What's the best tennis you've ever seen? |
Generational differences are huge, but Mac d Connors @ Wimbledon Final '84, 2, 0, and 1,iirc, was way up there. I wonder how his play would match up to today's best.
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Is a best player possible? |
..in the sense of combining the specialized skills of the game into a cohesive and match-winning whole? eg can a great baseline/transition/net game be realized? If so, why has it not, o...
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Whimpy and littlebob at the snackbar, thinkin' about Pete. |
That's rich enough, i think..
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"Slams are all that matter, and who you beat is a trivia question." -Whimpy |
let's remember that one, shall we?
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Ljubicic wants to be "at least close" on Sunday |
"Every time when I have to play against him, it's like, 'O.K., maybe this is the one,' " Ljubicic said. "But it's never happening. A couple times I was very close. I really just hope to be a...
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Federer v Nadal: 1-3 to date. Fed v Sampras: 1-0 for eternity. |
Guess Nadal woulda crushed Pete. (transitivity enabled, per Whimpy)
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Key Biscayne SF rankings - men |
Federer's 11th consecutive final. Career high ranks for Blake, Nieminen, Andreev, Baghdatis, Tursunov, C. Rochus. 1 (1) 6785 Federer, Roger* 2 (2)...
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Andy (5-to12 slams) Roddick: Why was Whimper Wrong? (Again) |
How could the highly-regarded tier-1++ analyst mistake a First-serve-and-a-forehand in search of a brain, for a multiple-slam winner? Was it a fluke? Will his next bumrooting phenom do ...
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IW & KB in same year (men) |
2006: federer? 2005: federer 2001: agassi 1998: rios 1994: sampras 1992: chang 1991: courier -- "when i visited Aden before colle...
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The Tears of the Clowns |
Poor Ferrer. Poor Nalbandian. Poor Lube-man (shortly) Poor clowns!
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clown almost bored Fed to self destruct himself |
Fed was beating clown down so badly and easily that he almost bored himself to self destruction..... (beginning of second set) Will clowns use this technique more often against Federer...
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interesting ferrer pic |
http://img348.imageshack.us/my.php?image=7750414gq.jpg
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NEW 24 Hour FREE Tennis Network NFo |
This is a multi-part message in MIME format --=_NextPart_2rfkindysadvnqw3nerasdf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Amazing New Techno...
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Video: Before the current Love Fest -- Mac and Lendl |
http://download.yousendit.com/6DEC26EB623032A2 A cute little video clip of Mac and Lendl at an indoor event (I think in '89). This was when the top players HATED each other (especia...
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Federer wants to go to bed early! |
what is going on? I'm not watching but it's 5-0
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Nalby tank to avoid Federer..? |
Seems like the moost reasonable explanation.
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Nalbandian meltdown... |
just typical. The one guy left who might at least keep Federer honest plays a stinker. I hope Ljubicic puts up a better performance than his last gutless capitulation to Federer, but I ver...
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Fed v Blake Highlights (2 new sources, reuploaded Erich's file) |
2 more sources: http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IT1QCLCEMIEM24ND3J41LTQKI http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OVSLILAYTLST0L05I4VWQOOWQ Reuploaded Erich's file. T...
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Three questions before I re-lurk |
Now that I've gotten that era strength and equilibrium stuff off my chest, it's time to re-lurk. But first I need three rst trivia questions answered to help me through the long off-season: ...
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MSNBC: The biggest bad clowns |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12065847/ Joe Ramirez
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Video: Federer vs Blake KB highlights |
25 downloads... http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3KQCHX14GXTHR0TGGXSN8WIXXN
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Sharapova and Federer win Masters combo... |
Kuznetsova is a mentally brain dead. She will get her ass kicked. And with that lobotomized idiot Lube-a-dick awaiting in the final. Federer will easily win Miami again this year. Yawn. ...
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Baldy croat.... |
in the final. Should be a walkover for Federer.
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clown vs. clown *spoilers* |
clown gets a break early in the 1st.
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Two Legends Battle McEnroe - Sampras 1990 (AVI) |
http://download.yousendit.com/13B99B7A44BFC8F4 Sorry in advance if the link doesn't work...I've not tried this before.. It's a large 60mb file of McEnroe breaking Sampras in the ...
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Set message subject here ... |
hg wrote: > Firstly, I hope there is no permanent damage to her ankle, and secondly I > hope she recovers in super quick time. > Any updated news about her injury? ...
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Tennis-X gets a few digs at Roddick |
"When you're playing a Spaniard on hardcourts, and you're standing farther behind the baseline than he is, there could be a problem. Or when the Spaniard comes to the net more than you, and ...
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Blake talking about Federer :) |
Q. What are your feelings about that fantastic overhead that you hit and that just came back? JAMES BLAKE: Unbelievable. I was just talking to my coach and actually to Andy in the...
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Gasquet's FH |
Lots of talk about his backhand, but what about the FH? As I always say, nice to have a great BH but give me a great FH any day. I have not seen this kid play a whole lot, but it seems lik...
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miami semi-final betting |
so it's federer vs. clown and clown vs. clown what's the odds clown will win the title? after all he's a lock to make the final...
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