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Yeah I think it would be wise that Nadal doesn't try and get back if his knee is only semi heeled as its not worth the risk in my opinion. Like I mentioned on here Nadal should do what Murray is doing and taking the rest of the year off to get 100% fit and healthy ready for the Australian Open and I really think Nadal should do the same. Finishing number #1 isn't everything and what should come first is health because if he redoes his knee it could see him miss half of next year so its not worth the risk in my opinion and anyway I can't see Nadal beating Djokovic even if they faced each other in a match.
I just read that Nadal is set to return to playing at the Paris Masters. The problem Nadal has at keeping his number #1 is if Djokovic decides to take a wild card into a tournament before Paris, he could pull ahead of Nadal and become world number #1. Then if they meet in a match it could be the match that decides the world number #1 so it will be an interesting end to the season to see who finishes number #1.
I'm concerned for Nadals knee cause the last time I remember him pulling out, it didn't look very good. While I truly understand that the number one ranking is at stake here, it's an risky comeback according to me. If your hypothetical situation is believed to be true then it shall be one epic match, and I believe the longest running match as none of these two champions will give up easily. I like Nadal and would like him to finish on top, but I have to respect Djokovic for rejuvenating himself and finding his way to the top 3.
I just read that Nadal is set to return to playing at the Paris Masters. The problem Nadal has at keeping his number #1 is if Djokovic decides to take a wild card into a tournament before Paris, he could pull ahead of Nadal and become world number #1. Then if they meet in a match it could be the match that decides the world number #1 so it will be an interesting end to the season to see who finishes number #1.
I'm concerned for Nadals knee cause the last time I remember him pulling out, it didn't look very good. While I truly understand that the number one ranking is at stake here, it's an risky comeback according to me. If your hypothetical situation is believed to be true then it shall be one epic match, and I believe the longest running match as none of these two champions will give up easily. I like Nadal and would like him to finish on top, but I have to respect Djokovic for rejuvenating himself and finding his way to the top 3.
I just read that Nadal is set to return to playing at the Paris Masters. The problem Nadal has at keeping his number #1 is if Djokovic decides to take a wild card into a tournament before Paris, he could pull ahead of Nadal and become world number #1. Then if they meet in a match it could be the match that decides the world number #1 so it will be an interesting end to the season to see who finishes number #1.
I do hope though that Nadal's knee is completely healed before you play at the Paris Masters. There's so much at stake right now and I'm sure that he wanted to end the year at #1. But as I have said, Djokovic got his second wind and I'm sure that ending as #1 at the end of the year will just be cherry on top for him. So its going to be a battle. But there's no shame in Djokovic coming at #2 though, imagine just a few months ago he is not even in the top 10 and where he is right now is a complete turn of event for Djokovic.
I just read that Nadal is set to return to playing at the Paris Masters. The problem Nadal has at keeping his number #1 is if Djokovic decides to take a wild card into a tournament before Paris, he could pull ahead of Nadal and become world number #1. Then if they meet in a match it could be the match that decides the world number #1 so it will be an interesting end to the season to see who finishes number #1.
It’s good to see Novak Djokovic return to his best once again after his injury, he was initially terrible when he returned but it seems his hard work has paid off and he should reclaim his position as the best in the world because there was no way Nadal would have been No 1 if Djokovic wasn’t injured.
I just read that Nadal is set to return to playing at the Paris Masters. The problem Nadal has at keeping his number #1 is if Djokovic decides to take a wild card into a tournament before Paris, he could pull ahead of Nadal and become world number #1. Then if they meet in a match it could be the match that decides the world number #1 so it will be an interesting end to the season to see who finishes number #1.
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Yeah you could be right, like I have been saying in this thread for a while now. The young talent always seem to play well in these tournaments and make the finals but when it comes to the Grand Slams they fail towards the end. We did see some of the young talent make the finals this year in Grand Slams but they couldn't go on with it. Well congrats to Djokovic on winning another tournament easily beating Coric in straight sets and will become the world number #2 overtaking Federer on Monday. Its a surprise to me that it is only Djokovic's 4th title of the year but he has just come good at the middle to back end of the season and is now 35 points behind Nadal in the ATP Race for London. Who will finish number #1?
We would love to see Federer vs Djokovic, however it didn't happened. Coric gave his all but its not enough to overcome the streaking Djokovic in the finals. Well want surprises me is how Djokovic recovered in 2018, remember his resurgence from tennis just came in the 2nd half of year and now claim to the #2 stop. So its going to be a exciting year end as Djokovic has the momentum and only 35 points behind Nadal. I'm going for Djokovic to end finish the year at the top. As I have said, he is unbeatable as this point and his confidence is really high and seems can't do anything wrong.
