Olympics: Federer vs. Blake

[David L]

I see your answer, the thing is it's not quite true. Nadal was obviously not at his best against Djokovic and he lost. However where do you think the "hemorrhoids" joke that is around even now comes from? I was just pointing out the double standard around here that a lot of people like to deny.

But to be honest, I didn't notice your answer initially because you don't seem to be one of the typical trolls and are making reasoned posts. I was referring more to a certain subset with that little "question" ...

But yeah I have no doubt Blake wants to win, he has just never really thought he could deep down according to mountains of evidence. I wouldn't mind seeing him win the gold. A Nadal-Blake final is a winning situation in my book.

Well, Djokovic has beaten Nadal in 4 of their last 5 hardcourt encounters and is the reigning Australian Open champion and a US Open finalist, so is clearly capable of beating Nadal on the hardcourts whether he is at his best or not. He is also younger than Nadal, developed later than Nadal and has been on the tour fewer years than Nadal, so there can be no excuses that Nadal would not have lost to Djokovic if he was playing well.

Also, from what I can see, trolls who support Federer and Nadal seem to thrive here in equal measure. The only difference is, those who support Nadal will say the Federer supporters are worse and vice versa.

Regarding Blake, I don't believe he is significantly different to any other pro in believing there is a chance he can win any match he plays. He is too advanced a tennis player to genuinely believe he has no chance against any opponent.

 

[David L]

maybe that's the look of disbelief?

Maybe it isn't.

It just looks like he's pumped. It doesn't look like shock, Andy Roddick's expression when he won the US Open.

 

[BreakPoint]

Ok so do you guys think RAFA can take out Gonzo in 1 hour ??? It will be very tough to do. Gonzo plays his best tennis in the Olympics when medal for his country is on the line. So do you still think Blake will beat Gonzo ??

I'd say it will definitely be tough for Gonzales to beat both Nadal and Blake at the same time playing 2 on 1, but you never know. :shock:

 

[Fedace]

I'd say it will definitely be tough for Gonzales to beat both Nadal and Blake at the same time playing 2 on 1, but you never know. :shock:

Have you forgotten what gonzo did in last Olympics in Athens ? He played out of his mind like someone kidnapped his mother and told him he has to win or his mother is offed. It is kind of strange how some of these countries, winning the Gold is more important than life itself...

 

[TennisandMusic]

Have you forgotten what gonzo did in last Olympics in Athens ? He played out of his mind like someone kidnapped his mother and told him he has to win or his mother is offed. It is kind of strange how some of these countries, winning the Gold is more important than life itself...

Man...did you honestly not understand what you/he said?

 

[edmondsm]

Blake will let his favorite player dominate and bow to Fed after the match.

When he saw Fish and Roddick beat Federer, he than felt he could win. Before he tanked against Fed as he felt he had no chance.

So before, Blake was a butt-sniffing Federer fanboy that could never beat Roger. Now it turns out that he's had the belief that he could beat Fed since March after watching Fish and Roddick beat him. Well, your boy might be #1 in a week but you are not in such good form.

 

[thalivest]

Federer should either make some drastic changes or retire. That is all. Right now he is embarassing himself badly.

When he saw Fish and Roddick beat Federer, he than felt he could win. Before he tanked against Fed as he felt he had no chance.

He never had a chance vs Federer before since Roger used to be a great player. Now Roger has become a crappy player thus he has a chance now. Pretty simple.

 

[urban]

To Mr. David L, just to correct a misunderstanding: When i talked about greatest depth, i meant that relatively regarding synchronity in between this era. Yes i think, if there will be any upsets caused by good performances, they will be mostly on hard courts. Given the actual vulnerability of Federer, the overplay syndroms of Djokovic, and the possible exhaustion factor of Nadal, the US open will be the most open major event of the last years, with even people like Murray or Safin or Del Potro in with a chance.

 

[thalivest]

To Mr. David L, just to correct a misunderstanding: When i talked about greatest depth, i meant that relatively regarding synchronity in between this era. Yes i think, if there will be any upsets caused by good performances, they will be mostly on hard courts. Given the actual vulnerability of Federer, the overplay syndroms of Djokovic, and the possible exhaustion factor of Nadal, the US open will be the most open major event of the last years, with even people like Murray or Safin or Del Potro in with a chance.

