Notícias/Artigos/Entrevistas Gerais

[Descartes]

E o Monfils e o Ferrero também ainda não estão seguros.

[Lip McBoatface]

E aqui vou eu tirar a aposta no Del Potro :mrgreen:

[volc0mizado]

o Soderling já no final do jogo contra o Tsonga demonstrou não ter condições para jogar.

 

Robin Soderling retired with an existing elbow injury, which the Swede revealed had bothered him occasionally for the past six months.

 

'With some rest, some treatment, I really hope I'll feel good next week,' Soderling said. 'If I rest it again, it normally gets better. That's what I'm hoping for.'

[Rōnin]

 

Davydenko: I'm no Federer or Nadal

 

Never one to make news with his mouth, Nikolay Davydenko held nothing back on the eve of the Australian Open. The veteran Russian even said that "it's only tennis" for Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

 

Nikolay Davydenko has not been kind on the court to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal over the past few months. And now he is unforgiving off-court, as well.

 

In a recent interview, Davydenko accused Federer and Nadal--among others--of thinking "only" about tennis.

 

"I have a good life," the sixth-ranked Russian explained. "It’s not only about tennis for me. Maybe I am not a champion like Nadal or Federer. These guys mostly think about tennis. For them, it’s only tennis; winning tournaments, winning a grand slam, dreaming maybe every day about it. I am not that guy, I am different."

 

Having captured the World Tour Finals title in November and also kicking off his 2010 campaign with a win over Nadal in the Doha final, Davydenko is heading into a Grand Slam as one of the top favorites for the first time in his career. What would he do if he does, in fact, win the upcoming Australian Open?

 

"I don’t cry like Federer at winning a Grand Slam."

 

That remains to be seen, however, because Davydenko has never won a major - but he thinks this could be his time.

 

"Why not? I can win it for sure. I beat everyone already in the Top 10. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Grand Slam or another tournament. I feel I can continue my level and beat these guys here."

 

"Before, I knew that Federer always on important points would win. I beat Federer (in London) and my mind started to give me a chance. If I play against Federer, in my mind I don’t lose the match beforehand now. I just fight and I feel I can win this match. It just changed the way I think. It doesn’t matter where it is."

 

Não entendi o alcance destes comentários. :/

[Lleyton]

Muita azia e frustração aí.

 

Ah, e esta frase é priceless: "It doesn’t matter if it’s a Grand Slam or another tournament"

[Guest LeoDB]

Gostava muito do Davydenko mas desceu na minha consideração

 

Basicamente está a desculpar-se e justifica dizendo que o ténis não é a vida dele, sendo ele um tenista profissional... :lol:

[Rōnin]

Muita azia e frustração aí.

 

Ah, e esta frase é priceless: "It doesn’t matter if it’s a Grand Slam or another tournament"

 

Enfim, quem fala assim tanto já deveria ter um Grand Slam no seu currículo e o homem já vai nuns belos 28 anos...

[nEsT_1]

Ele disse que não era favorito aos GS devido ao desgaste que se acumula porque é jogado sempre à melhor de 5 sets o que para ele com este calor é uma torreira completa. Mas tem ténis para conseguir arrecadar pelo menos um GS se assim o quiser afincadamente.

[The_Special_Two]

 

Davydenko: I'm no Federer or Nadal

 

TY Mr. Obvious

[Peplin]

Cheira-me a "mind games".

[mike]

Mais valia tar calado...

 

"I don’t cry like Federer at winning a Grand Slam." No shit? nunca ganhaste....

 

"I have a good life," the sixth-ranked Russian explained. "It’s not only about tennis for me. Maybe I am not a champion like Nadal or Federer. These guys mostly think about tennis. For them, it’s only tennis; winning tournaments, winning a grand slam, dreaming maybe every day about it. I am not that guy, I am different."

 

Isto vindo do top 10 que mais torneios joga...

[Jone Sampaoli]

Cheira-me a "mind games".

 

Nem mais.

[Peplin]

Cañas pendura a raquete e é o novo treinador de Capdeville

 

Guillermo Cañas, ex-número 8 do mundo, campeão na Costa do Sauípe em 2007, finalista em Miami e dono de duas vitórias seguidas sobre Roger Federer neste mesmo ano anunciou sua aposentadoria das quadras.

