Exposing the Legend of PCB

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Pablo Carreno Busta (PCB) had only two years in his career, 2017 and 2020, where he was a truly relevant player, and even in those years he failed to advance to the QF of more than 2 slams.

PCB had a very one-dimensional game after 2020, and now towards the end of his career, other players on the tour are openly contemptuous of his inability to play at the net. At Wimbledon, PCB was just another guy in the Top 100 struggling to win even a round.

While the crown jewel of PCB's career, his victory over Djokovic at the 2020 US Open is nothing to sneeze at, you have to consider that out of the many occasions from 2013-2020 when he played a Big 3 member, he lost 13 of 15 matches (0-1 vs Fed; 0-8 vs Rafa; and 2-4 vs Djoker).

Both of PCB's victories against Djokovic ('20 USO and '21 Olympics) were due, plain and simple, to Djokovic having self-inflicted meltdowns due to the stress of having to play baseline rallies against PCB.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ADF) skipped all slams from 2013 - 2017. If ADF had bothered showing up at all he would have already had a more successful career, and people would have ADF ahead of PCB among Spanish three-letter players.
 
He made Novak blow a gasquet and disqualify himself from a USO. He will always be PCBae :cool:

Atennisone

Thread 'How close Djokovic was to winning USO'

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I feel uncertain whether or not he should have been defaulted,.
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Berrettini_Fan said:
Pablo Carreno Busta (PCB) had only two years in his career, 2017 and 2020, where he was a truly relevant player, and even in those years he failed to advance to the QF of more than 2 slams.

PCB had a very one-dimensional game after 2020, and now towards the end of his career, other players on the tour are openly contemptuous of his inability to play at the net. At Wimbledon, PCB was just another guy in the Top 100 struggling to win even a round.

While the crown jewel of PCB's career, his victory over Djokovic at the 2020 US Open is nothing to sneeze at, you have to consider that out of the many occasions from 2013-2020 when he played a Big 3 member, he lost 13 of 15 matches (0-1 vs Fed; 0-8 vs Rafa; and 2-4 vs Djoker).

Both of PCB's victories against Djokovic ('20 USO and '21 Olympics) were due, plain and simple, to Djokovic having self-inflicted meltdowns due to the stress of having to play baseline rallies against PCB.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ADF) skipped all slams from 2013 - 2017. If ADF had bothered showing up at all he would have already had a more successful career, and people would have ADF ahead of PCB among Spanish three-letter players.
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He did win both Montreal and Hamburg after 2020.
 
Pablo Carreño Busta was a masterful hard court player for Spanish standards. He was as great on hard as Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spaniah former #1 who reached the USO final but nothing else in Majors on hard).

Carreño has 2, I'll repeat it, 2 USO SFs. Once it can be luck, twice there's a pattern. He was simply that good.

Particularly worth-metioning is how Carreño beat Shapovaloc TWICE (not once, so it can't be luck) at the US Open. Both at the US Open 2017 (in straight sets) and at the US Open 2020, Carreño beat Shapovalov. Even more shocking: Carreño OWNS the H2H on hard vs. Shapovalov. In effect, Carreño leads Shapovalov 5-1 in the H2H on hard.

The whole "Carreño is worthless and Shapovalov is a much more talented player" is a lie. Carreño is a superior hard court player than Shapovalov.

The final point we need to remember: Shapovalov beat Djokovic at the Olympics 2020. Yes, Mr. Carreño won an Olympic Bronze Medal on hard. Truly one of the most dangerous hard court players of his generation.

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Sport said:
Pablo Carreño Busta was a masterful hard court player for Spanish standards. He was as great on hard as Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spaniah former #1 who reached the USO final but nothing else in Majors on hard).

Carreño had 2, I'll repeat it, 2 USO SFs. Once it can be luck, twice there's a pattern. He was simply that good.

Particularly worth-metioning is how Carreño beat Shapovaloc TWICE (not once, so it can't be luck) at the US Open. Both at the US Open 2017 (in straight sets) and at the US Open 2020, Carreño beat Shapovalov. Even more shocking: Carreño OWNS the H2H on hard vs. Shapovalov. In effect, Carreño leads Shapovalov 5-1 in the H2H on hard.

The whole "Carreño is worthless and Shapovalov is a much more talented player" is a lie. Carreño is a superior hard court player than Shapovalov.

The final point, we need to remember. Shapovalov beat Djokovic at the Olympics 2020. Yes, Mr. Carreño won an Olympic Bronze Medal on hard. Truly one of the most dangerous hard court players of his generation.

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He is good as you claim. But better than Shapovalov on hc is not a big deal.

As of today Shapovalov has 3 titles out of which 2 came in last 1 year.

Shapovalov is very overrated player I would say.
 
The worst thing is being fan of zverev. I tried until 2021. But 2022 ao was the last straw .