Safin doesnt have a chance. His Wimbledon run was a last hurrah and he has done nothing to back it up.

If Murray won the U.S Open I dont see how that would be a bad thing. This is a guy with the talent and potential to be a multi slam winner in the future, definitely not a double digit slam winner or anything, but a possible 2-4 slam winner in the future.

Del Potro could even be a future star in the game although it is early to tell. He is so young one cant discount the possability, even if right now he would seem an extremely weak slam winner if that were to happen.

 

[urban]

If Safin would be able to get to the semis again, he would have a stronger chance to win the whole thing on hard courts than on grass. A victory of Murray would be indeed not a bad thing. He is the one player today, who can change the rhythm of the baseline exchanges. And his serve and atheticism obviously have improved over the last year.

 

[dysonlu]

Based on how he lost to Gonzales today, I doubt Blake was actually playing out of his mind against Federer. Looks more like Roger just sucked.

 

[Deleted member 6835]

Prepare to be made fun of, Sampras never switched his racket, ever

Firstly, Sampras did not switch to a bigger racket during his career.

I didn't say he switched during his career, he switched after (within the last year or 2, i forget exactly, but it was all over these forums).

And somewhere there was a thread with a quote from sampras saying he wished he wouldve switched to a bigger headsize racket during his career.

Federer will wish that too.

 

[Deleted member 56360]

Blake will haul ass and win.

 

[veritech]

Blake will haul ass and win.

great post!

 

[Love Game]

Your thoughts?

My thought is that it would have been nice if you would have told us when in the heck any such match is supposed to take place.

 

[joeri888]

Federer should either make some drastic changes or retire. That is all. Right now he is embarassing himself badly.

Were Federer's changes drastic enough? Which changes did he make that turned things around? Or should he still retire?

 

[woodrow1029]

Blake will haul ass and win.

WOW!! Thanks

 

[Bud]

Blake will haul ass and win.

Very prescient!

 

[Love Game]

interesting ... not.
the last post on this thread
was 08-15-2008, 02:07 PM

before it was dredged up by Hrandyrko.

I still don't understand why people do this.
Why did you do it, Hrandyrko?
why does a "new user" do it?

 

[Deleted member 56360]

interesting ... not.
the last post on this thread
was 08-15-2008, 02:07 PM

before it was dredged up by Hrandyrko.

I still don't understand why people do this.
Why did you do it, Hrandyrko?
why does a "new user" do it?

No need to create a big fuss about it. I just decided to post here. It's a message board.

 

[Leublu tennis]

No need to create a big fuss about it. I just decided to post here. It's a message board.

Please don't use this message board to post irrelevant material. You have nothing to say, stay off this board. Period.

LT

 

[zagor]

Point of reviving this thread is?

 

[joeri888]

Blake sits at home and Federer won 2 out of the 3 Grandslams since then, and is into the second week of the fourth with a great chance to win and be no.1 in the world again.

Enough said, thread closed.

 

[FeroBango]

I was young and a huge fan of Federer. This loss absolutely devastated me then. It took that epic USO 08 win for me to heal from this.

Wispy days of childhood -- when unrelated sports events affected the mood and psyche.

 

[legcramp]

oof

 

[ChrisRF]

I was young and a huge fan of Federer. This loss absolutely devastated me then. It took that epic USO 08 win for me to heal from this.

Wispy days of childhood -- when unrelated sports events affected the mood and psyche.

Is it really worse in childhood though? I already was a big sports fan back then, but losses of single players didn't really hurt too much. There were always new impressions, and everything was very fast-paced during that age. Simply no time for long-time brooding about one match, because so many more occasions of alternating short-living delight and frustration would happen during the next days already.

 

[FeroBango]

Is it really worse in childhood though? I already was a big sports fan back then, but losses of single players didn't really hurt too much. There were always new impressions, and everything was very fast-paced during that age. Simply no time for long-time brooding about one match, because so many more occasions of alternating short-living delight and frustration would happen during the next days already.

To be fair 2008 was a particularly hard time for me as a child. Latched on to Fed as a hero figure and to see my man have the worst year of his life in many years at that time was bad personally. Then that 2009 AO happened!