Wish me Luck!

[Dranguyengon]

Even though we all know that you'll probably lose 6-0,6-0, you shouldn't think that way. Tennis is 90% mental. Think of all of your skills as your 100% ability. Not if you had the mental toughness, you can play up to you ability. That goes for the same as your opponant. If you can jar his mental game, he won't play 100% of his game. So if you can win the 2 games in a row right in the begginning, then that will determine the match. I mean your a 14 year old going against a 25 year old. He's the one to have a possibly mentally deferred game.

 

[Kobble]

I give you credit. For starters, it takes guts to play a tournament that you could get baggled in, and it also takes guts to post about it on a website. Who cares what these people think about your results or character, they will likely never have an influence on your life. Now, if you post on SteveG, then you will be facing off against those p--cks in the same tourneys. That is a completely different ball game. Anyway, good luck!

 

[pound cat]

So, it has come to this: the green eyed monster has reared its ugly head. I hope you have a good time maSha/Philipe & do ignore the sour grapes being pelted at you by the spectators in the cheap seats.

 

[Don Felder]

VJH, I am not an adult... I am 17 years old. I'm not the bad guy here, and I'm certainly not the one initiating the bragging about my "trophies." I was merely responding to MaSha's presumptuous challenges. If you would check my past criticisms of MaSha (and Liam as well), you would see that at no point did I brag about myself or use myself as an example. The fact is, MaSha and Liam contribute nothing to the discussion here, and that is where I take issue with the both of them.

Not only is it a colossal waste of space for MaSha to be posting here, but it is also an unabashed attempt at bragging on his part. The post was made with utterly egoistic intentions.

My on-the-spot analysis of this whole situation is that MaSha isn't getting enough attention at home. If the unenlightened amongst you would bear with me for a few quick moments, I can assure you that when I have a big tournament coming I am not spending my time telling anonymous people on an internet message board about it. Instead, I am out practicing and hitting and making sure I'm doing all the right things.

For those of you chastising MikeJ, me, and the few others here for standing up to MaSha's shameless attention grubbing escapades, please understand that this is not a day care, we are not parents, and 14 is certainly old enough to know what constitutes egregious bragging.

Good day.

- Don Felder

 

[Feña14]

Well Don, you have the nerve to say we contribute nothing when quite frankly most of your "25" posts have been saying about how much we don't contribute. So you are really contributing to what the board is for? Or are you here to look "macho" and pick on a 14 year old?

Are you obsessed with us? you seem to follow us round and talk ****. People could say you are molestering us. You have started talking about me when I have nothing to do with this topic. So why have you?

I know you aren't very clever and maybe need some friends but this isn't the way to get them, ok?

You have been slamming our posts when I have been posting here for a long time, you don't even no anything about me or what I have posted in the past!

How long has your head been stuck up your ***?!?!?!?!?

-Liam

 

[aceindahole2K5]

liam and masha......you guys are silly, and yea you say some stupid stupid stuff......you kind of remind me of a kid on my team who has a sevre obsession with venus williams. He once argued to me for half an hour that Venus would defeat Federer in straights. Obvious nonsense and stupidity, and you both seem to have a simmilar complex for Sharapova and Dementieva respectively. My point to the rest of the board. These are two kids, just a few years younger than me, and A. Fourteen is a severely mental age......you are just not normal for a good year or two in middle school. B. These two have a passion for tennis, misguided and silly as it may be, they love tennis. What kind of hypocritcal pretentious jerks are we to yell at them because they are appreciating tennis in the wrong way. If oggling russian babes makes tennis more fun for them, let em do it, and let em yak about it, but it is stuff like this that leads people to believe that tennis is an elitest sport, because the attitudes around here are still a bit stuck up. By the way, i hear MaSha uses an oversize, lets beat him up.

 

[Don Felder]

I have lurked on this board for about three and a half years, generally enjoying the content and posts, especially learning more about lesser pros and event reports done by forumers who attended. As for "molestering" you, please, do not flatter yourself. I may not be as clever as you, but I certainly do not care to "molester" you at any point. What I do care for you to know is that I have followed your posts enough to know that you need to be stopped. Do not kid yourself, I have been here much longer than you.

