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General masterclass go fire up my Federer thread at MTF and add another title to federer's name.


I wi stand by my predictions.


0 titles for Rafa for the remainder of this season and 0-1 some small chicken **** clay title for 2016 unless he cares enough to win.

he has to go fix his fitness and his game.

Players 10 years older than him are winning titles because they are more focused and better prepared.

I don't know what Rafa was doing in Basel. It is clear they threw $1 million dollars at him so he went.

Why the hell was that doubles so bloody important. If he had just spent 10 hours working on his serve, the return, and the backhand he would not  have had to log in those long hours in his singles matches.

And he would have won this title.

Somebody stop to think here. Zero hard court titles since the U. S. Open (2013). and at the end of next year it will be over 3 years with zero titles on the hard courts while players 10 years older than him with no weapons are piling up titles.

Why would you waste away on the hard courts with such diminished game and such drastically reduced fitness.

And the risk of injury goes up significantly.


If he wants to compete and win at the highest level than he has to go fix his fitness and win titles on clay.

Already fired up general.  Congrats to Federer and his fans.  88 titles, he just keeps on going.  6 titles this year with 2 more events to go.

Condolences to Rafa and his fans.
No matter what the commentators might say, I thought he played his best match of the year today. He did well to hang in with Federer once Federer got on a roll, and he was hitting his backhand well, and forehand with authority most of the time. Roger did mess up near the end of the second set and Rafa took full advantage. 

Sure, there were instances of Rafa mishitting forehands, and yes, right at the end it looked like he tired, but Federer also had some bad moments as well.  He looked very nervous at the beginning, but unfortunately Rafa couldn't take advantage and break him.  Anyway, considering the indoor conditions have never favored Rafa's game, and the year he has had, I thought he did very well to be competitive.  Mostly he seems to have the fire back in him to compete hard as I think Lady TT also noticed.

Also, it seems that Rafa's right knee is acting up this time.  He needed to have it taped again today.  Once he did that, it seemed like he ran better.  I hope he will get that seriously looked at.  As the draws I posted in the Bercy thread show, Rafa is entered in both singles and doubles.  It would be a disaster for him to overplay and hurt that knee, right when he is getting back into good form.  I'm not sure why he is playing Bercy, back to back with Basel.  He is not going to get any rest for the knee.  I think he is scheduled for doubles on Tuesday.

Respectfully,
masterclass