I'm with you on Djokovic becoming world number #1 by the end of the year as 35 points isn't much and I would think Nadal would need to win at least one more tournament to hold the number 1 ranking or at least make some finals. I agree that Djokovic will be hard to stop now as he has a nice run on now and when he gets in this form he is very hard to stop. I remember a few years ago when he had this run of form no one could stop him and its looking like this again and if he can hold this form heading into 2019 then we could see him win most of the major tournaments and even catch Nadal on Grand Slam titles. Its going to be an interesting end to the year to see who finishes number #1.
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Yeah you could be right, like I have been saying in this thread for a while now. The young talent always seem to play well in these tournaments and make the finals but when it comes to the Grand Slams they fail towards the end. We did see some of the young talent make the finals this year in Grand Slams but they couldn't go on with it. Well congrats to Djokovic on winning another tournament easily beating Coric in straight sets and will become the world number #2 overtaking Federer on Monday. Its a surprise to me that it is only Djokovic's 4th title of the year but he has just come good at the middle to back end of the season and is now 35 points behind Nadal in the ATP Race for London. Who will finish number #1?
We would love to see Federer vs Djokovic, however it didn't happened. Coric gave his all but its not enough to overcome the streaking Djokovic in the finals. Well want surprises me is how Djokovic recovered in 2018, remember his resurgence from tennis just came in the 2nd half of year and now claim to the #2 stop. So its going to be a exciting year end as Djokovic has the momentum and only 35 points behind Nadal. I'm going for Djokovic to end finish the year at the top. As I have said, he is unbeatable as this point and his confidence is really high and seems can't do anything wrong.
I'm a little shocker to see that Federer lost his match in straight sets, I didn't get a chance to watch the match so I don't know if he was on his game or not but it does show that he was outplayed. Congrats to Coric on making the final where he will face Djokovic who also won in straight sets.
It's not a surprise to me due to age difference of Coric and Federer. Of course young bloods are hungrier for title and the veterans played for just their hobby which means they don't really play for the championship.
Yeah you could be right, like I have been saying in this thread for a while now. The young talent always seem to play well in these tournaments and make the finals but when it comes to the Grand Slams they fail towards the end. We did see some of the young talent make the finals this year in Grand Slams but they couldn't go on with it. Well congrats to Djokovic on winning another tournament easily beating Coric in straight sets and will become the world number #2 overtaking Federer on Monday. Its a surprise to me that it is only Djokovic's 4th title of the year but he has just come good at the middle to back end of the season and is now 35 points behind Nadal in the ATP Race for London. Who will finish number #1?
I'm a little shocker to see that Federer lost his match in straight sets, I didn't get a chance to watch the match so I don't know if he was on his game or not but it does show that he was outplayed. Congrats to Coric on making the final where he will face Djokovic who also won in straight sets.
It's not a surprise to me due to age difference of Coric and Federer. Of course young bloods are hungrier for title and the veterans played for just their hobby which means they don't really play for the championship.
I'm a little shocker to see that Federer lost his match in straight sets, I didn't get a chance to watch the match so I don't know if he was on his game or not but it does show that he was outplayed. Congrats to Coric on making the final where he will face Djokovic who also won in straight sets.
Anybody watching Federer - Nishikori? It is a great match and if you have the means try to catch the end of it. Nishikori was trailing all the time and has for the first managed to take the lead in 2nd set. Hoping he will take the set so I can enjoy a bit more of this great match.
I just got home and missed the game. Federer eventually won against Nishikori, 6-4, 7-6 and will face Ćorić who defeated Ebden, 7-5, 6-4. On the other side of the draw, Djokovic get the better of Anderson, 7-6, 6-3 and will square off with Zverev, winner over Edmund, 6-4, 6-4. I'm more interested to see Djokovic vs Zverev semi-finals match.
Yeah I missed the matches as well which is a shame as I really wanted to see these matches as the big guns are playing. Its looking like it could be a Federer/Djokovic final unless Coric can pull off an upset against Federer. I actually give Zverev a chance against Djokovic as he has been in fine form all season so I wouldn't be surprised to see him win but it will most like be Federer/Djokovic final.
Anybody watching Federer - Nishikori? It is a great match and if you have the means try to catch the end of it. Nishikori was trailing all the time and has for the first managed to take the lead in 2nd set. Hoping he will take the set so I can enjoy a bit more of this great match.
I just got home and missed the game. Federer eventually won against Nishikori, 6-4, 7-6 and will face Ćorić who defeated Ebden, 7-5, 6-4. On the other side of the draw, Djokovic get the better of Anderson, 7-6, 6-3 and will square off with Zverev, winner over Edmund, 6-4, 6-4. I'm more interested to see Djokovic vs Zverev semi-finals match.
Anybody watching Federer - Nishikori? It is a great match and if you have the means try to catch the end of it. Nishikori was trailing all the time and has for the first managed to take the lead in 2nd set. Hoping he will take the set so I can enjoy a bit more of this great match.
