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RF007

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Just thought of making a year-end awards for the 2008 ATP and WTA season. So what are your picks?

* Player of the Year
* Most Improved Player
* Breakout Player
* Most Disappointing Player
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
* Best grand slam
* Best tournament
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
 
* Player of the Year
Its gonna be Nadal this year

* Most Improved Player
Del Potro for sure

* Breakout Player
this is gonna be tsonga or simon..

* Most Disappointing Player
Ferrer and a bit of roddick at wimbledon.

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Hmm hard one to say, its gonna be from the USO tho, maybe federer vs djokovic or fededer vs murray

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
This might also be Fededer vs Murray at shanghai, other choices would be Roddick vs Djokovic at dubai.

* Best grand slam
USO

* Best tournament
too many to say.. japan open or dubai maybe?

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
tsonga qualifying and having to win paris to do it, And Roddick finally beating federer again for most inspiring.
 
MajinX said:
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
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The wimbledon final has been cooked, 2 years in a row. Both times needlessly stretched to five sets, last time by Fed, this time by Nadal.

Fed vs Murray at Shanghai was pretty good.
Edit: Fed vs Tips was a gr8 match.
 
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* Player of the Year

Nadal

* Most Improved Player

Del Potro (from 50-something to 9!)
Though Andy Murray is also someone to consider.

* Breakout Player

Tsonga
Or maybe Simon, who beat the Big three this season.

* Most Disappointing Player

Gasquet. Nalbandian was similarly dissapointing.

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)

Federer-Tipsaravic stands out for me.

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)

Murray vs. Federer in The Masters Cup.
or...
Djokovic-Nadal at Hamburg.

* Best grand slam

Let's see..

Australian had...

Baghdatis-Safin
Baghdatis-Hewitt
The Tsonganator
Federer losing in the semi-final in a high quality match
Roddick-Kolhschrieber

French was kinda boring this time...
Nadal, while amazing, killed the competitiveness out of the Slam.

Nalbandian sucked...Federer was quite off though he made the final...
Davydenko lost to Ljubicic...quite pathetic..
Djokovic was destroyed by Nadal after showing so much promise in Hamburg.

So it's definitely not Roland Garros.

Wimbledon? Hmm Federer had no competition until the final..

We had Gasquet-Murray of course...but not much else..
It was good to see Safin play well..

A most amazing final but not too much before that I can remember.

I missed the US Open...

Was it any good?

Was good to see Federer bounce back...Roddick-Gulbis sounded like a nice match...

I think I 'll go with
The Australian Open

* Best tournament

Queen's?

We had some great matches there...

Nadal-Djokovic (even though it was straight sets)
Nadal-Karlovic
Nalbandian-Gasquet

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment

Hmm maybe the display of Federer and Nadal's wills at the Wimbledon Final?
 
RF007 said:
Just thought of making a year-end awards for the 2008 ATP and WTA season. So what are your picks?

* Player of the Year
Nadal​
* Most Improved Player
Murray​
* Breakout Player
Del Potro​
* Most Disappointing Player
Gasquet​
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Federer def. Tipseravic​
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Nadal def. Djokovic (Queen's, or Olympics)​
* Best grand slam
Wimbledon​
* Best tournament
Indian Wells​
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Fish def. Federer​
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These are my picks
 
* Player of the Year
That's Nadal
* Most Improved Player
Del Potro
* Breakout Player
Tsonga, obviously. Simon is a honorable mention.
* Most Disappointing Player
Federer.


Just joking, its Nalby/Gasquet. Nothing new I guess.

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)

Federer - Tipsarevic comes to mind.
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)

Definitely Djokovic - Nadal in Hamburg. Because this was tennis at it's finest, with Nadal finally being challenged when playing near his best.
* Best grand slam

Probably AO. Really refreshing and interesting.

* Best tournament

Queens / Hamburg / Dubai. Can't really decide.

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Tipsy taking Federer to 5 sets
 
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Player of the Year
Nadal

Most Improved Player
Murray

Breakout Player
Simon

Most Disappointing Player
Ferrer, Gasquet

Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Federer vs. Tipsarevic AO 2008

Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Federer vs. Murray Masters Cup

Best grand slam
US Open

Best tournament
Rome

Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Safin retiring after almost exploding in anger in Cicny 1st round
 
* Player of the Year
Nadal

* Most Improved Player
Murray

* Breakout Player
Del Potro

* Most Disappointing Player
Baggy

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Gasquet v. Murray, Wimbledon

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Djokovic v. Nadal, Hamburg SF

* Best grand slam
Wimby

* Best tournament
Dubai

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Youzhny's racket to the head, Safin's blow up after the center line foot fault.
 
