Get rid of the Madrid Masters! - Page 2

Li Ching Yuen · 05-09-2012, 07:28 AM

Yes cancel Madrid and have Monte Carlo twice during the season.

It makes perfect sense to me.

Mainad · 05-09-2012, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by DjokovicForTheWin

Why keep any of the Master's???? Just go back to the good old days of super 9, etc, etc.

Not sure if you were being tongue-in-cheek (no smilies) but the 9 Masters tournaments ARE the old Super 9. They were just renamed.

From Wiki:

"The series was introduced in 1990 with the inception of the ATP Tour by bringing together the nine most prestigious tournaments of the Grand Prix Tour Championship Series (1970–1989). The events were originally known as "Championship Series, Single Week". From 1993 through 1999, the series was known as the Mercedes-Benz Super 9. In 2000, the name was changed to the Tennis Masters Series (TMS) and then changed to ATP Masters Series in 2004. The present name took effect in 2009."

Gorecki · 05-09-2012, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Blinkism

Feeling blue, Gorecki?

Never. i adopted the Nadal fans strategy and i never get blue these days. i look at a Nadal sweaty photo and either i look happy or with a gun im my pocket!!

however, i do see that you still have not lost the good old Canadian sense of humour.

after all, how can one lose what one never had?

Bartelby · 05-09-2012, 07:56 AM

Gorecki's writing in invisible ink now!

Bartelby · 05-09-2012, 07:57 AM

Gorecki's writing in invisible ink now!

Benhur · 05-09-2012, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Bartelby

All I can say is that the Blue Clay is bigger than Ben Hur.

As a galley slave, Ben Hur pulled the oar in the big blue sea until he collapsed of exhaustion. Tiriac pulls shady strings to create little carnival shows with blue powder.

DjokovicForTheWin · 05-09-2012, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Mainad

Not sure if you were being tongue-in-cheek (no smilies) but the 9 Masters tournaments ARE the old Super 9. They were just renamed.

From Wiki:

"The series was introduced in 1990 with the inception of the ATP Tour by bringing together the nine most prestigious tournaments of the Grand Prix Tour Championship Series (1970–1989). The events were originally known as "Championship Series, Single Week". From 1993 through 1999, the series was known as the Mercedes-Benz Super 9. In 2000, the name was changed to the Tennis Masters Series (TMS) and then changed to ATP Masters Series in 2004. The present name took effect in 2009."

Yup, which is why Lendl is the Master's leader, not Nadal.

NadalAgassi · 05-09-2012, 08:14 AM

I dont know why anything was changed. Monte Carlo, Rome and Hamburg as the 3 Masters events had worked beautifully for years.

Gorecki · 05-09-2012, 08:15 AM

bartelby said invisible

Magnetite · 05-09-2012, 08:34 AM

It's clay and it's in spain, so they should pretty much do whatever Nadal says to prepare him for Roland Garros ..

marc45 · 05-09-2012, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Evan77

lol at that Chuck Norris comment. Novak is hilarious, hahaha

i was impressed, i know novak is an aware guy, but how in the hell does he know chuck norris, does serbia get reruns of his old tv show?

marc45 · 05-09-2012, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Li Ching Yuen

Yes cancel Madrid and have Monte Carlo twice during the season.

It makes perfect sense to me.

agreed, you can't get enough beauty in your life

Moose Malloy · 05-09-2012, 08:49 AM

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i was impressed, i know novak is an aware guy, but how in the hell does he know chuck norris, does serbia get reruns of his old tv show

Novak is in Expendables 2. Chuck is in Expendables 2. Doubtful Novak has ever seen anything with Chuck(that goes for most people in his age range I imagine)

Evan77 · 05-09-2012, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Moose Malloy

Novak is in Expendables 2. Chuck is in Expendables 2. Doubtful Novak has ever seen anything with Chuck(that goes for most people in his age range I imagine)

get your point, but he is a smart cookie ... very intelligent guy ... now, listen, I love old movies (although I'm not that young), so who knows?

Tennishacker · 05-09-2012, 09:10 AM

Thou I prefer the "red" clay, I like the fact that they are trying new things to make the game more exciting.

coloskier · 05-10-2012, 12:14 PM

Obviously Tiriac is NOT a Nadaltard.

Marius_Hancu · 05-10-2012, 12:25 PM

Great to have a tournament surface that forces Federer to play S-V to win. That's the great Federer, the complete one. Great to have a tournament surface that for once is faster.

Tiriac is obviously a builder. He was such in Germany for two decades, and is still so in Spain.

Others would like to be destroyers.

SLD76 · 05-10-2012, 12:57 PM

the butthurt is strong in this thread.

vintage stuff.

05-10-2012, 01:03 PM

this is awful. simply awful. And Spain in a depression. Sad.

JustBob · 05-10-2012, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by decades

this is awful. simply awful. And Spain in a depression. Sad.

Spain has a way to go to get back in the red.

05-09-2012, 07:28 AM	#21
Li Ching Yuen Legend Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 6,181	Yes cancel Madrid and have Monte Carlo twice during the season. It makes perfect sense to me. __________________ You have to wonder... The guy who discovered milk, what was he doing to that cow in the first place?

05-09-2012, 08:14 AM	#28
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05-09-2012, 08:15 AM	#29
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Marius_Hancu G.O.A.T. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 15,002	Great to have a tournament surface that forces Federer to play S-V to win. That's the great Federer, the complete one. Great to have a tournament surface that for once is faster. Tiriac is obviously a builder. He was such in Germany for two decades, and is still so in Spain. Others would like to be destroyers. __________________ Great fitness sites http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=15571 "Simon and Hiroko": My Novels on Amazon Last edited by Marius_Hancu : 05-10-2012 at 12:29 PM.

05-10-2012, 12:57 PM	#38
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