CAMELOT FANTASIES

Quote from: thetruth on March 02, 2015, 02:45:27 am

Yeah, I was glad that he won too. He needed to get a title under his belt. I agreed with the commentators that he was at about 70%, but Rafa can make up the distance pretty quickly sometimes. He's still a far cry away from Fed, Andy, and Nole, but these things come with time.

His net skills were on point today.

Wow, Fed spanked Novak today. What is the deal with those two? Is it me, or does Nole seem intimidated by Federer? He makes so many errors when he plays Federer and I think it's psychological. Fed hasn't always treated him so kindly in the past and I think that has stayed with Novak. In a strange way, people like that tend to "respect" those who disdain them and disdain those who respect them. That's my take anyway.

Really?, I'd say Rafa was pretty close to his best overall.  I doubt he wanted to win the final 6-1 6-1 anyway.

About Fed, he's 32, right?.  I don't think that's THAT old really.  Still pretty much prime physically I'd say.  I think his fans have overstated his decline to explain away his loses to Rafa (I mean, they insist he's been on decline since he was 26 ffs, because he lost the Wimbledon final to Rafa).

I was reading the other day that he actually had a better W/UE ratio in the Wimbledon final in 2014 than in 2007 or 2008.

Really? Nope, he doesn't look that sharp to me and he's playing Tier 3 and 4 players. A far cry from Novak and Fed. There are glimpses of yesteryear, but not the consistency and razor sharp decision-making. I think that will take time. It's hard to think that it will just all come flooding back. So yeah, about 70% to me.

I'm not sure, 32-33 is still kind of old in tennis years to me. I know some people exaggerated his "decline" but like I said I thought it was motivation because he hadn't lost his tennis skills or his speed. He just seemed grumpy to me during that spell. But then, he started working on and fine tuning his game again, and while he isn't as consistent as he used to be (understandably) I think he is a better player now, because he plays a smarter brand of tennis.

Years ago, he reminded me of Dmitrov now. He wanted to be flashy and in his haste often shanked a lot of bills. Now he plays more within himself and I think that's the difference.

I can believe the last part because again, I think Roger was too much of a hot-dogger at that time.