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The French Open not using Hawkeye is completely indefensible. Djokovic already missed out on a break point because of it (went Ad-Nadal instead) and he just lost his first service game in the third set because of a wrong call on a spot.
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Djokovic almost went legend today but couldn't finish it off up a break in the fifth set. He ended up losing 9-7.
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Rafa down 2 sets to 0 in the first round.

 

And now down a break to start the third.

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Rafa down 2 sets to 0 in the first round.

 

And now down a break to start the third.

 

I realize he is not 100% in all likelihood. But a 1st round exit is why he is not in the same category as Federer for me.

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Rafa down 2 sets to 0 in the first round.

 

And now down a break to start the third.

 

I realize he is not 100% in all likelihood. But a 1st round exit is why he is not in the same category as Federer for me.

The fact that he has 4 non-French Slams should be all you need. Clay wins just don't count the same. It's not exactly the same sport.

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Rafa down 2 sets to 0 in the first round.

 

And now down a break to start the third.

 

I realize he is not 100% in all likelihood. But a 1st round exit is why he is not in the same category as Federer for me.

 

Agreed. Last time Federer lost before the QF in a major was 2004. Nadal is a great player but Federer was the best on two surfaces for 5-6 years and easily the second best on the third surface over the same time period. Federer lost 6 finals to Nadal and fell in the semis of the French to him another year. If you take Nadal out, Federer is in the mid 20s with majors. Nadal only lost two finals to Federer because he wasn't able to get there for a while. That's why I hate the H2H argument from the Nadal fans. We're discounting Federer because Nadal wasn't good enough to make the finals.

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Azarenka (2) and Sharapova (3) out on the women's side while Tsonga (6), Cilic (10) and Isner (18) out on the men's side. Federer is down 2-1 at the start of the fourth set. Azarenka and Cilic were walkovers while Tsonga and Isner retired.

 

And he's now down a break in the fourth.

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Federer goes down in 4. From what I saw, the other dude played out of his mind. Federer's first loss before the QF since the 2004 French (ends a streak of 36 straight) and his earliest loss in a major since losing in the first round at the 2003 French, before he had won a single major.

 

Federer didn't look good either. Not injured, just off, which seems to be happening more and more over the last couple years.

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The bottom half of the men's draw is Murray, Tsonga and a bunch of other guys. And those two are in the same quarter. The highest seed in the other quarter is No. 15 Nicolas Almagro. The other half still has the 1, 4, 7, 8 and 9 seeds.
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The bottom half of the men's draw is Murray, Tsonga and a bunch of other guys. And those two are in the same quarter. The highest seed in the other quarter is No. 15 Nicolas Almagro. The other half still has the 1, 4, 7, 8 and 9 seeds.

Tsonga is out too. It's just Murray and nobody.

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The bottom half of the men's draw is Murray, Tsonga and a bunch of other guys. And those two are in the same quarter. The highest seed in the other quarter is No. 15 Nicolas Almagro. The other half still has the 1, 4, 7, 8 and 9 seeds.

Tsonga is out too. It's just Murray and nobody.

 

Not sure how I missed that one.

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Im trying to prove that "ENG" was next to Henman all those years. When the British Open goes off will Rory McIlroy have GBR next to his name on the leaderboad? This is BS. Murray should not have GBR next to his name. If you cant produce a world class male tennis player you just need to deal with it. We certainly do.
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Yeah I don't really understand the random uses of Great Britian for certain sporting events.

 

Maybe for the Winter Olympics we can team up with Canada, call ourselves North America and cleanup the medals.

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Im trying to prove that "ENG" was next to Henman all those years. When the British Open goes off will Rory McIlroy have GBR next to his name on the leaderboad? This is BS. Murray should not have GBR next to his name. If you cant produce a world class male tennis player you just need to deal with it. We certainly do.

 

http://youtu.be/dqfrwTsY3T0?t=3m

 

Video starts at 3 minutes and at least in this one, Henman has GBR there.

 

I agree with you. For some sports it's England, for others it's GBR. Just pick one and be consistent.

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For some sports it's England, for others it's GBR. Just pick one and be consistent.

 

I believe the logic that is being used is based on the national membership of the governing international body.

In this particular case, Great Britain is a member of the International Tennis Federation (and England isn't).

And as I assume you point of reference for individual sports may be golf: traditionally, England and Scotland have been members of the International Golf Federation, so that's what was used to identify players. However, British Golf became an affiliate member in 2010, so who knows how that will evolve.

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Serena us out too. Ferrer won in 4, lets see if the men's side can hold form. One of the craziest Wimbledon's I can remember.
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One thing I didn't notice (because who notices doubles tennis?), but the Bryan brothers have now won the 2012 Olympic gold, the 2012 US Open, the 2013 Australian Open, and the 2013 French Open, so are just a Wimbledon victory shy of the Golden Slam, and if they can win Wimbledon and the US open this year, they'll be the first doubles team to win the Grand Slam in the Slam era.
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One thing I didn't notice (because who notices doubles tennis?), but the Bryan brothers have now won the 2012 Olympic gold, the 2012 US Open, the 2013 Australian Open, and the 2013 French Open, so are just a Wimbledon victory shy of the Golden Slam, and if they can win Wimbledon and the US open this year, they'll be the first doubles team to win the Grand Slam in the Slam era.

 

And they said American male tennis was dead

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