R16 Indian Wells: Gulbis vs. Nadal

[GeilerPferdBANNED]

Don't feed the troll.

I won't.

[GeilerPferdBANNED]

hurling insults?

I guess me making fun of your bold prediction is considered an insult by you. Or was it me making fun of how much you know about the guy?

This is a discussion about the match outcome, it is expected for us to disagree. Also, if you followed mine or everyone else's posts here, you know there is a lot of humor in most of them, especially in Tennis section. Are you that insecure to consider my comments as "insults"? (Now this was a bit of passive aggressive insult, but at this point I feel I have the right).

You attempt to analyze me then question my professionalism in a gaming forum with tennis subject and quite clearly a fun environment. Don't you think it seems odd if anything?

If my prediction is the bold one then I wonder why bookmakers around the world are favouring Nadal to win. I would say, taking the contrarian stance and predicting "Gulbis" to win is the bold prediction here.

Re: humour in the posts, of course, I find many posts here funny. But, please correct me if I'm wrong, just because you add a " " after most of your sentences, should I be laughing? If that is the case, okay, I will try and make an effort to find your posts funny.

Re: my analysis; I didn't mean to offend you with my analysis, however, a moderator who takes on a passive aggressive stance (unprovoked as well, as I did not attack you) to me screams of unprofessionalism and, dare I say, insecurity. But then again, I could be wrong as you have labelled me as "insecure".

In the end we will see who is right.
GP

[ELTXETXU]

This is the best chance that Gulbis have never had to beat Nadal. Gulbis is playing seriuously again and Nadal is recovering from an injury. Anyway, Gulbis is playing great but very inconsistent sometimes. This lost of concentration maybe couldn't be a problem against Seppi, but against Nadal the things are way different.

In the other hand, if Gulbis is able to calm his nerves and he play his tennis concentrated, attacking Nadal's serve etc..., maybe we will see a surprise from Gulbis.

I voted for NADAL!!

[Ivan G Dj]

This is the best chance that Gulbis have never had to beat Nadal. Gulbis is playing seriuously again and Nadal is recovering from an injury. Anyway, Gulbis is playing great but very inconsistent sometimes. This lost of concentration maybe couldn't be a problem against Seppi, but against Nadal the things are way different.

In the other hand, if Gulbis is able to calm his nerves and he play his tennis concentrated, attacking Nadal's serve etc..., maybe we will see a surprise from Gulbis.

I voted for NADAL!!

The only chance for Gulbis is to serve extremely well... Nadal is too much better from baseline and more consistently, in case of long rallies Nadal has too much possibilties to win... anyway Nadal is not playing well after his injury and Gulbis has more possibilities than matches before...

[Ivan G Dj]

Nadal sucks, Gulbis will win...

Every defender sucks

Nadal sucks??? You are talking about one of the best 3 players on history.... what do you think would have happened if Nadal would have played Davis Cup final against Czech Rep?

[Vieira151]

Notice the " "

Generally, when a smiley (such as , , , ) is used, that means it's a joke. Some people with a drier sense of humour (i.e Djarvik) will not use smilies as often and their humour is a little difficult to get on an online forum, where facial expression or speech tonality are easier to pick up. And with those people, on a forum, you understand the humour after a time.

But yeah, it's a joke people. There has been too many misunderstandings in this thread.

[GeilerPferdBANNED]

Some people with a drier sense of humour (i.e Djarvik) will not use smilies as often ...

close to 20 smileys and counting...

[djarvik]

Don't feed the troll.

I think I will do that now...

...or better yet, I will use this opportunity to unprofessionally use/abuse my power and simply delete any posts that I deem to be inappropriate or out of context from this post and on.

On that note:
The match is 3rd match after 1:30pm start! ...means I can watch it at home

[djarvik]

It's official, this is the Biggest match of the year. Screw AO final or any other semi-important match.

http://tenngrand.com/2013/03/12/nadal-g ... rth-round/

[Corbon]

Gulby's serve motion and forehand cracks me up almost every time, the way he keeps his left arm extended. But both are very powerful so the joke's on the opponent.

IIRC before Indian Wells Nadal hasn't played competitively on hardcourt since Miami '12 so yeah, there's the chance for an upset.

Edit: Wenn dann GeilesPferd (das Pferd, nicht der)

[Vieira151]

Some people with a drier sense of humour (i.e Djarvik) will not use smilies as often ...

close to 20 smileys and counting...

Those massive chains he posts don't count. That's just troll spam, once he has given up trying to be subtle.

[Corbon]

Milos takes the first set vs Jo and 4-4 in the second.

[GeilerPferdBANNED]

Some people with a drier sense of humour (i.e Djarvik) will not use smilies as often ...

close to 20 smileys and counting...

Those massive chains he posts don't count. That's just troll spam, once he has given up trying to be subtle.

I excluded those.

[Vieira151]

Then you both denounce my point and yours. It should have been easy to tell he was joking if he used so many smileys.

EDIT: Shame, Al, shame.

[Ivan G Dj]

Finally Nadal won! xD