I am sorry that your 604 inane posts far outquantify my 26, but perhaps somewhere along the line you have heard of the adage "Quality over quantity?"

Good day.

 

[SB]

Sorry but MikeJ is right your most likely just wasting a spot in the draw, from which a good player could have had.......

How could he waste a good player's spot in the draw if everyone who signed up got in? Wasn't that the original point? Either he was selected (and thus might waste a spot), or everyone got in who wanted (and thus isn't taking anyone's spot).

 

[Feña14]

Let me set this straight!

I don't oogle over Dementieva, I don't think she is particularly good looking, but what I do like his her attacking style and "lacking" serve.

It's great to watch, she is also a really nice person, so how does that mean I have a passion for her?

She is a nice variation to the WTA tour and that is what I admire. Looks aren't everything!

-Liam

 

[jack mckinney]

Good Luck and kick butt. Most of all have a good time. You are getting to what most of us may never have the chance to do.

 

[mikej]

Exactly, most of us will never have the chance to enter in an open tournament and play against other amateur players. I'm sure I never will. Oh wait, I've done that a couple of hundred times.

 

[jeebeesus]

Hey Philippe way to go little fella. We`re all right behind you! You just got yourself a fan .

 

[roundiesee]

Good luck Masha. Don't worry too much about getting bagled. Just do your best and play your game. And remember to enjoy the moment. Take care.

 

[Shaolin]

MaSha--
Good luck to you. Several years ago I was in a situation, coming unseeded into my first Futures tournament (having moved from the tennis-mecca of Anchorage, Alaska with no ranking) and faced a guy that had an ATP ranking around 200 something, and had just won the Granby challenger a few weeks earlier. I lost the match, but won some games and understood a lot better what my weapons were and what I needed to improve. Anyway good luck and have fun.

 

[ragnaROK]

Wow the claws are really flying in here.

Anyway congrats on gettin the spot. It'll go by so fast that it'll be nothing but a blur afterward, but remember to stop to take it all in, it's a special feeling. It's easy to be totally frozen by the moment and suddenly you start doing things you have never done before (ex: a drop shot outta nowhere). You know your own game better than anyone else does, so stick to it when the match starts. You might make a few strategic changes here and there but never try to play outside yourself. Go out there and compete. But also have fun.

 

[Dranguyengon]

BTW, what is your game MaSha?

My style of play is all-courter allthough it hasn't always been. I've been trained to play baseline although i mostly played doubles. Now i'm an allcourter because i can and will hit lots of angles, and diferent types of shots. I started playing all-courter because of the advantage of the net is against all the players in my league. Most are baseliners and we play on hardcourt so i think i will do better this season. Hopefully i'll play a game few have seen before.

 

[larrhall]

Agree with RagnaRok. Just go and have fun. Play the B-A-L-L. Remember to breathe. Soak up the sensations of competing in that environment. Don't think about the score - I mean don't think about what the result will be and don't even keep track of the game score when you're playing the point. See the ball and react. You're a brave kid - as for the other teenagers punching away at MaSha, you may have better tennis games than him but you ain't got his courage. Maybe that's why you are knocking him around. This game is about learning, about practicing what you learn, about taking chances, about having fun...good luck, kid.

 

[benbo3756]

Wow, I really can't believe this thing has gone 5 pages now. I don't see the big deal here. How can someone be upset with MaSha just because he wanted us to wish him luck. I understand that he did not realize how the tournament selection happened and such, and it is true that many of his posts are well, pretty dumb, but it is a little over the top to say it's a "waste of space" and stuff. There is unlimited space on this board and if you don't want to read his posts well don't click on them and read. I think it is pretty cool he is in the tournament and is playing some guy a decade older than him. If his posts are a waste of space, then why even read them? Why would you waste space commenting on something that is a waste of space? I don't understand the hostility here, but whatever. Good Luck dude, and you better post your results.

 

[Peter K.]

