Loki
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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.
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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.
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Cup Tie
GCarlos9 defeats markf268 by checkmate.
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4 hours ago, TheScarf said:
We were promoted in 2nd behind Livingston from the Second Division in 1999 when the SFL used to be two up, two down between the 3 leagues and have never been back.
Never been back yet.
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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.
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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.
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I have added you as a friend and invited you for our cup game @true_rover
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On 04/02/2022 at 21:40, Mark Connolly said:
Del Potro is probably my favourite non-Andy Murray tennis player. Just an absolute warrior.
He's basically an Argentinian Andy, but even more injury prone
He’s said he’s going to retire after this tournament.
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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.
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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.
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20 minutes ago, parsforlife said:
You make a lot of good points, but on this surely there's an argument that having your game work best on the surfaces used most often is a factor in being the GOAT?
*appreciating surfaces have changed over time, but not hugely during the development or career of the players that made this era.
Yeah absolutely. You can use different criteria and get a different answer each time. Collectively they are the greatest to ever play the sport.
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1 hour ago, cameron2000 said:
Clay is the bounciest surface and the hotter the conditions the more it kicks ups off the clay so the time of year is also perfect.
Nadal has the heaviest top spin forehand in the game and can generate insane kick off the surface to push opponents back and dominate points.
His biggest rivals hit much flatter in general which tends to sit up more on clay than skid through the court.
Of the next-gen, Tsitsipas and Thiem are best equipped to challenge him but he holds the slight edge still as he can expose their 1 handed backhands (like he did with Federer).
Djokovic beating Nadal twice in Paris is probably his number 1 achievement.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
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21 minutes ago, cameron2000 said:
Australian Open surface is faster the the US Open. The US Open Surface is higher bouncing though meaning that players have more margin for error against him.Stand corrected. Certainly explains why he’s made nine finals at each but lost six US Opens.
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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.
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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.
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13 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:
Is there some sort of shite goalkeeping vortex at that end of the pitch?
It opened up when Scott Fox forgot about Morelos and has been possessing keepers ever since.
1 minute ago, Scotty Tunbridge said:Serious question who was the last proper good goalkeeper County have had? They’ve just had meh keepers for as long as I remember.
Mick McGovern is the last keeper County had that I thought there was a safe pair of hands.
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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
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If you don’t give a coaching violation, how do I say this, you’re a small cat
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2 hours ago, SweeperDee said:
Sure think, would possibly have to be late tomorrow night if that’s alright? What’s your user?GCarlos9 just invite when you’re ready.
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4 hours ago, SweeperDee said:
I think I've been pretty damn lucky so far
I have only one league match this week, I’m happy to play a challenge match and I’ll go black.
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Danielle Collins has just been brilliant so far, destroying Swiatek’s second serve and hitting even bigger than her.
Absolutely under rated her power of both wings, but certainly keeping the ball in play longer and extracting the errors. A set and a double break up, just brilliant tennis. On this form she’ll upset Barty.
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In the womens side Barty is just playing so solidly, that even a rejuvenated Madison Keys probably doesn’t have a chance.
Swiatek against Collins a bit more even, Swiatek can generate easier power, so you’d expect her to win. Collins can get the ball back in court long enough to extract errors, so should be interesting semi.
Barty will be the first Australian champion since Chris O’Neil in 1978. Up until that point only 10 non Australians had won it on the womens side.
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As well as Felix played, he bottles every big match he’s ever played. There will be plenty of opportunities for him though, to get over that hurdle.
I’m not even going to bother watching the Tsitsipas Medvedev semi. Both players 10 feet behind the baseline playing pong until someone makes an error. Tsitsipas will have to play exceptionally well to win. Can see it going exactly the same way as last years semi. But if he moves forward a bit more he’ll be able to cut Medvedev out with the angles from his backhand
Berretini has the best chance of an upset, just plays solidly throughout. Over the last couple of years just beats everyone ranked below him at the Slams. Just feel Nadal will just bring it and go through.
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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.