2017 Eastbourne International. ATP 250.

Who will win the title?

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Djoković confirms Mario Ančić will be consulting with him during Wimbledon, calls the Croat one of his closest friends from the tour.
 
Covering the cracks. Not even trying to be a bum but this changes very little, the way Halle and Stuttgart did nothing for Federer and Nadal in 2013 and 2015.
 
Athique Rehman said:
Nadal won a grass tournament in 2015. Dont think he lost a set and then got spanked in Wimbledon. What this does is fool the player and convince them they are playing well until they meet a elite player. Djokovic isnt even accelerating with the forehand. Almost like he is jabbing the forehand in court.
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He lost one set each in his first two matches at Stuttgart'15 on his way to the title and then promptly lost 1R at Queen's. Hardly grooved. The irony...he beat Gurufils in the Stuttgart SFs by the exact score from today's final.
 
Perfect week for Djoko in Eastbourne. Excellent needed preparation for Wimbledon and more much needed matches under the belt after playing 3 of 4 weeks starting in Madrid. He'll need to pull the Becker 2nd serve completely out of mothballs for Wimby as he got into some trouble on serve when the first serves dried up in some 2nd set games. Excellent interview with the Eurosport team after the match and Nole is very pleased.:p Looks like a lock to make SF at Wimby.:oops:
 
Well, congrats to Novak on winning his 68th title, 9th at 250 level, 4th on grass and 1st on that surface outside Wimbledon. Playing his 1st grass warm-up event for 7 years obviously paid off for him as I suspected all along it would do. He will now enter Wimbledon with much more confidence than he probably would have been feeling otherwise. :cool:

First ever grasscourt final for Monfils too. Who knows, maybe he is slowly starting to like playing on that surface? ;)
 
Mainad said:
Well, congrats to Novak on winning his 68th title, 9th at 250 level, 4th on grass and 1st on that surface outside Wimbledon. Playing his 1st grass warm-up event for 7 years obviously paid off for him as I suspected all along it would do. He will now enter Wimbledon with much more confidence than he probably would have been feeling otherwise. :cool:

First ever grasscourt final for Monfils too. Who knows, maybe he is slowly starting to like playing on that surface? ;)
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We are in for an exciting Wimbledon.
 
Meles said:
Perfect week for Djoko in Eastbourne. Excellent needed preparation for Wimbledon and more much needed matches under the belt after playing 3 of 4 weeks starting in Madrid. He'll need to pull the Becker 2nd serve completely out of mothballs for Wimby as he got into some trouble on serve when the first serves dried up in some 2nd set games. Excellent interview with the Eurosport team after the match and Nole is very pleased.:p Looks like a lock to make SF at Wimby.:oops:
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Fedole encounter? :eek:
 
Well that is Novak making is way to ultron mode again. I think somewhere in the middle of the two weeks of Wimby it would be nice for the tournament to have pre-RG-2016 Djoko back.
As for the final some few rallies worth to mention (which are nice on grass) but in general pretty boring match.
 
Meles said:
Good chance. He'll need that 2nd serve from 2015 to take out Fed.:oops: Like RG he's just not there yet, but it is doable as it's just a serve.;)
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LOL. Djokovic beating a bunch of grass clowns at Eastbourne is not a predictor of how Djokovic will do at Wimbledon vs much better grass court players. But his draw at Wimbledon is a very good one and unless Del Potro can appear in his monster-mode and take it to Djokovic, it's very likely Djokovic will make the SF. If it's Federer he faces in the SF, I would pick Federer to beat him this time.
 
thank goodness he won that event, but is anyone worried about his second round - let alone Klizan with that wicked forehand? Djoker doesn't seem to scout and seems most vulnerable against 1st time opponents. He's never played Escobedo or Pavlasek, right? I swear I worry most when he's playing someone for the first time. It's like he's shocked when they are playing well, and he starts to get frustrated. Yeah, he usually pulls through, but he usually ends up dropping a set unnecessarily- seemingly from just playing an unknown style/unpredictable player. Please, please, let him have a game plan for these guys. Watch some tapes man!

Part of it is probably these players don't have any baggage from gettingkicked in the teeth by Djoker previously - playing without fear /nothing to lose can be deadly - Ostapenko style
 
cc0509 said:
LOL. Djokovic beating a bunch of grass clowns at Eastbourne is not a predictor of how Djokovic will do at Wimbledon vs much better grass court players. But his draw at Wimbledon is a very good one and unless Del Potro can appear in his monster-mode and take it to Djokovic, it's very likely Djokovic will make the SF. If it's Federer he faces in the SF, I would pick Federer to beat him this time.
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I agree, that's why I say even though his form is building he'll need that weapon to hang with this Federer. Nole sounds like he plans to have a conservative first serve and few 2nd serves which I don't think will work.;) Antsy about Ancic?:eek:
 
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