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[bullfan]

Judging on the majority of your posts, in your opinion, this only goes for Nadal.
Which is ridiculous to say.

Properly managing one's schedule will help a lot, just for starters. Next, adjust your playing style in stead of running around like an energizer bunny on whatever a court, next #2 - stop with all the $$$$$$$$$-grabbing exho's and other silly endorsement-inhanced exposures (Shakira? Armani? ).

And to top it all - make sure your team finally SHUTS UP about whatever a niggle is bothering you. It's not going to help.

I still consider myself a fan of Rafa, as I've met him quite a couple of times and consider him to be a fine gentleman. But it's time for him to finally show himself a MAN and to take whatever's coming to him in proper, mature style, in stead of keeping on complaining about whatever is happening. I wouldn't at all mind him finally kicking Tio Toni's ass, as I think he might well be the main culprit, and it's not doing Nadal any good (anymore).

I think it would behoove all to see how players respond to their loses at a high level before slamming others. Some respond with injury excuses, some praise the others, and some can't give the praise the winner deserves. I always see so much hypocrisy in these types of posts, where it's player A or player B that does something but my player doesn't do such and such. The narrow definition that many use absolves their fave, while accusing others.

 

[Clarky21]

Judging on the majority of your posts, in your opinion, this only goes for Nadal.
Which is ridiculous to say.

Properly managing one's schedule will help a lot, just for starters. Next, adjust your playing style in stead of running around like an energizer bunny on whatever a court, next #2 - stop with all the $$$$$$$$$-grabbing exho's and other silly endorsement-inhanced exposures (Shakira? Armani? ).

And to top it all - make sure your team finally SHUTS UP about whatever a niggle is bothering you. It's not going to help.

I still consider myself a fan of Rafa, as I've met him quite a couple of times and consider him to be a fine gentleman. But it's time for him to finally show himself a MAN and to take whatever's coming to him in proper, mature style, in stead of keeping on complaining about whatever is happening. I wouldn't at all mind him finally kicking Tio Toni's ass, as I think he might well be the main culprit, and it's not doing Nadal any good (anymore).

This whole post is full of win.

 

[Deleted member 60695]

You didn't answer my point about the military;

People in the military undergo severe torture not being allowed to ever sleep or lie down, being beaten within an inch of their lives every single second of every single day for the rest of their lives.

Tennis players have to hit a fuzzy yellow ball.

Why can tennis players complain?

Is your middle name 'Non Sequitur'?

 

[Deleted member 55539]

federer is sometimes too good to be true.. a perfect gentleman, a perfect player, familyman, husband, ambassador of the sport, it is just perfection everywhere you see..

 

[Raiden]

Mandatory tournaments rule is applicable to Top 30 players only. The rest of the field can play 50 tournaments per year, nobody cares.

Moreover, ATP with its disney land monkey for a director was stupid enough to specify that besides 4 slams and 8 masters four 500 tourneys and two 250 must be played rather than say "6 other tournaments". Two 250 will be played in any case becasue there are no other warmup tournaments before AO and Wimbledon. But to play all the four 500 events, players will have to shorten either post-AO rest/training period and play in Rotterdam/Marseilles/Dubai or post-Wimbledon.

For Nadal who plays a lot during clay/grass part of the season it is impossible.

Are those so called "lots of clay/grass matches all mandetory? If no then shutup cuz it means Nadal made a FREE CHOICE to play voluntary matches during that part of the season.

Don't know about Djokovic, but both get zero pointers for at least 2 years because they don't play all the required events.

That's why they are unhappy about ATP rules/schedules and have the democratic right of voicing their grievance.

What democratic right? There are 3 of the top 4 players complaining (plus RodDICK). That's it.

There's nothing democratic about 4 out of 10000 crybabies whining like a spoilt brat.

 

[SLD76]

This is going into some weird logical territory now. By this logic, because there are cancer patients in this world who undergo terrible pain and suffering, folks should not be unhappy about being sick with the flu or if they have a migraine headache?

The complaints of the tennis world should be judged closer to its own history, its own unique nature and all of its constituents.

Nadal comes across as whiny to me because he gets greedy in the clay season and does not schedule his year well instead blaming it on the calendar.

he has no choice. He is not consistently good enough on HC to take a tourny or two off. Clay dominance is what has kept him in the top 2 for 5 years.

He is the reverse Sampras, who could afford to be mediocre on clay because he dominated HC and Grass.

 

[SLD76]

Well, most tournaments are played on hardcourts and studies have shown that all that movement on hardcourts is overly hard on the bodies. It's be proven that it's harder on the body than many other sports. It's not the fuzzy ball, it's the hard courts.

its slow hard courts that are the danger. combine a grinding retrieving style with slow hard court and what do you expect to happen?

better to have fast hard courts that encourage short points and aggressive play.

oh wait.

 

[Deleted member 55539]

i just saw nadal won the doubles at exxon mobil qatar last year???

i dont recall doubles play being mandatory.. :shock:

and he says the schedule is tight.. LOL