2011 SAP Open Finals - Fernando Verdasco Fiasco vs. Maple Leaf Missile Milos Raonic
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You Can't Be Serious
Rookie
I'll take Verdasco. Too much to ask for from the kid.
batz
G.O.A.T.
Big serving Canadian eh? Sweet...he's bound to have some British ancestors.....we should let his Head of State decide which country he plays for:twisted:
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G.O.A.T.
Big serving Canadian eh? Sweet...he's bound to have some British ancestors.....we should let his Head of State decide which country he plays for:twisted:
Hhahah, I can see him Davis Cup for the Montengran neighborhood of SW London.
Anotherr gyame fohr Milos!
I still haven't gotten tired of that.
Well, Go Canada, eh!
Nice contrast in styles. I will try to tune in today.
Big serving Canadian eh? Sweet...he's bound to have some British ancestors.....we should let his Head of State decide which country he plays for:twisted:
I think he's 100% Montenegran. The Brits never made it there in their expansion of Empire. Our Head of state (the Queen) only cares about horses. Our prime minister only likes hockey. Oh well;
clayman2000
Hall of Fame
Cannot believe they are playing two in a row. Verdasco must be happy to see an inexperienced player in the final, but obviously will be angry to have to player him in a 1st round.
kishnabe
Talk Tennis Guru
Doesn't matter if he is TOP 10....as long as he gets to rank 39 that is fine! Rudeman has the highest ranking of a canadien at 41 or 40! Heck you could be right but you be so wrong....how do you determine if anyone isn't going to what they are! I would say Murray isn't going to win a slam,,,,but he will!
Marius_Hancu
Talk Tennis Guru
Show me others in his generation and I'll tell you for each he's better.
Thus, even by default, he will get there.
rovex
Legend
Big time. He may be good but I've never seen such has hype since Gulbis. :-?
Brent Pederson
Semi-Pro
If you've seen him play you'd realize this is not just hype. This guy has serious skills, he's not just a one-trick pony with the serve. Sure he has probably the best serve the game has ever seen, but he also has extremely good movement for a big man, great court sense, makes smart decisions, solid groundies and volleys, and seems to have a good head on his shoulders. He has the ability to make the guy on the other side of the net look rather helpless. If he stays healthy and keeps improving he has the opportunity to be one of the greatest ever, imo. Gulbis, otoh, is a very good but rather run-of-the-mill player with no particular advantage over anyone else out there.
Bryan Swartz
Hall of Fame
No. Roddick's is better, Isner's is better, Karlovic's is better, Sampras, a number of other players. His serve is very good but not in that class, a lot of work to do on consistent placement and variety before this is even an arguable claim.
Above-average, I wouldn't say more than that.
A couple of his matches I've seen him be very error-prone off the ground.
He's quite talented and has great potential. But some of this stuff is just over the top.
Marius_Hancu
Talk Tennis Guru
Just hope for a great series of two matches between these two guys.
ruerooo
Legend
His 1st serve looks like it's around 65% with a 125 mph average, that's basically roddick. Roddick still has the far better second serve in terms of mph.
His Ao result is really interesting because that's not a good surface at all for his game, which is in the same category type as guys like blake, querrey, gulbis, soderling imo. Those guys rarely ever do as well at the AO. He's going to be dangerous at the USO if he can stay healthy.
His Ao result is really interesting because that's not a good surface at all for his game, which is in the same category type as guys like blake, querrey, gulbis, soderling imo. Those guys rarely ever do as well at the AO. He's going to be dangerous at the USO if he can stay healthy.
rovex
Legend
LOL, OK. And you question us calling out the hype this guy is getting :-?
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Sid_Vicious
G.O.A.T.
Honestly, f*** those of you who are hyping this kid so much. I am Canadian, and want a good player to root for more than anything....but the expectations and diarrhea some of you are spewing are setting him up for nothing more than failure. We know he looks good, serve still needs some work for placement, backhand is inconsistent compared to the games best.
For real, please stop.
For real, please stop.
Sid_Vicious
G.O.A.T.
It happens all the time, man. Here in the U.S, people were marking Roddick down for having a Sampras-like career in 2003. Boy, did that turn out wrong!
Fifth Set
Professional
Of course it is too early to say that Raonic will win slams, be top 10, etc., but that serving exo yesterday was pretty surprising actually. And I'm not just surprised that I didn't throw up from all of Gimelstob's smarmy yapping.
I was sure that Ivo would demolish Raonic. In fact, Raonic was regularly in the mid-140s and Ivo was "only" in the mid-130s. Raonic won it pretty easily and yet his serve looks so effortless.
Part of what I think is getting folks excited about Maple Leaf is that he is deceptively smooth. Again - not making big predictions here - but, that trait is pretty Sampras-esque.
I was sure that Ivo would demolish Raonic. In fact, Raonic was regularly in the mid-140s and Ivo was "only" in the mid-130s. Raonic won it pretty easily and yet his serve looks so effortless.
Part of what I think is getting folks excited about Maple Leaf is that he is deceptively smooth. Again - not making big predictions here - but, that trait is pretty Sampras-esque.
Cesc Fabregas
Legend
Raonic is basically Roddick 2002. Has holes in his game but his serve and forehand are devastating.
Li Ching Yuen
Legend
Weird match to predict.
But I'll take a shot at it.
The kid is not that great, fitness-wise. I've seen it before in guys like DelPotro, if that core strength and conditioning is not towards maximum levels these type of guys kinda fade out at some point in the latter stages of the tournament, and especially since Milos already has an insane amount of tennis racked up in the past month or so.
Also, Verdasco apparently likes the challenge of returning the big serve. It's a strange fact, perhaps he's good at it because he likes the position in which receives, that of being leaned over.
Anyway...
I'm picking Verdasco for the win.
But I'll take a shot at it.
The kid is not that great, fitness-wise. I've seen it before in guys like DelPotro, if that core strength and conditioning is not towards maximum levels these type of guys kinda fade out at some point in the latter stages of the tournament, and especially since Milos already has an insane amount of tennis racked up in the past month or so.
Also, Verdasco apparently likes the challenge of returning the big serve. It's a strange fact, perhaps he's good at it because he likes the position in which receives, that of being leaned over.
Anyway...
I'm picking Verdasco for the win.
kishnabe
Talk Tennis Guru
S/he actually secretly likes Canadien and wants to be like them....that why S/he is so anit-canadien!
Fedace
Banned
RAM and Lipsky UP a break in 1st set.....Way to go.
http://veetle.com/index.php/sapopen/channel#4d3dde6e03a67/true/default/HD
http://veetle.com/index.php/sapopen/channel#4d3dde6e03a67/true/default/HD
You are the only anti Canadian I have heard of. Were you denied immigration or something?
Fedace
Banned
Ram and Lipsky takes the 1st set over Mellise the X-man and Falla the Forehand Godzilla.
http://veetle.com/index.php/sapopen/channel#4d3dde6e03a67/true/default/HD
http://veetle.com/index.php/sapopen/channel#4d3dde6e03a67/true/default/HD
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