Hello there!The Roland Garros 2024 Men's Singles Drawis out. Nadal will face Zverev right awayin the first round. That is a match I donot want to miss!br,KK
kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) Wrote in message:r
Hello there!The Roland Garros 2024 Men's Singles Drawis out. Nadal will face Zverev right awayin the first round. That is a match I donot want to miss!br,KK
If this is true, God is amazing.
Zverev will likely beat Nadal and do the thing that he was prevented from doing 2 years ago by a nasty injury. Beat Nadal at FO.
Not that I'm cheering for it. For what we know, Nadal can win too.
But if Zverev wins, it will indeed feel like a complete closure.
Like Darth Vader slaying the Emperor in Episode VI, after not doing it in Episode III as Anakin.
OTOH, if Nadal wins he takes Zverev's seeded spot in the draw, he'll get couple of easier rounds then and he could improve his form and be dangerous in latter stages and win it.
I always said, Nadal is bound to win couple of FOs by playing tight matches, 5 setters in the finals and on the way to the finals.
It's surreal that he won almost all of his 14 with utter ease (score wise at least).
Maybe now's the time for some tough tournaments and tough won titles?
Winning FO "just as other mortals win it".
On 5/23/2024 3:10 PM, PeteWasLucky wrote:
*skriptis <skriptis@post.t-com.hr> Wrote in message:r
Zverev looked good last time they played in the FO but it was one
of these matches that Nadal's opponents looked to be playing good
but there was no doubts in the results and Nadal wins
it.
Has Nadal commented on this draw? I wonder if he is thinking about
pulling out.
On 24/05/2024 2:47 am, *skriptis wrote:> kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) Wrote in message:r>> Hello there!The Roland Garros 2024 Men's Singles Drawis out. Nadal will face Zverev right awayin the first round. That is a match I donot want to miss!br,KK> > > > If this is true, God is amazing.> > > Zverev will likely beat Nadal and do the thing that he was prevented from doing 2 years ago by a nasty injury. Beat Nadal at FO.> > Not that I'm cheering for it. For what we know, Nadal can win too.> >
On 24/05/2024 2:47 am, *skriptis wrote:
kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) Wrote in message:r
Hello there!The Roland Garros 2024 Men's Singles Drawis out. Nadal
will face Zverev right awayin the first round. That is a match I
donot want to miss!br,KK
If this is true, God is amazing.
Zverev will likely beat Nadal and do the thing that he was prevented
from doing 2 years ago by a nasty injury. Beat Nadal at FO.
Not that I'm cheering for it. For what we know, Nadal can win too.
But if Zverev wins, it will indeed feel like a complete closure.
Like Darth Vader slaying the Emperor in Episode VI, after not doing it
in Episode III as Anakin.
OTOH, if Nadal wins he takes Zverev's seeded spot in the draw, he'll
get couple of easier rounds then and he could improve his form and be
dangerous in latter stages and win it.
I always said, Nadal is bound to win couple of FOs by playing tight
matches, 5 setters in the finals and on the way to the finals.
It's surreal that he won almost all of his 14 with utter ease (score
wise at least).
Maybe now's the time for some tough tournaments and tough won titles?
Winning FO "just as other mortals win it".
On the one hand I agree it looked like Nadal was in a lot of trouble in
that 2022 match v Zverev, barely won the 1st set in a t/b after saving
at least 1 set point, and overall battling away for 3.5 hours until the Zverev injury. He appeared to be tiring. But he's appeared that way
many times.
But on the other hand Nadal won 1st set and they were just starting the tie-break in 2nd set. This is FO and it's Nadal. Very likely he would have been up 76 76 and won. We'll never know for sure, but Zverev was
also known for choking so...... nothing to see here?
On 24.5.2024 13.26, Whisper wrote:
On the one hand I agree it looked like Nadal was in a lot of trouble
in that 2022 match v Zverev, barely won the 1st set in a t/b after
saving at least 1 set point, and overall battling away for 3.5 hours
until the Zverev injury. He appeared to be tiring. But he's appeared
that way many times.
But on the other hand Nadal won 1st set and they were just starting
the tie-break in 2nd set. This is FO and it's Nadal. Very likely he
would have been up 76 76 and won. We'll never know for sure, but
Zverev was also known for choking so...... nothing to see here?
I'm not sure I have seen him choke since. He didn't choke in the Nadal
match, IIRC. Then had the twisted ankle and caught diabetes. Maybe he
decided life's too short to spent worrying. Watching the Rome final, I
was secretly waiting for the seizures to come. But "if" never came. He
served one DF in that match, and that was possibly the only blemish in
his game that day. Hope he can keep that up.
On 24/05/2024 11:18 pm, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
On 24.5.2024 13.26, Whisper wrote:
On the one hand I agree it looked like Nadal was in a lot of trouble
in that 2022 match v Zverev, barely won the 1st set in a t/b after
saving at least 1 set point, and overall battling away for 3.5 hours
until the Zverev injury. He appeared to be tiring. But he's
appeared that way many times.
But on the other hand Nadal won 1st set and they were just starting
the tie-break in 2nd set. This is FO and it's Nadal. Very likely he
would have been up 76 76 and won. We'll never know for sure, but
Zverev was also known for choking so...... nothing to see here?
I'm not sure I have seen him choke since. He didn't choke in the Nadal
match, IIRC. Then had the twisted ankle and caught diabetes. Maybe he
decided life's too short to spent worrying. Watching the Rome final, I
was secretly waiting for the seizures to come. But "if" never came. He
served one DF in that match, and that was possibly the only blemish in
his game that day. Hope he can keep that up.
He's certainly very warm fave to beat Nadal. If Nadal somehow does win
I think he'll have nothing left and possibly withdraw. Right now it
feels like there's a strong possibility he'll withdraw without hitting a ball.
On 5/24/2024 10:37 AM, Whisper wrote:
On 24/05/2024 11:18 pm, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
He's certainly very warm fave to beat Nadal. If Nadal somehow does
win I think he'll have nothing left and possibly withdraw. Right now
it feels like there's a strong possibility he'll withdraw without
hitting a ball.
*IF* Nadal beats Zverev and then withdraws due to an injury (real or fatigue); that would be a piss-poor way to end his HOF career at Roland Garros. At least TRY against his next (2nd) round opponent.
Try to win although there is little chance that one will. That's what
Agassi did at the US Open when he retired. And he received a hero's send off...
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