Djokovic made history in Cincinatti
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He has always looked happy losing to the b3 and acted like it was a miracle when he pulled off sets or highlight reel shots again them. Maybe ultimately he just doesn't have the skill to hit consistently harder than he does but I would love to believe he would've at least benefitted from a great hatred of losing
Bubcay
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Start da Game
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what's that old saying again?
no one beats monfils 20 times in a row......he blew 4 straight match points few years ago in qatar i think......their 2005 us open battle was epic and should have actually been won by monfils as well......he blew them both......
no one beats monfils 20 times in a row......he blew 4 straight match points few years ago in qatar i think......their 2005 us open battle was epic and should have actually been won by monfils as well......he blew them both......
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Totally unworthy lessons.
If I took 19 lesson with any teacher, I would expect to learn something in the end.
mike danny
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Well, this confirms that Monfils will never beat Djokovic.
Backspin1183
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Monfils and Gasquet. The pride of French tennis.
Poisoned Slice
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The guru.
Sputnik Bulgorov
Professional
Djokovic served for a bagel in the second but it almost looked like he let that one go on purpose lol
He learned that he could not beat him.
junior74
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Federev
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I wondered about that too…
Sampras-Bruguera 1993
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And yet this tour of 20 something year olds are all losing to Monfils LOL Pathetic generation
Julius Caesar
Professional
Monfils is the one that made history, sadly
MichaelNadal
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He really choked that one match he should have won a few years ago
mike danny
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That's when you know you were never destined to win.
vive le beau jeu !
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oh my... really wish it was fake.....
CoolCoolCool
Hall of Fame
Can't decide if this is more impressive or embarrassing.
Pheasant
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Djokovic cut Monfils a break by not bageling him in the 2nd set. Djoker clearly tanked that game. Monfils was rustier than I've ever seen him, which is why his ranking was only 211 when he entered the match yesterday.
It's funnier than hell that he just recently beat Tsitsipas, De Minaur, and Norrie. Those 3 guys are all ranked in the top 15 and they are all in their mid-20s.
Anyway, the match had a couple of insane rallies in it. But it was nothing like the good old days.
It's funnier than hell that he just recently beat Tsitsipas, De Minaur, and Norrie. Those 3 guys are all ranked in the top 15 and they are all in their mid-20s.
Anyway, the match had a couple of insane rallies in it. But it was nothing like the good old days.
jm1980
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Fabresque
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Vitas is such a liar. He said nobody beats him 17 times in a row but wtf is this ****
jm1980
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LOL, that was after he beat Jimmy Connors for the first time after 16 losses in a row. The 0-17 record against Borg came a couple of years later
Sputnik Bulgorov
Professional
In the bp for 5-1, Djokovic was in complete control of the point, and had a chance to hit a winner off a floater. He inexplicably slowed down and hit a drop volley at his feet instead. Clearly, he wanted to save Monfils a shred of dignity!
Sputnik Bulgorov
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TMF
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H2H is worthless if you don't win the whole thing. So he's 19-0 against Monfils, but he's 2-5 in the final and that's including 3 losses against Federer.
I'm sure Djokovic would love to trade all of his 19 wins against Monfils for 1 win on any of the 5 losses in the final.
Top list of Western & Southern Open winners(Open era):
1) Federer - 7 times
2) Wilander - 4
3) Sampras - 3
= Agassi - 3
= Riessen - 3
I'm sure Djokovic would love to trade all of his 19 wins against Monfils for 1 win on any of the 5 losses in the final.
Top list of Western & Southern Open winners(Open era):
1) Federer - 7 times
2) Wilander - 4
3) Sampras - 3
= Agassi - 3
= Riessen - 3
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TheNachoMan
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Hitman
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Savage.
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helterskelter
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Good point. Not sure why Djokovic would sacrifice a Paris or Canada title for a Cincy title.
Also, five of the wins against Monfils were in slams. Funnily enough, none of them was a slam that Djokovic went on to win, so I suppose it's plausible that one could claim that the slam match meant less than a win in a final in Cincinnati would have done. But with that said, I am not convinced. For example, one of the wins was the 2010 US Open quarter-final. If Djokovic had lost that, he would not have gone on to win the 2010 US Open semi-final against Federer, but that was an important win for him, even though he lost the final against Nadal. It turned his year around, after it to that point was a much worse year than 2008 and a somewhat worse year than 2009 and honestly probably worse than 2007, too. It helped him build momentum for his breakout 2011, and it was the first of his wins against Federer from match point down in a slam - without it, who knows whether he'd have achieved all he did subsequently? So, to my mind, it's pretty questionable that he'd take one extra Cincy title but a QF loss in the 2010 US Open rather than one fewer Cincy titles and a run to the final of the 2010 US Open. (Then again, if he'd lost the 2010 US Open in the QFs, it wouldn't be the 4-3, 2-1 Bud Open, just the 4-3 Bud Open!)
To my mind, I'm not sure he'd rather win one of the Cincy finals that he lost than win the 2016 US Open semi, either. I think that a slam semi-final is roughly equal in importance to an MS final, regardless of the result of the slam final. Making a slam final is roughly equal to winning an ms title, in my book, so I think he'd probably be indifferent if given the choice of winning the 2016 US Open semi (but losing the final) or winning one of the five Cincy finals he lost. If anything, the appearance in the US Open final might matter to him a bit more than winning a Cincy title, now that he has won the event at least once (officially twice, but hard to know how he feels about that second title).
Djokovic_is_the_best#1
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Haha I love this. The joker strikes again. Both guys got great fun personalities and get on well on and off the court!