* Player of the Year
Nadal

* Most Improved Player
Murray

* Breakout Player
Simon / Del Potro

* Most Disappointing Player
Gasquet/Nalbandian

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Murray Vs Gasquet Wimbledon

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Murray Vs Federer Shangai RR

* Best grand slam
Wimbledon - So much drama, my favourite player finding some form (Safin) Plus Murray's run (me being british also helps)

* Best tournament
Queens

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Have to admit - Murrays backhand pass Vs Gasquet at wimbledon, landing on the billboard egging the crowd on was very nice to watch, the crowd (i was at that match) were really involved and felt really proud watching him play
 
* Player of the Year
Rafael Nadal, 2/4 slams with no other 2-slam winners ends the discussion.

* Most Improved Player.
Andy Murray?

* Breakout Player
Novac Djokovic for his AO win.

* Most Disappointing Player
Marat Safin? But wouldn't that be almost an annual affair?

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Well, excluding that match kind of makes it tough...Federer-Tipsarevic AO.

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Fed-Nadal Monte Carlo or Hamburg.

* Best grand slam
USO... Wimbledon final was great, but the surface has been *******ized; the USO is now the fastest surface, and most interesting to watch IMHO.

* Best tournament
Shanghai Year Ending Masters Cup

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Most shocking: Safin beating Djokovic at Wimbledon; or maybe Federer losing 3-0 and 6-0 in the final set at the FO.

Most inspiring: Federer almost coming back from 2-sets down at Wimbledon; not getting down on himself after being down 2-sets love. Nadal not getting down on himself after failing to win the match in sets 3 or 4.

Most funny: Can't remember any, but I know there were plenty.
 
Player of the Year: Nadal.

Most Improved Player: Del Potro (Nadal gets honorable mention on grass)

Breakout Player: Simon

Most Disappointing Player: Roddick

(I'll skip best matches)

Best Slam: Wimbledon (If it weren't for the epic final match, Fed's run at the USO would win)

Best Tournament: I liked Paris before the injuries

Funniest Moment: Mikhail Youzhny owning himself in the face with his racket (youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-CgSO9Evw)
 
From ATP:


* Player of the Year - Nadal

* Most Improved Player - Murray, Del Potro

* Breakout Player - Del Potro

* Most Disappointing Player - I expected more from Baghdatis, Ferrer, Nalbandian.

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final) - I cannot exclude Men's Wimbledon final.

* Match of the Year (Best of 3) - Djokovic vs Nadal

* Best grand slam - Australia Open I think.

* Best tournament - Hamburg maybe.

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment:
Some individual perfomances from Tsonga (unexpected for me) and specially Djokovic (expected).
Nadal's perfomance at RG final, never seen something like that in a GS final.

For the most shocking moment, I have to agree with that of Youzhny smashing himself with the racket.
 
* Player of the Year
No doubt it's Nadal.

* Most Improved Player
Del Potro or Murray

* Breakout Player
Tsonga, Del Potro, or Simon

* Most Disappointing Player
Richard Gasquet

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Hmm, it's a toughie. Perhaps the Murray Gasquet Wimbledon QF (?).

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Either Djokovic/Nadal Hamburg SF or Murray/Federer RR. (I didn't see the RR match of Fed/Murray though)

* Best grand slam
US Open

* Best tournament
Not sure. I'm feeling the Paris Masters because of Tsonga winning in France, and it was a surprise Final.

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Marat Safin calling Carlos Bernardes a f**king d!ckhead at the USO.
 
* Player of the Year
Rafael Nadal

* Most Improved Player
Andy Murray

* Breakout Player
Jo Wilfried Tsonga

* Most Disappointing Player
Richard Gasquet

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Lleyton Hewitt vs. Marcos Baghdatis, AO 2008

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Rafael Nadal vs. Novak Djokovic Hamburg 2008

* Best grand slam
Australian Open

* Best tournament
Australian open, excluding Grand Slams, Hamburg

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Federer's down the line backhand winner at match point in the 4th set tie break of the Wimbledon final
 
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* Player of the Year
Overall Nadal, with extra credit for unification of clay and grass crowns and utter clay butchery during RG: scariest pwnage of the year. Honorable mention to Tsonga's exquisite fantasy tennis during AO and Paris.
* Most Improved Player
Murray.
* Breakout Player
Tsonga, Simon, Del Potro.
* Most Disappointing Player
Ferrer, Gasquet.
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Why exclude it? Any other one pales in comparison, and there were some extraordinary ones.
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Couldn't watch Fed-Murray at Shanghai. Nadal-Djoko at Hamburg was great. Federer-Nalbandian and Almagro-Andreev at MC.
* Best grand slam
AO hands down, I still get a warm fuzzy feeling associated with it, lots of great matches, beautiful tennis, Djokovic, Tsonga, Tipsy, Kohlschreiber...
* Best tournament
Monte Carlo, Madrid, Miami.
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Youzhny at Miami. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-CgSO9Evw
 
Player of the Year
Nadal

* Most Improved Player
Murray

* Breakout Player
Del Potro

* Most Disappointing Player
Gasquet

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Murray vs Nadel USOpen 1/2 final

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Fededer vs Murray at shanghai,

* Best grand slam
Wimbledon

* Best tournament
Rogers cup (US open/Master series)

* Most Inspiring
Federer winning a gold in double

*Shocking Moment
Roddick finally beating federer :)

* Funny Moment --- Cant think of any !
 
