CAMELOT FANTASIES

Quote from: thetruth on July 21, 2014, 11:57:39 pm

Quote from: Start da Game on July 20, 2014, 02:02:05 pm

Quote from: Emma on May 24, 2014, 10:37:45 am

Quote from: Start da Game on May 19, 2014, 01:24:27 pm

nice pics.......did you guys notice, nole wasn't too OTT with his celebration? perhaps does not want to mess with rafa's clay ego with roland garros around the corner?

Hola Shank, 2014 is a very different year than, say, 2011. Back then Nole enjoyed his win over Nadal or even Federer and so he should. Actually I found Nadal's celebration after beating Murray in Rome a bit OTT but I didn't take it personally. Anyway, this time winning Rome beating Nadal again was only a repetition of that so I don't think there was much to celebrate anyway.

I read somewhere Nole has donated all his Rome prize money to the flood victims in his country. I was very moved by it because the footage looked terrible and they do need as much as help as possible. So to give all his hard earned money right away for a cause like that is always a great deed. Hope people noticed that and appreciated a great deal.

hola emmz.......novak is often noticed for wrong things than right things.......that donation which you pointed out, had fed done a similar thing the tennis world would have blown all their sweet trumpets at once.......

novak seems to be respecting rafa a lot more after what happened in 2013.......many people marked 2011 as nadal's end at the top of the sport but how he turned it around against nole is simply historic, it will be talked for several generations.......

I agree. I think Nole saw his breakthrough as the changing of the guard. I think he was shell-shocked to see that Nadal would not go away quietly. He tuned his celebrations down, and is better to watch as a result.

yep, there was no change of guard.......just outright hit-back-hard stuff from rafa......i think rafa is the only player who took care of two red hot all time greats right in their primes.......fed in 2008 and nole in 2013.......

It's still amazes me that he's going so strong ten years later. He's been in so many GS finals at a time when he should have slowed down a long time ago. I've been watching some of his matches from 2013 and 14, and it still leaves my jaw hanging.

Just a remarkable athlete, and so smart on the court.