FUCKING YEAH!!!
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Tennis 2008
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Posts: 622 (07/06/08 3:20 PM) Registered user |
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Kenneth |
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Posts: 1289 (07/06/08 3:21 PM) Registered user |
My heart breaks for Federer. This one will be harder to shake off than the French, and you know what the talk is going to be like going into the US Open.
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19289 (07/06/08 3:23 PM) MESS member |
it was truly a wonderful match - I kept bouncing back and forth between it and the TDF which no one must be watching
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swim4life227 |
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Posts: 3821 (07/06/08 3:23 PM) Registered User |
I figured Nadal would win once he got the 2 sets in the beginning. Then Roger came back and I knew if it got to the 5th set Roger would win. However, once
Roger wasn't capable of breaking Nadal and Nadal came close so many times, I knew it was just a matter of time.
SOOO fucking epic. I am so glad he won and didn't lose knowing he had 3 championship points. WILLIAMSNADALOWNAGE <33333333333333 Props to Roger. I hate him but I give him credit. He fought off certain doom for nearly the entire match. At last Federer has met his match. |
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loveski |
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Posts: 623 (07/06/08 3:24 PM) Registered user |
I like how respectful he is of Federer.
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Carboys Desire |
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Posts: 2600 (07/06/08 3:26 PM) Registered user |
I'd hit it.
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Carboys Desire |
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Posts: 2601 (07/06/08 3:29 PM) Registered user |
He's the best ever on clay courts, according to Wikipedia:
Rafael Nadal Parera (IPA: [rafaˈel naˈdal]) (born June 3, 1986, in Manacor, Mallorca) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is ranked world number two (for a record 156 consecutive weeks),[1] is a four-time singles French Open champion (2005/06/07/08) and won the Wimbledon championship in 2008. Nadal is undefeated at the French Open, having won all 28 matches played at that tournament. He has a storied rivalry with Roger Federer, most notably for defeating the world number one at the French Open in 2006, 2007 and 2008, so far denying Federer all four Grand Slams titles in a single calendar year. From April 2005 to May 2007, Nadal won a record 81 consecutive clay court matches before being defeated by Federer in the 2007 Hamburg Masters final. This is the longest winning streak of any male player on a single surface in the open era. These achievements have led many to regard Nadal as the greatest clay-court player in the history of the sport.[2] |
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loveski |
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Posts: 624 (07/06/08 3:29 PM) Registered user |
You mean like US Open? I don't Nadal's made it past the quarterfinals.
But on clay? He's king. |
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Carboys Desire |
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Posts: 2602 (07/06/08 3:31 PM) Registered user |
He likes to bite things.
He can bite me. Anytime. |
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swim4life227 |
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Posts: 3822 (07/06/08 3:33 PM) Registered User |
That had to be the most epic thing I have watched in sports.
beats this year's superbowl beats the red socks coming from 3-0 to win their way into the World Series beats this year's NCAA men's basketball final beats any of Tiger's major wins beats my favorite match prior to today, Venus vs Lindsay in 05 at Wimbledon. |
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Sol Rosenberg |
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Posts: 3946 (07/06/08 3:36 PM) Registered User |
Fucking amazing match. Anybody that doesn't follow tennis because they think it is boring is a fucking idiot. Tennis is fucking amazing.
And who else loved McEnroe's post-match interviews? The guy is in %%!!%. Amazing. |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19291 (07/06/08 3:37 PM) MESS member |
yep, and now on to the cubs game
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 Atypical Male |
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Posts: 1457 (07/06/08 3:40 PM) |
Atypical Male wrote:Did I CALL it, Bitchez?!?!!!  Not too far off on the 5th set, either.
That's quite possibly the second-best match I've ever watched. The best: McEnroe - Wilander, Davis Cup, early 80's. This might equal it in terms of drama, though, with the rain delays, the night ending... and, of course, the INTENSE play. Quality, QUALITY match!!! |
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Sol Rosenberg |
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Posts: 3947 (07/06/08 3:42 PM) Registered User |
That's supposed to say T E A R S.
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Jitensha |
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Posts: 13651 (07/06/08 3:51 PM) Registered user |
EPIC
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Atypical Male |
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Posts: 1458 (07/06/08 3:58 PM) |
Playin' catch-up...
Kenneth wrote:I'd have to guess that the French losses are worse for him, with him having not ever won there. Because today's match was SOOOOOO close (he was two points from winning, in two instances), yeah - it'll hurt for a while. In the long run, though, he's got 5 consecutive wins at the W to fall back upon. The Open's on a hard surface, which Fed's still better upon than is Nadal. I'd give Roger very good odds of getting that 13th come September. carboysdesire wrote:I'd put him and Borg into a tie on that one. Back in his day, Bjorn was equally bad-ass at Roland Garros. PJ, I know you very much wanted Roger to win. I would've been fine with either winning at the start of the day... but as the match progressed, I felt that Rafael deserved it more. Roger will win more Slams. Now that his streak at Wimby has been halted, I'm hoping that, next year, he does the same to Nadal; how that'll happen, it's tough to see, given this year's debacle... but you never know. For all we know, someone else along the way could deal the massive upset to Nadal prior to his reaching the final. |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19292 (07/06/08 3:59 PM) MESS member |
Bacalaitos wrote: I am now - spent too many years watching the cubs before I moved to Texas and what's with all the Federer hate that people have? |
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loveski |
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Posts: 625 (07/06/08 4:03 PM) Registered user |
Oh I don't hate Federer. I just wanted someone different to win this year. I would have rooted for Safin if he was in the final. Only person I will never
root for is that prick, Roddick. I met him (Fed, Nadal, a few others) at the US Open and he's a total asshole.
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 19294 (07/06/08 4:05 PM) MESS member |
I don't like Roddick or Hewiitt and hated Lendl
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Atypical Male |
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Posts: 1459 (07/06/08 4:08 PM) |
CBR, I don't think it's necessarily hate towards him - it's probably just people wanting to see someone
new winning for a change. He's dominated for so many years now, I can understand folks feeling that way. I have a little bit of the feeling, myself. I
don't dislike him at all, though.
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