@Bandage has summed it up best here the limited skill set required for a clay court specialist. About 20 posts back.
Incorrect. It’s art and craft to win a point on clay. Delightful drop shots are on plentiful. Monster serving is the order of the day at Wimbledon.
Another load of shite dribbling out of your arse, like calling wimbledon a swamp. What sort of village idiot would say something as stupid as that.
With you hating Wimbledon so much then you wont be commenting on the championships thread when it starts?
Let us have some perspective here.
Go back to the Wimbledon thread of last year where I called the prospering of giraffes off before the tournament start, yourself and Boycott weren’t having any of it, as the tournament progressed you were there with your hands in your, and grinding your foot in the ground as I reminded you to never, ever write off a giraffe on grass court tennis. We ended up with a 105 aceathon in the Wimbledon semi final between 6ft8 giraffe Kevin Anderson and 6ft10 giraffe Kevin Anderson. I called this from the very start and I showed you for absolute spoofer you are on tennis matters.
Go back to a week or so ago where I had to inform you of something you hadn’t a clue of - WImbledon manipulating their seedings year on year. You hadn’t a clue that Wimbledon’s seedings deviated from world rankings, not a notion and that’s just you on tennis matters. You’re clueless. You wouldn’t know a forehand from a backhand.
Which giraffe won the Men’s Singles Championship last year?
Remember this little gem from @GeoffreyBoycott last year about Wimbledon semi finalist John Isner.
On the encouragement of Boycott, Taz plucked up some of his Rathoath Inn courage and joined in deriding Wimbledon semi finalist and grass court specialist John Isner.
Boycott then continued.
Two players who have had their best ever career slam performance on grass, the respective giraffes standing at 6ft10 and 6ft11 respecitvely.
Reilly Opelka is the bolter to watch out for Wimbledon this year, he stands at 6ft11 and depsite a R1 defeat in Paris, he will bounce back and is a good shout to make use of his giraffe abilities and reach a QF.
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Bet he won’t answer the question. I am still waiting on the proof that Wimbledon is swamp. I don’t think i will see that evidence.
2 of them played out a 105 aceathon in the semi final.
You dismissed a Wimbledon finalist as a bum and said a semi finalist was a terrible grass court player. Lolzers.
I pointed out at the outset of the Championship in 2018, that John Isner had in his 9 previous appearances at the All England Club never got past the 3rd round/last 32. You disputing that?
You wrote a giraffe off on grass. You haven’t a clue
Ash Barty makes it to the ladies final. Delighted for this fantastic young woman.
It is really quite amazing that Roger Federer is still playing grand slam semi finals, never mind on dirt, not his favorite surface. Let’s enjoy him while we can.
First blood Rafa.
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Just flicked on the tennis there @Tassotti. Lot of empty seats again. Not even Federer v Nadal can get a full house for a match on clay.
A paddling by rafa
It’s probably the macabre nature of these games between Nadal and Federer on clay.
Rafa takes the second.
How is he so good on Clay and how can there be such a disparity in form on Clay than on grass. What attributes does Nadal have that make him so good on the former. Coming from someone that doesn’t have a clue about Tennis.
He’s a complete player. He’s not a monster server like the hard and grass court specialists.
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Grass tennis is like set piece tennis.
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Clay courts tend to reward safe unadventurous slow play, of which he is an expert. He’s done it on other surfaces too but its more of an advantage on clay for some reason.
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Clay is all about grunt, power and running around all day. Its the slowest surface so ball sits up for an age. Its a big leveller which helps the plodders. Faster surfaces of grass and hardcourts provide the real examination of tennis ability.
A lot of the all time greats of the sport never won the French Open - Sir Andy Murray, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras.
Have a look at the French Open Roll of honour and its littered with no marks who never got within an asses roar of winning a Grand Slam on any of the other surfaces - Andres Gomez, Sergi Brugera, Thomas Muster, Alberto Costa, Carlos Moya, Gaston Gaudio.
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