And there's also another controversy (again) in the match between Federer and Roberto Bautista. Bautista alleges that umpire favors Roger specially on the critical moments of the game. He accuses the umpires of favouritism for the 20-time grand slam champ during the “critical” game in the deciding set. Score was 4-4, he had a forehand but was called out by the lines man. The umpire decided to replayed the point and eventually he the lost 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
Is anyone watching the Shanghai Masters? There are some interesting matches coming up later today in the Men's quarter finals with Edmund taking on A. Zverev, Anderson taking on Djokovic and Federer taking on Nishikori so all the big guns have made it through so far and it will be interesting to see who makes it through to the semi finals. Federer and Djokovic would have to be favourite to make it through.
Hey yes all eyes are indeed going to be on Tomnic he's won a grand slam after 3 years many will expect him to perform better and even try and win other grand slams, surely there's lots of talent in him all he needs to bring it out on the pitch.
Correct, there's talent inside that guy but he made a lot of questionable moves in his career, we don't want to see another Australian wasting his talent.
I was not aware of such a incident normally it gets reported but then his name is not Serena Williams and he's a male that's why it didn't get covered lol. However it's a really unfortunate event which would have crippled the morale of the boy for a lifetime, agreed he's under pressure however that doesn't give him the right to destroy another human being.
LOL. I guess if its a higher ran male player, it will immediately all over (but I doubt top 10 male will act like that). Roger Federer already made his statement saying that all players should respect ball boys and girls (he used to be a ball boy himself). I haven't seen any statement from Verdasco though, I guess the best way for him is to issue a public apology.
@vella85 - Exactly, there's no bandwagon on Tomic because he hasn't shown anything as of yet. Sure, when he was young he was very promising but just like the rest of tennis player who reach the pinnacle they lost interest and their career went sour. So he needed to win a couple of tournaments before we can say that he is a change man, otherwise we can call this win just another "one-hit-wonder".
Anyways, does anyone aware of Fernando Verdasco's rant on a ball boy during last month's Shenzhen Open? I was not aware of such incident, but its does look good on Verdasco image.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYDSZbYNXc)
Anyways, does anyone aware of Fernando Verdasco's rant on a ball boy during last month's Shenzhen Open? I was not aware of such incident, but its does look good on Verdasco image.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYDSZbYNXc)
Hey yes all eyes are indeed going to be on Tomnic he's won a grand slam after 3 years many will expect him to perform better and even try and win other grand slams, surely there's lots of talent in him all he needs to bring it out on the pitch.
I was not aware of such a incident normally it gets reported but then his name is not Serena Williams and he's a male that's why it didn't get covered lol. However it's a really unfortunate event which would have crippled the morale of the boy for a lifetime, agreed he's under pressure however that doesn't give him the right to destroy another human being.
@vella85 - Exactly, there's no bandwagon on Tomic because he hasn't shown anything as of yet. Sure, when he was young he was very promising but just like the rest of tennis player who reach the pinnacle they lost interest and their career went sour. So he needed to win a couple of tournaments before we can say that he is a change man, otherwise we can call this win just another "one-hit-wonder".
Anyways, does anyone aware of Fernando Verdasco's rant on a ball boy during last month's Shenzhen Open? I was not aware of such incident, but its does look good on Verdasco image.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYDSZbYNXc)
Anyways, does anyone aware of Fernando Verdasco's rant on a ball boy during last month's Shenzhen Open? I was not aware of such incident, but its does look good on Verdasco image.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYDSZbYNXc)
No I didn't even know about this rant from Verdasco on one of the ball boys, I didn't even see it on the news which normally shows this kind of stuff. Yeah I agree its not a good look for Verdasco but I guess these things can happen sometimes as the players are under a lot of pressure but still its not good to do this to a child.
Oh poor ball boy, his just trying to do his job but this so called superstars shows his bad side and everyone was watching. Well he lost his match that time so perhaps that's why he vent his frustrations to the kid but he went overboard.
@vella85 - Exactly, there's no bandwagon on Tomic because he hasn't shown anything as of yet. Sure, when he was young he was very promising but just like the rest of tennis player who reach the pinnacle they lost interest and their career went sour. So he needed to win a couple of tournaments before we can say that he is a change man, otherwise we can call this win just another "one-hit-wonder".
Anyways, does anyone aware of Fernando Verdasco's rant on a ball boy during last month's Shenzhen Open? I was not aware of such incident, but its does look good on Verdasco image.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYDSZbYNXc)
Anyways, does anyone aware of Fernando Verdasco's rant on a ball boy during last month's Shenzhen Open? I was not aware of such incident, but its does look good on Verdasco image.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYDSZbYNXc)
No I didn't even know about this rant from Verdasco on one of the ball boys, I didn't even see it on the news which normally shows this kind of stuff. Yeah I agree its not a good look for Verdasco but I guess these things can happen sometimes as the players are under a lot of pressure but still its not good to do this to a child.
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