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akv89 said:
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Federer's down the line backhand winner at match point in the 4th set tie break of the Wimbledon final
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I can't believe I didn't think of this as one of my immediate choices (that shot still gives me chills when I watch it). I was thinking of Federer finally winning a gold medal in the Olympics (even if it's 'just in doubles') after years of disappointment.

cucio said:
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Why exclude it? Any other one pales in comparison, and there were some extraordinary ones.
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Match of the Yr (3 sets) - definitely Murray - Fed in Shanghai. I was (fortunate enough to be) there and see it live - the intensity rivaled a Slam final from the 1st ball. Fed fighting off all the break points in the 3rd set; Murray eventually getting the break and closing it out.
 
RF007 said:
Just thought of making a year-end awards for the 2008 ATP and WTA season. So what are your picks?
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* Player of the Year
Nadal, Jankovic

* Most Improved Player
Murray, Safina (Simon, Del Potro, Dementieva, Zvonareva honorable mention)

* Breakout Player
Tsonga, Safina

* Most Disappointing Player
Gasquet, Chavetadze (Nalbandian, Vaidisova honorable mention)
 
RF007 said:
Just thought of making a year-end awards for the 2008 ATP and WTA season. So what are your picks?

* Player of the Year
Nadal
* Most Improved Player
Murray(as much as i dislike him, gotta hand it to him)
* Breakout Player
Del Potro
* Most Disappointing Player
Ferrer
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Federer v Djokovic at US Open
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Nadal v Djokovic at Final of Queens
* Best grand slam
US Open
* Best tournament
Queens
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
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Gotta go with the Federer backhand down the line on match point at wimbledon, or the topspin smash lob against Djokovic at the US
 
Player of the Year:
Nadal

Most Improved Player:
Murray

Breakout Player of the Year:
Tsonga

Most Dissapointing Player of the Year:
Gasquet

Match of the Year: Best of 5(Other than Wimbledon Final)
Kohlschreiber-Roddick

Match of the Year: Best of 3
Djokovic-Nadal Hamburg

Best Grand Slam:
Wimbledon

Best Tournament:
Toronto

Most Inspiring Moment:
Federer's backhand pass against Nadal on match point at Wimby.

Most Shocking/Unexpected Moment:

Rainer Schuettler's semifinal at Wimbledon.
 
men's player of the year: gotta be rafael nadal because of ...

* his 2 grand slams a month apart--roland garros and wimbledon--clay and grass.

* plus his olympics gold medal (hard court)*

* plus his davis cup win in madrid (clay). dc semis

* plus his win in toronto (hard court)

* plus his singles win in monte carlo
* and his doubles win w/robredo in MC (clay)

* plus his win in barcelona (clay)

* plus his win in hamburg (clay)

* plus his win in london/queens club (grass)

plus,plus,plus all his other finals, semifinals and quarterfinals throughout the year.

Official number one player of 2008 and he deserves it!
wb87qx.jpg
 
Player of the Year:
Rafael Nadal

Most Improved Player
Andy Murray

Breakout Player
Gilles Simon

Most Disappointing Player
Richard Gasquet

Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Wimbledon R4: Murray def. Gasquet 5-7, 3-6, 7-3(3), 6-2, 6-4

Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Queens Final: Nadal def. Djokovic 7-6(6), 7-5

Best grand slam
U.S. Open

Best tournament
Beijing Olympics

Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Inspiring: Djokovic begins and ends 2008 on huge notes and wins TMC title after a severe title drought
 
Love Game said:
men's player of the year: gotta be rafael nadal because of ...

* his 2 grand slams a month apart--roland garros and wimbledon--clay and grass.

* plus his olympics gold medal (hard court)*

* plus his davis cup win in madrid (clay). dc semis

* plus his win in toronto (hard court)

* plus his singles win in monte carlo
* and his doubles win w/robredo in MC (clay)

* plus his win in barcelona (clay)

* plus his win in hamburg (clay)

* plus his win in london/queens club (grass)

plus,plus,plus all his other finals, semifinals and quarterfinals throughout the year.

Official number one player of 2008 and he deserves it!
wb87qx.jpg
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Lovely post!
 
RF007 said:
Just thought of making a year-end awards for the 2008 ATP and WTA season. So what are your picks?

