Dr_Pangloss Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 That's two women's singles finals now that have just been an utter spanking. If that really were the case I'd be a lot more motivated to watch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 That's two women's singles finals now that have just been an utter spanking. Wimbledon yes but we had a fantastic final between Sharopova and Halep in the French...If one player plays really well and the other freezes a bit 2 sets isn't long enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Expect Djoko to win rather comfortably in straight sets tomoz. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 This is a classic men's Wimbledon final. 2 sets all, after Federer saved the set from championship point down. both players giving it their all! certainly more value for money than yesterdays final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Expect Djoko to win rather comfortably in straight sets tomoz. Hope you didn't put money on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Brilliant match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 After spending so long limping around with an 'injury' Djokovic never looked fitted in those last two games. Can't stand him. But credit to a past his prime Federer taking it right to the wire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Yes he's done it........Great return of serving.... He would never have recovered if he had lost a match he should have had sewn up in the 4th set Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Woah... what a final. Far more quality than last year. Federer will be missed when the sands of time run out for him on a tennis court. Felt like a last hurrah to me, shame he couldn't quite get ahead in that fifth set. But then I've written Fed off before and he's comeback. Kudos to Nole, had some tough final losses in the last few years and this one would've probably topped it off. Hopefully with this boost in confidence he can start beating Nadal again.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Chuffed for Djokovic, he does seem to lose a lot of finals. Fed said see you next year. Surely that will be his last? He does deserve to be the first to get 8 championships. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 As long as he stays healthy (and Federer never gets injured) he's stated he wants to play in the Rio 2016 Olympics so with the U.S open a few weeks after that, that will probably be his swansong so probably two more Wimbledons. The concern I had last year was if losing in the 2nd or 3rd round was to become the norm how long would Federer want to play on but this year he's got to the Wimbledon final and AO semi final so still a factor at the business end of slams which is good to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Chuffed for Djokovic, he does seem to lose a lot of finals. Fed said see you next year. Surely that will be his last? He does deserve to be the first to get 8 championships. Yes you never know. He strolled to the final. Theres only Dimitrov from the younger players I see as a slam winner next season. will Murray ever get back to where he was and will Nadal sacrifice a French so he can be 100% for Wimbledon...Onto the US Open and Djokovic will be brimming with confidence now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Hopefullly Del Potro can come back strong from injury in the near future as he could be a contender again. Was looking good a year ago as it was nearly him v Murray in the Wimbledon final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 (edited) Edit. Edited July 6, 2014 by Avfc96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 It was and he won the US OPEN at a young age... Bad wrist injury though! Wawrinka has been dissapointing since the Aussie Open. Raonic is a bit of a one trick pony....Theres a couple of other young players like NishiKori and Dolgopolov who look pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Have to say aswell it's unreal Murray is now 10th in the world rankings, hasn't been this low since 2008. Surprised it's happened as he didn't play French in 2013 and made the semis this year so you'd think he'd gain loads of points there and it wasn't like he was knocked out of Wimbledon at 2nd round. Del Potro despite being j=injured and making the semis last year is still above him! That will be interesting for U.S open, unlikely he's going to be a top 4 seed now so there's going to be a heavyweight quarter final match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Yes he didn't play after the US Open until The Australian open so he lost a load of points there and his atp tour event results have been poor.. Obviously the points dfference from quarters to winning is massive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Murray I think is going to struggle if he sticks with Mauresmo, he needs to get back to winning ways soon. He has not won a tournament since Wimbledon last year which is very very poor, despite his injury. If he doesn't get it together soon he is really going to struggle to win a grand slam in the near future. Djokovic is one of the best tennis players in the world and seems to have finally got the monkey off his back in terms of losing finals. Federer has shown at Wimbledon that he has still got it even if he is getting on a bit. Nadal has got the French all but sorted every year and has proved he can still win on other surfaces besides clay- US open last year as an example. Then the likes of Warwinka, Dimitrov, Del Potro, Nishikori are all going to provide very tough tasks in future grand slams aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 (edited) Murray lost 1640 pts in this event alone and drops to about 3000 pts... Just to show the difference. Djokovich is now on over 13000 pts and Nadal about 12,700. federer and Wawrinka are on just over 6000 pts...So the gap between the top 2 and the rest is massive.....and Djokovic can gain even more points on Nadal now because Nadal had a 100% record up until after the US Open....Murray has every opportunity to gain a lot of points from now until the end of the season. I think he will be back in the top 4 by the tour finals.. Edited July 6, 2014 by PaulC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 It's simple for Murray - he needs to sort out that 2nd serve. It's just bad and causes him to drop too many games against the best players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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