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Tennis - Sinner accepts three month ban - won't miss Roland Garros (2 Viewers)

Painful to watch Fed not hold serve after breaking Joker in the 1st set. Crushing blow to his chances right there.

That was an epic 2nd set tiebreaker comeback. Saving those six set points was magical. Loved seeing Joker turn fiery and attempt to rip his shirt off a la Hulk Hogan... guy was as heated as I have ever seen him.

Fed had nothing left in the tank after winning that 2nd set. Like others have pointed, his mental toughness is no longer there. He already seemed defeated throughout the match, despite playing just as well as Joker.

Fed = GOAT

 
Joker and Fed have played 3 grand slam finals.

Nadal and FEd have played in 8 GS finals.

Joker and Nadal have played in 7 GS finals.

Can someone refresh me on how it is that Aggasi and Sampras, absent a third great player in the era, only met in 4 GS finals? Am I forgetting someone that got in their way of plying more often on the biggest stages? Was Boris Becker a true "third" competitor in the group?

As for the Fed GOAT argument, his math is compelling. But he has a 10-23 record vs. Nadal and 20-20 vs. Djokovic.

 
Abraham said:
Joker and Fed have played 3 grand slam finals.

Nadal and FEd have played in 8 GS finals.

Joker and Nadal have played in 7 GS finals.

Can someone refresh me on how it is that Aggasi and Sampras, absent a third great player in the era, only met in 4 GS finals? Am I forgetting someone that got in their way of plying more often on the biggest stages? Was Boris Becker a true "third" competitor in the group?

As for the Fed GOAT argument, his math is compelling. But he has a 10-23 record vs. Nadal and 20-20 vs. Djokovic.
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I'd definitely put Becker in the 3rd great of the group.

Then you had any of the several players making runs from the tier of Edberg, Courier, Ivanisovic, Rafter, Kafelnikov, Muster, etc...

 
Abraham said:
Joker and Fed have played 3 grand slam finals.

Nadal and FEd have played in 8 GS finals.

Joker and Nadal have played in 7 GS finals.

Can someone refresh me on how it is that Aggasi and Sampras, absent a third great player in the era, only met in 4 GS finals? Am I forgetting someone that got in their way of plying more often on the biggest stages? Was Boris Becker a true "third" competitor in the group?

As for the Fed GOAT argument, his math is compelling. But he has a 10-23 record vs. Nadal and 20-20 vs. Djokovic.
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US Open and especially Wimbledon were still true fast courts, instead of today when all four slams play in a pretty narrow range of speeds and rebound styles. As a result, today, the sort of great power baseline game that makes you a threat on any surface, makes you a threat on every surface.

In the Sampras/Agassi era, they had to compete with plenty of true clay court specialists and fast court specialists, that made going on runs across multiple slams way harder. Today, with homogenized courts and the equipment and technique advances to exploit that, David Ferrer has been a semifinalist in 3 out of 4 slams with a generically good baseline game. That guy never sees the light of day in any slam but the French in the 90's.

 
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Serena could serve left handed and win the ladies side. Just not a lot of competition for her there.

 
Lots of good shot making but man, that was some atrocious serving in the final set. Looked like a women's match where each is trying to simply start the point and hope the return doesn't take all the momentum.

 
Watching Ralph get bounced early in a slam never gets old. Never.

I think he can still recover from whatever the problem is, but it's hard to see it outside clay. Much like with Roger and Wimbledon.

 
Loved seeing the rat cough up a 2-0 lead.

I've only seen a little bit of Serena so far this tourney but does anyone ever address the subject of PEDs? She looks like she could play in the NFL.

 
Baloney Sandwich said:
Loved seeing the rat cough up a 2-0 lead.

I've only seen a little bit of Serena so far this tourney but does anyone ever address the subject of PEDs? She looks like she could play in the NFL.
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Pretty much everybody in this thread has "addressed" it. :lmao:

Look, she's more woman than we'll ever have, and more man than we'll ever be. We just have to accept that.

 
Losing that second set tiebreaker was crushing. Isner was playing so well but lost some key points by not putting those crucial points away.

Fed's last two points in the second set tiebreaker were fantastic.

Glad to see Murray lose :thumbup:

 
James Daulton said:
Dentist if Fed win this, free root canals for the rest of the month?
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I don't expect him to win. As well as he is playing I still think he finds a way to lose pretty soon... probably to Stan, or Nole.

I mean the guy always looks great in the 3 set matches, looks great against anyone outside the top 5... then stumbles at some point... they say the consistency is the first thing to go and that's definitely something I've noticed with Fed.... At some point he will come out flat and won't be able to recover. He hasn't won a USO in 7 years, or been to a final in 6 years.

He's had 3 unreal opportunities to pick up majors at Wim 14 and 15, and even USO 14 was so ripe.. no djoker... just had to beat Cilic and NIshikori.. and fail.

But if he wins It would be so much icing on the cake.

 
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