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Post by ibbi on Sept 11, 2017 15:36:53 GMT
Incredible happy for Nadal. Winning his 16th Grand Slam, his 3rd at the US Open. Really wouldn't have dreamed of this at the begin of the year. The final of course was, as expected, not one to remember though. Only in Rafa's last service game Anderson got to deuce for the first time in the match and the South African was simply not able to compete with Nadal. Just a pity that the draw (after the whole withdrawals too) was so onesided. I hope the USTA has a review of their draws this year... giving such easy paths to both Nadal and the women's #1 (Pliskova) was a big mistake and actually killed a lot of excitement for the slam, I think. As well as the pathetically obvious attempts at getting Sharapova into as deep a run as possible, and loading one quarter with all the quality players...... let's hope this doesn't happen again next year. Not a Nadal fan so i'm a bit 'meh' on him adding more slams to his count but he deserved this one 100%. Played the best, most consistent and aggressive tennis of any man (or woman for that matter) at this tournament and for that I can't complain at all that his name is on the trophy. The state of things is so bad right now there was no path for Nadal that would not be easy. The internet is abuzz over how he went through the entire draw without playing anyone in the top 25. The fact is there were 20 members of the top 25 in attendance, 1 of them won it, and I think from the other 19 off the top of my head the only dude that lost to a fellow member of the top 25 was Monfils. The other 18 guys all got knocked out by guys ranked 26 or lower. They suck. Dolgopolov knocked out one of them (Berdych) who beat him? Rublev knocked out two of them (Dimitrov and Goffin) who beat him?? Del Potro knocked out three of them (Bautista-Agut, Thiem, and Federer) and who beat him??? Anderson knocked out a couple too (Carreno-Busta and Querrey) and WHO BEAT HIM????? God, people are so dumb. |
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Post by wendy on Sept 11, 2017 16:12:58 GMT
I hope the USTA has a review of their draws this year... giving such easy paths to both Nadal and the women's #1 (Pliskova) was a big mistake and actually killed a lot of excitement for the slam, I think. As well as the pathetically obvious attempts at getting Sharapova into as deep a run as possible, and loading one quarter with all the quality players...... let's hope this doesn't happen again next year. Not a Nadal fan so i'm a bit 'meh' on him adding more slams to his count but he deserved this one 100%. Played the best, most consistent and aggressive tennis of any man (or woman for that matter) at this tournament and for that I can't complain at all that his name is on the trophy. The state of things is so bad right now there was no path for Nadal that would not be easy. The internet is abuzz over how he went through the entire draw without playing anyone in the top 25. The fact is there were 20 members of the top 25 in attendance, 1 of them won it, and I think from the other 19 off the top of my head the only dude that lost to a fellow member of the top 25 was Monfils. The other 18 guys all got knocked out by guys ranked 26 or lower. They suck. Dolgopolov knocked out one of them (Berdych) who beat him? Rublev knocked out two of them (Dimitrov and Goffin) who beat him?? Del Potro knocked out three of them (Bautista-Agut, Thiem, and Federer) and who beat him??? Anderson knocked out a couple too (Carreno-Busta and Querrey) and WHO BEAT HIM????? God, people are so dumb. That's very true, the absences (in both draws) are another reason why the draws seemed pathetically one-sided or easy/unexciting. I didn't even connect that so many top 25 players went down to teenagers from the top 100 lol... poor Monfils.  I'm not saying Nadal wouldn't have won anyway, he surely would have (if I were a betting lady I would have put my money on him before the start of the slam). And not saying he didn't have to face good opponents, but even with Federer bitching out of the French Open this year, he still had to best Thiem, Wawrinka, Carreno Busta, and Batista Agut to take that title.... he still deservedly won his US Open faire and square (and in his form probably would have beaten Djoko, Murray, etc. anyway), no question about it, but i'm sure he was grinning when he saw the draw. I still refuse to believe that with Fed being #3 the USTA didn't spend weeks trying to figure out how to get him and Nadal into the semi and finally reap those ratings/sponsorship rewards they have missed out on for so many years. They were STILL talking about it after Roger was eliminated. Let's be honest, the REAL reason Nadal is because he got to train with the greatest player of all time in a badminton duel before his opening round match:  |
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 13, 2017 11:04:28 GMT
Incredible happy for Nadal. Winning his 16th Grand Slam, his 3rd at the US Open. Really wouldn't have dreamed of this at the begin of the year. The final of course was, as expected, not one to remember though. Only in Rafa's last service game Anderson got to deuce for the first time in the match and the South African was simply not able to compete with Nadal. Just a pity that the draw (after the whole withdrawals too) was so onesided. I hope the USTA has a review of their draws this year... giving such easy paths to both Nadal and the women's #1 (Pliskova) was a big mistake and actually killed a lot of excitement for the slam, I think. As well as the pathetically obvious attempts at getting Sharapova into as deep a run as possible, and loading one quarter with all the quality players...... let's hope this doesn't happen again next year. Not a Nadal fan so i'm a bit 'meh' on him adding more slams to his count but he deserved this one 100%. Played the best, most consistent and aggressive tennis of any man (or woman for that matter) at this tournament and for that I can't complain at all that his name is on the trophy. What are they supposed to do? The draw is - as it says - drawn by a computer. Just the #1 and #2 seed have their fix spots. And one of them has the #3 and the other one the #4 in his half. With so many top players injured the US Open were already guaranteed to feature a weaker field and then the blunder with the late withdrawal by Murray happened. Which was his fault not the USTA's. I actually think the top half wasn't that bad. It had Nadal, Federer, del Potro, Thiem, Dimitrov, Goffin, Berdych. If all would have gone as planned Rafa would have played Dimitrov in the quarters and Federer in the semis. So he only had to play the #28 of the world, but you could argue, that del Potro is actually the world's fifth best player. |
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I'm not saying Nadal wouldn't have won anyway, he surely would have (if I were a betting lady I would have put my money on him before the start of the slam). And not saying he didn't have to face good opponents, but even with Federer bitching out of the French Open this year, he still had to best Thiem, Wawrinka, Carreno Busta, and Batista Agut to take that title.... he still deservedly won his US Open faire and square (and in his form probably would have beaten Djoko, Murray, etc. anyway), no question about it, but i'm sure he was grinning when he saw the draw. 