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Post by maryb on Feb 26, 2009 20:32:32 GMT 3
Andy withdrew!?! Oh no! I was really looking forward to the match. Going out for dinner tonight with my parents - planned on finishing the evening with a good match. Damn.
Jeez, hope he's fit for Davis Cup. That's all I need now for the boy not to turn up. It's a sell-out crowd as well!
PS I like the Big Yin's budgie.
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Post by lena on Feb 26, 2009 21:28:01 GMT 3
my fav pics  his eyes on the falcon, very respectfull, such a nice bird |
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Post by memtennis on Feb 26, 2009 21:55:00 GMT 3
Marat and Ferrer won their doubles match today. Yeah! Dubai wasn't a total bust I guess...
Score was 5-7, 6-4, 7-6.
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Post by Dina on Feb 26, 2009 23:57:23 GMT 3
saw the end of the first and the second; from what I saw it was a very pleasant match, he was very joyful kidding around and displaying some very good shots! he was the best player on court!
at once he threw his unlucky racket into the net, he struggled to pick it up and started laughing about it!!! happy he won!
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Post by memtennis on Feb 27, 2009 0:16:18 GMT 3
Dina... did you watch from a livestream or on TV? I would love to try to find his next match!
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Post by Dina on Feb 27, 2009 1:14:48 GMT 3
actually I get Dubai Sports on my SAT receptor! It's an Arabic channel and they do air a lot of tennis tournaments as well as Al Jazeera Sports which airs two Majors and all the Masters Series!
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Post by sabz on Feb 27, 2009 3:00:18 GMT 3
another one from players party in dubai with shisha. such a jocker ... ;D  haha brilliant! wonder what flavour he smoked? lol |
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Post by memtennis on Feb 27, 2009 18:34:05 GMT 3
Well, I really hate it that David had to play his singles match right before the doubles with Marat.. Hope he has some energy left to play well!!!
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Post by SAFINNO1 on Feb 28, 2009 23:39:28 GMT 3
Safin ‘Entertains’ Dubai Fans after Pitiful Doubles Exit
DUBAI — Many years ago in Rome, a gifted young Russian called Marat Safin (left) was up against an emerging Swiss named Roger Federer. “It wasn’t about who was playing better tennis,” laughed Roger many years later
about that match.
“When I came back to the locker room after the match, I had a look at the video. I was curious, you know, to know who was throwing the racquets better. I wanted to know who won the contest. I used to be terrible on the court, just like Marat, you know. When I was a kid, I used to commentate on each point that I won or lost during the practice matches with the other lads,” Federer said on The David Letterman Show. That was then. That was before Roger Federer became as cool as those serene mountains of Switzerland, the paradise on earth.
Now Federer is on the threshold of becoming the greatest ever player in tennis. And Safin, a man almost as gifted as Roger, remained the same old boy who never managed to take the next step. The Russian failed
to become a man.
Watching Safin on the centre court during his 7-5 3-6 5-10 defeat in the doubles semifinal of the Dubai Championship on Friday evening was as
sad as it was funny. He was humiliating himself. Missing simple points, he even managed to hit wild shots and once showed how to send the ball out of the stadium in front of a crowd which treated him like those funny guys in a circus. It came to a point that the fans thought it was apt to clap when Safin was able to anticipate balls which
the rivals hit wide.
It was almost as if David Ferrer, his partner, was playing alone against South Africa’s Rik de Voes and Safin’s compatriot Dmitry Tursunov.
This is Safin’s last year on the Tour. Dubai will never see him again.
It’s difficult though to know whether the tennis romantics will actually miss him since the Russian playboy so skillfully managed to break their hearts.
Safin, despite the two Grand Slam titles, never developed into something special. He could well have become another Agassi. He could have become the first charismatic champion of the 21st century. Much before the arrival of a champion like Rafael Nadal, Safin could have become to Federer what Agassi was to Sampras. Ironically, Safin doesn’t want to believe that he has underachieved in his career. “I had a great ride, you know,” he said after his first round defeat to Richard Gasquet in the singles
first round here.
“If you have a problem with me winning only two Grand Slams, then we can say that Sampras only won 14 Grand Slams. He could have won 18/19 Slams. Agassi could have won more than eight Grand Slams. He should have won 13/14 then. But he didn’t. So would you say that Sampras and Agassi underachieved?” asked Safin on Tuesday after his first round defeat. Nobody had an answer to that then. But after watching his ‘entertaining act’ on Friday night, everybody must have
got their answers.
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Post by yarina on Mar 1, 2009 1:12:45 GMT 3
^^^oh, I just dread this kind of articles, but oh well, all are entitled to their own opinion, I guess...
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Post by wendy on Mar 1, 2009 2:08:04 GMT 3
it would be a boring world if we were all a like personally I think nobody would won't to go and see 2 rogers playing against each other.after all 15 titles 2 slams and a truck load of money .after all nobody knows what somebody else life is all about.
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Post by memtennis on Mar 2, 2009 19:51:48 GMT 3
My goodness... did anybody see the match? I wonder what really happened to make someone write such an article. Poor David if this is true!
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Post by Alya10 on Mar 2, 2009 20:36:38 GMT 3
My goodness... did anybody see the match? I wonder what really happened to make someone write such an article. Poor David if this is true! Nah, it wasn't probably worst that many other matches. It's all a question of perspective from the observer, and this one seemed a bit biased on the negative side. |
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