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by **jayl0ve** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:33

Man wtf is going on with Federer.

I agree Melzer played awesome today but aside from that, Federer lately has just seems so bored...he's PREDICTABLE now, where when he was in his 'prime' he was totally unpredictable.

by **Coolhand Texas** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:58

yea jay it was tough to watch federer's performance today, but it was the first tournament on clay and melzer wasnt playing that bad.

Hopefulle he can recover and do better in the next tournament, but a straight set loss to melzer is not good for fed.

and another thing to point out about this match is melzer served at 50% for the match and fed at 68%, but fed couldnt do anything with second serves.

Also fed was 0-7 verse breakpoints, didnt play the big points well, not a good sign either.

by **Bretton JamesBANNED** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:01

Big call here but is Frederico Gil a slightly darker-haired spitting image of Filippo Volandri?

by **TomBs** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:19

Hm, I guess if you'd try to create Gil in ts4 you'd end up with a Volandri and vice versa, but I can see only minor similarities.

by **Chederer** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:30

jayl0ve wrote:Man wtf is going on with Federer.

I agree Melzer played awesome today but aside from that, Federer lately has just seems so bored...he's PREDICTABLE now, where when he was in his 'prime' he was totally unpredictable.

dude.....fed is almost 30 broskie...he has played almost 1000 ATP matches...what it looks like to me is his movement is really starting to take a dip and also that backhand he needs to just go back to the bread and butter slices...when he slices the backhand it leaves him so many options, but at the same time it extends the point which for old man Fed is no bueno....hes trying to end the points quicker with hitting through the backhand, but thats just not his game...the only thing we will see from Fed in the future is sporadic moments of greatness and moments of complete let downs...he is nowhere near nadal or djokovic anymore

by **NARCOSIS2009** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:01

I had to add this Djarvik...

This is how murray is gonna beat Nadal tomorrow since he is on drop shot crazyness... :roll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5CmBkxXBeA&feature=related

PS. He doesnt stand a chance against nadal.....

by **JJ_DUBZ_87** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:53

NARCOSIS2009 wrote:I had to add this Djarvik...

This is how murray is gonna beat Nadal tomorrow since he is on drop shot crazyness...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5CmBkxXBeA&feature=related

PS. He doesnt stand a chance against nadal.....

at least he's winning now though... :tu

by **Moralspain** » Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:21

NARCOSIS2009 wrote:PS. He doesnt stand a chance against nadal.....

you know about tennis

by **AUSSIE_FABS** » Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:40

Go, murray taking it to rafa, I like it.

Still want rafa to win but this would really spice things up if murray could win.
He will prob get broken now and lose set since said that lol.

I like how coming to net and unleashing on some forehands, one in particular to save bp was awesome.

by **Moralspain** » Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:50

Murray is playing very well on clay with his typical flat cross court BH and a modified FH with more spin, perfect for the clay season

by **AUSSIE_FABS** » Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:08

Great now I only have 5hrs sleep till clasico assuming one of them dies now.

Screw it clasico more important I guess I will miss rest of this.

by **Moralspain** » Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:36

AUSSIE_FABS wrote:Great now I only have 5hrs sleep till clasico assuming one of them dies now.

Screw it clasico more important I guess I will miss rest of this.

off-topic: clasico is much more important, yes

by **NARCOSIS2009** » Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:41

2 breaks up second set for murray :shock:

- everyone was saying he wouldnt be good on clay (as most british players are so bad on that surface lol) this is some of the best stuff I've seen in a while from murray.

by **Coolhand Texas** » Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:57

Muck Furray!

by **venom400** » Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:04

CHEDERER wrote:
jayl0ve wrote:Man wtf is going on with Federer.

I agree Melzer played awesome today but aside from that, Federer lately has just seems so bored...he's PREDICTABLE now, where when he was in his 'prime' he was totally unpredictable.

dude.....fed is almost 30 broskie...he has played almost 1000 ATP matches...what it looks like to me is his movement is really starting to take a dip and also that backhand he needs to just go back to the bread and butter slices...when he slices the backhand it leaves him so many options, but at the same time it extends the point which for old man Fed is no bueno....hes trying to end the points quicker with hitting through the backhand, but thats just not his game...the only thing we will see from Fed in the future is sporadic moments of greatness and moments of complete let downs...he is nowhere near nadal or djokovic anymore

Fed is not old for the love of god , he lost to somone his age , lots of pros retire around 35 , he is still very much at his prime .

To me when I went to see him at the erickson is that ... he seems bored , he doesn't have the fire anymore , he goes out there almost because people want him to , he is just not willing to put the work to win anything but maybe a grandslam ,anything else is tidious for him now .

I saw his face when he was warming up , he seemed bored , like a person going to the office on a monday morning .

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