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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.

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.

que pasa general shanks.


I never saw the match general. I also never bothered to deal with the award ceremony.

its over and done with. I am waiting for Rafa to lift his 9th RG trophy now.


I firmly believe that he will do it. he is good at turning losses around.

also he does not lose any RG finals. I believe he will play a vary focused and a very clean match in the final at RG.

Quote from: Start da Game on January 25, 2014, 01:16:30 am

hola hercules and castle!

i am back from holiday, completely tanned and looking brown like nadal...... missed almost the entire AO but just in time for the final......

i was so sure wawrinka was going to pose problems for djokovic, i actually wanted to watch that match but couldn't......i saw the highlights today, wawrinka was superb.......too bad he is going to lose to nadal tomorrow but i will take the result as it will only tie rafa with the great pete and also one step closer to the all time tally.......

djokovic seriously needs to rethink his strategy against the likes of wawrinka, haas, dimitrov.......he is having problems picking which way the backhands are directed and hence losing half a second in the rally.......add to that his problems against slice......slice really takes away the zing off his backhand, neutralizes the rally completely and puts him on the defense.......

morning general shanks.

stan played the match of his life against nole. he hung in there and waited for his opportunities.


nole caved just a little bit in the very end under the relentless pressure.

this pressure came in 2 forms:

1. pressure of stan's game

2. pressure of defending the crown


he must have felt that his chances might slip away and sure enough they did.



stan learned a lot from his match against nole in 2013 right here. he came in with a solid plan and executed it to near perfection.

Everybody knows Rafa is the best clay court player ever lived.

What happened this year was that Rafa ruled hard courts too.



What is your favorite tournament on hc from Rafa, and which hc do you think suit his game?