US Open

[Coolhand Texas]

its on espn2

[Otlichno]

I was watching it from this stream.

[Coolhand Texas]

I was watching it from this stream.

well thats your problem

[Chederer]

link didnt work

[Coolhand Texas]

verdasco you fing dumba$$. you double fault twice in a row to give nadal the break. Fu**ing a$$hole!!

[Cro Morgan]

All signs are pointing toward a Nadal/Djokovic final.

[jayl0ve]

Then obviously you're lost.

Backtrack a couple hundred miles til you get to the intersection of Federer/Nadal; follow those signs

[Coolhand Texas]

federer said it in his interview, the road has been through him the past couple of years and djokovic hasnt been able to get it done.

dont think it will change this year, its going to be mental and federer will out smart out djokovic.

Oh and I predict another tweener winner for fed vs djokovic

[Moralspain]

Is Rafa doing anything different on his serve or using a new string or something??? Or maybe he's lost some of the muscle/gained flexibility with his left arm?

it's confirmed, he's changed his grip to serve, now he can hit flat serves easily
"Decidí emplearla un par de días antes de comenzar el US Open", confirma el número uno.
"I decided to use it a couple of days before the start of the US Open", confirmed the number 1

[Moralspain]

Nice article about Rafa's racquet (handle, weight)

The world No. 1 is also not a racket diva. Mr. Nadal doesn’t travel with a personal stringer unlike many other top tour players. Nor does he take his frustrations out on his equipment. The only time Toni Nadal saw his nephew break a racket is when he was playing at Roland Garros—he hit his shoe on a serve and cracked the frame. The serve was good.

Rafa’s racket weighs a flimsy 10.6 ounces unstrung, plus an extra 0.4 ounce he adds to the head, for a total of 11.5 ounces with strings, practically pixie dust in the hands of a 6-foot-1 hulking guy. By contrast, the 5-foot-10, 128-pound Caroline Wozniacki, the U.S. Open’s top seeded woman, plays with the same Babolat Aeropro Drive as Mr. Nadal; her frame is just two ounces lighter than Mr. Nadal’s.

If Mr. Nadal picked up Mr. Sampras’s old racket today, his shots would probably hit the fence. The hefty, unforgiving Pro Staff Original Mr. Sampras used en route to 14 Grand Slam titles is 12.6 ounces unstrung. It was already cumbersome, but Mr. Sampras added lead tape to get more power and control, for a total mass of almost 14 ounces with strings. To manage it, he used a grip with a circumference of 4 5/8 inches.

Mr. Nadal’s svelte handle is but a toothpick in comparison: 4¼ inches around, a size smaller than the grip Ms. Wozniacki and many women use. “A 4 3/8 grip was considered a ladies racket,” said Mr. Prokes, “but now across the board players have gone to small grip sizes, at least one size smaller or more.”

The question going forward is whether Mr. Nadal can continue to generate enough power. “Each year he is playing he is getting a little less powerful,” Toni Nadal said. “That is normal. The older he gets the more difficult to have the same energy.”

His solution: a heavier racket. “We are thinking at the end of the year we are going to add a little more weight at the head of the racket to get more power on the serve,” said Toni, smiling. “But don’t tell him that.”

http://www.tennisgear.com.au/shaw-park/?p=349

[Saarbrigga]

verdasco you fing dumba$$. you double fault twice in a row to give nadal the break. Fu**ing ***hole!!

There are very disrespectful comments on Federer s homepage (forum) about the situation:

Some guys believe Lopez and Verdasco were told to lose by the spanish tennis assosiation (i don t know how to translate, in Germany it calls "Deutscher Tennis Bund") because Nadal has the best chances to beat Federer.

Those claims have nothing to do with sport.

[Coolhand Texas]

I don't believe that, I was just mad that verdasco squandered his break lead with 2 doubles faults in a row

[Moralspain]

verdasco you fing dumba$$. you double fault twice in a row to give nadal the break. Fu**ing ***hole!!

There are very disrespectful comments on Federer s homepage (forum) about the situation:

Some guys believe Lopez and Verdasco were told to lose by the spanish tennis assosiation (i don t know how to translate, in Germany it calls "Deutscher Tennis Bund") because Nadal has the best chances to beat Federer.

Those claims have nothing to do with sport.

hahaha people are sick, btw those comments are normal, it's a Federer's fans forum, what did you expect?? if you go to Nadal's homepage i'm sure you'll find same things against Roger, completely normal. It's called rivalry

[jayl0ve]

My racquet is 12.5 oz strung (I'm not going by some website or something, I weighed my racquet). I can't imagine playing with such a light racquet as Nadal's, that's just crazy how light it is.

[Moralspain]

that's heavy, mine is 335 gr, no idea in oz but less than those 12.5.