posted Nov 11, 2008

i saw the game and found tsonga is a good player
yes he made too many unforced errors but it happens to have an off day
tsonga is talentd butso are many other players
hes shown that he lacks consistence for now but he has ability to go far

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posted Nov 11, 2008

The Nameless One
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the excuse that he wasnt fresh is a loser excuse hes lost thats it get on with it next time he will do better as your guy is rather talented

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posted Nov 11, 2008

del Potro has no game whatsoever, just a baseline grinder - 15 winners in two TB sets says it all. Tsonga was really tired, physically as well as mentally, he does not usually play the big points as badly as he did today. He already looked spent at the end of the Davy match.

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posted Nov 11, 2008

Too bad for JW today. What a joy his game is. Full of emotion and elan. A pleasant contrast from the grim, grind it out style and clinical, workmanlike approach of Nadal and Federer.

Does del Potro have the ability to develop a more varied game, incorporating more net approaches to complement his baseline strength?

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posted Nov 11, 2008

Surfindagroove wrote:
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He has a very anglo-saxon way of playing which basically consists of hitting the ball one more time than his opponent.
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Que?!?!?!

I have never heard of an anglo-saxon way of playing tennis. It would only make sense to introduce that term if the English, Americans, and Australians all play or have historically played in a similar style. This is not the case: their players of name (Sampras, Rafter, Agassi, Courier, McEnroe, Connors, Laver, Roddick, the Williams sisters, Henman, need I go on) all have different styles and if anything they share a likeness for attacking and fast tennis.

The description above more suits something that I would call Hispanic tennis - a large number of the Spanish and South American claycourters definitely come from one recognizable school of tennis.

The only advantage to the overtly nonsensical postings here is that they offer a quick guide to the tennis knowledge of their authors and so to what and what not to read.

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posted Nov 12, 2008

Re: Stepanek borrowing some socks, my claim to fame is that my housemate at uni borrowed a pair of my trouser to wear on the Weakest Link!

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posted Nov 12, 2008

I've been to Shanghai and I KNOW there is at LEAST one good sock shop that Stepanek could have gone to. I suspect some kind of ruse

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posted Nov 13, 2008

Come on General Jo

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posted Dec 2, 2008

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posted Dec 2, 2008

done! Sorry it's the damn 3 minutes rule!

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