Australian Open SIM

[Andymachine]

Wow just lost as Lorenz to Andmann666 as Cannon, he won 62 67 (13-15) 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-5).

First set I served awful and went 2 break down.

Second I broke early but he got it back and had 3 set points on my serve at 6-5 but into the breaker we went and he led 3-1 when we disconnected, on resumption I went up 5-3 but it became an almighty dog fight that I sneaked out 15-13.

Early breaks for each of us in sets 3 and 4 decided it.

The final set was very tense indeed I was 2 point away at 6-5 30-30 on his serve but he survived and got an early break in the tiebreak that he wouldnt lose.

The final point was indicative of the whole match, very few quick and easy points, whilst I did not feel overpowered it was very difficult to keep the upper hand in the points as soon as I went for a slight angle or towards the forehand he pounded a winner.

I was screaming at the TV throughout and the loss really hurt, reminds me of my Roland Garros match last year which I lost in a 5th set breaker

Thats bad luck there, well played to andman. The sim certainly has made things closer, although cannon and bash have the advantage still, a bit of tweaking im sure will erase that, and it genuinely will be the player who is hot at the time, will win.

I can see what your saying in terms of stats that bashmikov cannon or whoever that has 90 on their power "may " have advantage , but i not so sure,

I used Bashmikov against Burgrfliprs Nakamura, and he beat me 60 60 62, now that to me screams out that he is just simply a much better player than me , and i think a lot of people are getting it into their heads that if you pick a certain "player " then you have advantage immedietely. I think thats rubbish.

The fact remains that if you can play Topspin3 the video game better than another then you are more likely to win ,

seriously they say bashmikov is too powerful , but nakamura overpowred me on virtually every point , and why? because Burgrflipr was using him and is a very very good player , nothing to do with the stats , i couldve used a guy with nuclear powered arms and it wouldnt have mattered , its simply how good you are at playing the video game

[VillaJ100]

yeah this is all true. A lot of players get "the fear". they play someone really good like djarvik, coke etc and kind of bottle it, try and do too much with thier shots, etc and probably dont play as good a game as if they would have just playing thier game. with me and fedfan, he can beat people on our tour i can only hope of being competitive with, yet i can always give him a good match, partly because we know how each other play but also as we don;t have "the fear" of each other. its really difficult for me to explain lol.

As for cannon and bashmakov, it just suits a lot of player's game styles to have high power and a solid groundstroke and serve. The are not being cheap or anything, far from it. I can't L2 risk very well, on the return or in a rally, a lot of the time i miss or get the timing wrong, however, i like to serve and volley, at the expense of stamina and return. so i pick players that i like to play with. Most players just like to have a big serve and big groundstrokes, at the expense of stamina, return and speed.

This is why the sim tour is working so well i think, everyone is playing how they want. Some guys love high speed and stamina, others like to serve and volley, others like speed and a solid return, others like big serve and big power, others prefer a balance and accurate groundstrokes. Just because a lot of people favour one style over another we shouldn't like persecute them for it, they are playing how they want to play. Of course, a tour made of just cannons would be lame, but i really dont think it'l come to that.

And im sure it was just a off day andy I got epically ruined 6-0 6-0 4-0 by calvkln at the french open, luckily i had to go then and spare myself the humiliation. But if we played any other time it might not have been that drastic!

[fedfan]

Good points Villa, it's weird how some of us just seem to match up well whereas other times there are complete mis-matches regardless of the stats.

I mean I've beaten Djarvik and Brgerflipr but Calvkln I can't touch, where has he gone btw? When I play you though I'm always expecting a long competitive match, beating great players has raised my expectation level so if anything I lose a lot of matches now because I get frustated very easily if I can't take my chances.

Plus Andy, according to Brger you were aiming for the back fence so I think maybe you just had a really bad day, rather than the match being down to Nakamura overpowering you.

[andman666]

Yo Fedfannie what do you think i can improve on for my R16 match?

[Andymachine]

actually fedfan and villaj, i thought bout what you both wrote and very good points from both of you , i just been very frustrated of late lol

[RV_Cobra11]

fedfan,calkln told me that he is done with itst because the majority of matches he does there boring

[coke4]

Calvkln I can't touch, where has he gone btw?

He doesnt like some people on ITST and hated the way the majority of us played

[RV_Cobra11]

and boring

[tonedawg1]

calvkin was a hard hitter

[Otlichno]

Lost against Djarvik 6-2 6-3 6-4 we were both Bucci. I've only played one full match against DJ and that was at 4 in the morning at my time so I came into the match not really knowing what to expect.

I felt like I had chances to end points I would have normally won but he got to everything and it was pretty hard to win any points. I expect either him or Alex to win the whole thing.

[Josenylund]

Won a very strange match agaist tonedawg in my first match in AO

First Set: He broke me in the first game of the match and held for 2-0. I then put up two good return games and broke him twice to go up 3-2. At 3-2 , me serving he had to go. At that moment of the match it felt like e really was in control so it bugged me a little that he had to go.

We resumed play today and my game was really off. My baseline game just completly sucked and he would win like every rally. He took the set after a tiebreak.
Second Set. Started off like the ending of the first set. we would trade breaks early and almost every game went to deuce. Again in this set my baseline game completly blew. Had no timing, no pace no nothing so i figured what the hell , why not start risking a bit more and to my surprise it worked out really well. I got the tiebreak 7-4 , he double faulted at 4-4 and i served it out.
Third Set : I started to play alot better and i risked in about every play so i wouldn't lose the edge in the rallies. The serving was alot better from both of us so there weren't really many chances for either of us to break.
Again went to tiebreak and again i took it 7-4.

He had to retire at 3-3 in the 4th set.

[Josenylund]

Btw i was Gray and he was Nakamura.

[alex13090]

Nice win, tonedawg is always hard to play.

[tonedawg1]

[coke4]

:cry:

Why u retire?