Remember this man. He practically never wins when he is supposed to and sometimes wins when he is underdog. And even when he wins , 90% of the time it's dirty like Madrid 2023 final vs berrettinni.
 
He is 1 of a group of Spanish players known by the triple initials of their names: JCF (Juan Carlos Ferrero), RBA (Roberto Bautista Agut), ARV (Albert Ramos-Vinolas), RCB (Roberto Carballes Baena), ADF (Alejandro Davidovich Fokina), BZM (Bernabé Zapata Miralles) and PCB himself.

Ferrero aside of course, he is the only other 1 to have won a big title so a bit of respect is due for that accomplishment.
 
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Sport said:
Pablo Carreño Busta was a masterful hard court player for Spanish standards. He was as great on hard as Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spaniah former #1 who reached the USO final but nothing else in Majors on hard).

Carreño has 2, I'll repeat it, 2 USO SFs. Once it can be luck, twice there's a pattern. He was simply that good.

Particularly worth-metioning is how Carreño beat Shapovaloc TWICE (not once, so it can't be luck) at the US Open. Both at the US Open 2017 (in straight sets) and at the US Open 2020, Carreño beat Shapovalov. Even more shocking: Carreño OWNS the H2H on hard vs. Shapovalov. In effect, Carreño leads Shapovalov 5-1 in the H2H on hard.

The whole "Carreño is worthless and Shapovalov is a much more talented player" is a lie. Carreño is a superior hard court player than Shapovalov.

The final point we need to remember: Shapovalov beat Djokovic at the Olympics 2020. Yes, Mr. Carreño won an Olympic Bronze Medal on hard. Truly one of the most dangerous hard court players of his generation.

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I remembering watching his matches with Shapo where it looked like Shapo is going for easy win. But everytime PCB will play sloid forcing Shapo to play that extra ball and invariably Shapo would spray the court with errors
 
Mainad said:
He is 1 of a group of Spanish players known by the triple initials of their names: JCF (Juan Carlos Ferrero), RBA (Roberto Bautista Agut), ARV (Albert Ramos-Vinolas), RCB (Roberto Carballes Baena), ADF (Alejandro Davidovich Fokina) and PCB himself.

Ferrero aside of course, he is the only other 1 to have won a big title so a bit of respect is due for that accomplishment.
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You forgot BZM.
 
Sport said:
Carreño has 2, I'll repeat it, 2 USO SFs. Once it can be luck, twice there's a pattern. He was simply that good.
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Ruud was on his way to his third consecutive Roland Garros final when bad luck (stomach virus) kicked in and exposed the lucky pattern.

PCB is a legend; he’s toxic!
 
Berrettini_Fan said:
Pablo Carreno Busta (PCB) had only two years in his career, 2017 and 2020, where he was a truly relevant player, and even in those years he failed to advance to the QF of more than 2 slams.

PCB had a very one-dimensional game after 2020, and now towards the end of his career, other players on the tour are openly contemptuous of his inability to play at the net. At Wimbledon, PCB was just another guy in the Top 100 struggling to win even a round.

While the crown jewel of PCB's career, his victory over Djokovic at the 2020 US Open is nothing to sneeze at, you have to consider that out of the many occasions from 2013-2020 when he played a Big 3 member, he lost 13 of 15 matches (0-1 vs Fed; 0-8 vs Rafa; and 2-4 vs Djoker).

Both of PCB's victories against Djokovic ('20 USO and '21 Olympics) were due, plain and simple, to Djokovic having self-inflicted meltdowns due to the stress of having to play baseline rallies against PCB.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ADF) skipped all slams from 2013 - 2017. If ADF had bothered showing up at all he would have already had a more successful career, and people would have ADF ahead of PCB among Spanish three-letter players.
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PCB is famous for creating the Weak Era and making it known worldwide, and for the Djokovic incident. That is it.
 
Another moronic thread in a long series of such threads from certain posters who are only able to appreciate their favorite couple of players (if even that) and feel compelled to write idiocies about the game and other players in general.
 
His "victory" against Djokovic at the 2020 USO was the crown jewel of his career? Haha. He got a cheap "win" because Djokovic couldn't keep his on court shenanigans in check, had a freak accident, and thumped the line lady in the throat. Up until that point, he was 0-3 against Djokovic and most likely would have gotten mowed down in the next 3 sets. His Olympic victory where he actually beat Djokovic can be argued as the crown jewel of his career, which was legit.
 
MichaelNadal said:
He made Novak blow a gasquet and disqualify himself from a USO. He will always be PCBae :cool:

Atennisone

Thread 'How close Djokovic was to winning USO'

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Twice
poyHD5C.png



I feel uncertain whether or not he should have been defaulted,.
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Oh Michael. I saw these pictures and suddenly those moments ran through my mind again and again. I remember that PCB challenged for the first picture if I'm not mistaken. That just changed the whole thing for that tournament. Those Covid days were so weird TBH.
 
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