I saw some news on twitter:
a 47 year old woman gave birth to triplets. they are all healthy.
amazing stuff.
Yes Clay Almagro does take risks so hopefully its not a night when they all fly in and Andy can keep him down.
Yes Emma Lendl never has been afraid of a challenge and glad it worked out so well between he and Andy. Time for another step for Andy now though.
Oh Emma we seemed to be linked because just today my doctor said for me to take hepatitis b and c injections after my recent illness. So far linked by Andy and jabs. I kind of rather the Andy link for both our sakes :-). Im sure we are linked by many more things.
Haha ok I will try to bring up my funnier side :-).
Emma 8030 relates to my age :-). Born in 1980 and was 30 wheni first went on social media so stuck with that code lol :-). I dont think I would make a great Bond villian with that code :-).
I am not worried about almagro tomorrow anikh.
andy knows he needs to string together a few match wins. a win over almagro will do him good.
Yes will certainly be a confidence booster Clay. I wander if we will now see Federer before Wimbledon or whether he will spend extra time with his twins. (Both sets) :-)
is roger skipping RG?
I know he is going to Halle, Germany along with Rafa.
His agent is saying that he still plans to play Roland Garros but will take it step by step. I would guess he will be there.
I think you are right princess emma.
lendl did not care much for the net either. he preferred to blast them off the court from the baseline.
I read somewhere that he did not have a topspin backhand when he turned pro. it was all slice evidently.
and then he got grounded in reality quickly. he learned that he needed a devastating topspin backhand to be a top flight pro.
It's all about who feels comfortable where, herc. Lendl was clearly more comfortable dominating from the baseline. The game at the net is the game of skills and perhaps Lendl didn't have that skill to begin with. A wise man once said, don't try to improve your weaknesses but rather work on your strengths and maximize those. There's a reason why some things come very naturally to you.
Sampras used to have a two-handed backhand in his early teenage years, did you know that? His initial coach had taught him to play one handed backhand so that was a big change. Also, he wasn't initially a S&V player and was more of a baseliner but in the early 90s, he switched to become more of a S&V player. He was a big fan of Edberg and all. Plus, he wanted to venture more to the net as if it was like a calling or something. Given all that, I see that he had gone through a series of changes and was comfortable with changing his style if he saw it fit. He was clearly a very talented tennis player who could switch his game to any way he wanted to.
Yes Clay Almagro does take risks so hopefully its not a night when they all fly in and Andy can keep him down.
Yes Emma Lendl never has been afraid of a challenge and glad it worked out so well between he and Andy. Time for another step for Andy now though.
Oh Emma we seemed to be linked because just today my doctor said for me to take hepatitis b and c injections after my recent illness. So far linked by Andy and jabs. I kind of rather the Andy link for both our sakes :-). Im sure we are linked by many more things.
Haha ok I will try to bring up my funnier side :-).
Yes Anikh dear, we are all connected in every possible way (it's the big scheme of things after all) but of course we are more connected because of Andy. Is all good.
Btw, do you take flu shots before winter? I never have but my doctor advised me to get it next year. You may want to look into that as well. I've heard so many negative things about flu shots that I would always avoid getting it but now I am thinking may be I should get it at least one time and see how I feel.
I saw some news on twitter:
a 47 year old woman gave birth to triplets. they are all healthy.
amazing stuff.
Anything is possible with the fertility drugs these days, herc darling. They say, the likelyhood of having twins has increased dramatically since the 80s. In fact it has seen about 76% since then.
Here's a good read on it. It's important people educate themselves before making ignorant comments.
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How common are twins and other multiple births?As of 2010, twins accounted for about 1 in 30 births in the United States – or 3.3 percent. And 1 in 726 births resulted in triplets or higher-order multiples.
Over the past 30 years, the birth rate for twins rose by about 76 percent. The rate of triplets and higher-order multiples quadrupled from 1980 to 1998, but then started to decline.
What caused the rise in multiples? Part of it was due to women tending to wait until they were older to have a baby. As you get older, hormonal changes make it more likely that your body will release more than one egg at a time. And more than one fertilized egg often means more than one baby.
But most of the rise in multiple births was due to the use of fertility drugs and assisted reproductive technology (ART) to help women conceive. These treatments greatly increase a woman's chance of having twins or higher-order multiples.
The increase in twins has slowed over the past decade, possibly because fertility treatments have become more refined.http://www.babycenter.com/0_your-likelihood-of-having-twins-or-more_3575.bc-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Emma 8030 relates to my age :-). Born in 1980 and was 30 wheni first went on social media so stuck with that code lol :-). I dont think I would make a great Bond villian with that code :-).
See, I would not be able to crack that code even if I wanted to. Maybe I should send you undercover and kill all those Federer nutjobs - not literally but verbally.
So you are about 34 now? No worries. Your secret is openly safe with us. hahaha
is roger skipping RG?
I know he is going to Halle, Germany along with Rafa.
He said 'a few weeks' and we have 3 weeks before RG so that gives him those 'few weeks'. So he may give it a shot at RG unless he feels his chances are better at Wimbledon given Andy's recent form and the pressure to defend Wimbledon, then he might just wait for that and skip RG. But I personally don't think he'd skip RG given that Nadal himself is not in superb form and he always fancies his chances against Nole. So I am leaning towards 'no' about 90%.
Dynamitrov coughed up the first set but he is doing better in the 2nd set.
Borg might have been the only player who used topspin both on the forehand and backhand side consistently well. And it was said that you couldn't win too many Wimbledon by staying back or from the baseline, but Borg clearly overrode that when he went on to win 5 of them. But that's also perhaps why Sampras wanted to change his play style from the baseline to S&V, since he really wanted to win as Wimbledon as possible and he did that too. Federer came afterwards and not before Sampras so he was more looking at what Borg had done than what was going to happen in the future, since he had no way of knowing it.
Now thinking back, had Sampras continued with his baseline game, then perhaps he would have not won as many Wimbledon or perhaps equaled Borg and perhaps, he could have won a couple of FOs. Because rest assured, clay surface definitely requires a baseline game due to its super slowness. That might have been the reason why Federer stuck to baseline as well though it still did not give him more than 1 RG.
It's amazing that Borg was able to win 6 RG and 5 Wimbledon and 3 times both in the same years. And his demeanor was cool as cucumber while under pressure, something that Sampras was also very famous for. Federer used to lose his temper a great deal initially, but after he started winning but perhaps more importantly, when he realized that his temper wasn't really taking him anywhere, he cooled off a lot. Nadal is also not known for losing his focus or temper even when under a lot of pressure. I really think it's more natural than contrived unlike Federer's.
Borg was absolutely done with tennis after 1981 where he had to take two back to back losses at Wimbledon and the USO. And he was only 26 when he retired. Also played AO only once as it was no where as popular as it is now. Even Sampras skipped it a couple of times as it was still not as popular and Sampras really hated the long flight. So obviously all these past greats skipped a great deal in the past and retired early, so it's really not fair at all to compare them with today's players. And there are so many other things that need to be taken into consideration. Even if you do that, it's just not possible even remotely to compare eras.
Even McEnroe was exhausted due to heavy competition after 1986 at age 27 and was on 6 months sabbatical. Was never the same player after coming back though still won a few titles but never another Slam. And the competition had moved on by then with the new comers like Becker, Sampras, Agassi, Courier, Chang etc.
I really think Borg, McEnore were really talented players ... more so than the likes of Connors, Lendl etc.