* Player of the Year
* Most Improved Player
* Breakout Player
* Most Disappointing Player
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
* Best grand slam
* Best tournament
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
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* Player of the Year

Nadal for the French/Wimbledon; Olympic Gold, and his amazing clay court streak.

* Most Improved Player

Murray, for finally getting over the hump and beating Nadal and Djokovic for the first time.

* Breakout Player

Simon and Tsonga, but mostly Simon, because we all knew what Tsonga was capable of, but Simon came out of nowhere.

* Most Disappointing Player

Nalbandian, because his end of last year seemed to carry the promise of momentum, instead he went away. Gasquet, didn't build on any momentum from years past and seemed rather stagnant in 2008 except for the first two sets at Wimbledon. Blake, who also seemed to regress.

* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Can't exclude it. Wimbledon Final, 2008

* Match of the Year (Best of 3)

Nadal d. Djokovic Queens Final; Nadal d. Djokovic Beijing (5?);

* Best grand slam

Wimbledon, 2008

* Best tournament

Queens

* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Inspiring, Nadal winning Wimbledon and achieving his childhood dream.

Shocking-Youzny and the gash.
 
* Player of the Year - Nadal, that's a no brainer
* Most Improved Player - Gilles Simon
* Breakout Player - Kei Nishikori
* Most Disappointing Player - Nalbandian, at least Gasquet had a good first half of the year.
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final) -
Roddick-Kohlschrieber AO
* Match of the Year (Best of 3) - The ones I enjoyed most were Nishikori-Blake in Delray and the Ladies Gold Medal match in Beijing. Not necessarily the best quality matches, just most entertaining for me.
* Best grand slam- USO
* Best tournament- USO i guess
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment- Roddick beats Fed, Nishikori wins Delray, Fed wins USO
 
* Player of the Year
Nadal
* Most Improved Player
Simon
* Breakout Player
Tsonga
* Most Disappointing Player
Federer
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles
Wimbledon final)
Federer/Andreev (USO)
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Davydenko/Nadal (Miami)
* Best grand slam
Australia
* Best tournament
Paris
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Tsonga's Win in Paris
 
* Player of the Year
Rafael Nadal
* Most Improved Player
Andy Murray
* Breakout Player
Juan Martin del Potro & Jo Wilfried-Tsonga
Hon. Mention- Kei Nishikori & Ernests Gulbis
* Most Disappointing Player
Richard Gasquet & Marcos Baghdatis
* Match of the Year (Best of 5, excluding Men's Singles Wimbledon final)
Australian Open Semifinal: Tsonga d. Nadal
Wimbledon Early Rounds: Safin d. Djokovic
* Match of the Year (Best of 3)
Hamburg Semifinal: Nadal d. Djokovic
Madrid Semifinal: Murray d. Federer
* Best grand slam
Wimbledon Men's Singles
* Best tournament
Wimbleon Men's Singles
Master Series Hamburg
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
Rafael Nadal's annihilation of Roger Federer at French Open Final
 
Player of the year
Nadal

Most improved player
Murray

Breakout player
Juan Martin Del Potro and Gilles Simon

Most Disappointing Player
Gasquet, Berdych, Baghdatis

Match of the Year (best of five)
Gasquet-Murray (Wimbledon)
Federer-Tipsarevic and Hewitt-Baghdatis (Australian Open)
Federer-Andreev, Murray-Nadal (US Open)

Match of the year (best of three)
Hamburg : Nadal vs. Djokovic
Madrid + Masters : Murray vs. Federer
Queens : Nadal vs. Djokovic

Best Grand Slam
Australian Open

Best Tournament
Rome, Madrid, Queens

Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpeted OR Funny Moment
- Djokovic to the US Open crowd after his win against Roddick in the quarterfinal.
- Safin upsets Djokovic at Wimbledon and goes into the semifinals.
- French Open Final
- Verdasco winning the DC for Spain
- Del Potro winning his first four tournaments in a row.
 
* Player of the Year
-Nadal
* Most Improved Player
-Murray
* Breakout Player
-Tsonga
* Most Disappointing Player
-Davydenko
* Match of the Year(best of 5)
-Federer Vs Tipsarevic @ AO
* Match of the year (best of 3)
-Djokovic Vs Tsonga @ Thailand
* Best grand slam
-USO
* Best tournament
-Do the Olympics count? If not then Paris
* Most Inspiring OR Shocking OR Unexpected OR Funny Moment
-Blake beating Federer
 
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Player of the year: Nadal

Improved: Murray

Breakout: Simon, Nishikori

Disappointment: Gasquet

Match of the Year: Hewitt-Baghdatis (AO)(5)
Fed-Murray (TMC)

Best Grandslam: AO

Best Tournament: Queens

Shocking: Federer's record, Tsonga's beatdown in AO semis, Nadal's beatdown in FO over Fed, Safin over Djokovic, Hewitt Baghdatis Match
 
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