Federer

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Djokovich could not have played much better...but Feds was out of his mind last night! Y'all see the penultimate shot of the match?! Holy...

The only way he can be better is to be more Federerer. I suspect he'll smoke Del Potro, but Del Potro has a big wingspan and moves well. I'll be watching.
 
:::blink blink:::

(looking to 'Location' ... Nope, he's American ... this is either about soccer, hockey, or birds)

Um, yeah man ... great ... game? (I have a 2 out of 3 chance)
 
Not sure how you could be a watcher of sports and not know who Roger Federer is . . .

Anyway, Federer's back in peak form, no doubt about it, and my bet is that Nadal will never be back at 100%. Del Potro may unleash a few surprises, but I doubt anyone expects another 5-set epic.

But then, do they ever? :)
 
Barry_Green said:
Federer looks absolutely terrible today. half asleep.
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Agreed. He looked as though he'd checked out halfway through, never quite got his rhythm back.

Though I'm glad to see my countryman pulled it out today - Argentina deserves one every now and again.
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Federer as Religious Experience1 – an incredible essay by the much missed David Foster Wallace, who died a year ago this week.

[FONT=&quot]1 [/FONT]If you’ve never read any of Wallace’s work before, make sure you don’t skip the (hyperlinked) footnotes, as they tend to be integral to—and just as entertaining as—the main body of the text.

ETA: I'm not referring to EVERY hyperlink the NYT throws at you; just the numbered footnotes.

Enjoy!

DP
 
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He didn't look like he was all that devastated by the loss. But then, he doesn't have a whole lot left to do.
 
I have discovered that I have an amazing power. I can kill anyone's career. All I have to do is go on record on DVXUser saying that they're great.

This is the second time it's happened; I proclaimed him the greatest over a year ago, and he tanked up until last May... now I say he's the G.O.A.T. and he just implodes immediately thereafter. This appears to be a powerful evil that I can wield.

Or ... maybe I can only kill Roger Federer's career... we apparently have some sort of link... maybe he tried to kill me when I was a baby, which is why I have this scar. Except that I don't really have a scar, and I'm quite a bit older than him, so... I must have tried to kill him as a baby. I don't remember doing that, but -- hey, who can remember everything they did 30 years ago?

So -- yeah. Well. How disappointing. Sorry Fed, didn't mean to jinx you again.
 
When Del Potro was up 5-2 in the fifth set, it still seemed as if Federer was in control of the match. I was just waiting for Federer to start playing like he normally does, but it never happened. I can still barely believe it.

Del Potro was pretty fun to watch though. I hope he continues playing well.
 
Blue_Food said:
Federer as Religious Experience1 – an incredible essay by the much missed David Foster Wallace, who died a year ago this week.

[FONT=&quot]1 [/FONT]If you’ve never read any of Wallace’s work before, make sure you don’t skip the (hyperlinked) footnotes, as they tend to be integral to—and just as entertaining as—the main body of the text.

ETA: I'm not referring to EVERY hyperlink the NYT throws at you; just the numbered footnotes.

Enjoy!

DP
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This is . . . all one sentence.

There’s a medium-long exchange of groundstrokes, one with the distinctive butterfly shape of today’s power-baseline game, Federer and Agassi yanking each other from side to side, each trying to set up the baseline winner...until suddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court backhand that pulls Federer way out wide to his ad (=left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line, which of course is the sort of thing Agassi dines out on, and as Federer’s scrambling to reverse and get back to center, Agassi’s moving in to take the short ball on the rise, and he smacks it hard right back into the same ad corner, trying to wrong-foot Federer, which in fact he does — Federer’s still near the corner but running toward the centerline, and the ball’s heading to a point behind him now, where he just was, and there’s no time to turn his body around, and Agassi’s following the shot in to the net at an angle from the backhand side...and what Federer now does is somehow instantly reverse thrust and sort of skip backward three or four steps, impossibly fast, to hit a forehand out of his backhand corner, all his weight moving backward, and the forehand is a topspin screamer down the line past Agassi at net, who lunges for it but the ball’s past him, and it flies straight down the sideline and lands exactly in the deuce corner of Agassi’s side, a winner — Federer’s still dancing backward as it lands.
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David Jimerson said:
This is . . . all one sentence.
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Haha! Try this one on for size!

(from Infinite Jest, 1996):

The facial stills that Mario lap-dissolves between are of Johnny Gentle, famous Crooner, founding standard-bearer of the seminal new 'Clean U.S. Party,' the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far-left macrobiotic Save-the-Ozone, -Rain-Forests, -Whales, -Spotted-Owls-and-High-pH-Waterways ponytailed granola-crunchers, a surreal union of both Rush L. -- and Hillary R.C. -- disillusioned fringers that drew mainstream-media guffaws at their first Convention (held in sterile venue), the seemingly LaRoucheishly marginal party whose first platform's plank had been Let's Shoot Our Wastes Into Space, C.U.S.P. a kind of post-Perot national joke for three years, until -- white-gloved finger on the pulse of an increasingly asthmatic and sunscreen-slathered and pissed-off American electorate -- the C.U.S.P. suddenly swept to quadrennial victory in an angry reactionary voter-spasm that made the U.W.S.A. and LaRouchers and Libertarians chew their hands in envy as the Dems and G.O.P.s stood on either side watching dumbly, like doubles partners who each think the other's surely got it, the two established mainstream parties split open along tired philosophical lines in a dark time when all landfills got full and all grapes were raisins and sometimes in some places the falling rain clunked instead of splatted, and also, recall, a post-Soviet and -Jihad era when -- somehow even worse -- there was no real Foreign Menace of any real unified potency to hate and fear, and the U.S. sort of turned on itself and its own philosophical fatigue and hideous redolent wastes with a spasm of panicked rage that in retrospect seems possible only in a time of geopolitical supremacy and consequent silence, the loss of any external Menace to hate and fear.
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also...

Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace - a Primer for Kicking Ass
by James Tanner
 
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I have discovered that I have an amazing power. I can kill anyone's career. All I have to do is go on record on DVXUser saying that they're great.
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Does the reverse/inverse whatever hold true?? Beat me, whip me, ban me PLEASE ~:nads:
 
Barry_Green said:
This is the second time it's happened; I proclaimed [Federer] the greatest over a year ago, and he tanked up until last May... now I say he's the G.O.A.T. and he just implodes immediately thereafter. This appears to be a powerful evil that I can wield.

Or ... maybe I can only kill Roger Federer's career... we apparently have some sort of link... maybe he tried to kill me when I was a baby, which is why I have this scar. Except that I don't really have a scar, and I'm quite a bit older than him, so... I must have tried to kill him as a baby. I don't remember doing that, but -- hey, who can remember everything they did 30 years ago?

So -- yeah. Well. How disappointing. Sorry Fed, didn't mean to jinx you again.
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I'm hardly the superstitious type, but don't be too surprised to find me reviving this thread the next time Federer meets Murray during a Grand-Slam tournament!

Cheers,

DP
 
So awesome.

Del Potro is a stud.

And a GOAT can never be owned by anyone. RAFA owns Federer.

It's GOAT law.

No one ever owned Jordan or Gretzky or Tiger. No one.
 
Well, it's true, but in addition to being 2:1 in his favor, Rafa has beaten Federer at a major on every surface; Federer has only beaten Rafa at a major on grass.

Tendonitis is a particularly cruel condition. It would be a shame to have cut that career short.
 
Barry_Green said:
Owns? Rafa had a good year, granted. But now he can't even make it to the finals of a grand slam. Three in a row that he's been bounced before the finals. It's not Roger's fault he can't face and beat Rafa, if Rafa can't even play his way in!

The current record, as I understand it, is Rafa 13, Federer 7. And the last time they met, Federer beat Nadal. On clay. In Spain even.

I consider that 13-7 record disappointing (even perhaps embarrassing) for Federer, but not ownage. Superman has kryptonite, Achilles had a bad heel, and Federer has Nadal. But at least Federer has beaten Nadal several times, on every surface, and (up until Monday) Federer's career was skyrocketing back upwards, whereas Nadal's looking like his best is already behind him.

(of course, having said this, Nadal will now win a calendar grand slam, and Federer will fail to qualify in the next 4 tournaments... see earlier references re: scar.)
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I think Rafa needs to keep the Clay Schedule to a minimum; punishment on the body.

13 - 7 is not only disappointing. It's embarrassing Barry. That is ownage. Fed does not want to see Rafa in any match.

Rafa was hurt, burned out, skipped Wimby and got beat by the dude who ousted Roger.

Rafa wasn't bounced in the 3 in a row. He won the the Aussie in January, lost in Roland Garros and skipped Wimby.

And let us look at the W and L's where it really matters

Nadal has won 5 of 7 in finals of Grand Slams including Wimby where Roger dominates.

Too be fair ? Nine of Nadal's 13 wins over Federer have come on clay courts.

But this rivalry is far from over. But in my mind ? No one ever owned Wayne or Jordan. No one.

Too say Nadal's best is behind him is insane. The kid is 23. Tennis prime is longer than that. He's got at least another 5 years.
 
We can agree to disagree, of course.

I have too add ...

Rafa did turn pro when he was 14 but played Challengers until 2004 (Think minor leagues) and although Roger turned pro at 18, he was playing ITF at 14 (Think Minor leagues).

But I thought we were referring to Head to Head ownage ?

Fed has a stellar career (Der) but head to head ? Rafa just owns. And Pete owned Andre, much to my dismay.

As Pete once said "No one cares who won Cincy."

What matters are slams, and not only does Rafa own Roger overall, but 5 of 7 ?

In Slams ? That's where it matters. And the GOAT has a losing record, a lopsided losing record against Nadal including a massive loss on grass, his surface.

Incidentally, Pete bested Andre 5 times in 6 finals and 6 of 9 overall in Slams.

Federer has accomplished so much in this time span, obviously, but we're talking about the difference between a man and boy. Rafa is just now becoming a man, whereas Roger was 22 when he won his first Slam.

In a comparable timeframe, Roger has won 4 Slams from the Age of 22 to 23.

Rafa has won 3 Slams from Age of 22 to 23

Do I think Rafa will win 15 Majors ? I just don't know.

But I do know, he has 6 Slams at 23 and has won all but the US OPEN, which one must assume he will. Hell, he's been to the finals of Wimby 3 times. Not bad for a dirt player !

And Pete ? Although 19 when he won his first US OPEN, was 22 when he won his second and had 5 but the time he was 23.
 
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