who will win french open

  • nadal

    Votes: 71 38.8%
  • joker

    Votes: 59 32.2%
  • roger

    Votes: 26 14.2%
  • other

    Votes: 27 14.8%

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nomoreneveragain

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One of my earliest sporting memories was watching Sampras/Agassi 95 and Sampras/Chang 96 in the living room with my parents on CBS
 

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Kei is gonna win.

Federer is gonna have to play back 2 back days to win it, it's gonna be hard for him at 33 to do it.
 

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These people don't understand

Kei is a groundstroker with a real shaky offense. Most of his points come from counter punching and being steady enough to make the opponent make mistakes. Guys like that Federer has awesome success with

Look at Andy Murray. Federer used to eat him alive, because all he did was counterpunching and groundstrokes. Until Murray added an offensive arsenal is when he started to beat Federer regularly, and be on sort of an equal footing
Same with Djokovic, he is a counter puncher AND an offensive game

Until Kei adds an offensive arsenal, and a better serve, he won't be a threat IMO
This is complete nonsense Murray beat Federer in 6 out of 7 matchups between Cincinnati 06 and Indian Wells 09

Their head to head record evened out later on.
 

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The problem is that Federer is 33 years old and not as consistently godly as he was at age 28.

Watch the match vs clownfis, Fed was frustrated that he got to every ball, Kei can emulate that style vs Federer and frustrate him into spraying errors all over the place.

With the added rain incoming, Fed may play three straight days too, this is Kei's best chance at a major win.

Yeah but for all the goofing Monfils does, his offensive arsenal is top notch. Was about to blow Federer off the court... His serve, ground strokes, defending drop shots, forehand and backhand winners. Kei isn't even the same league as Monfils as far as offense
 

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@VMR This close enough to that Ivanisevic run you mentioned before? Going through the 5th, 3rd, 1st and 2nd seeds in this US Open, but you said it couldn't happen in today's game. :mjpls:

:blessed::blessed:

if i didnt say it maybe it dont happen :jawalrus: i was puttin in heavy lifting in the jinx mode :pachaha:

doesnt touch the goran run though, u know that. kei is 10 seed and young. but i co-sign it. :obama:monfils woulda been closer but he didnt have all the GS finals goran had. i dont think that run will ever be duplicated
 

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Plan tennis majors around the two weeks out of year that usually rains brehs.
 

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@Regular_P

Nishikori isn’t all that far away. By winning this tournament, Nishikori improved his ATP ranking to 12th from 17th. Kei, who has been under the tutelage of the famous Michael Chang, is now only one short of his best ranking of 11th and improved to 8-1 in the month of April. I wouldn’t rule him out of making the Semi’s in a grand-slam this year and perhaps sneaking into the finals.

:wow::wow::wow: I wrote this article in April.
 
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