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How fitting it is that Bodo in the Malay and Indonesian languages mean idiot, or fool.

Wow...talk about getting ahead of ourselves... Let's wait till Nadal even gets back on the court and how he performs in the lead up tournaments.

sureshs, you've forgotten to add Federer's Cinci wins.

Yeah LOL, Murray tries to exploit Fed's backhand, and suddenly finds himself so far out of the court chasing Fed's angled backhands, and then have the down the line backhand pass him time after time.

I think what Jim Courier said while commentating for the Australian Channel 7 fits in quite rightly here. He said that while Murray has a brilliant all around game that is extremely versatile, he hasn't quite found a plan A yet. Which means that while, for example, Federer is also very versatile...

He's the favourite to knock Nadal out of a slam, should they be drawn to meet, only to bow down to Federer in the final. Has happened twice, so far. We'll see.

I think that's it, copyright claims from Channel 7, or Tennis Australia. I've uploaded a few practice vids from AO 2010 on youtube, but that's it. You might have more luck trying to get match highlights on other forums such as tennis 4 you . com (remove spaces).

Although that makes sense, Nadal has shown more of an affinity for Barcelona than Madrid. He practically NEVER skips Barcelona. Besides, when it comes to scheduling, when has Nadal made much sense? :(

I don't know about the number of winners and what not, but the number of times Federer took Murray way out on the backhand side with amazing angles on the crosscourt backhand, and finished him off with a backhand down the line... SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.................

Yes Cilic! Punish negative tennis!

I know that, at the end of the day, he made the decision that he thought was best, and I hope good comes of it. But at the same time, he's lost quite a bit of that respect, that awe, that spirit that many of his fans (especially the really young ones) have come to associate with him. Many of the...

Honestly, I was at that match, and it was quite a big shock. I've never seen Nadal just...give up. It was quite sad for the fans as there were a lot of people pulling for Nadal at the start of the third, and even during the medical timeout. Even as a Fed fan I'd love to see Nadal come back...

I'm just angry at Cilic for not beating the snot out of him and sending him to bed at 10pm.

^^ If that happens, they would have succeeded in boring 6 billion people to death, and no one will be watching a grand slam final for once.

Hi guys, just to give you an indication of how chilly it is, it hailed at about 1am in the Melbourne CBD. Unusually cold, it is.

Oh joy is right! I've got tickets to the QF nights just above the corporate box! :D Let's hope they both make it there. It'll be a good one.

It surely will not be the French, even if she does win.

Can I just say, though, that the Brisbane final was the best women's match I've seen in...a long while. The last women's match I can remember enjoying was perhaps 2007 USO, Henin vs both Williams sisters. If you didn't catch it, you don't know what you're missing. Extremely high quality from...

I've got to say though, some of the calls are appalling. Makes one wonder if they got their linespeople properly trained. Many of them look like retirees who could use a good pair of bifocals.

Plain old electrical insulating tape works fine, and comes in yellow.

^ Just to clarify, I totally agree with you, woodrow, just providing an example of how this would be applied. :)

Same goes for Akgul Amanmuradova

Just a note on this: Wayne Odesnik took a medical timeout today against Radek Stepanek. It appeared to be a back muscle that was causing his hamstring to seize. Umpire was Lars Graf, it happened at 0-3 in the second set.

Another vote for Leona here. Better second serve and second verse.

Yep, it was a good performance after so long out. She looked especially sharp on the returns. Only her abysmal first serve percentage kept it close.

HAHAHHAHAHAA!!!! Epic WIN!!!

2008 Junior Wimbledon Boys Final was contested by two players with one handed backhands. I highly doubt that there won't be multiple slam winners with one handed backhands. As for the big IF there, no one can say for sure. Someone else can just as easily say that without his one hander...

OP must be jealous of the attention sureshs gets for his fail threads and wants some of it.

I've seen him up close and he is very well-built. Huge and broad shoulders, with pectorals to match. That's how he can slap forehands that hard without extension.

Peter Lundgren, who coached Federer till about early 2004, then went on to coach Safin till about 2006.