WAY TO GO STAN THE MAN! GLAD HE WON! FINALLY REALIZING HIS POTENTIAL BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY! among the top players wawrinka is the only one? who can physically push nadal around, for a tennis player wawrinka is pretty solid and built and strong,, djokovic can do this to nadal when he's playing his best, but not physically like wawrinka,,,djokovic is more like able to wear nadal down, whereas stan can when he's on beat anyone physically on the court...
i was flipping out when stan lost the 3rd set, a total mental breakdown,, the moron commentators suggesting that stan should do this and should do that, etcetera.. when you have a opponent down you go for the jugular! stan should have kept on playing like he had been! never let up, never put the foot off the gas until your shaking hands with your opponent at the net...the only game plan he should have started differently was drop shot nadal like crazy...
had to turn the volume down because can't stand the commentary (i.e. patrick mcenroe! who should get on his knees every morning and thank god his last name is mcenroe! otherwise he would be lucky to be a tennis instructor at some upstate new york snobby tennis club, very average pro, who because of his last name became a tennis commentator, davis cup captain?!, high level usta junior development exec, etcetera, etcetera,, darren cahill, same thing, very average player who was hired because his accent and he likes to sound so clinical and intelligent must mean he knows what he is talking about?!, the tennis world is a very very clique world as far as careers go...
anyway, i digress.. so happy NADAL DID NOT WIN! the biggest gamesmanship player of the modern era!...
WHY DO YOU THINK HALF THE CROWD BOOED HIM WHEN HE CAME BACK ONTO THE COURT! the aussie fans are very tennis knowledgeable and they have seen this action before from a top player who is losing to a lower ranked opponent, azareka last year comes to mind, and nadal has done this "injury timeout" before over the years when losing..
it's
bad enough "uncle tony" is forever getting called out for illegal coaching in the stands!....
bad enough that nadal more than ANYONE consistently goes over the time limit between serves and is rarely called on it...and what is up with that NASTY O.C.D. HABIT OF PICKING HIS ASS EVERY SINGLE SERVE EVERY MATCH EVERY TOURNAMENT FOR YEARS NOW! get some new underwear buddy! can't believe no one in his camp has ever told him "rafael that is NASTY! like picking your nose in public!" stop doing that or get some bigger underwear to wear!" imagine having to shake his hand after a match?and
isn't it interesting how nadal just had to change rackets when he was about to lose the 1st set to stan? obviously hoping to "cool stan down" before the set was lost..
isn't it interesting that his "back injury" didn't prevent him from lightly jogging almost skipping on to the court after the changeovers...
isn't it interesting that his injury timeout was off the courts and strangely as the match wore on he started serving harder and moving faster...must have been those pain killers taking effect.. even his buddy stan mentioned this "gamesmanship" to the umpire during the injury timeout because ALL THE PLAYERS ARE USED TO THIS FROM NADAL...
as anyone ever had a TRUE BACK INJURY AND TRIED TO PLAY TENNIS? MUCH LESS WORLD CLASS TENNIS! you would not be able to move AT ALL! nadal's serve was harmed and his movement but when the ball was right at him or in reach he still hit the ball as normal...
if anything this back "injury" was mostly likely just a continual spasm or stiffness, NOT a injury...
i had a slight back injury awhile ago and trust me even the idea of trying to skip or lightly jog at 1 mile per hour 20 feet was out of the question!..much less able to whack and swing a racket at a ball on a tennis court! a TRUE BACK INJURY AFFECTS A ATHLETE'S ENTIRE BODY!
i'll wait for the medical report on nadal to cement my comments...
WAWRINKA DESERVED TO WIN THE TOURNAMENT ANYWAY! HE BEAT DJOKOVIC (AFTER COMING SO CLOSE TWICE LAST YEAR AT THE AUSSIE OPEN AND THE U.S. OPEN), BERDYCH AND WHIPPING NADAL FOR A SET AND A HALF BEFORE THE "INJURY"...
I HOPE STAN CAN CONTINUE THIS PLAY FOR THE REST OF HIS CAREER! I DON'T THINK HIS PLAY FOR THIS TOURNAMENT WAS A FLUKE! HE COULD ALWAYS PLAY LIKE THIS, JUST NOT CONSISTENT ENOUGH..
