zep1706 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Easy win for Rafa against Dodig, was expecting tougher match but Rafa is in supreme form now. Isner lost again to Kohlschreiber. Rafa's draw just got a little easier with that, it's always awkward to play against John. Federer plays later tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketics Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 Good game and Kohshreiber, well what to say to him. Hats off for pulling that of under great crowd pressure. He had some argument too with Isner's camp and game was stopped. It happend twice. Off course, he had fair amount of fans but Isner was crowd favorite. He played some classy shots to stay in the 4th set and win that. Another top fighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumar713 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Woke up early on sunday to watch federer in action and certainly enjoyed it.Fed moves in to round 4:cheer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Stan vs Berdych a potential R4 match, REALLY hope either one knocks Murray out in QF- Ideally T-Berd Some interesting matches to come- Ferrer vs Tipsarevic and Raonic v Gasquet should be fun to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raghav_12 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Last 16 have been finalized. 9 out of top 10 make it to pre-qts. (Only DelPo looses out, courtsey spirited display by Lyetton Hewitt). Shows how stable things are in Men's tennis. Though on the other side Milas Raonic is the only one who can be termed as emerging talent. Matches for Round 4 Berdych - Wawrinka Gasquet - Raonic Hewitt - Youzhny From rest of the matches Rafa, Federer, Djoko, Murray and Ferrer should be through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 All of the top guys look in reasonably good form. It seems like Rafa's into-out FH is too strong for the lower ranked players and it will probably be way too strong for Fed as well. Djokovic's body language is a bit below what it usually is, I think he's still recovering from the RG SF loss to Nadal. Maybe a win over Nadal in the final here might be some consolation but in the truth that FO was the one he wanted. Fed as usual coasting through the earlier rounds, but difficult to see how he can up his game to beat Nadal. Murray has started off slowly in all his matches, had some up and down moments and has definitely faced the most difficulty of the top guys. He will no doubt peak next week. Very interesting week ahead, tonight's games look routine, so I'll not be staying up, but that Wawrinka vs Berdych match, wow, can't wait for it. H2H is 6-5 to Wawrinka, so very tough to call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raghav_12 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Federer lost at round of 16. Once again no nadal federer qf after much anticipation. Nadal too lost first set but now seems to be on his way by winning 2nd and breaking early in 3rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zep1706 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Federer lost at round of 16. Once again no nadal federer qf after much anticipation. Nadal too lost first set but now seems to be on his way by winning 2nd and breaking early in 3rd. Nadal won quite comfortably in the end. It was a tough match early on. Disappointed with Federer's loss, US open really needed a Federer-Nadal match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Federer is unlike many of the past greats who all either retired prematurely or right as they we were declining. Not sure what exactly he is still playing for. Doesn't look like he is winning a slam past Murray, Nadal or Djokovic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Nadal won quite comfortably in the end. It was a tough match early on. Disappointed with Federer's loss' date=' US open really needed a Federer-Nadal match.[/quote'] The US Open and tennis does not need anymore one sided games, had they met Nadal would have crushed him, it would even be remotely close to a contest. Federer should have retired last year with his head held high, instead he's being humiliated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Federer is unlike many of the past greats who all either retired prematurely or right as they we were declining. Not sure what exactly he is still playing for. Doesn't look like he is winning a slam past Murray' date=' Nadal or Djokovic.[/quote'] He hasn't looked like he'll win a GS for several years, that Wimbledon win last year came as a surprise to most. It was the perfect time for him to retire instead $$$ and deals are keepinghim going. Second highest earning sportsman, about £40mill a year from sponsors all over the world. That'll come tumbling down the moment he calls it a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 The big match of the day, well the one you'd think that will be the most entertaining, Wawrinka vs Berdych will be last on Louis Armstrong, which means I won't be able to see it. Argh!!! I wanted to see this one so badly. Seems like if the matches go to plan, they'll have caught up with the schedule and yesterday's downpurs won't have hindered things too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketics Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 Federer isn't playing bad tennis. He's just not winning big points. People calling for his retirement need to remember he is stream rolling all opponents until round 3, 4 of every event. Yes, the others in top 10 are playing better tennis than him. But you Federer is still trying. You can't ask him to retire if he's still doing good and not able to beat the top players. He is backing himself up to come with top performance eventually. I mean who are we. Don't we all should support what he's doing for tennis? Even if we are fan of him or not, won't it be great if he comes back to reach a final and eventually win a slam or two down the line may be a year later from now or two? He will go down as a legend and the more the legends continue playing, the better it is for the public. They attract lot of crowd to tennis venues. This is a brilliant era of tennis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumar713 Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Federer isn't playing bad tennis. He's just not winning big points. People calling for his retirement need to remember he is stream rolling all opponents until round 3, 4 of every event. Yes, the others in top 10 are playing better tennis than him. But you Federer is still trying. You can't ask him to retire if he's still doing good and not able to beat the top players. He is backing himself up to come with top performance eventually. I mean who are we. Don't we all should support what he's doing for tennis? Even if we are fan of him or not, won't it be great if he comes back to reach a final and eventually win a slam or two down the line may be a year later from now or two? He will go down as a legend and the more the legends continue playing, the better it is for the public. They attract lot of crowd to tennis venues. This is a brilliant era of tennis. QFT.He is not retiring any time soon.Will try it out in 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Dissapointing to see Berdych out, was hoping to see him beat Murray. Stan is good enough to do so though, hope he does, needs to serve his backside off. I wonder if T-Berd vs Stan was aas good as we expected, Stans backhand must have been purring.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketics Posted September 4, 2013 Author Share Posted September 4, 2013 Is Stan the new Swiss No. 1? It's too early to say but Stan is a great figther. I am sure just like Robredo, if he gets in the game with Federer, he might be able to finally win against Roger right now, when he isn't playing at his best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Funnily enough fed moves to 6th from 7th after the Open ends because JMDP got kncoked out early. On current form youre right Stan might beat Fed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 well wow Gasquet beats Ferrer in 5, who would have thunk it. He was two sets to love up and as always with Gasquet he threw it away and inevitable it seemed a Ferrer win, but Gasquet held on. Very nice, great fan of his wonderful to watch when in full flow. I hope he beats Rafa next!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raghav_12 Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Watching Rafa-Robredo QF. It is just amazing to see how good Rafa is playing at the moment. He took first set from Tommy in 22 mins at score of 6-0. He simply tormented Tommy in that set, breaking all 3 of his serves either at 0 or at 15. Tommy is struggling to put up a match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zep1706 Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Watching Rafa-Robredo QF. It is just amazing to see how good Rafa is playing at the moment. He took first set from Tommy in 22 mins at score of 6-0. He simply tormented Tommy in that set' date=' breaking all 3 of his serves either at 0 or at 15. Tommy is struggling to put up a match.[/quote'] Demolition job. I won't be very surprised if he has an easy win over Gasquet too. Tomorrow's match between Murray and Wawrinka should be a good one. Strange that they didn't schedule it in the night session. Djokovic will win easily against Misha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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