 

O tenista enfrentava muitos problemas físicos entre eles uma lesão crônica no pulso.

 

Mas Cañas não se afastará do tênis. Ele acertou, após o Aberto da Austrália, e será o novo técnico do chileno Paul Capdeville, ex-top 80 e atual 143 do ranking. Os dois iniciarão o trabalho no ATP 500 de Memphis que será disputado na semana que vem, aproveitando que Cañas possui uma academia de tênis em Key Biscayne, em Miami.

 

Cañas pretende levar seu novo pupilo ao top 50.

[Rōnin]

 

Roger’s Records To Stand Test Of Time

 

by Paul Macpherson 12.01.2010

 

 

 

Like Mozart and Michelangelo, Roger Federer’s body of work ranges from exceptional to sublime. The Swiss has set multiple records that will likely stand the test of time. Below we look at 10 of Federer’s most amazing feats and quantify [with totally unscientific methodology!] the chances of the achievements being matched or topped during his lifetime.

 

Note: Story updated after 2010 Australian Open

1. Winning five consecutive titles at two different Grand Slam tournaments

 

About The Feat: Since the abolition of the Challenge Round [when the defending champion was automatically placed in the following year’s final] Federer is one of just four players to win the same Grand Slam tournament five consecutive years. [Tilden six at the US Open 1920-25; Emerson five at the Australian Open 1963-67 and Borg five at Wimbledon 1978-81]. But Federer is the only player in history to win two different Grand Slam titles [Wimbledon 2003-07 and US Open 2004-08] for five consecutive years.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 1%

2. Winning 16 Grand Slam titles in the span of 27 majors

 

About The Feat: After going titleless in his first 16 Grand Slam tournaments, Federer has made up for lost time, winning 16 of his next 27. Beginning with his 2003 Wimbledon breakthrough, the Swiss has won more than 50 percent of the majors he has contested. In contrast, Pete Sampras won his 14 majors over a span of 45 Grand Slam tournaments.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 2%

3. Reaching 18 of 19 consecutive Grand Slam finals between Wimbledon 2005 and Australian Open 2010

 

About The Feat: This record goes beyond consistency. It speaks to Federer’s unrivaled excellence at the pinnacle of the sport – the Grand Slams – and his ability to play his best under pressure and when it counts most. No other player has come even close to a streak of Grand Slam finals appearance like this – and no one likely ever will.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 3%

 

4. Reaching 23 consecutive Grand slam semi-finals (or better) from Wimbledon 2004 to Australian Open 2010

 

About The Feat: To put this feat into context, Federer’s ongoing streak of contesting 23 consecutive Grand Slam semi-finals is more than double the length of Ivan Lendl’s 10 consecutive Grand Slam semi-finals reached – the next best streak. The last time Federer didn’t make the last four at a major was in 2004 at Roland Garros, when he was beaten by three-time champion Gustavo Kuerten in the third round.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 3%

5. Winning 24 consecutive finals

 

About The Feat: In 2004 and 2005 Federer won 22 consecutive finals in which he appeared [in addition to winning his last two finals of 2003] for a streak of 24 straight finals won. That’s astonishing considering that Federer was going up against the second best player in each of those particular tournaments. In finals, you not only have to play well, you have to play clutch. Federer’s finals streak ended at the last event of 2005, the Tennis Masters Cup. Although he came into the tournament with an ankle injury, Federer led arch rival David Nalbandian two sets to love and later, in the fifth set, was two points from the title on his own serve before Nalbandian rallied to win a fifth-set tie-break. It was all down hill from there for Federer, who in 2006 lost in four finals (all against Rafael Nadal) and only won 12 titles.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 4%

6. Reaching all four Grand Slam finals in the same season three times

 

About The Feat: Only two singles players have ever reached all four Grand Slam finals in the same year: Rod Laver, who did it twice when he completed calendar-year Grand Slams in 1962 and 1968, and Federer, who did it a remarkable three times in the past four years. Considering also that Federer is the only man to reach all four Slam finals in the same year on three different surfaces (hard court, grass and clay), it seems even more unlikely that someone will top that feat in Federer’s lifetime.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 4%

7. Three-year period of dominance

 

