75% ... Nadal
10% ... Federer
8% ... Verdasco, Ferrer, Tsonga
5% ... Djoker, Simon, Murray
2% ... Everybody else
- KK
Psst, Nadal_Freak. Look up there ^^. The name posting those numbers is mine. It's my opinion.It is definitely higher than 75%.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is gonna beat Nadal at the French, at least not for the next 4 years if he stays healthy.
I don't agree with you but I'm not bent out of shape about it. just take a look at Nadal's winning percentage on clay and he's never lost on at RG. 4/4 He didn't even lose a set last year and his form looks even better this year on hardcourts.Psst, Nadal_Freak. Look up there ^^. The name posting those numbers is mine. It's my opinion.
Why are you so bent out of shape about what other people think? This is just an InterNet forum; it's no big deal....
If Nadal wins the French Open *both* you and I will have been correct. (Pretty cool, huh?)
- KK
Fed breaking racquet: 80%
Roddick verbally abusing umpire: 90%
Nadal picking his butt: 100%
Djokovic retiring due to insert random reason: 75%
Roddick going out 1st round: 65%
Fed making finals: 80%
Nadal winning: 90%
Murray making SF: 70%
TW poster argue this until their fingers hurt: 99%
The first is probably a better "bet" than the second ... cuz Roddick doesnt' usually get that many opportunities (matches) to flame the Ump.Fed breaking racquet: 80%
Roddick verbally abusing umpire: 90%
These are fun.Nadal picking his butt: 100%
Djokovic retiring due to insert random reason: 75%
Roddick going out 1st round: 65%
So true...!TW poster argue this until their fingers hurt: 99%
What makes you think Tsonga and Verdasco are better claycourters than Djokovic? And not only that, but they have not proven themselves capable of winning a major championship though Tsonga appears to be strong enough to pull it off. He did win the Paris Masters last year in style.
Donald Young: 99%
Nadal: 1%
Others: 0%
Fed breaking racquet: 80%
Roddick verbally abusing umpire: 90%
Nadal picking his butt: 100%
Djokovic retiring due to insert random reason: 75%
Roddick going out 1st round: 65%
Fed making finals: 80%
Nadal winning: 90%
Murray making SF: 70%
TW poster argue this until their fingers hurt: 99%
Mark my words, Andy Murray will NOT win the 2009 French Open
Make us look bad? hahahahahahaha
It is un-australian to not go for the underdog
and 2. I am one person who is voicing there opinion. I am not making you look bad at all. You make yourself look bad by saying something like that!
Ok, hows this. I am playing in a tournament at the moment and if i win my round today i will get like 130 bucks or something along those lines. I will put half on Andy to win if I win.
You don't like the thread, dont comment. You sir are a troll, and I do not see the need why you have to comment. Leave it alone.
pricey_aus said:Originally Posted by pricey_aus View Post
Ok, hows this. I am playing in a tournament at the moment and if i win my round today i will get like 130 bucks or something along those lines. I will put half on Andy to win if I win.
You don't like the thread, dont comment. You sir are a troll, and I do not see the need why you have to comment. Leave it alone.
You'll be wasting your money.
Pricey there are the odds on the FO futures at the sportstab now:
NADAL Rafael 1.40
FEDERER Roger 7.00
DJOKOVIC Novak 15.00
MURRAY Andy 15.00
DEL POTRO Juan Martin 21.00
VERDASCO Fernando 21.00
GONZALEZ Fernando 26.00
MONFILS Gael 26.00
ALMAGRO Nicolas 34.00
FERRER David 34.00
NALBANDIAN David 34.00
If you bet $65 on Murray to win the FO now you'll end up with a whopping $975!! :shock:
where is davy? he was gonna be back before the french i thought id bet on him for 20.00 if he had bad odds lol
Davydenko is $81.00(odds may vary in other places). not bad- but where is he now, hes only played 3 matches all year.
Full list is here:
NADAL Rafael 1.40 $
FEDERER Roger 7.00 $
DJOKOVIC Novak 15.00 $
MURRAY Andy 15.00 $
DEL POTRO Juan Martin 21.00 $
VERDASCO Fernando 21.00 $
GONZALEZ Fernando 26.00 $
MONFILS Gael 26.00 $
ALMAGRO Nicolas 34.00 $
FERRER David 34.00 $
NALBANDIAN David 34.00 $
TSONGA Jo-Wilfred 67.00 $
DAVYDENKO Nikolay 81.00
ROBREDO Tommy 81.00 $
SIMON Gilles 81.00 $
GASQUET Richard 101.00 $
CILIC Marin 126.00 $
WAWRINKA Stanislas 126.00 $
BERDYCH Tomas 151.00 $
FERRERO Juan Carlos 151.00 $
ANDREEV Igor 201.00 $
CHARDY Jeremy 201.00 $
GULBIS Ernests 201.00 $
MONACO Juan 201.00 $
ACASUSO Jose 251.00 $
ANCIC Mario 251.00 $
BAGHDATIS Marcos 251.00 $
BLAKE James 251.00 $
HEWITT Lleyton 251.00 $
MATHIEU Paul-Henri 251.00 $
RODDICK Andy 251.00 $
SAFIN Marat 251.00 $
STEPANEK Radek 251.00 $
BELLUCCI Thomaz 501.00 $
CANAS Guillermo 501.00 $
CHELA Juan Ignacio 501.00 $