MaSha, that's great news, buddy! Go get 'em! And as far as what to do you in your match, take a tip from our favorite player of all time:

"Watch the ball. Move your feet. It's the first thing you learn. It's the last thing you learn." -Andre Agassi

Have fun, MaSha. You will rock!!!

 

[Deuce]

mikej wrote: "Since you maintained I'm just bitter because of your tennis prowess, I guess I better list some of my stats for comparison. I've played on the Zonal Team for the Mid-Atlantic in 12s, 14s, and 16s, and played SuperNational Hards and Clays in 12s and 14s."

Even with all of those athletic achievements, you are still a despicable human being.

If I were in charge of these boards, david aames, Don Felder, and mikej would be banned permanently. What they've done goes far beyond petty. Far beyond viscious. Far beyond sanity, even. Having seen the way they've treated this kid, I would personally have no qualms about ripping their balls off to ensure none of them ever have children. If any of them happen to have somehow thus far escaped castration and produced a child, said child (or children) should be removed from them immediately.

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would love to be locked in a room alone with each of you - one at a time. Only one of us would walk out with balls intact.

This is the most disgusting personal display I've seen on the internet to this point. You people simply do not deserve to roam free.

 

[david aames]

You remind me of the self indulging old fart at the club nobody would want to play with because he calls out every serve he cannot touch. In the end, he ends up hanging at the club anyway and interrupts everyone's matches uninvited. He too wishes he was 'in charge' but guess what – everyone is laughing at his face and he doesn't even understand why.

And please refrain yourself from voicing out this little obsession of yours with balls and locker rooms... THAT is spooky.

mikej wrote: "Since you maintained I'm just bitter because of your tennis prowess, I guess I better list some of my stats for comparison. I've played on the Zonal Team for the Mid-Atlantic in 12s, 14s, and 16s, and played SuperNational Hards and Clays in 12s and 14s."

Even with all of those athletic achievements, you are still a despicable human being.

If I were in charge of these boards, david aames, Don Felder, and mikej would be banned permanently. What they've done goes far beyond petty. Far beyond viscious. Far beyond sanity, even. Having seen the way they've treated this kid, I would personally have no qualms about ripping their balls off to ensure none of them ever have children. If any of them happen to have somehow thus far escaped castration and produced a child, said child (or children) should be removed from them immediately.

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would love to be locked in a room alone with each of you - one at a time. Only one of us would walk out with balls intact.

This is the most disgusting personal display I've seen on the internet to this point. You people simply do not deserve to roam free.

 

[mikej]

First of all, what's with the continued reference to MaSha as a "poor kid." He is a teenager for god's sake. He's not some five year old who deserves to receive a candy cane every time he posts on here, so we can protect his precious feelings. The guy is a few years younger than myself, and lists his height and weight as that of a somewhat average adult. I think he has been out of his baby stroller for a little too long now for someone to be holding his hand everywhere he goes. I would think even MaSha himself would be a little disgusted with the maturity that some people are granting a fourteen year old on this board. Give the guy some credit for being a logical being, not some baby lost wandering in the woods searching for interesting looking earthworms.

In response to Deuce:
How's it going man? A lot of built up rage there, threatening to rip people's balls off and all. Are things going okay at home?

Anyways, if a kid of mine turns out like MaSha (or at least how I judge MaSha from his posts, I hope he's different outside of the virtual world) I'll be glad to turn him over to you. Having you mess with his balls all day will be punishment enough, I suppose, for his childish, self-congratulatory motives.

 

[david aames]

MikeJ -- Not that it matters but for the record I appreciate your documented contribution to this thread.

If you were to decide to stay on board a little longer you will get to see that it doesn't get THAT bad all the time.

Of course you will have to suffer the occasional post from a 14 YO kid trying to articulate in the Pro Player section that John Kerry is 'gross' and that he doesn't deserve your vote because he supports abortion rights but it's okay because the guys really in charge always end up deleting those threads anyway.

