Istomin for the upset?
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decades
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I hope you're not a gambling man....
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TennisandMusic
Guest
If he wants to be fair he should retire after 7 games. 
Man, I'm tired of everyone becoming fans of "Nadal's opponent". Get a life people.
Man, I'm tired of everyone becoming fans of "Nadal's opponent". Get a life people.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
If he wants to be fair he should retire after 7 games.
Man, I'm tired of everyone becoming fans of "Nadal's opponent". Get a life people.
I have to agree. I'm a Rafa fan, yet I want to see Federer in the final.
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TheMagicianOfPrecision
Guest
Cakewalk for Nadal, after all its a grand slam draw
vive le beau jeu !
Talk Tennis Guru
i hope so !
djokovicgonzalez2010
G.O.A.T.
Well, honestly Istoman is basically a tougher Gabashvili, so maybe!
Fedace
Banned
Justin Side
Hall of Fame
Istomin has been a tough out in the last 2 majors. Pushed Hewitt to 5 sets before losing at the French and more impressively pushed Berdych to 5 sets at Wimbledon. He'll probably push Nadal hard for 4 or 5 sets before losing. I would guess Nadal in 4 sets.
Fearhanded
Banned
No, you get a life. There is nothing wrong with cheering for Istomin or against your god Nadal. Fans like you need to stop being so sensitive and grow pair. What is a few people cheering for istomin gonna do? Nothing is in the control of fans. I can cheer against Federer and Nadal in every freaking match and it wouldnt affect he outcome except for, maybe, irrational fanboys. lolIf he wants to be fair he should retire after 7 games.
Man, I'm tired of everyone becoming fans of "Nadal's opponent". Get a life people.
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Fedace
Banned
Istonin is a big hitter with Huge swings. He won't have time to hit the ball on this FAST US open courts. he will be late on every shot and miss hit 30% of the shot against powerful Nadal. and that new 136mph serve by Nadal will ACE him every time.
aphex
Banned
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Legend of Borg
G.O.A.T.
If he wants to be fair he should retire after 7 games.
Man, I'm tired of everyone becoming fans of "Nadal's opponent". Get a life people.
Are you going to post a video of those tweeners you pull off at your local club? I'm anxious to see it and compare it with Fed's inferior technique. Maybe the guy can learn some tricks from you.
Fearhanded
Banned
hehe, joining this forum has given me a new found self confidence in my tennis game. I now know that an amateur tennis player has a shot on the pro tour. Im quitting my job and going pro. :lol:
The-Champ
Legend
I think you should bet everything you've got, life savings, your kids college funds, the house, the car etc..
istomin for the winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
namelessone
Legend
That's what they said about gabashvili when I mentioned him as a tough first round for Rafa, he would get pulverized and so on, but if a couple of points went the other way in the tiebreaks Rafa could have been two sets down against this guy.
Istomin nearly beat Rafa on a court that favours Rafa way more than this one.
AM95
Hall of Fame
where, i missed that match?
i knew that gabashivili could trouble nadal because hes a big hitter, but Istomin is nowhere near that sort of caliber. I stand by what i said, Istomin will be lucky to get 6 games.
zasr4325
Professional
i think nameless is talking about queens this year; i remember nadal was playing pretty well, but istomin was really hanging tough, and just kept pressuring nadal off the ground. the score was 7-6 4-6 6-4 in the end, so pretty close in all
Wilander Fan
Hall of Fame
Istomin is what you would call a dangerous floater. He has a big game and seems to play within himself.
myservenow
Semi-Pro
Wasn't Istomin carted off the court two weeks ago in Cincy after injuring his foot against Federer? Has he recovered from that injury? Seemed a little more serious than a simple sprain at the time.
Semi-Pro
Hall of Fame
If you could only explain this to Veroniquem!
tennisdad65
Hall of Fame
nadal in 3 tough sets. maybe even 2 tiebreakers like his 1st round. no one plays the big points as well as nadal.
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meg0529
Guest
I'm really hoping that you would also like to see Rafa on the other side of the net!