About The Feat: Between 2004-2006 Federer went on a tear that is unlikely to be matched during any future three-year period, compiling a 247-15 match record. His season records during that time were 74-6 (2004), 81-4 (2005) and 92-5 (2006). He won a stunning 34 titles, including eight Grand Slams, nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000s and two Tennis Masters Cup titles. Had he served out the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup final against David Nalbandian [instead of losing in a fifth-set tie-break] Federer’s season record that year would have been 82-3, the same as John McEnroe’s unrivaled match record in 1984.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 5%

 

8. Holding the No. 1 South African Airways ATP Ranking for 237 consecutive weeks

 

About The Feat: Federer’s 237 consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings (from 2 February, 2004 to 17 August 2008) is best contextualised by looking at the next best streaks: Jimmy Connors at 160 weeks, Ivan Lendl at 157 weeks and Pete Sampras at 102 weeks. Federer, who has been No. 1 a total of 268 weeks (as of 1 February, 2010), is now within reach of Sampras’ all-time (non-consecutive) record of 286 weeks at No. 1. [Federer has five times finished as ATP World Tour Champion, just one year shy of Sampras’ six finishes as year-end No. 1. But Sampras finished No. 1 six consecutive years - a separate feat that Federer, now 28, is unlikely to ever match.]

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 7%

 

9. Sixty-five consecutive grass-court match wins

 

About The Feat: Federer’s 65 straight wins on grass could so easily have ended at 39 when he saved four match points against Olivier Rochus in the Halle quarter-finals in 2006. But history shows that Federer scratched out a win and ultimately extended his record streak to 65 before he lost 9-7 in the fifth set to Rafael Nadal in the 2008 Wimbledon final. With modern-day grass-court tennis no longer favouring a dominant serve-volleyer like a Sampras, Becker or Edberg, it will be more difficult for one player to dominate on the surface and threaten Federer’s streak.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 12%

10. Winning one Grand Slam title a year for eight consecutive years

 

About The Feat: By winning the 2010 Australian Open in January. The Swiss has now won at least one Grand Slam title for eight consecutive years, equaling the record streak of Pete Sampras and Bjorn Borg. What are the chances that someone (other than Federer) will extend the record to nine or more seasons? It sounds a tough record to break, but Rafael Nadal is already riding a five-year streak. And despite his lapse at Roland Garros last year, the Spaniard is likely to be the leading contender for that title for many years to come, as well as at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, where he is a former champion.

 

Chance of Feat Being Topped: 25%

 

 

Impressionante.

[Guest LeoDB]

Palavras para quê?

[Lleyton]

Cristiano Ronaldo e Caroline Wozniacki trocam dicas

 

O que é que o craque do Real Madrid, de 25 anos, e a bela tenista dinamarquesa, de 19, têm em comum? Ambos são utilizadores do Twitter e têm uma paixão por carros de luxo. Pelo menos foi esse o tema de conversa na rede social. Cristiano Ronaldo escreveu: "Vou para a academia em dois minutos. Ferrari ou Lamborghini?". E, sem hesitar, Caroline Wozniacki respondeu: "Lamborghini, claro! O Ferrari não é tão silencioso".

 

É claro que a troca de mensagens entre o jogador português e a 3.ª classificada do ranking mundial já está a dar muito que falar e há já quem diga que Caroline é a nova conquista de CR9. Será que é mesmo? Aguardamos a cenas dos próximos capítulos...

 

[nEsT_1]

Epa isso é que não. Minha rica Carol... :(

[Rōnin]

Com um saco ia lá.

[mike]

Com um saco ia lá.

 

és esquisito

[Jone Sampaoli]

A Wozniacki com um saco LOL só pode ser piada.

[Peplin]

Fdx ó R3d, com um saco, isto?

 

 

:heart:

[nEsT_1]

Oh red diz-me que confundiste esta com a Wozniack ou com a caroline wickmayer. Porque se foi com essa... Mais sobra!

 

ai ai...

[Descartes]

O R3d não tem tão mau gosto como vocês pensam. Só que ele estava a falar do C Ronaldo... :larilas:

[nEsT_1]

LOL

[Rōnin]

O R3d não tem tão mau gosto como vocês pensam. Só que ele estava a falar do C Ronaldo... :larilas:

 

Payback. :evil:

 

Continuo na minha, há muito bacalhau norueguês no circuito feminino, não tenho culpa de vocês contentarem-se apenas com atum ramires. 8-)