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Division A GCarlos9 defeats gkneil.

6-0 6-1 equals the worst defeat of his ATP career. Roger Federer also beat him by the same score line in the ATP Finals in 2014.

He didn’t head butt Duncan Ferguson style. But he would quite often head a player in the back of the head when the opponent won the ball. Really really dirty c**t of a player. You could say aww it’s Jim Goodwin, he’s slow and useless. But it was deliberate. He had a habit of doing it against County when Adams was in charge. I think Adams called him a ghost as he was never seen being a dirty b*****d. He’d definitely be a player you loved if he did that against a Caley player though But yeah I can’t stand him, but he’s not a racist.

I hate Goodwin. He was a fucking horrendous dirty player, elbows, nutting the lot. An absolute horrible c**t. Liam Boyce destroying him with the nutmeg getting his hat trick was about the best thing that’s ever happened in a County St Mirren game. I’d take him in a heartbeat though

You do realise the plot hole you talk about doesn’t exist until the actual story is told? There’s 100s of ways they can tell the story. We already had a discussion numerous pages back. Anyway Starwars loves things from a certain point of view: “A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.”

Felix finally gets his first ATP title after the 9th attempt. The level he now can play at is well known to be as high as anyone, but now with that breakthrough you’d hope he’d start to not throwing away leads. He played so well today that a player as good as Tsitsipas hadn’t a chance. Also Murray’s defeat doesn’t look as bad either. He’s certainly be top four or five soon, and with that comes opportunities. Not sure he can play grass as well as the more experienced players but certainly can win the US Open this year.

League A GCarlos9 resigns against beef2711. I resigned vs Beef in the league. I meant to put a rook in a certain square and I put it in the square above. Totally fucked the game.

Draw in Doha, will be rematch against Taro Daniel and then a match against Bautista-Agut. If he gets through to the second round he will soon learn what it was like to play against Andy Murray. As Bautista-Agut just does exactly what Murray does, makes you play another ball.

Cup Tie GCarlos9 defeats markf268 by checkmate.

Never been back yet.

I have seen Del Potro play live twice - in the Davis Cup in Glasgow and in the US Open in 2017. The thing that struck me the most was the sound of the raquet hitting the ball when he unleashed a forehand. Incredible. Nadal and Federer have never met at the US Open. The closest it ever came to happening was in 2009 and 2017. If both won their matches they would have played that historic match. Both years the Tower of Tandil intervened. Beating Nadal in straight sets in 09 and winning his only slam by beating Federer. Also worth noting in that run he also beat Cilic in the QF. In 2017 he destroyed Federer in the QF and took Nadal apart in the first set, but his backhand just wasn’t up to standard and Nadal wore him down. In 2016 he reduced Djokovic to a weeping mess at the side of the court as he knocked him out in the first round of the Olympics. He then beat Nadal to secure at least a silver and in 2012 beat Djokovic to take the bronze. A five set epic in Glasgow ended Murray’s Davis Cup run, and he went on to win the Davis Cup that year. A quite brilliant tennis player at his best, sadly ruined by injury. His tennis resume may only say one slam and one Masters, but he is worth more than that. Davis Cup, two Olympic medals and the only player to have played all of the big four in Masters finals.

Andy is dropping the bombs today, he will skip the full clay season as it is not good for his body. He will play Sasha Bublik in the first round of Rotterdam and then potentially Felix AA in the next round. He will be in the top 100 tomorrow so should not need wild cards for Miami and Indian Wells.

I have added you as a friend and invited you for our cup game @true_rover

He’s said he’s going to retire after this tournament.

Looks like he will be working with Dani Vallverdu agaIn. And will more than likely be training with Stan Wawrinka in between the tournaments in Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai. In better news Juan Martin Del Potro returns next week. Just hope his body can hold up for some kind of comeback. The sound of his forehand smashing the ball has been sorely missed.

I watched Groundhog Day. I forgot how good Bill Murray is in it. Listening to Sonny and Cher and having to meet Ned Ryerson everyday would drive me insane. A very good film, and quite possibly Egon Spengler's best work as a director. 8/10.

Yeah absolutely. You can use different criteria and get a different answer each time. Collectively they are the greatest to ever play the sport.

I’d green dot that twice if I could. The only thing you could possibly add to that is everyone knows Rafa is the greatest player on clay. Mentally they’ll always be doubts, even when ahead. Both Federer and Djokovic have lost matches on clay that they should have seen out. The whole net incident at the French Open in 2013, springs to mind immediately. The third set of the French Open last year was an insane level, Djokovic had to summon the best set of his clay career just to finish Nadal off. Nadal injured himself in the process. I personally think the only player on tour that isn’t aware of his record on clay when playing is Fabio Fognini. But he’s a law to himself

Stand corrected. Certainly explains why he’s made nine finals at each but lost six US Opens.

I feel the GOAT argument is a bit daft mainly as each of the big three have talents that are specifically suited to a surface. We have 65% hard court, 25% clay and 10% grass. If we were to switch those about to reflect each players best surface it would be a different result. Novak’s low error game is suited to hard courts more than the others, however he can be exposed on faster courts. Hence his record at the Australian Open and US Open differs significantly. Think if one of the hard courts was changed to grass or clay, he’d still do okay as his low error games suits any surface that is medium or slow paced. On Grass Federer is the best however he’s lost finals to both Nadal and Djokovic there. Djokovic only has five due to the injuries to Murray. If Murray never had the back or hip injuries Murray would have five. Although changing two of the slams to grass wouldn’t really have that much affect as the years he was dominant he was also winning the hard court slams. Clay is Nadal. 65% clay tournaments with two being clay, Nadal would have over 30 slams and none of them would be close. In slams Nadals record against both is superior, although helped be his ability on clay. Without Federer’s brilliance to drive Nadal, we wouldn’t have been at the level to get here. The emergence of both Murray and Djokovic pushed that level even higher. Without each other Nadal, Federer and Djokovic wouldn’t be as great. Collectively they’re the greatest ever to play the sport. No one can touch them.

Rafa figured out Medvedev from the middle of the second set, and only his own nervousness fucked that second set. It shows the difference in ability from Rafa’s generation to the latest, that the three top guys in this generation have lost slam finals from being two sets up. All of them. I can’t see Medvedev having any chances on the natural surfaces. But if it’s any consolation this might be the last time we see anyone from This golden era win a slam on a hard court.

It opened up when Scott Fox forgot about Morelos and has been possessing keepers ever since. Mick McGovern is the last keeper County had that I thought there was a safe pair of hands.

League A Aimhere defeats GCarlos9 by checkmate. Got greedy promoting a pawn instead of checking my opponent. I thought he had resigned Can only be described as a monumental blunder

If you don’t give a coaching violation, how do I say this, you’re a small cat

GCarlos9 just invite when you’re ready.