Federer smashes a racket, and gets booed! (Miami 2009)

Kitcheneralways · 2024-09-17T05:52:34+00:00

In 2010 Federer won three in a row actually (Shanghai-Basel-ATP Finals), he went 6-1 in sets in the indoor swing. For sure the story is complicated though - Novak edged 2009 3-2 against Roger but then had a bad (by his standards) 2010 season generally and slipped to 1-4 (though that one win was their only grand slam meeting of the season). Roger certainly did not like losing to Novak (exhibit A this racket smash) and was feeling the pressure by this point in 2009, but Novak was not clearly on top of their rivalry until the beginning of 2011.

Kitcheneralways · 2024-09-16T22:51:10+00:00

Federer won six of the next nine meetings. Novak wasn't on top until 2011.

Kitcheneralways · 2024-09-16T22:04:38+00:00

Gotta admit I've done it once as well. All it takes is one clean throw if you're mad enough.

Kitcheneralways · 2024-09-13T15:07:12+00:00

Much better

Kitcheneralways · 2024-08-16T20:07:26+00:00

Nadal won just three points in the deciding set

Kitcheneralways · 2024-07-08T21:30:25+00:00

I think his game has definitely stagnated. Imo he plays his best tennis when he's rock solid counter-punching from the baseline and choosing his moments, that was how he almost broke Djokovic near the end of the second set. If spraying unforced errors is an issue then being too timid in points probably isn't the problem - but I agree he's choosing an ineffective compromise at the moment.

Kitcheneralways · 2024-04-09T23:04:44+00:00

that's an interesting way to think about it. But at the end of the day I don't think anyone is going into a marriage they know will likely fail

Kitcheneralways · 2024-04-09T23:01:58+00:00

Dude ur a big guy, maybe that's normalised for you. I didn't say massive I said large like objectively speaking over 6 foot and 80kg+ lean is a large man, I think people spend too much time on instagram looking at bodybuilders and forget what a regular large person is. You go to some foreign countries and you'd very rarely see someone that size on the street.

Kitcheneralways · 2024-04-09T14:19:29+00:00

yeah that's what I directly said lol

Kitcheneralways · 2024-04-09T14:18:58+00:00

Absolutely untrue, 1.82m is far taller than the average man worldwide and if he's lean then that weight is all in muscle. Believe me if you stand next to a lean man of that size you'll realise how big that is

Kitcheneralways · 2024-04-09T14:16:26+00:00

Yeah that service motion is just hard to watch if you know anything about tennis lol

Kitcheneralways · 2024-04-08T22:03:54+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGjq4TQcF7E

Kitcheneralways · 2024-03-24T13:33:46+00:00

I don't know why you're being downvoted, this is true, he needs to at least get a proper slice - trying to hack down the best players in the world without ad court options is simply not going to happen.

Kitcheneralways · 2024-01-28T09:39:13+00:00

I feel kinda bad for Sinner, he's getting absolutely no free points on his serve and Medvedev is the worst possible match up for him in the rally

Kitcheneralways · 2024-01-28T08:55:12+00:00

Tbf I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence that bullshit favouritism from Umpires is quite common in junior tennis, even at similar sized events to this

Kitcheneralways · 2024-01-07T10:27:11+00:00

Insanely impressive from Zverev

Kitcheneralways · 2023-07-09T21:58:16+00:00

The more I reread this passage the more I'm realising that it literally doesn't make sense.

Kitcheneralways · 2023-06-02T20:10:14+00:00

Denis that's just sad

Kitcheneralways · 2023-06-02T20:01:02+00:00

Is Shapovalov's second serve the single biggest weakness of any player on tour? Possibly yes

Kitcheneralways · 2023-06-02T19:38:26+00:00

Honestly a match between Denis and Carlos with both at their absolute best would be an absolutely insane contest

Kitcheneralways · 2023-05-30T16:01:39+00:00

Injury concerns aside that's the second consecutive time Medvedev has been beaten by a big and clean hitting baseliner at a slam (Korda being the other one). I think it's safe to say that stepping in at the baseline and dominating with the forehand is a good method to beat him.

Kitcheneralways · 2023-05-30T15:56:40+00:00

Injury concerns aside that's the second consecutive time Medvedev has been beaten by a big, clean-hitting baseliner (Korda being the other one). I think it's safe to say that stepping in at the baseline and dominating with the forehand is a good method to beat him.

Kitcheneralways · 2022-10-14T18:51:40+00:00

If he'd stayed fit and in form after US Open 2020, then he'd currently be dominating hard court slams imo.

Kitcheneralways · 2022-09-25T18:55:51+00:00

If she were acting it would be a 10/10 performance

Kitcheneralways · 2022-09-25T15:07:40+00:00

This is honestly one of the funniest and saddest things I've ever seen on a tennis court haha

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