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I am also surprised Kafelnikov made more than Hewitt. Hewitt had a greater career and is clearly the better player.
Berdych proving again what a classy fellow he is.
http://www.tennis.com/news/2012/11/berdych-almagro-weak-link/40125/#.UKQEnml243c
I simply dont get what is wrong with all the people on this forum. Everyone's complaining that tennis has no personality and that all the players say all the "politically correct" things. So what's wrong with what Berdych said?? He just stated what has been obvious this year. Berd has owned Almagro and yes Almagro is the weak link in the Spanish team. What's wrong with that??!!!
Such hypocritical behaviour by some of the people here. Seriously, stick to one thing.
I didn't mind it from an "injecting personality in the sport" perspective, but I still thought it was a stupid thing to say that has the potential to blow up in his face.
That's the best part of it :twisted:
I'm sick of all those top-players telling each other how great they are at every interview, every tournament. It's all so sensitive. All it takes these days for a player to be the new 'bad boy' of tennis is to say that you're absolutely sure you're going to win the next match. The arrogance! No respect! What will happen when he loses?
Also TONS more time at #1.Kafelnikov and Hewitt both had 2 Slams but Hewitt also had 2 WTF and 2 Masters titles. Kafelnikov had none of those but he did win the Olympic singles gold medal, ironically at the 2000 Sydney Olympics!
Kafelnikov was known for chasing the money, so I'm not at all surprised. He played as much as he felt as he could, in singles and doubles, big and small tournaments. It wasn't until 2002 that he started to burn out, so pretty good going after such long and hard schedules since 1993 or so.
So Berdych was right :idea:
Berdych barely beat Almagro in 5 sets on a surface that heavily favors Berdych... and got his butt handed to him by Ferrer.
In essence, Spain lost this. It should never have gone to 5 matches.
Maybe Correjta should have used Lopez or Verdasco over Almagro. Both came up HUGE in the Argentina final a few years ago in Argentina on an indoor surface.
Yeah, well.. bummer for Corretja that Lopez has done NOTHING since like the whole season basically. Verdasco isn't exactly mr. reliable himself.
berdych got his behind handed to him by a guy almost a foot shorter than him...he let ferrer intimidate him into submission in front of his home crowd...showed exactly why he'll never win a major..having stepanek rescue him and prove him right about almagro should be little consolation to him or his fans...he will not springboard from this like djokovic did...at heart, he's a loser
berdych got his behind handed to him by a guy almost a foot shorter than him...he let ferrer intimidate him into submission in front of his home crowd...showed exactly why he'll never win a major..having stepanek rescue him and prove him right about almagro should be little consolation to him or his fans...he will not springboard from this like djokovic did...at heart, he's a loser
They barely won, and he wasn't even the reason. Full credit to R-Steps and his fairy-tale ending.
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Stepanek was too experienced for Almagro for a match as big as that taking place on indoor hardcourt in the Czech Republic. Nobody should be surprised that Stepanek won the decisive match.
Spain blew their best chance on the Saturday.
I was a bit surprised to be honest.
The world #11 lost to a has-been 33 (almost 34) year old doubles player, who came into the match with a 23-26 record for the year. Radek's last tournament included a loss to Brian Baker (on indoor hardcourt), and his last match against Almagro was a 4-set loss at the US Open.
Good on Berdych!
His detractors have been eating crow since Sunday...
bs...big talker who was mauled by his "equal" in the rankings, ferrer....czechs won..berdych did nothing to enhance his reputation among anybody...compare him to murray...a guy who basically has kept his head down, taken all the vitriol that came his way, didn't trash talk lower-ranked players and now has a slam and an olympic gold medal...i was actually warming to berdych's chances of becoming like murray, a slam champion...he showed exactly why he won't this weekend...having stepanek rescue you does not make you a hero
I was a bit surprised to be honest.
The world #11 lost to a has-been 33 (almost 34) year old doubles player, who came into the match with a 23-26 record for the year. Radek's last tournament included a loss to Brian Baker (on indoor hardcourt), and his last match against Almagro was a 4-set loss at the US Open.
bs...big talker who was mauled by his "equal" in the rankings, ferrer....czechs won..berdych did nothing to enhance his reputation among anybody...compare him to murray...a guy who basically has kept his head down, taken all the vitriol that came his way, didn't trash talk lower-ranked players and now has a slam and an olympic gold medal...i was actually warming to berdych's chances of becoming like murray, a slam champion...he showed exactly why he won't this weekend...having stepanek rescue you does not make you a hero
Berdych, the guy with the slam final, the sixth player of the world nearly got beat AT HOME, ON A FASTCOURT, by a guy who only has clay titles to his resume. And in the end it was Almagro's s**t serve that undid him in the fifth. With the trashtalking and bad blood I would've thought that Birdman would at least win in straights with bakery products but that was clearly not the case.
David Ferrer Paris Masters Champion 2012
Exactly, people praising Berdych's badmouthing don't seem to realize that his ass was bailed out by Stepanek.
Stepanek lost to Ferrer but there is no shame in losing to the world nr.5 when you are nr.33 in the world.
Berdych, the guy with the slam final, the sixth player of the world nearly got beat AT HOME, ON A FASTCOURT, by a guy who only has clay titles to his resume. And in the end it was Almagro's s**t serve that undid him in the fifth. With the trashtalking and bad blood I would've thought that Birdman would at least win in straights with bakery products but that was clearly not the case.
Check your facts before making a post.
Exactly, people praising Berdych's badmouthing don't seem to realize that his ass was bailed out by Stepanek.
Stepanek lost to Ferrer but there is no shame in losing to the world nr.5 when you are nr.33 in the world.
Berdych, the guy with the slam final, the sixth player of the world nearly got beat AT HOME, ON A FASTCOURT, by a guy who only has clay titles to his resume. And in the end it was Almagro's s**t serve that undid him in the fifth. With the trashtalking and bad blood I would've thought that Birdman would at least win in straights with bakery products but that was clearly not the case.
In doubles there is no doubt that Worm carried the team.
Berdych, when he had the chance to clinch it and be a hero, was manhandled by the guy who is next to him in rankings, Ferrer. And while David can play on fastcourt, you wouldn't expect him to maul Berdych at home.
So at 2 all, Stepanek came through and beat a guy who is ranked 20 places above him. He dealt with the pressure wonderfully even if Almagro didn't exactly play his best tennis.
Berdych barely beat the guy he was supposed to trash, was mauled by his equal and was carried by his much lower ranked partner in doubles.
How is he the hero again?
What Berdych did was the equivalent of trashtalking someone while hiding behind your big brother(even though, by rank, berdych should have been the big bro here).
At the start of this tie I thought that the spaniards would get crushed but they actually had a fighting chance. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Verdasco would have probably put up a better performance in singles, against stepanek at least.
Even if Berdych was right about Almagro, its hard to see him as a hardass coming out of the tie. He got his ass handed to him by Ferrer so thoroughly that it was humorous.
I feel bad for Ferrer. He played his part to perfection. Good thing he has already won the DC 3 times.
Berdych was clearly tired in that match.
Eitherway it doesn't matter; Berdych won/Almagro lost...
Check your facts before making a post.
.....................Actually, Ferrer should have given Stepanek two sets and 3 hours of play more. In that case they might have lost doubles
Berdych was clearly tired in that match.
Eitherway it doesn't matter; Berdych won/Almagro lost...