Madrid Masters

by **Coolhand Texas** » Sat, 07 May 2011 14:22

jayl0ve wrote:They need to do SOMETHING to lengthen the grass-court season, or else they should seriously just do away with grass altogether. The 'grass season' is a joke. They should give it the respect it deserves, being the surface tennis was first played on...

Every surface has a masters series except for grass and it gets nothing. it gets left out. God knows the season is long enough they should at least have one masters event on grass

by **Sherlock 117** » Sat, 07 May 2011 15:46

Coolhand Texas wrote:
jayl0ve wrote:They need to do SOMETHING to lengthen the grass-court season, or else they should seriously just do away with grass altogether. The 'grass season' is a joke. They should give it the respect it deserves, being the surface tennis was first played on...

Every surface has a masters series except for grass and it gets nothing. it gets left out. God knows the season is long enough they should at least have one masters event on grass

Carpet also no longer has any masters events. In fact, there are no longer any pro tournaments at all on carpet.

by **fedfan** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:04

After seeing Federer down a break 2-1 and looking like he was really struggling just come back to the match and he is 5-4 up, what's been the change up?

by **Moralspain** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:08

as far as i know there are no tournaments on carpet since 2009, the ATP asked Nadal, Federer...all players in the top 50, and they all agreed. Main reason was that so many different surfaces caused more injuries

by **Moralspain** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:12

fedfan wrote:After seeing Federer down a break 2-1 and looking like he was really struggling just come back to the match and he is 5-4 up, what's been the change up?

Simple, Rafa a bit off and Roger playing better and hitting good cross court BHs, but the main reason is Rafa started playing worse... maybe because Fed's game actually, he's also hitting great FH, in short.. he's playing well
They're playing indoor btw

by **fedfan** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:18

Federer saves from 0-40 by finding some 1st serves, just glad it's more competitive than Miami which was very one sided.

by **fedfan** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:21

Fantastic backhand pass to bring up set point and then a great backhan return and big forehand 7-5 Federer and only 45% 1st serves

by **Moralspain** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:30

Rafa breaks in the 2nd, 1-0

by **coke4** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:32

This could be a very long match..
Djokovic might be about to get very very lucky.

by **fedfan** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:33

Bad call by Federer though to stop the point on the third bp when he saw the ball wide, overall he has played the big points well and is returning solid on the BH

by **Moralspain** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:41

Rafa on track again 3 - 0

by **VillaJ100** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:42

Hes playing very aggressive. I remember at hamburg in 07 when he lost the first set 6-2, he just seemed to think "ahh whatever" and serve and volleyed a couple of times a game, chip and charging, and hitting groundstrokes flat and really hard, and seemd to hit the lines all the time which we know it super tough even for pros, and overwhelmed nadal and even got a bagel! and i remember hamburg was well slow even for clay.

by **Chederer** » Sat, 07 May 2011 16:58

this is a perfect time for me to cook breakfast and get ready for the deciding set....much more enjoyable than miami....fed needs to add that slice in here and there....it wreaks good results

by **Coolhand Texas** » Sat, 07 May 2011 17:38

any chance fed is going to break back in this third set?

Rafa is getting in 94% first serves in the third set

by **Moralspain** » Sat, 07 May 2011 17:41

almost done 5-2

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