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09-21-2006, 10:06 PM
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Nadal or Federer?
Who do you prefer to win between these two? It is obvious at this point who is better so I'm just interested who you are rooting for.
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09-21-2006, 10:52 PM
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Im glad you added that part about it being clear who was better. Federer is the most dominant athlete in the world. He has won 9 of the last 14 majors. Just think about that for a minute. I love watching greatness so I voted for him.
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09-21-2006, 11:03 PM
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Federer even though I don't follow tennis.
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09-21-2006, 11:16 PM
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I enjoy watching grinders. Not that Federer doesn't works hard but Nadal has to work extra hard to win his matches. He plays with such fire and grit. Federer is greatness though as you said but Nadal I think is more interesting to watch and plays inspired tennis.
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09-21-2006, 11:40 PM
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The other thing about nadal is that he brought back the great shotmaking that everyone said the newer rackets had killed. With all the talk about woods and his dominance(he is) He isnt in federers league as far as dominance goes. In grand slams, if Fed wins the Australian open, he will have won twice as many grandslams as the rest of the world over the last 15 grand slams. That is insane to even think about.
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09-22-2006, 12:18 AM
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09-22-2006, 12:25 AM
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federer, the tiger woods of tennis.
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09-22-2006, 06:15 AM
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09-22-2006, 06:37 AM
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Sampras.
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09-22-2006, 06:46 AM
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09-22-2006, 08:51 AM
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Who cares. Tennis has sucked since Sampras/Agassi was at its peak.
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09-22-2006, 08:53 AM
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Nadal!
I hate Federer... Mainly because I would have washed Agassi's feet I loved the guy so much and he CONSISTENTLY beat him... I wish he would tear something! ACL, MCL, hell, even an ass muscle, (would that be an ABL?  )... I just don't get excited for tournaments anymore because they are pointless... Sure, I guess who he plays is up for grabs but you just KNOW he is gonna win every single time. He is going to be BY FAR the greatest tennis player in the history of this sport when it is all said and done. Hell, even Agassi, when asked who was the best player he had ever played, said Federer... Who is currently considered the greatest of all time? Probably Samprass and Agassi played him MANY times. So for Agassi to make that statement NOW is very telling! Plus I HATE his game. He is so friggin good at defense... He will just slice the HELL out of the ball no matter how good you hit it and wait for you to make a mistake OR wait until you hit it where he can really get behind it. He is the equivalent of Steffi Graf...
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09-22-2006, 09:05 AM
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hahaha.....it is true though.
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09-22-2006, 09:20 AM
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Well it has never been as entertaining as then, but I wouldn't say it has been completely down since then. Hell this past US Open I just could not turn the TV off... Well, until Agassi got eliminated anyway!
Plus I love watching Blake...
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09-22-2006, 09:26 AM
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Male, you call yourself a male --- and you watch tennis ? ? ? ? ? I thought only women played tennis, and no one watched it, except to watch the the girls in the short shorts or cute mini-skirts.
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09-22-2006, 10:09 AM
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In all seriousness... I have been playing tennis since I was a boy. It is my absolute favorite sport to play and pretty high on my favorite sports to watch list.
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09-22-2006, 02:02 PM
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I was always a football/baseball player. I was around enough football players who said that baseball was a really easy sport to play and that it was for non athletes and enough baseball players who said football was easy and for idiots. I will never say that any other sport is easy just because i laughed at those guys for being idiots. Hitting a round ball with a round bat square is the hardest thing to do in any sport and trust me you cant be stupid and play certain positions in football. Anyway, back to the tennis part, i was never really a tennis fan until about 2 years ago. Alot of my friends play and a few of them asked me to come watch a few of the high school tennis matches. Corsicana is a HUGE football town and they asked me to come to tennis since they came to football games. Seemed reasonable to me. Well it was pretty good and aside from highland park, corsicana has the best tennis team in our region. I had already watched federer a few times because the whispers about him being the GOAT were already floating around and I love watching greatness. I then made it a point to watch all of the grandslam quarters and beyond as long as he was in. In a few matches i saw Marcos Baghdatis(sp?) and he is just so awesome to watch. I love his attitude. It was him not agassi that made that match awesome. I know agassi being agassi is what made it so memorable and made everyone watch but I just love Marcos. Tennis is extremely entertaining. Now would i watch it instead of a mavs game? No. But it is very entertaining.
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09-22-2006, 02:30 PM
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Well....tennis is ok I suppose, but to me it hasn't been interesting since the days of Agassi/Sampras/Chang and even then it wasn't as much fun as watching McEnroe/Connors/Borg.
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09-22-2006, 03:25 PM
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Well for me, tennis was always so much fun. It is a great work out if you are good and it really is difficult to master. I used to be much better than I am now, (and skinnier for that matter), and actually received two MVP awards for my 3A school back years ago. I played a lot of sports but none of them were as much fun as Tennis.
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Man Doc... Thanks for the memories... Chang was so friggin fast back then! I can remember watching Agassi beat Michael Stich for his first US Open title in '94!!!
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I liked Chang. He was fun to watch play. Another couple of guys I used to enjoy watching was Ivan Lendl, Ille Natase, Stephan Edberg, Mats Wilander and that Courier guy.....all from about the same era of tennis.
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09-22-2006, 05:29 PM
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anyone watching the davis cup that is on now on OLN? James blake is beating the crap out of some guy.
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09-22-2006, 10:50 PM
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I have this thing where I really dislike anyone who wins all the time. Like, except for the Cowboys, I don't like dynasties. (I know, homer.) Anyway, it makes me really dislike Federer for no reason except that he's that great.
I glimpsed the Davis Cup on OLN, but it was only for like 5 seconds so were they playing in front of absolutely no one, or is it just me? Where is this thing? I haven't been keeping up...
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federer is the best of all time
in terms of dominance for his or her respective sport, he ranks up there with bill russell
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