First of all, what's with the continued reference to MaSha as a "poor kid." He is a teenager for god's sake. He's not some five year old who deserves to receive a candy cane every time he posts on here, so we can protect his precious feelings. The guy is a few years younger than myself, and lists his height and weight as that of a somewhat average adult. I think he has been out of his baby stroller for a little too long now for someone to be holding his hand everywhere he goes. I would think even MaSha himself would be a little disgusted with the maturity that some people are granting a fourteen year old on this board. Give the guy some credit for being a logical being, not some baby lost wandering in the woods searching for interesting looking earthworms.

In response to Deuce:
How's it going man? A lot of built up rage there, threatening to rip people's balls off and all. Are things going okay at home?

Anyways, if a kid of mine turns out like MaSha (or at least how I judge MaSha from his posts, I hope he's different outside of the virtual world) I'll be glad to turn him over to you. Having you mess with his balls all day will be punishment enough, I suppose, for his childish, self-congratulatory motives.

 

[babar]

Where are the matches held? I live in the DC area and visit the Legg Mason every year. I'll come watch if you can tell me where to go. I'll bring some ppl to cheer also.

 

[Dedans Penthouse]

Deuce, you don't have to "rip 'em off" altogether; just turn them into a pair of earings (wink).

For the "I'VE DONE THIS, I'VE PLAYED ZONAL THAT, I, AM RANKED, I, I, I, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...Z-Z-Z-Z" crowd: slam-dunking a 14 year old just because he had a starstruck moment (kinda like daydreaming about playing centerfield in Yankee Stadium) is akin to cracking eggshells with sledgehammers, no? So the tournament in reality has "Community College" admission standards. So what? What's the big deal? mileslong had it correct; rugby: brutal game played by gentlemen (for the most part) and tennis: a great game played (all too often) by whinny, self-centered brats who equate their sense of self-worth with their "game."

Masha: as you head into the Collisium to face the lions with what appears to be a feather in your hand, don't worry about anything other than to have a good time. You're not going to win this tournament, and believe it or not people aren't going to be focusing on your one particular match, so take a page outta Gaston Gaudio's French Open book........don't get uptight, pull the cork out of your keester, relax, and enjoy playing (think loose and rhythmic---breathe!). Btw, least the churlish peanut gallery thinks I'm mollycoddling you as well, be it known Mr. Casey that I've got $20 bucks that says you don't get a game!!!! Seriously, good luck.

Lighten up ladies..........

 

[Don Felder]

Deuce, I too voice Mike's concerns: Is everything A-Ok at home? Everything alright at the office?

Secondly, no one brought up his trophies or his tournaments played until MaSha began acting like he was the only one who has ever played in any kind of tournament. He challenged us in that regard, and we responded with what we have done.

I don't know what is more despicable, trying to maintain the integrity and quality of the content of one of my favorite message boards or threatening to fondle somebody's balls via an internet tennis forum. It's a close one.

 

[benbo3756]

OK Don, I don't recall anyone asking you to maintain the integrity of the TW messageboards. You don't run the thing, you get no say as to what can be posted on here, so please shut up and get over your self.

 

[botticelli]

SAD

I usually read most of the posts on this message board and I must say it is really sad to read such disparaging remarks on this topic. A friend of mine once told me, "Tennis is a sport for egotistical people." I used to disagree with him, but after reading all the messages on this topic I must agree with him.


Quite pathetic!

 

[TwistServe]

Re: SAD

I usually read most of the posts on this message board and I must say it is really sad to read such disparaging remarks on this topic. A friend of mine once told me, "Tennis is a sport for egotistical people." I used to disagree with him, but after reading all the messages on this topic I must agree with him.


Quite pathetic!

Usually the better tennis players are brats, cry babies, and arses. Look at the pros

 

[NoBadMojo]

i agree w. botticelli..lots of ego's here the size of a Buick and rude and mean spirited people. i guess it is my fault tho in that i actually read most of this crap. . Anyone else wish the sysop would just wipe this toxic thread out? ed

 

[andirez]

Anyone else wish the sysop would just wipe this toxic thread out?

Great idea, it is about time that this stops.

