheMusicLover]

Hey, TWEENER!

Commentators on Dutch TV: "don't try this at home"

 

[Dark Magician]

such a sweet tweener

 

[underground]

That's it. Paire doing the tweener in front of the GOAT. He's gonna get destroyed now.

 

[W.P. Mayhew]

Speaking of errors, I managed to split the mayonnaise I was prepping for a test four times during or alloted prep day. With no time left to rescue it that day, I had to make it during the test the following day while stressing like crazy with my other dishes. Pulled it off, dish came together (although not the way I wanted really), and somehow passed the test.

So now I'm an educated chef...

Congrats!

 

[Deleted member 77403]

Federer could pull away here.

 

[Ray Mercer]

Federer is playing terrible today

 

[tennis_pro]

Federer breaks.

What a festival of unforced errors this match is. It's still weirdly enjoyable.

 

[sbengte]

Ahahahaaaa that is cheeky from Paire.

 

[TennisLovaLova]

Paire should be in top 10.......

Weak era
With the likes of ferrer, gasquet, tsonga, tipsarevic...

 

[TheMusicLover]

Pairerror!!! 2DFs in one game!

 

[Say Chi Sin Lo]

LOL, that's so messed up. Federer breaks and they proceed to air one of his commercials.

Poor Paire

 

[romeo8880]

Axel has disappeared from the thread. ROGERRRRRRR.

 

[underground]

IMO it's just another concentration problem.

Fed wanted to make a statement after losing to Nishikori so he played lights out against Starace.

He knows that Simon could be dangerous so he destroyed him.

He heard of the JJ hype so he knew what was coming and was sharp yesterday.

Now he thinks he can get a bit of a rest before playing Rafa because Paire could be a walkover, but instead he meets this in-form Frenchie and now he needs to up his game.

 

[TennisLovaLova]

Dafuq was that commercial?
Sweet spotter tennis!
Weird stuff

 

[Rock Strongo]

Congrats!

I'm still proud of the chocolate fondant. Never have I been good at desserts, and that came out absolutely perfect.

Sending it out 3 minutes before deadline made the smoke break afterwards even more satisfying.


/brag mode off

 

[Deleted member 77403]

Federer isn't serving very well today. Considering just yesterday he became only the fifth man to have served 8000 ACES in professional competition.