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Count Zero


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havent seen enough of novak but thats so true about nadal and start of the match. i think he is laying down the mentla war right at the begining, then the whole bouncy thing is just saying i have so much energy i can waste it in a tigger imperssonation.


i also think he bounces the ball 5 times before every serve, i demonstrated this to my gf when we were playing and its so annoying for her, to wait so long, the opps serves in the net, 5 more bounces the returners focus will often waver and again nadal knows this. very difficult to counter tho, you have to be ready, just in case he goes quicker.



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I watched Novak live and it was SO annoying....the hard court made the noise worse to bear !

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aria81


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I don't like guys who do the heart-pump/big heart think in the middle of a match. Monfils is really bad for it. He serves an ace - 'big heart'. His opponent hits the ball out on BP? Big heart.



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aria81 wrote:

I don't like guys who do the heart-pump/big heart think in the middle of a match. Monfils is really bad for it. He serves an ace - 'big heart'. His opponent hits the ball out on BP? Big heart.

gilbert is guilty of that. Ive seen him do it many times after a murray victory

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At least he's the coach and in the stands away from the opposing player - it just seems worse when a player points to their heart in the middle of a match. I mean what are they trying to say - I want it more than you do?

Bill Threlfall (I think) was commentating on a Monfils match earlier this year and he slated him for doing the chest pump thing for pretty much the whole match but he said that the best example he saw of it was in the DC final when Paul Henri Mathieu was two sets up to Mikhael Youzhny. He said Mathieu was doing the big heart gesture and then, well, we all know what happened after that...

I don't mind it a couple of times a match - I just think it is something that gets over-used by certain players.

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I can't stand Roddick and Federer. Roddick was so happy he beat a player who could hardly walk and federer couldn't accept he lost to Andy and said its near impossible for anyone to win back to back masters series when he won Miami and IW earlier in the year and he has won 2 others back to back im sure. Nw i see why he has the nickname "arrogant swiss".

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Nadal. Why is it that at the start of each match, the umpire and his opponent are left standing aimlessly at the net ready to spin the coin, while Nadal sits at his chair, opens a bar of something and chews at it, fiddles about with his various bottles, pulls at his socks etc etc etc. . . it is so bad-mannered!

Then he comes bounding over like a jack-in-the-box as though there wasn't a second to lose - when he has already wasted several minutes


That's exactly what happened at the start of the wimby final when he played Fed. In fact i thought the mind games went on through the whole final. Fed responded by taking his own sweet time to get out of his chair later on. They almost seemed to trade mind games as often as they did games. Fed's master stroke was taking the extended toilet break, leaving Nadal stranded out on court. Nadal had no response and it was game over

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