CAMELOT FANTASIES

Quote from: thetruth on March 03, 2015, 12:44:33 am

Quote from: Clay Death on March 02, 2015, 11:40:11 am

you may be right lady TT. ferru does have a bit of an issue at slams when he faces top flight players at the business end. his best showing was obviously facing Rafa in 2013 in the final at RG.

we have to see how the European clay season unfolds. Rafa has to do some damage there in order to go into RG with confidence and momentum.

and lets see if Ferru can deal with the top players on the European red clay.

I guess we'll have to watch and see. I think Berdych is making great strides. I hope he continues to do well. I hope Andy gets back to his best. I don't know what's going on with Kei, something seems off with him. Ferrer, 3 titles. That's great. He just needs to have more belief. Right now I'm not seeing that much. I guess I am too preoccupied with Rafa and what's goin on with him.

Lady TT, I agree that Berdych appears to look better than he had.  Maybe it is a fresh outlook and work with his new coach Dani (formerly on team Murray).
Let's see how consistent he stays.   I think it wouldn't hurt him to lose some mass.  He looks a bit too bulky to me.  It could improve his quickness/movement around the court, which is what I see holding him back against the top guys.

I think Kei may be feeling the pressure of expectations from his country and ranking.  He might be one of those players who does better ranked higher, feeling less pressure, nothing to lose, that sort of thing.

Respectfully,
masterclass

Quote from: Clay Death on May 03, 2015, 11:18:56 am

Can somebody update the Federer thread at MTF?


85 titles now.


Just a few to go before he hits the century mark.

Pretty amazing, huh? And you called it a long time ago? Unreal. It's amazing when people don't have foresight and choose to scoff rather than wait and see.

General, Murray was robbed of 1000 Olympic points by the ATP.   

The ATP wanted the ITF to subsidize the ATP tournaments affected by the Olympics, and they wouldn't agree to the ITF offer.   So the ATP did not award points for the Olympics and then extended that to Davis Cup as well.   This internal squabble between the ITF and the ATP should have remained that.  Why did the ATP punish the players by not awarding the points?  It was scheduled to award 1000 points to the winner this year.  They got their medals and that's it.   All the  medalists lost out on a good amount of points:  In singles it would have been 1000 to Murray, 600 to Del Potro, 360 to Nishikori. 

It's my belief that the ATP should retroactively award the points.

So Murray should be only about 500 points away from #1.  If he ends the season as less than 1000 points from Djokovic, I'll consider Murray Year End #1 no matter what the ATP says.

Respectfully,
masterclass