Wimbledon Day 4: Thursday, June 26 - Order of Play

[Murat B.]

I wish they put another match on Center Court now. There is definitely enough time to complete one more match there...

 

[DarthFed]

This forum, and tennis.com has long been mostly a Rafa forum. Sure there are more Federer fans than Djokovic and Murray but a far cry from the Rafa love. Nothing wrong with it but you'll excuse those who don't love Rafa.

And how many non-Roger fans treat him the way multiple Roger fans treat Nadal?

I don't see how he is being treated unfairly. Some people can't stand Mr. Topspin and voice it differently than the fans who can't stand Roger. Kieran for instance is a little more subtle. I don't do subtle on a consistent basis. Different strokes, different folks.

Thank you for proving my point.

If Federer were treated with the same level of distaste, disdain, insults, etc. that the Fed fans treat Rafa, there would be blood on the streets.

Doubtful. Rafa fans have more of the victim mentality not so unlike a certain player.

 

[tented]

I wish they put another match on Center Court now. There is definitely enough time to complete one more match there...

I think they could get through a women's match, but not necessarily the men. There's a chance it would have to be held over anyway, given when they could get on court, and when Wimbledon is mandated to stop play due to local laws.

 

[Front242]

Front.. I know what Murat was inquing about.. its the way you overreacted when I simply said that you were looking for another Rafa Killer, which is cool but when you want to question my comprehension prowness, there lies the problem, Comprehende

So why bother typing provoking stupid posts then when you know the answer you'll receive?!

Simply.. Just feeding a known troll, nothing more nothing less

I don't see you or huntingyou as any different so I couldn't care less what you think.

Huge Difference.. HU and I both are typically brutally honest about Rafa's play and etc.. You on the other hand spend the majority of your time Hatin Rafa and whining about every little nuisance of Rafa's match. If Rafa plays well, HU and I acknowledge .. but you go into pure Troll mode and just berate everyone from Murray, Djoker or etc. IF Fed plays well, again HU and I acknowledge Roger but Never belittle his loosing opponents. Again, Comprehende

Majority of my time talking about Rafa's match. LOL, good one. Not my fault if I'm responding to stupidity all the time. When did I belittle Rafa's opponent today tell me please so I can look it up? I said he didn't serve his best which is true. Another nonsense post. Keep it up.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

Federer strolls into round 3. nice one Cyril.

 

[Front242]

25 aces in 3 fast sets. Good job, Roger. Glad to see Gilles Müller back playing well after his pretty serious elbow injury. Hopefully he continues to have a good season. His tactics today, however, were all wrong. Staying back after first serves was a losing strategy 100%

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

every time I come in here its bickering fedal shite. give it a rest.

 

[tented]

This forum, and tennis.com has long been mostly a Rafa forum. Sure there are more Federer fans than Djokovic and Murray but a far cry from the Rafa love. Nothing wrong with it but you'll excuse those who don't love Rafa.

And how many non-Roger fans treat him the way multiple Roger fans treat Nadal?

I don't see how he is being treated unfairly. Some people can't stand Mr. Topspin and voice it differently than the fans who can't stand Roger. Kieran for instance is a little more subtle. I don't do subtle on a consistent basis. Different strokes, different folks.

Thank you for proving my point.

If Federer were treated with the same level of distaste, disdain, insults, etc. that the Fed fans treat Rafa, there would be blood on the streets.

Doubtful. Rafa fans have more of the victim mentality not so unlike a certain player.

When you're a fan of the guy who is under relentless, frequently troll-level assaults from Fed fans (and the Djokovic fans are far from innocent here, too), feeling victimized is pretty understandable. You would understand this yourself if we were as caustic and outrageous towards Federer. Luckily for you, that's not the case.

 

[Front242]

Rosol let the slowness of Nadal's time between points and games get to him at 4-2 second set and we witnessed another gutless umpire today. Pascal Maria should've been umpiring there. Average 25 seconds between points and not even a warning all match. Shameful.

25 seconds is actually the limit. So Nadal wasn't averaging over it. That doesn't mean he never went over the limit, but on average, he stayed within (for once). I don't see the outrage.

No, it's 20 at slams. 25 at non slam events.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

the roof didn't get stuck halfway closed. or halfway open.

 

[tented]

every time I come in here its bickering fedal shite. give it a rest.

Good idea. Perhaps Front or Darth, the two leading acolytes of hate, should create a thread titled something like: "I foam at the mouth even thinking about Nadal!" and express all of their vitriol there.

 

[Front242]

every time I come in here its bickering fedal shite. give it a rest.

Good idea. Perhaps Front or Darth, the two leading acolytes of hate, should create a thread titled something like: "I foam at the mouth even thinking about Nadal!" and express all of their vitriol there.

