CAMELOT FANTASIES

my own observations suggest that 100% of the forums that are large and or considerably large are mostly Federer oriented. and not only that, even the forum owners and forum admin --on the average--tend to be Federer oriented.

fed fans simply outnumber nadal fans around the globe. they also outnumber andy and nole fans.

it is the same in the cyber world.



take tennis4you for example. it has around 4000 members. they have always been Federer oriented. the owner is a huge fed fan and his 2 global moderators are huge fed fans.

MTF has always been wild about Fed. Fed fans there greatly outnumber the nadal fans. admin, mods, and the super mods have always--on the average--tended to be Federer oriented.


and as a side note, I do tend to find some of the Fed fans to be arrogant, snobby, nasty, mean spirited, and relatively selfish at these various forums.

I said some of them so certainly not all of them.



take masterclass and javi. they like Federer but they are pretty cool about it.

fed fans at tennis warehouse and at MTF are fairly nasty.

Sometimes I wonder about the notion that Federer is more popular. I don't see any proof of that. I hear the commentators talk about how beloved he is, but I take that with a grain of salt.

I think it is the same way with Serena and Maria. When Maria was first out about a year after she won Wimbledon, they were actually saying that she was more well known than the William Sisters. A straight up lie. No one outside of the tennis world knew who Maria was, but everyone knew Serena and Venus. The more they talked her up, the more fans she did eventually get, but she still is not at their level no matter how many times they say it.

This brings me back to Federer and Nadal. I have seen both of them at Cincinnati. The crowd when Federer played Baghdatis was very pro-Marcos. There was one group of fans cheering loudly for Federer. It was so noticeable that my son brought it to my attention. When we got home and I watched it on tape, the commentators were extolling Fed's virtues and talking about how beloved he was, but I saw the total opposite.

When Rafa came, the entire stadium was chanting his name. The parking lot was filled to the brim. We had to walk almost all the way from the road. The same with Serena and Pete.

Most of these tennis forums have mods that are Federer fans. That's why Rafa fans get banned all the time. Do you ever look at who gets banned and who doesn't? It's a joke. I don't believe a word those people say, I don't care how much they repeat it. It's all smoke as far as I'm concerned.

People don't seem to understand how the PR machine rolls. That's its purpose. Remember Mardy's Fishheads? They weren't fans of Mardy Fish, they were paid by a PR marketing machine after Mardy became the US #1. They were trying to build him up, but he got hurt and his career was in doubt. Voila! No more Fish heads.


At the beginning of Maria's career, her matches would be empty. Fans were not rolling in life they purported.