Post by h***@gmail.comPost by WhisperYes very good. I tipped Fed to win that Wimbledon at the start of the
year. Somehow Djoker managed to play his best ever tennis just in that
final (he was garbage v Dimitri in semis) & Fed backed off a bit from
the net play. But then the problem with Fed is there is always some
reason he loses these matches.....
Completely inaccurate. Djokovic was less than great and certainly less than Federer at his best on grass.
I didn't say Djoker's best on grass was better than Fed's best of many
yrs ago. I said Djoker played like crap up until the final, where he
suddenly played his top notch A game. I didn't see that coming & was
confident Fed would win. It was a combination of Djoker raising his
game & Fed retreating from the net that sealed the deal. I didn't like
watching that. I was hoping Fed would finally turn the corner & have a
great 5 set win on his resume v another great player.
Post by h***@gmail.comPost by WhisperWhen you think of all the great 5 set battles Fed has played at slams
you also have to accept he lost all of them.
I don't even have to Google to declare bullshit here. He defeated Nadal in 5 sets at Wimbledon. Also defeated Roddick in 5 sets at Wimbledon. I think one of his USO wins against Agassi was 5 sets but I'm not sure.
That response makes my point. Nadal was very green on grass & young,
yet still Fed needed to win 2 tie-breaks & 5 sets to win. Even so Rafa
had 2 break points to lead 3-1 in the 5th. If it weren't for t/b's Rafa
wins that in 3 straight sets.
Agassi was 35 yrs old & Fed peak at 24. Agassi had no business pushing
peak Fed to 5 sets at that point in his career.
Roddick is Fed's bunny & almost never beat Fed in his career (2 or 3
tune-up wins out of 25 or so matches). Can't work out why it took Fed
16-14 in 5th set to beat Roddick at Wimbledon?
I wouldn't hang my hat on those 3 matches to prove how great Fed was in
5 set matches in slams. He's played what 1,000 matches & he has almost
nothing to show for it in 5 setters.
Post by h***@gmail.comMost of the time he won in 3 or 4....if the matches were all 5 setters that he won you'd be complaining that he didn't win convincingly.
That Whisperology for you. If he doesn't like a player that's reason enough. He'll bend and twist the results to suit his agenda.
He doesn't like Federer because he ousted Sampras....something he wasn't supposed to do.
Life sucks when you have idols and they get shot off their perch.
Sampras has nothing to do with this. He played in a different era in a
completely different environment so it's chalk/cheese.