Nadal: Indoor tennis is not real tennis

[NDFM]

Originally Posted by The Bawss

The consensus? You mean THE TRUTH!

Any evidence to suggest that this is the truth????

[Mike Sams]

Originally Posted by NDFM

It's a conspiracy I say

Nadal's playing up his injury. When Federer won Wimbledon and got to 17, Nadal probably lost more confidence thinking "This guy is 31 and still winning Masters and Slams and yet I'm 5 years younger and losing to a guy ranked 100!"

[RF20Lennon]

Originally Posted by Mike Sams

Nadal's playing up his injury. When Federer won Wimbledon and got to 17, Nadal probably lost more confidence thinking "This guy is 31 and still winning Masters and Slams and yet I'm 5 years younger and losing to a guy ranked 100!"

LOL^^^^ true that!!!

[Clarky21]

Originally Posted by NDFM

Did nadal actually say indoor tennis isn't real tennis? Not sure about that. When he said (referring to Rosol) they didnt play real tennis maybe he was talking about the power in which rosol was playing with, it was just out of this world (in the fifth set). Well that's what i'm getting from that statement not what the title of this thread suggests

No,he did not.


And I think what he meant with the Rosol comment was it was a serve fest,and that there really was no actual tennis involved. Fed has said something very similar about Karlovic after he lost to him. Funny there was no faux outrage about that.

[Rocky89]

Originally Posted by NDFM

Did nadal actually say indoor tennis isn't real tennis? Not sure about that. When he said (referring to Rosol) they didnt play real tennis maybe he was talking about the power in which rosol was playing with, it was just out of this world (in the fifth set). Well that's what i'm getting from that statement not what the title of this thread suggests

Nope he never said that, that was added by the paper.

[Clarky21]

Originally Posted by RF20Lennon

LOL^^^^ true that!!!

Not even close,and Mike Shams comment was ridiculous.

[NDFM]

Originally Posted by Mike Sams

Nadal's playing up his injury. When Federer won Wimbledon and got to 17, Nadal probably lost more confidence thinking "This guy is 31 and still winning Masters and Slams and yet I'm 5 years younger and losing to a guy ranked 100!"

Yeah that was probably his thoughts...or maybe he has respect for federer's achievements just as federer has respect for nadal's achievements. Why can't federer and nadal fans just get along, I don't understand this.

I am a fan of both players, they really strengthened my interest in tennis, I've been looking at these forums for a while and the hate fans of either players throw at each other is shocking. Federer is the best tennis player no doubt about that but some federer fans are so quick to belittle nadal's achievements or rejoice when he is down and out. Yep nadal lost to Lukas Rosol who was ranked world no.100 at the time but lets not act as if he got straight setted it took rosol five sets to take nadal out, the fifth set was just something else I have never seen such power from one player in this day and age not sure if we will see that again for sometime, rosol deserved that win, he played great. Yet some fans are quick to bring up the loss even if it isn't related to anything at all.

[Rocky89]

Originally Posted by Clarky21

No,he did not.


And I think what he meant with the Rosol comment was it was a serve fest,and that there really was no actual tennis involved. Fed has said something very similar about Karlovic after he lost to him. Funny there was no faux outrage about that.

Lol Clarky we are so in sync

And yes agreed with everything you said.

[Sid_Vicious]

Originally Posted by Clarky21

No,he did not.


And I think what he meant with the Rosol comment was it was a serve fest,and that there really was no actual tennis involved. Fed has said something very similar about Karlovic after he lost to him. Funny there was no faux outrage about that.

That makes no sense at all. It was not a serve fest. Rosol served and hit Nadal off the court at Wimbledon. Just like Federer did last year against Tsonga.

Nadal had no answers in that last set. If it was a serve fest, Nadal would not have gotten broken in the brutal fashion he did.

[RF20Lennon]

Originally Posted by Clarky21

Not even close,and Mike Shams comment was ridiculous.

It's called a joke

[NDFM]

Originally Posted by Sid_Vicious

That makes no sense at all. It was not a serve fest. Rosol served and hit Nadal off the court at Wimbledon. Just like Federer did last year against Tsonga.

Nadal had no answers in that last set. If it was a serve fest, Nadal would have gotten broken in the brutal fashion he did.

He hit 19 aces in the match if I am wrong which he rarely does in his matches. It wasn't enough though Rosol just proved to be too strong in that fifth set

[RF20Lennon]

Originally Posted by NDFM

He hit 19 aces in the match if I am wrong which he rarely does in his matches. It wasn't enough though Rosol just proved to be too strong in that fifth set

There were rallies nadal just got outhit and in the 90's it was usually servefests so that's not tennis??

[Clarky21]

Originally Posted by RF20Lennon

There were rallies nadal just got outhit and in the 90's it was usually servefests so that's not tennis??

Do you think clay tennis is real tennis? Ask some of your brethren on here(Whiskee,Monfed,Magnus,Drakulie,etc...)if they do,and watch the bile just spew out from the likes of them.

[Sim]

Originally Posted by RF20Lennon

There were rallies nadal just got outhit and in the 90's it was usually servefests so that's not tennis??

This. Nadal could not defend against Rosol's laser like hitting in that match.

[NDFM]

Originally Posted by RF20Lennon

There were rallies nadal just got outhit and in the 90's it was usually servefests so that's not tennis??

To be honest I prefer matches were there is a balance so its not just all serve or just all rallies (if that makes sense). 90s tennis was great, I do try to find some on Youtube when I have the time becuase it seem so different to the tennis of today but I appreciate the tennis we have now.

Rosol played the match of his life there was nothing nadal could do about that. He got outhit due to the many short balls he left on the court and right into rosol's strike zone and also the belief Rosol had in his own game that day. Many say this loss is the most embarrassing loss nadal has had, to me the only embarrassing thing was Rosol's ranking other than that he played as if he was in the Top 10 so as a fan I'm not to dissappointed.

[mistik]

Originally Posted by Clarky21

Do you think clay tennis is real tennis? Ask some of your brethren on here(Whiskee,Monfed,Magnus,Drakulie,etc...)if they do,and watch the bile just spew out from the likes of them.

Some stupid posters think clay isnt real tennis and ı can say hard courts isnt real.Who cares ??? Player saying this stuff is something different.I still think he didnt say it though.

[merlinpinpin]

Originally Posted by RF20Lennon

There were rallies nadal just got outhit and in the 90's it was usually servefests so that's not tennis??

Well, Nadal *has* said that the way they played in the 90's was not really tennis, so at least, that would be consistent.

[RF20Lennon]

Originally Posted by merlinpinpin

Well, Nadal *has* said that the way they played in the 90's was not really tennis, so at least, that would be consistent.

LOL!! Yes that's true!!!

[Sid_Vicious]

Originally Posted by merlinpinpin

Well, Nadal *has* said that the way they played in the 90's was not really tennis, so at least, that would be consistent.

Weren't those comments taken out of context or were the product of poor spanish to english translation?I believe Nadal said that he did not find that Sampras vs Ivanisevic match at Wimbledon to be entertaining. I don't think he said that it was not really tennis.

[kalyan4fedever]

Cutting off the indoor segment from the comment also does not make it any better. The comment itself is annoying to say the least what a worthless comment, give some credit to the guy who beat you.