Is anyone surprised at the lack of attention Federer has gotten at Wimbledon this year considering he's won it 8 times and played 20 consecutive years

Twins2020

Twins2020

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I am from the United States and ESPN is the coverage we get. I just am surprised Chris Fowler, John Mcenroe, Patrick Mcenroe and the other commentators have not discussed his absence. I was just basically wondering if it's the same in other countries or are they bringing him up more?
 
Rorano_Fedalovic

Rorano_Fedalovic

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clayqueen said:
Has Federer retired? When Rafa is sidelined with injury they can't stop talking about him at every tournament. They find an excuse to mention him in just about every match. Not so Federer.
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Nadal was never absent for more than a year, Sherlock.

I'll give you a hint; remember 2017. both won 2 slams. do a quick google search and see who got more attention during that year.

now realize 1+1 = 2, or in other words, the reason Roger is not hot news is because Rafa has the slam lead, a possible CYGS ahead of him and is thus the cow that needs to be milked. now.

edit: my post re Rafa's retirement had nothing to do with Roger; I just hope the day rafa retires you will finally shut it for good on these forums. because, you know, out of sight, out of mind.
 
clayqueen

clayqueen

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Rorano_Fedalovic said:
Nadal was never absent for more than a year, Sherlock.

I'll give you a hint; remember 2017. both won 2 slams. do a quick google search and see who got more attention during that year.

now realize 1+1 = 2, or in other words, the reason Roger is not hot news is because Rafa has the slam lead, a possible CYGS ahead of him and is thus the cow that needs to be milked. now.

edit: my post re Rafa's retirement had nothing to do with Roger; I just hope the day rafa retires you will finally shut it for good on these forums. because, you know, out of sight, out of mind.
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They didn't have to wait until Raf had been absent for a year before they started talking about him. Roger has not been mentioned since his absence after Wimbledon last year. As for me shutting it on TTW when Rafa retires it's highly likely that will be the case. I may stick around just to make sure his legacy remains intact.
 
Rorano_Fedalovic

Rorano_Fedalovic

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clayqueen said:
They didn't have to wait until Raf had been absent for a year before they started talking about him. Roger has not been mentioned since his absence after Wimbledon last year. As for me shutting it on TTW when Rafa retires is highly likely that will be the case.
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lol Roger has been like 50% of the talk the 2nd half of last years season, besides Novak and Medvedev. selective memory much no?
 
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Slicehand

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There are matches going on, how should we be talking about whats not going on?
 
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Slicehand

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clayqueen said:
Rain has stopped play until 1.00 pm BST when the 1st match on court #1 starts.
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I saw that matches were being delayed, i checked weather in london and i saw no rain, so i tought it was being delayed because some matches that werent played yesterday needed to be played today
 
clayqueen

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Slicehand said:
I saw that matches were being delayed, i checked weather in london and i saw no rain, so i tought it was being delayed because some matches that werent played yesterday needed to be played today
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They are busy showing replays of British players now they are showing the replay of Gauff.
 
Russeljones

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clayqueen said:
Anything in this advert that remotely resembles the truth is a coincidence.
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The way I like to think of this ad is like the debate, back in the day, of which bird best represented the Independent United States of America. As you know, the turkey just barely lost out to the bald eagle. This ad just barely lost out to the Rolex ads we see on TV.
 
clayqueen

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Slicehand said:
Amazing, i dont have time for that, damn british pride
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They've had Leon Smith the captain of the British DC team in the studio waxing lyrical about how British tennis has arrived, look how many are in the 3rd round. What really annoys me is that during Wimbledon, many great players come and go and are never seen playing or mentioned. I've never liked this about the BBC coverage; it's too parochial. This is a world event it's not a British home tournament.

I cringe when they say the British #4 is playing the world #34 when the Brirish #4 is actually ranked world #78.
 
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Slicehand

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clayqueen said:
They've had Liam Payne the captain of the British DC team in the studio waxing lyrical about how British tennis has arrived, look how many are in the 3rd round. What really annoys me is that during Wimbledon, many great players come and go and are never seen playing or mentioned. I've never liked this about the BBC coverage; it's too parochial. This is a world event it's not a British home tournament.

I cringe when they say the British #4 is playing the world #34 when the Brirish #4 is actually ranked world #78.
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Jajaja yeah its quite cringy, well as these players are being eliminated we ll get less of that i guess, i can only watch it on bbc iplayer and with a VPN, since im watching from spain and its not allowed to be watched outside UK
 
MichaelNadal

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Twins2020 said:
I am from the United States and ESPN is the coverage we get. I just am surprised Chris Fowler, John Mcenroe, Patrick Mcenroe and the other commentators have not discussed his absence. I was just basically wondering if it's the same in other countries or are they bringing him up more?
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What's there to say?
 
UnderratedSlam

UnderratedSlam

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How exactly do you measure this attention?

Do you have an Attentionometer or something?

Is it because when Gauff plays someone, Federer isn't mentioned by commentators every 5 minutes?
 
onyxrose81

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Twins2020 said:
I am from the United States and ESPN is the coverage we get. I just am surprised Chris Fowler, John Mcenroe, Patrick Mcenroe and the other commentators have not discussed his absence. I was just basically wondering if it's the same in other countries or are they bringing him up more?
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Why the heck would they discuss a player who’s not playing and hasn’t played for over a year? Don’t care who they are. We know what Fed is doing. It’s not relevant to the tournament.
 
Twins2020

Twins2020

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Thank you all for your thoughts on the question I posted. I guess you all are right. Why discuss a player who is almost retired?
 
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