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meg0529
Guest
Coulda, woulda, shoulda. I mean really? I think with a lot of matches, a few points could have made a big difference. But Rafa was really good during the tiebreaks. It's not like Gaba was an absolute disaster. Of course you would like to believe otherwise. Point is Rafa won in 3 sets. Tough win, but still he won. His confidence is low, but he's doing things he hasn't done much in the past. He's changing it up. Aside from Rafa, Fed, Davy(I think) and Roddick, not many other guys, had 3 setters in their first round. You guys just wanna nitpick. What about Wimby final 2008, don't you think a few key points could have resulted in fed winning? Those few key points make all the difference. Gaba overall played really well yesterday.
namelessone
Legend
Don't get me wrong, I am Nadal fan and I wish Rafa all the best but he got taken to two tiebreaks, and tiebreaks can go either way(and both tiebreaks were 7-4 I think so pretty close). Sure, his serve wasn't broken but he couldn't break gaba for two sets. And I'm pretty sure there are better HC'ers than gaba out there. Obviously he can improve and I hope he will but big hitters pose problems for him on this surface. Hopefully he wins the first set with istomin cause 90% of the time when he wins the first in GS's he wins the match.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Of course. Tennis needs that match to happen.
wishful thinking. Nadal is going to win in 3 or 4. During his worst stretch last year, when his fearhand was weak and his game was down, nadal was consistently making SF on his worst surface. You would think the negative nancying would stop at some point, but maybe not.
Monsieur_DeLarge
Semi-Pro
This doesn't look to me like the record of someone prone to early upsets:
Regards,
MDL
Regards,
MDL
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meg0529
Guest
Stats are for show, people are making predictions based on personal biases =D
well, there should be quite a good pay off for istomin in this one... maybe i'll become a rich man?
Why? Nadal has more to gain than Federer does by a win. Federer has colleected enought titles to keep him counting them until he's a grandfather.
slicefox
Banned
QFT, he's had cake draws for the last few slams, its a joke. He gets no good opponents until Semi (unless Murray gets upset like last year) in which case he gets free ride to finals just like wimby and RG.
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meg0529
Guest
Just like Fed!
P.S. That wouldn't happen to be Nadal at his lowest point in your avatar would it?
This doesn't look to me like the record of someone prone to early upsets:
Regards,
MDL
Are you suggesting that Rafa hasn't won a single tournament on hard courts? Anyway... Istomin might get a set off Nadal, but that'll be it.
BreakPoint
Bionic Poster
Um....Istomin just beat Gabashvilli at the Pilot Pen last week.
BreakPoint
Bionic Poster
The way that Tipsarevic played against Roddick tonight he would have taken out Nadal if he had played Nadal instead of Roddick.
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meg0529
Guest
I thought The Fed-Nadal case proves that this is a bad argument. In anycase, it's a good thing then that Nadal beat Gabashvili. Would hate to have someone take out Nadal in Round 1 only to lose in round 2
The-Champ
Legend
illkhiboy
Hall of Fame
+1
You know what I don't like about TW members, and by extension tennis fans in general? They get half of these predictions wrong, but rarely do you see people admit they were wrong. What they'll do later is make excuses, "Oh he was playing at 28%, his wife was wearing orange..." Ironic that these same people jump to bash Serena at every opportunity.
Justin Side
Hall of Fame
He made the Final of his next event and just had a straight sets win in his first match at the Open.
Bud
Bionic Poster
Roddick is no Nadal
Nadal 2-0 vs Tipsarevic
Nadal d. Tipsy in straight sets at the USO in 2007 (6-2, 6-3, 3-2 RET)
BreakPoint
Bionic Poster
Well, if Tipsarevic retired, he was obviously injured during that match.
Besides, I said IF Tipsarevic played THE WAY he did against Roddick, he would have beaten Nadal. Tipsarevic was hitting groundies for winners left and right and, no, not even Nadal could have run down those winners on this fast court (see the Gabashvilli match). And Nadal doesn't have the massive serve like Roddick does to keep him in the match. I have never seen Tipsarevic play as well as he did last night. He was going for everything and just wasn't missing. He even played the net as if he were Edberg or something. It was like Soderling vs. Federer at the French Open all over again. A player in the ZONE and in "God-mode". Yes, Tipsarevic would have taken down Nadal if he played just like that. Heck, even Ferrer and Youhzny took down Nadal at the USO playing not nearly as high level tennis as Tipsarevic did last night.
Bud
Bionic Poster
If he was well enough to go on court, he was well enough to compete.
BreakPoint
Bionic Poster
BreakPoint
Bionic Poster
Or in the semis last year at the USO against Del Potro?
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