A beautiful moment has slipped away, for all of us...

[Autodidactic player]

Sounds like you were more excited about Chrissie than tennis match.

Ya got me! I was 14 and she was really cute and played my favorite sport. A boy can dream, can't he.

 

[Sunny014]

Okay, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic and Serena are fools. And Srdjan is not...

Yup, in this aspect Srdjan is not.

Olympics is trash for tennis, nobody in their right mind would risk injury and burnout to sacrifice the USO and travel to Tokyo, he should have skipped it and been fresh for the USO, he would have beaten Medvedev in the final in 4 tight sets.

 

[Sunny014]

Novak's decision to travel to tokyo and he carelessly hitting that lady on her throat cost him 2 USO, he could have had 5 USOs today and been on 22 slams and would have been the GOAT.

 

[1H-Backhand]

On the contrary, I would actually say that "A beautiful moment has materialized for most of us..."

 

[pcft369]

You've simply explained why you are so bitter.

No, I've explained why I'm not bitter - I'm happy that he lost! Happiness isn't bitterness, too bad you cannot perceive the difference.

 

[Adv. Edberg]

He should win all 4 slams next year fairly easily though.

 

[skaj]

Yup, in this aspect Srdjan is not.

Olympics is trash for tennis, nobody in their right mind would risk injury and burnout to sacrifice the USO and travel to Tokyo, he should have skipped it and been fresh for the USO, he would have beaten Medvedev in the final in 4 tight sets.

Of course, Srdjan is right, and the Olympics are trash.

 

[Sunny014]

Of course, Srdjan is right, and the Olympics are trash.

Yup, for Tennis OIympics is trash

 

[skaj]

Yup, for Tennis OIympics is trash

Must be, must be, that's why the most successful tennis players care so much about it

 

[Genious at Work]

Perhaps you need the benefit of age to know how sad it was to see the Grand Slam slip away last night.

When Laver won the Grand Slam in 69, when I was a young man, I took it for granted that I would see other attempts: some would succeed, some would fail. Yet here we are 52 years later -and I am no longer a young man -and only one male player has got within touching distance of the summit.

When you are young, you think opportunities will always come along, there will always be another chance.
As the song says:
"Life had no reason and life had no rhyme,
I knew there were mountains to climb,
but at the time I thought I had time".
But time is the one thing we have less of every second.

I'm devastated that I didn't get to see a second Grand Slam. I very much doubt I'll live to see another one. I'll never understand the bitterness of people who can be glad that Djokovic failed. And I say that as a Nadal fan. It would have been a memory as a tennis fan you would have held forever. You would have been able to tell your grandkids you saw the Grand Slam be achieved.

I'll just have to add experiencing the Grand Slam in 1969 to my ever-growing list of beautiful things I once experienced but will never experience again: seeing David Bowie in concert, shaking hands with my sporting hero, Muhammad Ali, standing on the top of the twin towers.

All of these moments have been lost in time. Like tears in rain...

 

[goldengate14]

7 Wimbledons.
Enuff said ....

If Wimbledon is still the be all and end all in tennis (it may well be i dont know what effect winning it has on endorsement deals compared to others) then i agree with you

 

[ibbi]

Hey, you got to see a qualifier win a major title. You will always be able to say you saw that first time in history, much more likely to never be repeated feat.

 

[Sunny014]

Yes, yes, tell those silly people who know nothing about tennis, Federer, Nadal, Serena, Djokovic, that the Olympics are trash.

I don't have to tell them anything, facts tell them that for me.
Novak lost USO, he must be thinking that his dad was right.

 

[Bud]

He was by far the lesser player on court in the final. He didn't deserve to win.

 

[skaj]

I don't have to tell them anything, facts tell them that for me.
Novak lost USO, he must be thinking that his dad was right.

Yet, they still think the Olympics are one of the greatest prizes. I guess you know more about tennis than they do.
And Srdjan too, of course.

 

[Autodidactic player]

... Olympics is trash for tennis ...

Of course the Olympics are meaningless in tennis. That's why no one ever mentions Steffi's golden slam when talking about all time greats.

 

[R. Schweikart]

I don't have to tell them anything, facts tell them that for me.
Novak lost USO, he must be thinking that his dad was right.

I think if Nole hadn't played the Olympics he might have lost to Zverev in the USO semis.

You logic is like this:
I think Djokovic better should have beaten his wife everyday this summer.
He didn't.
And lost at the USO.
See, I'm right - he should have better beaten his wife.

 

[R. Schweikart]

Of course the Olympics are meaningless in tennis. That's why no one ever mentions Steffi's golden slam when talking about all time greats.

Sunny hates Graf like no one other...