The Exhibition Thread

by **Andymachine** » Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:05

I had a nice match with Tomvbs , I hadnt played him for a while so it was nice to see how he played , and he was great

I won 64 62 , but was a lot closer than the score line, he can play any shot in the game

by **Baghdad Baghdatis** » Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:35

I played 2 exibition matches over the wkd

1) Won 5-7, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 against Djvarik - really good match, could of gone either way
2) Wn 7-6,7-6 against andres dsgns - a battle of the serves really, not many decent rallies

by **djarvik** » Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:06

I'll get you next time Baghdad Kebab! :wink:

I was sooooo hungry and you nickname didn't help "Baghdad Kebab" :lol:

I enjoyed our match very much! Even thou we both got 90 serves, but we both don't RT/LT on returns, we rely on a safe, relatively deep return......that made for a lot of fun rallies, volleys, drop shots.

I got to admit, I wen in thinking it will be an easy 2 sets, but boy was I wrong!

Can't wait for my revenge! :twisted:

by **Coolhand Texas** » Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:09

djarvik, which guy were you using?

you have so many differeny players.

by **djarvik** » Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:13

Coolhand Texas wrote:djarvik, which guy were you using?

you have so many differeny players.

Yet another new one! :lol:

I changed the serve motion from Feds to Roddicks, just got bored with feds serve.

FH-75 | BH-80 | SER-90 | RET-55 | VOL-40 | POW-90 | SPE-80 | STA-50

by **Baghdad Baghdatis** » Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:00

djarvik wrote::evil: I'll get you next time Baghdad Kebab!

I was sooooo hungry and you nickname didn't help "Baghdad Kebab"

I enjoyed our match very much! Even thou we both got 90 serves, but we both don't RT/LT on returns, we rely on a safe, relatively deep return......that made for a lot of fun rallies, volleys, drop shots.

I got to admit, I wen in thinking it will be an easy 2 sets, but boy was I wrong!

Can't wait for my revenge!

Yeah are match was thoroughly enjoyable mate, u r a very good player!! Playing against someone with variety is what keeps me interested, whereas playing andres dsgns was proper boring, not his fault like but just one of those matches that lacked excitement, suppose that is the way of it sometimes. I will see you on the tour and would like to play some more matches on ya, you could be my sparing partner before my big matches, as long as you roll over like, haha!!

Just played Tantsupalavik in an exhibition and lost 4-6, 7-6, 6-7 (8-6)!!

Cracking match, boy is he good...

Tantsupalavik

by **djarvik** » Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:15

Glad it was mutual!

Tasu is great! Love his game! He is retired now, for the reason you mentioned above...got bored.

Tansu was the one who got me excited to try different styles, approaches to the game. Don't know what player he used....but for a while, he was using a 40 power dude, beat me in one challenger final with that dude...still hurts Tansu! :lol:

He is very smart player, always a pleasure to play against.

by **Vieira151** » Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:35

Guess what game Tantsu is playing now

by **Coolhand Texas** » Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:37

Nimfrodil wrote:Guess what game Tantsu is playing now

Gears of War 2 :wink:

by **djarvik** » Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:40

Nimfrodil wrote:Guess what game Tantsu is playing now

DMT? no!!!! he turned to dark side! :lol:

by **Vieira151** » Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:44

by **Coolhand Texas** » Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:28

Played a match with Mack and won 6-4, 7-6. he was doing great in the rallies and basically reached every ball. It was his serve that let him down though

by **Mack2300** » Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:55

Yes good match Coolhand

I played 3 other matches today and lost all those ones too :lol:

First up, I played Norberto and he squeezed by me 7-6 7-6.
After that I played Joesixtoe and he beat me 6-4 7-6(I think that was the score). Both were great matches but yes my serve was quite weak, yet these guys return amazingly well too though.
Finally, I played Ghost in what was a real topsy turvy match and he won 6-2 3-6 6-4. I broke to lead 2-0 in both the 1st and 3rd sets but Ghost was returning very well.

by **TomBs** » Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:04

Once again we were in for one of those not-so-typical matches of modern day tennis.

Tall Dutchman John Doe was first to enter the blue hardcourt in Paris. The crowd was wondering where his opponent was, only to find Novak Djokovic right behind him after some time.

John Doe immediately had success by winning the toss. He chose to start serving and it was once again obvious why. With his classic serve&volley-game he made a solid start to the best-of-5-match with an easy first service game. Djokovic wasn't all too impressed though and copied that, even with some for him unconventional serve&volleying.

With both players finding out the most appropiate returns it took some time before the first break opportunities arose. With the score on 3-3 the first was for Djokovic, who immediately took advantage with a powerful passing shot. Doe was clearly struggling with Djokovic solid baseline play and didn't manage to get a break back in the first set, with Djokovic winning it 6-4.

Due to some technical problems (why on earth do phones need to be switched of during the match?) the 1st set statistics couldn't be saved and are lost in history. My apologies for that.

The second set started just like the first one did, but 1-1 things changed. Doe was struggling to hit proper first volleys, and Djokovic took a 15-40 lead. With some powerful serves Doe overcame those breakpoints, but had trouble pushing through. After serving another four breakpoints away he finally held his serve, but only to get broken anyway in his next service game. Djokovic held on to his service games to take a 4-2 lead, but then the Serbian lost control of the set. Doe, with nothing to lose, raced through his service games and breaking his opponent's serve twice in a row. 6-4 to Doe, and everything to play for.

Set 2 statistics:

In the third set Djokovic again took an early break, but Doe immediately broke back to make it 2-2. Eight convicing service games later a tiebreak had to bring a decision in this set. An astonishing first point meant the first mini-break, in favour of Djokovic. Doe was acting like Van der Sar at the net by bringing back four powerful shots from Djokovic, only to miss the easy fifth one. Nevertheless Doe rallied to a minibreak on the next point to level things up again. Both players then won their service points, but at 5-6 Doe handed the set to Djokovic by netting a half-volley.

Set 3 statistics:

2-1 in sets to Djokovic, and it was all up to Doe to change things around. With his mind still at the first point of the tiebreak Doe didn't make an impressive start and Djokovic easily held on to the opening game of the fourth set. The Serbian however wasn't totally fresh anymore, and Doe managed to hang on to his service game, thus levelling the score. With both players gasping for air on the warm summer evening betting offices around the world were doing big business with bets on when Djokovic would retire. But against all odds the Serbian pushed through and got a break in the sixth game to take a 4-2 lead. Doe did everything possible to get back into the match, but at 5-3 Djokovic took the match with a volley winner on his second matchpoint.

Final score:
Novak Djokovic - John Doe 6-4 4-6 7-6(5) 6-3

Match statistics:

Darkness was indeed falling at the end of the match.

Djokovic - Doe = SoundfSilence - Tomvbs

by **Vieira151** » Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:18

Who was playing as Djokovic????????? :lol:

Intense match report

Very nicely written

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