HAAS Tommy 501.00 $
KOHLSCHREIBER Philipp 501.00 $
SODERLING Robin 501.00 $
TROCIKI Viktor 501.00 $
YOUZHNY Mikhail 501.00 $
BENNETEAU Julien 1001.00 $
BOLELLI Simone 1001.00 $
CALLERI Agustin 1001.00 $
CLEMENT Arnaud 1001.00 $
DARCIS Steve 1001.00 $
FISH Mardy 1001.00 $
FOGNINI Fabio 1001.00 $
GICQUEL Marc 1001.00 $
GIL Frederico 1001.00 $
GINEPRI Robby 1001.00 $
GRANOLLERS Marcel 1001.00 $
HANESCU Victor 1001.00 $
HERNYCH Jan 1001.00 $
KARLOVIC Ivo 1001.00 $
KIEFER Nicolas 1001.00 $
KUNITSYN Igor 1001.00 $
LJUBICIC Ivan 1001.00 $
LOPEZ Feliciano 1001.00 $
MASSU Nicolas 1001.00 $
MELZER Jurgen 1001.00 $
MONTANES Albert 1001.00 $
NIEMINEN Jarkko 1001.00 $
NISHIKORI Kei 1001.00 $
QUERREY Sam 1001.00 $
SANTORO Fabrice 1001.00 $
SCHWANK Eduardo 1001.00 $
SEPPI Andreas 1001.00 $
SERRA Florent 1001.00 $
STARACE Potito 1001.00 $
TIPSAREVIC Janko 1001.00 $
TURSUNOV Dmitry 1001.00 $
VLIEGEN Kristof 1001.00 $
ANDERSON Kevin 2001.00 $
ANDUJAR Pablo 2001.00 $
BECKER Benjamin 2001.00 $
CAPDEVILLE Paul 2001.00 $
DABUL Brian 2001.00 $
DANCEVIC Frank 2001.00 $
DANIEL Marcos 2001.00 $
DELIC Amer 2001.00 $
DEVILDER Nicolas 2001.00 $
GABASHVILI Teimuraz 2001.00 $
GARCIA-LOPEZ Guillermo 2001.00 $
GIMENO-TRAVER Daniel 2001.00 $
GOLUBEV Andrey 2001.00 $
GREMELMAYR Denis 2001.00 $
HERNANDEZ Oscar 2001.00 $
HORNA Luis 2001.00 $
ISTOMIN Denis 2001.00 $
JUNQUEIRA Diego 2001.00 $
KARANUSIC Roko 2001.00 $
KENDRICK Robert 2001.00 $
LAPENTTI Nicolas 2001.00 $
LLODRA Michael 2001.00 $
LU Yen-Hsun 2001.00 $
MAHUT Nicolas 2001.00 $
MALISSE Xavier 2001.00 $
MARTIN Alberto 2001.00 $
MULLER Gilles 2001.00 $
NAVARRO Ivan 2001.00 $
ODESNIK Wayne 2001.00 $
PETZSCHNER Philipp 2001.00 $
PHAU Bjorn 2001.00 $
REYNOLDS Bobby 2001.00 $
ROCHUS Christophe 2001.00 $
ROITMAN Sergio 2001.00 $
SCHUETTLER Rainer 2001.00 $
SELA Dudi 2001.00 $
SPADEA Vincent 2001.00 $
STAKHOVSKY Sergiy 2001.00 $
VASSALLO ARGUELLO Martin 2001.00 $
ZVEREV Mischa 2001.00 $
murray will not make it through past the 3rd round imo....just not good enough on clay compared to the other players.
Chances of winning RG 2009:
Nadal 98 %
Djokovic 1 %
Federer 0.6 %
Murray 0.3 %
Other 0.1 %
What I don't understand is, hasn't Murray been training in Spain since young? Doesn't that mean he has (at least) decent grounding on clay? Why is it that he has been rubbish at clay tournaments thus far?
He went to sanchez-casal at the age of 15 and made a couple of CH finals as a kid on the surface. I heard an interview with the BBC a couple of days ago where he says he once 'played very well' on clay and believes he can do so again. He says the reason he's been so poor is that he's not invested enough time on the dirt to move well. Also says the key is to train his butt off on clay under Alex C's guidance so he can move as well on the dirt as he does on hard.
We'll see how he does - I think he can maybe make a semi on the dirt this year.
I tell you what though, Murray becoming a threat on clay would really set the cat among the pigeons.
He went to sanchez-casal at the age of 15 and made a couple of CH finals as a kid on the surface. I heard an interview with the BBC a couple of days ago where he says he once 'played very well' on clay and believes he can do so again. He says the reason he's been so poor is that he's not invested enough time on the dirt to move well. Also says the key is to train his butt off on clay under Alex C's guidance so he can move as well on the dirt as he does on hard.
We'll see how he does - I think he can maybe make a semi on the dirt this year.
I tell you what though, Murray becoming a threat on clay would really set the cat among the pigeons.
why?
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Neither Murray, Djokovic or Federer will beat Nadal at RG this year. They can all have a go at it if Nadal is out of the equation for whatever reason.Mark my words, Andy Murray won't win the 2009 French Open. Unless Nadal gets injured.
And who said Murray sucks on clay? . Hell he made it further than Fed did only losing to Nadal at Monte Carlo. Hell Murray may have even won Monte Carlo if Nadal wasnt in it. Not bad for a "crappy clay court player." His clay game is already improving. Murray will be a big big threat in a few years on all surfaces no doubt. I think we have Nadal's rival improving right before our eyes
people that starts threads like this should put something up...like
I will not start up any threads until the next slam if Murray doesn't win the French Open...mark my words
else, what's the point, really? mark your words? your words don't mean ****
Shock horror - Rafa agrees with the OP! (but not about the year)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/te...tips-Andy-Murray-for-Roland-Garros-glory.html