We didn't state any "hate" here, in fact most of the nonsense came from Nadal fans. I mentioned one thing about time violations and that was it. Read the whole thread. AP and huntingyou's bs posts formed the bulk of the nonsense here but most of the Nadal fans as I mentioned earlier tag team and support each other like a bunch of smelly wrestlers.

AP claims he never belittles Federer's opponents and yet I dunno why this had to be even mentioned. When did I belittle Rosol today? I said he didn't serve as well as he needed to. Here's my first comment after the match for you to view all the supposed "hate". See below. Now who looks stupid?

Well it wasn't death foretold after all Good match. Pity for Rosol that his serving let him down 'cos the penultimate service game was how it needed to be all match. Probably one of the fastest service games you'll see. Nadal and fans must be happy.

 

[tented]

every time I come in here its bickering fedal shite. give it a rest.

Good idea. Perhaps Front or Darth, the two leading acolytes of hate, should create a thread titled something like: "I foam at the mouth even thinking about Nadal!" and express all of their vitriol there.

We didn't state any "hate" here, in fact most of the nonsense came from Nadal fans. I mentioned one thing about time violations and that was it. Read the whole thread.

Come on, Front, do you think I made the joke based entirely on this one thread?

 

[Front242]

every time I come in here its bickering fedal shite. give it a rest.

Good idea. Perhaps Front or Darth, the two leading acolytes of hate, should create a thread titled something like: "I foam at the mouth even thinking about Nadal!" and express all of their vitriol there.

We didn't state any "hate" here, in fact most of the nonsense came from Nadal fans. I mentioned one thing about time violations and that was it. Read the whole thread.

Come on, Front, do you think I made the joke based entirely on this one thread?

I've seen plenty of bs tag teaming on other threads too by Nadal fans so what's your point? I mentioned possibility of non compliance with PRP treatments and also cited doping references for Errani and Ferrer who have worked with a disgraced doctor and yet all the Nadal fans (Kieran in particular) derailed that all into Nadal related crap when the case was mostly about the other 2.

 

[DarthFed]

And how many non-Roger fans treat him the way multiple Roger fans treat Nadal?

I don't see how he is being treated unfairly. Some people can't stand Mr. Topspin and voice it differently than the fans who can't stand Roger. Kieran for instance is a little more subtle. I don't do subtle on a consistent basis. Different strokes, different folks.

Thank you for proving my point.

If Federer were treated with the same level of distaste, disdain, insults, etc. that the Fed fans treat Rafa, there would be blood on the streets.

Doubtful. Rafa fans have more of the victim mentality not so unlike a certain player.

When you're a fan of the guy who is under relentless, frequently troll-level assaults from Fed fans (and the Djokovic fans are far from innocent here, too), feeling victimized is pretty understandable. You would understand this yourself if we were as caustic and outrageous towards Federer. Luckily for you, that's not the case.

What troll level assaults have there been? Some people question certain tactics and how quick he is to cite an injury when he loses. Is that troll style? And like I said some people go about it differently. Kieran has the subtle hatred and belittling of Roger while Nehmeth is more direct about it. I prefer Nehmeth's style of Roger hatred.

 

[Front242]

And yes, it's 20 seconds between points at slams so the Nadal fans taking offense to this and trying but failing miserably to defend this might as well give up 'cos he was overlimit the whole match earlier. That's not hate, that's a blatant fact.

http://straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/atp-adopts-rules-changes-to-address-pace-of-play/

 

[DarthFed]

Can Roger make it 4 aces in a row to close it out??? Nope, but wins the point anyways.

Not tested but solid win and a good serving day. And better than last year...

Good to hear, this is good practice if he does face a decent version of Jerzy in the 4th round. Who does Roger get next?

The winner of Granola-Giraldo that is on the 5th. set right now with Granola up 2-1 on serve, suspended.

Shouldn't be any problem there. Slap some frosting on that Granola Bar.

 

[Front242]

Watched a bit of JJ's match during the delay when they were closing the roof and to be honest his serve doesn't even look deadly anymore. Müller's serve is much better.

 

[Front242]

I wish they put another match on Center Court now. There is definitely enough time to complete one more match there...

A shame alright. Certainly a high chance they'd have finished a match by the 11pm curfew, especially a women's match that may end in fast straight sets.

 

[britbox]

Lol. Federer has always been trashed in spades on this board and it's predecessors.. even Mirka used to get trashed. No comparison with a valid point about time between points.

Anyway, both juggernaughts move on toward a possible meeting.

I thought Rosol played well in fairness. He didn't come to lie down and went after his shots.