 

[mileslong]

. He challenged us in that regard, and we responded with what we have done.

dude, no one ever challenged you to do crap. a kid is excited about playing a tourney. he didnt say he had won more trophies than you, he didnt say he was a pro. just looking for people to pump him up, god, what a freakin crime that is. sory it offended someone of your tennis acumen... :x

 

[SB]

...MaSha began acting like he was the only one who has ever played in any kind of tournament. ....

No, he didn't. A couple of you interpreted it that way, apparently. Telling, isn't it....

 

[mikej]

Well sean orourke, mileslong, and SB:

Obviously you've voiced your agreement that posting a few tennis stats was uncalled for because MaSha (I guess I might as well go along...let me rephrase) poor, young, little, helpless MaSha did not challenge my, or Don Felder's, ability in any way. Perhaps you missed MaSha's statement that he "could kick [my] sorry little arse" and that I was "bitter because would lose to leg-amputees." From my point of view, that warranted a challenge to my ability. Yes, SB, that interpretation is telling...isn't it. I guess.

Well, for any of you who actually read these six or seven pages of bickering, I apologize. I didn't intend for this thread to become the mother of all Tennis Warehouse threads, sadly going much farther than threads on real tournaments like Roland Garros. As a local resident, I merely intended to dispel the fairy tale that MaSha started about this WildCard Challenge, which many were amazed by due to their ignorance about the tournament. I saw MaSha's post as an attempt for attention and glory, and felt the need to reply. No one else posts their draws for their open tournaments in the Pro Player folder, and MaSha doesn't need to either.

Regardless, this will be my last post on this thread. Hopefully "Wish me Luck!" will now wither away and die.

 

[SB]

Well sean orourke, mileslong, and SB:

Obviously you've voiced your agreement that posting a few tennis stats was uncalled for because MaSha (I guess I might as well go along...let me rephrase) poor, young, little, helpless MaSha did not challenge my, or Don Felder's, ability in any way. Perhaps you missed MaSha's statement that he "could kick [my] sorry little arse" and that I was "bitter because would lose to leg-amputees." From my point of view, that warranted a challenge to my ability. Yes, SB, that interpretation is telling...isn't it. I guess.
....

Read my post. I never said he didn't challenge your ability. I said he didn't act like "no one else had ever played a tournament, " which was the initial charge. After his actions were roundly disparaged, then he DID get into a pi**ing match with you all -- testosterone overload, I called it.

My point (and that of others) is that he didn't play up the tournament nearly as much as a couple of you thought. I know what tournament he's talking about, I know how it works, and I didn't see him for being anything but enthusiastic and excited for the opportunity. He wasn't bragging. He repeatedly said he would get his tail kicked, wouldn't win a game, etc. Does he have more cojones than brains? Maybe. But SO WHAT. That fact appears to have threatened a couple of posters ....

By the way, he didn't start the leg amputee comments. He was obviously using it in response to the slam that legless people could qualify for the tournament as easily as he did.

 

[katarddx]

mikej wrote: "Since you maintained I'm just bitter because of your tennis prowess, I guess I better list some of my stats for comparison. I've played on the Zonal Team for the Mid-Atlantic in 12s, 14s, and 16s, and played SuperNational Hards and Clays in 12s and 14s."

Even with all of those athletic achievements, you are still a despicable human being.

If I were in charge of these boards, david aames, Don Felder, and mikej would be banned permanently. What they've done goes far beyond petty. Far beyond viscious. Far beyond sanity, even. Having seen the way they've treated this kid, I would personally have no qualms about ripping their balls off to ensure none of them ever have children. If any of them happen to have somehow thus far escaped castration and produced a child, said child (or children) should be removed from them immediately.

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would love to be locked in a room alone with each of you - one at a time. Only one of us would walk out with balls intact.

This is the most disgusting personal display I've seen on the internet to this point. You people simply do not deserve to roam free.

AGREED!!! MaSha, just think about it...You will play the most important match of your career, while those people wiil have tattoed LOSER on their forheads! Wish you good luck!
By the way, this board becomes pathetic. Park players are acusing kids of posting on tennis Forum!?
Pathetic! Get a life!

