Safin [20] vs Ouanna

[ttbrowne]

Ouanna was playing in the trees today! Could not do any wrong. Sad to see Safin lose it. Ouanna will get back on his usual game and lose next match.

 

[seffina]

Drinks?

*sigh* Yes.

 

[veroniquem]

It's hard to argue with the match start-time and the match end-time. The Madrid final, from first ball struck to last ball struck, was indeed 4 hours.

But, with the big delays between points by Djoker and Nadal, the percentage of that time spent actually playing tennis was considerably less than today's Safin-Ouanna match.

I'm not a person who gets that upset by the stalling players, but the comparison of these two matches really shows how much difference those extra seconds really make. And, to watch Ouanna and Safin play those incredible, fairly long points in the 5th set, and then get right back up and serve again without delay really shows that no one has an excuse for not playing to speed no matter if the surface is slow and the points are long.

Nonsense, I watched the 5th set and there were longer delays between the serves as well if only because the crowd was screaming for minutes on end after each point. That fifth set was fantastic by the way, really dramatic and entertaining, I enjoyed every second of it. Now using that particular moment of highly emotional tennis to degrade another amazing match that happened between 2 amazing players and was equally gripping and poignant is totally despicable.
Both unique moments of tennis and instead of savoring their distinct qualities, fools rush in to spew their venom. Absurd, classless and ugly. And the loser in all this bickering is the sport of tennis itself.

 

[IvanAndreevich]

Nonsense, I watched the 5th set and there were longer delays between the serves as well if only because the crowd was screaming for minutes on end after each point. That fifth set was fantastic by the way, really dramatic and entertaining, I enjoyed every second of it. Now using that particular moment of highly emotional tennis to degrade another amazing match that happened between 2 amazing players and was equally gripping and poignant is totally despicable.
Both unique moments of tennis and instead of savoring their distinct qualities, fools rush in to spew their venom. Absurd, classless and ugly. And the loser in all this bickering is the sport of tennis itself.

Yeah, they were longer. But not retardedly long. Not 40 seconds break after serving an ace.