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Post by SAFINNO1 on Mar 20, 2005 14:46:25 GMT 3
OMG please tell me you guys saw the ARod Hewitt match unbelievable i have to give andy credit s he played well but Lleyton played even better.
Sorry to parade on your victory but federer is just taking the mick.
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Post by lau on Mar 20, 2005 15:30:21 GMT 3
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Post by Perri on Mar 20, 2005 16:52:54 GMT 3
OMG please tell me you guys saw the ARod Hewitt match unbelievable i have to give andy credit s he played well but Lleyton played even better. Sorry to parade on your victory but federer is just taking the mick. Very tense and exciting indeed :)but this match is no match for Marat vs Roger in quality of play. And yes Federer will win with ease AGAIN! Poor Lleyton  . I just hope he can at least put up a good fight. I have started to like Lleyton a bit more recently for his fighting spirit. Considering he has not many weapons but still can beat so many top players who have all the weapons (well, except Federer)it's just incredible  . |
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Post by Teresa on Mar 20, 2005 19:49:16 GMT 3
lau and pau
Thanks for the great pics,
lau, hard to imagine ;D
Safinno1, I saw the Hewitt/Roddick Match, it was terrific, they both played very well, and it was sooooo
close, it could have gone either way.
I hope the Federer/Hewitt final will be as good if not better today, for it to be better Hewitt has to beat Federer ;D
I think Hewitt will give it his all, but still think Federer has the edge, so unfortuately for Hewitt I dont think he will win.
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Post by Cassie on Mar 20, 2005 20:20:50 GMT 3
I saw the match, too. I woke up at 3 in the morning to watch it for three hours. The match was good, but all those horrible line calls. Lleyton definitely got screwed too many times.
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Post by alysha on Mar 20, 2005 22:43:26 GMT 3
what a match and get some new linesman...thats all i have to sayy
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Post by SAFINNO1 on Mar 21, 2005 19:55:30 GMT 3
okay no surpris but you know who beat hewitt 6 2 64 6 4 in an okay final. But you guys have to see the rally they had in the 2nd set 1-1 ad-40 federer unbelievable. it will surely be on ATP tennis world as play of the week.
Dont miss it.
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Post by annie on Mar 23, 2005 12:04:00 GMT 3
Here's another article on the disastrous match we all know now. It's more about Dent but I thought maybe someone will find it interesting. It's always good to know your enemies LMAO
Wednesday, March 16, 8 P.M.
School of Hard Knocks—and Bad Sushi
Taylor Dent was ecstatic on Tuesday night, after he’d beaten the No. 4 seed at Indian Wells, Marat Safin. Dent, you see, has largely kept the faith—kept believing that he was better than No. 98, or No. 45, or No. 32 (his present ranking). Kept believing that if he allowed his game to mature and continued to work hard—citing evidence that serve-and-volley players (like himself) often are slow developers—he might one day win Wimbledon, perhaps be No. 1.
In fact, despite his struggle with fitness (to him, the term “50-pound plate” refers to pasta, not barbells), Dent has worked very hard to avoid the fate of so many of his peers—adjusting his expectations downward and accepting his lot in life as a journeyman. To a few hundred ATP players who once dreamed of winning Wimbledon, the very notion of the Big Breakthrough is an intriguing folk tale—like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster.
Not to Dent, though. After beating Safin he said, “I wouldn’t be playing the game if this is as good as I was going to be . . . . My aspirations are to climb the rankings and compete for some of the biggest tournaments in the world. It’s easier some times than others. If you have a couple of good wins or good results, you think, ‘Maybe it’s coming around, maybe it’s coming my way.’ Then, if you get on a bad streak you can’t really see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Dent went on, giving as fine a portrait as you might want of a young man who’s strikingly optimistic and, often, desperately frustrated. On the source of what maturity he has, he said: “It’s from the School of Hard Knocks, I’m afraid. School of Hard Knocks. You just take so many shots on the chin, you beat your head against the wall so many times, you figure out what doesn’t work.”
Dent then told a parable from a Nicholas Cage film he’d recently seen. In it, Cage tells the story of Benjamin Franklin, who tried 2,000 times to make the light bulb before he succeed on try number 2,001. When asked if he was frustrated by failing 2,000 times, Dent continued, Franklin said, “Not at all. The way I look at it, I learned 2,000 ways not to make a light bulb.”
I’m not sure what it says about Dent (or Nicholas Cage?) that everyone pretty much agrees that the light bulb was the brainchild of Thomas Edison, but in the end it was all moot. Dent was unable to build momentum following his win over Safin because a stomach ailment forced him to throw in the towel today, after he lost the first set of a round-of-16 clash with Guillermo Cañas (who invented nothing that we know of, but is, according to the ATP media guide, a big fan of the Cartoon Network).
This unexpected turn of events left us hoping that this tournament did not represent, in some metaphysical way, Dent’s shot at light bulb No. 2,001. In retrospect, there was added poignancy in the exchange following the last question lobbed at Dent yesterday. He was asked if he felt he had finally graduated from that school.
“Of hard knocks? Definitely not,” Dent said, then smiled. “I’ll graduate when I retire.”
How right he is.
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Post by pau on Mar 23, 2005 21:23:25 GMT 3
okay no surpris but you know who beat hewitt 6 2 64 6 4 in an okay final. But you guys have to see the rally they had in the 2nd set 1-1 ad-40 federer unbelievable. it will surely be on ATP tennis world as play of the week. Dont miss it. Yeah, it most be the play of the week, that game was awesome!! |
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Post by lau on Apr 17, 2005 2:31:51 GMT 3
Dinara looked worried watching Marat´s match against Dent......   |
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Post by annie on Apr 17, 2005 3:20:40 GMT 3
i could imagine how she felt being there...i mean, we were already worried so much and we weren't even there...
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Post by SAFINNO1 on Apr 17, 2005 14:31:43 GMT 3
well what are sisters for, Plus how can you stand your brother losing.
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. I just hope he can at least put up a good fight.
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