 

[pound cat]

No, they don'y have LOSER tattooed on their arm. They have BORN LOSSER tattooed on their arm just like the one I saw tattooed on the arm of a guy who not only was one but had a tattoo artist who couldn't spell. Now, THAT'S a LOSSER LMAO. Have a fun time, MaSha.

 

[mikej]

I have to back down on my statement that I wouldn't post on this thread again. MaSha neglected to let everyone know how he did, so I'll do the honors.

http://tournaments.usta.com/tournaments/Draws/EventDraw.aspx?T=17902&E=1&D=M&S=5

Sean Orourke, you just won twenty dollars. Congrats.

By the way, I'm sure it was just one of those matches where the score simply doesn't reflect how much of a dogfight the match was.

 

[Phil]

Yeah, but he won in the first round, beating some guy named "bye". Hooray, Flipper!

And Deuce...it's medication time, buddy. As if you COULD rip anyone's balls off, but let's say you COULD...it's a tennis chat board, DUDE....relax and let the Prozac take effect.

 

[jeebeesus]

hey Phillippe never mind the results kid, keep swingin........

 

[Anonymous]

Hey everyone, sorry for being late to post the results. And no, it was not post-match breakdown!! I had 40-15 on my serve once, and 30-40 on his once. I also brought two other games to deuce. The guy was super nice, told me I played real well for 14, and told me not to worry about the score, that he was 25 and played proffessionaly one year. I asked him how fast he served and he said 110's. His serve was real hard to touch. It was a great experience though, and I'm glad I conquered my fears and participated against a great player. Thanks for all who supported me, and next year I hope to do better! By the way, the foot-fault guy who watches the match really threw me off! If any of you meet Medvene-Collins, your lucky, he's a really nice person, and I admire his game.

 

[TwistServe]

Hey everyone, sorry for being late to post the results. And no, it was not post-match breakdown!! I had 40-15 on my serve once, and 30-40 on his once. I also brought two other games to deuce.

Does that mean you lost 0-6, 0-6?

 

[alienhamster]

MaSha--

Will your shameless bragging ever stop???

Just kidding. It's great that you gave this a shot, and that you're soaking up everything you could from the experience.

Does this make you want to enter more tournaments like this, or do you wanna give it a rest for a bit?

 

[Deuce]

I'm really glad that your opponent possessed some class and decency - two elements obviously lacking within some of the pathetic characters in this thread.

... and, Phil - you're right. I've realized that it's not possible to rip the balls of of those who quite obviously don't possess any.

 

[Phil]

That's funny, Deuce. Deuce the Destroyer, the ball yanker-all of a sudden, from socialist cliche monger to Conan. Like I said, check your meds. Something's off here.

 

[Radical Shot]

Well MaSha, I believe that you learn more from a match that you lost, than a match that you won. The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
________
buy bubblers

 

[ucd_ace]

Thanks davie, making me feel great. I guess @wrights Dent pics just keep coming, and keep coming UNCRITICIZED. If Dent looks like an ape, what's that got to do with pro player discussion, aames? Yet I never see you critizing those posts or the ones on Lee's racket which should either be under "rackets" or "Pros rackets and gear" Of course, I'm the scapegoat, since I'm 14...

Hey, I totally called him out on the repetitive Dent pictures.

 

[david aames]

Don't get too excited buddy -- as far as I'm concerned you just came to realize that you're not the sharpest knife in the kitchen.

I've realized that it's not possible to rip the balls of of those who quite obviously don't possess any.

 

[@wright]

Don't look at the damn Dent pics if you don't want to see them. I'll keep posting them as long as I think they're funny.

 

[Camilio Pascual]

Taunting a 14 year old (or for that matter, anybody) for his loss, mikej? All you have shown me is that you are unsuitable for the sport of tennis as played by amateurs. You have acted as a child to a child. If you are under ~20 years old, this is not meant to be a strong criticism of you. If you are over 20, it is pathetic behaviour on your part.