posted Feb 21, 2007

Perfector: have you read my comments on the thread Chet started?

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posted Feb 21, 2007

Yes and I've just replied. Now will you reply to my points on this thread and my response to your itemized points on the Wayne Arthurs thread?
I will try to reply this pm after lunch.

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posted Feb 21, 2007

I’m afraid you have shown some tennis ineptitude with an inability to distinguish between different types of shot.

The ‘ground stroke half volley’ is a clean and ferocious winner hit with regularity from the back of the court but with a half volley style. An almost impossibly difficult shot to control, requiring supernatural skill in combining both racquet head speed and vicious top spin.

It is widely accepted that Federer brought this shot to the tour – if you watched his matches you know that.

As regards s&v: I think I have made my point on the thread chet started; Federer can use it at will when required; the change in todays play means that it isn't required so often. Pete may have struggled with that. Federer has an excellent all court game.

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posted Feb 21, 2007

Oh Sara, you've been believing the Fed-worshipping hyperbole. People have been doing that since Bill Tilden! Davenport must do that at least three times a match as she is so slow and often has to improvise. Agassi has been taking the ball ridiculously early since he was a small child.

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posted Feb 21, 2007

a desperate attempt to backtrack there, Perfector-I was expecting a little more from you given the detailed explanation I gave.

Do you ever admit to being wrong? Or even SLIGHTLY wrong?

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posted Feb 21, 2007

You know what Perfector, I don't think that many people care whether you're right or wrong. You are the most arrogant obnoxious oik to ever post on this board (with the exception of mrnoneofyourbusiness).

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posted Feb 21, 2007

Sara, Backtrack, what backtrack?

Yes I admitted I was wrong to Andy1073 only yesterday. Have you admitted that you were wrong to say that serve and volley has no place in the modern game given that the so-called Number 1 Federer used that tactic 'throughout' his second most important match of the year, the semi final with Roddick? Not really in my opinion. You've tried to wriggle out of your contradictory statements but not really come clean and said "I was wrong".

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posted Feb 21, 2007

Perfector: I did concede that I had underestimated the role of serve and volley.

What I should have said was todays game does not rely on it, therefore it doesn't come to the fore as much as it once did.

In that I WAS WRONG!!

However, I still stand by the fact that Federer can volley well, when needed and he also possesses a full court game on all other surfaces (has/is addressing backhand)

His g/s half volley is unique-why then do all experts acknowledge he brought that to the tour??

I also don't recollect you admitting to be wrong?

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posted Feb 21, 2007

Because you don't remember it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Ask Andy1073 if you don't believe me. I'm sure he won't lie as the apology is somewhere in the Arthurs thread if I should need to go looking for it.

Any tennis pundit who says that the drive half-volley was invented by Federer should be shot. It's a blatant lie.

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posted Feb 21, 2007

I apologise, Perfector-it was Arthurs-Gate, I remember now.

However, you have got this wrong. It's not the drive half-volley I am talking about. It's the defensive half-volley, that is turned into an attacking half-volley with miraculous racket head speed. This is only attributed to Federer.

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