TennisInPleasanton
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Just watched the closed-roof Wimbledon special on TV and was wondering throughout the three one-set matches played who would benefit the most from a closed-roof Wimbledon Final.
Who would benefit from a closed-roof Wimbledon Final the most?
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crazylevity
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Nalbandian. If he makes the final. The roof will fool him into thinking it's indoor carpet, and godly Nalbandian will show up.
Warriorroger
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LOL, right!
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the people in the stands.. those guys that pay to watch?
ps: ooops. rhino beat me to the joke!
ps: ooops. rhino beat me to the joke!
manny pacquiao P4P king
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nalbandian is overrated
Federer more than Nadal.. and since I think these two will make the final, I would say Federer. nadal is great with wind and stuff. I think that's key for Federer. Nadal has a huge margin for error so can play with wind. Fed a little less. On the other side, the court does get a little wet from a few drops of rain every day, which makes it obviously faster, which would favour Fed, and in that way it will favour Nadal. It will be close again
To add to this, with the roof closed, the humidity will be higher, making the grass faster and slicker with lower bounces. Advantage Fed.
batz
G.O.A.T.
Sorry - this is incorrect. One of the reasons the roof took so long to implement was the time it took to develop the 'all-singing all-dancing' climate control system, specifically designed to keep the humidity down and the grass dry.
batz
G.O.A.T.
JWT would be strong under the roof - but is he likely to be playing on centre?
shadows
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batz
G.O.A.T.
charliefedererer
Legend
FINAL VERDICT: The roof will give us the best possible chance of letting these fantastic player's skills be on display.
EYE WITNESS EVIDENCE:
Who wants to see second rate performances like the wind swept Indian Wells final of Nadal-Murray?
Who wants to see long rain delays or slippery court conditions on grass? (Yesterday's FO final never could have continued in London.)
Who wants to have failing light a factor in match outcome? (Yeah, Andy Roddick is such a whiner that any point he had about having to play in the twilight against Monfils was lost, but c'mon, Edisons invention of the lightbulb is not exactly high tech.)
Scineram recently posted Nadal had to play all 5 days before the 2007 final; hopefully this will be something no future player will have to endure.
That all being said, the roof would probably help Federer more in a head to head competion against Rafa, as Roger has long maintained that indoor courts are well suited his game that relies on precision with more winners and aces in his tallies. Certainly he already has more than enough problems timing his 1HBH against Nadal's high spinning groundstrokes even when the weather is good. Rog has the bigger serve, a weapon that is easier to control indoors. And despite Fed being in great shape, I would think rain delays forcing more play on consecutive days at the end of the second week would favor the almost unbelievable play that Nadal has exhibited so often, most recently at the AO (though seemingly absent in Madrid where he had to play the very next day). (Although this recent additional news about his knee is disturbing, but hard to know how really serious it is yet.)
EYE WITNESS EVIDENCE:
Who wants to see second rate performances like the wind swept Indian Wells final of Nadal-Murray?
Who wants to see long rain delays or slippery court conditions on grass? (Yesterday's FO final never could have continued in London.)
Who wants to have failing light a factor in match outcome? (Yeah, Andy Roddick is such a whiner that any point he had about having to play in the twilight against Monfils was lost, but c'mon, Edisons invention of the lightbulb is not exactly high tech.)
Scineram recently posted Nadal had to play all 5 days before the 2007 final; hopefully this will be something no future player will have to endure.
That all being said, the roof would probably help Federer more in a head to head competion against Rafa, as Roger has long maintained that indoor courts are well suited his game that relies on precision with more winners and aces in his tallies. Certainly he already has more than enough problems timing his 1HBH against Nadal's high spinning groundstrokes even when the weather is good. Rog has the bigger serve, a weapon that is easier to control indoors. And despite Fed being in great shape, I would think rain delays forcing more play on consecutive days at the end of the second week would favor the almost unbelievable play that Nadal has exhibited so often, most recently at the AO (though seemingly absent in Madrid where he had to play the very next day). (Although this recent additional news about his knee is disturbing, but hard to know how really serious it is yet.)
AAAA
Hall of Fame
Regarding the humidity concern I think Wimbledon hadn't installed a roof until now on centre court due to reasons of cost, necessity(TV contracts?) and technology, the technology to create a microclimate which wouldn't cause dew to develop on the grass. We'll find out very soon.
That said Henman and Agassi said it played fine no problems in the recent 'roof public unveiling' exhibition matches.
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