Tennis 2019

Mrs Smoker said:
These three are just trouncing the losers. Not that amusing.
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Think Nadal and Federer should have tougher matches.

I do mock Nishikori but mainly because he plays so many 5 set matches that’s he’s tired by the time he reaches the quarters. But that’s not happened this time. He is refreshed and he is a dangerous player when he isn’t tired.
 
Surprised at the drop from Goffin even if Novak upped it.

Should Fed vs Kei be on centre over Nadal vs Querrey?
 
Mark_Barca said:
Surprised at the drop from Goffin even if Novak upped it.

Should Fed vs Kei be on centre over Nadal vs Querrey?
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Well Fed and Kei overall are higher ranked. But Fed is always going to be on centre court, so it’s just pointless debating it. They favour him and nobody can really argue that when you look at the past.
 
Bojan11 said:
Well Fed and Kei overall are higher ranked. But Fed is always going to be on centre court, so it’s just pointless debating it. They favour him and nobody can really argue that when you look at the past.
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That's true but they don't use that formula all the time which leads to the debate.

Rafa is the number 2 in the world, won the most recent slam, think he has a right to be annoyed at being seeded 3 and not favoured over Fed for centre court. Don't think theres much between both games tbh but if Fed was playing Agut or Pella I still believe he would be on centre.
 
Novak’s improved his serve it seems, been hitting first serves really well so far in this tournament.
 
I only saw the first set and it looked like a balanced game. What happened to Goffin? Got demoralized?
 
Nishikori with a decent start. But should have really broken there to kill the first set.
 
Kei should have broken twice more than he has. It's definitely going to end up costing him this set down the line.
 
Mark_Barca said:
That's true but they don't use that formula all the time which leads to the debate.

Rafa is the number 2 in the world, won the most recent slam, think he has a right to be annoyed at being seeded 3 and not favoured over Fed for centre court. Don't think theres much between both games tbh but if Fed was playing Agut or Pella I still believe he would be on centre.
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They aren't going to put Federer out on Court 1 after he lost there when they put there last year. It's yet another year where Rafa and Novak have been out on C1 more than Federer.
 
Federer loses the 1st set in which he was very poor. Too many errors in the first 5 games. feckkkkk
 
Querrey is rather poor when he can't make first serves. Grass really helps a lot of average players go deep in tournaments.
 
Querrey just hit around 6 aces in one game to save 3 set points. Rafa to serve for it now.
 
Nadal gets broken. He's done for this set now. 4 set points and he blows it.
 
I think the top 3's dominance is a reflection of their greatness rather than the weak competition.
 
The level Nadal is playing at today, he's not going to beat Federer or Djokovic. Just way too inconsistent. Goes from total domination to sudden brain farts in the matter of minutes.
 
VP said:
I think the top 3's dominance is a reflection of their greatness rather than the weak competition.
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David Goffin, Kei Nishikori and Sam Querrey are the toughest guys they're facing to make the semis so I think the weak era definitely helps. At their current ages, they should not be making semis with such ease.
 
wr8_utd said:
The level Nadal is playing at today, he's not going to beat Federer or Djokovic. Just way too inconsistent. Goes from total domination to sudden brain farts in the matter of minutes.
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Well to be fair Novak and Federer had their share of brain farts as well
 
wr8_utd said:
David Goffin, Kei Nishikori and Sam Querrey are the toughest guys they're facing to make the semis so I think the weak era definitely helps. At their current ages, they should not be making semis with such ease.
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I'm not sure if nishikori or goffin are any worse than their equivalent (top 10-20) player in previous eras. When the top 3 are this good, any era becomes weak.
 
Good win for Roger.

Roger and Rafa again.
 
VP said:
I'm not sure if nishikori or goffin are any worse than their equivalent (top 10-20) player in previous eras. When the top 3 are this good, any era becomes weak.
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I agree the top 3 are too good but the quality in general has also become poor. I don't see anyone from the current lot who can dominate tennis the way these 3 have done. I feel for Murray that he was part of the era which had 3 top players, otherwise he would have won close to 10 Grand slams.
 
VP said:
I'm not sure if nishikori or goffin are any worse than their equivalent (top 10-20) player in previous eras. When the top 3 are this good, any era becomes weak.
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When Roger Federer was amazing, Rafa came around to challenge him. Then it was Novak and then Murray. Would the current Big 3 be winning at this age if they had young Rafa and Novak around? I don't think so. The best kids of this generation aren't even losing to these guys, they're losing to all sorts of random players.
 
Awful start from Fed but a decent enough performance after that - he won't trouble Nadal but back-to-back slam semis isn't bad at all given where he was this time last year.
 
Fedal time again. This is incredibly tough one to call , bookies have them neck to neck for this one . Usually Federer should have an edge on grass
 
Good win for Rafa after making that first set more complicated than it needed to be.

Fedal at Wimbledon for the first time since that 2008 final. I think Federer is probably the favorite, but Nadal has been good this tournament so far.
 
Really dull tournament hopefully semi finals are good.

Last year quarters were great.
 
Nadal's form is better than Federer's but it's Wimbledon so he's got to be favorite irrespective of form. I'm just hoping Federer doesn't bring his first serve to play on Friday and then Nadal's got a good chance.
 
wr8_utd said:
Nadal's form is better than Federer's but it's Wimbledon so he's got to be favorite irrespective of form. I'm just hoping Federer doesn't bring his first serve to play on Friday and then Nadal's got a good chance.
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Nadal is serving aces slightly more than Roger.
 
wr8_utd said:
When Roger Federer was amazing, Rafa came around to challenge him. Then it was Novak and then Murray. Would the current Big 3 be winning at this age if they had young Rafa and Novak around? I don't think so. The best kids of this generation aren't even losing to these guys, they're losing to all sorts of random players.
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Exactly. Young Rafa and Novak ended up being the greatest ever. If the only people who can challenge them now are meant to be as good, that's too much to ask for. Not every era can generate multiple all time greats.

If you go back to Sampras era for instance I don't think nishikori or goffin would be out of place.
 
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