ATP Masters 1000: Miami

by noleisthebest Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:06 pm

The draw is out:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2015/403/mds.pdf
Order of play:
http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2015/403/op.pdf

ATP Masters 1000: Miami 7b3a8e5cf5b679ec7bbcffa1c19cfede

ATP Masters 1000: Miami 7b3a8e5cf5b679ec7bbcffa1c19cfede

by noleisthebest Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:10 pm

Nadal had a bad fall in practice yesterday.

http://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/March/Nadal-Suffers-Fall-on-Practice-Courts-in-Miami,-Cu.aspx

by Tenez Tue Mar 24, 2015 11:27 pm

Easy draw for Djoko. Kokki gets another WC. Must be very lucky. I think it helps to be from a slam hosting country.

by noleisthebest Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:37 am

Yes, for a change...
Nadal as usual gets a SBH-er in R1.

I didn't realise Kokki is even younger than Coric.
He is an interesting player.

The two times I saw him he played so differently.
Last year his FH looked better, this year it's quite loopy but keeps him in the point.
Playing Berlocq today.

I saw Miami preview on tennistv and was reminded of last year's match point...I forgot Nole played Nadal.

So, Nadal has a lot of points to defend here and if he fails he could lose his top 4 ranking for clay.

by luvsports! Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:46 am

Coric is younger than Kokki. The Aussie is about to turn 19.

by Tenez Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:49 am

Just 6 or 7 months difference.

by Tenez Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:57 am

Zverev is the youngest....17y 11months....but unlike Kokki he has to qualify for everything.

by noleisthebest Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:07 am

Yes, good point about Kokkinakos being from the slam holding country. Aussies have such long tradition and probably many right people in the right ATP places.

I saw Zverev pracise with Nole in aboodles in 2013, wow, he was 15 then!!!!

He was already taller than Nole and very lanky, I thought what's the big deal about him, his shots looked pretty boring.

And when I watched him last year, he has the same quality as Coric : to keep the ball in play, but not as good a mover and an average serve for his height, ni weapons, good competitor, though.

But he is still quite young...

by noleisthebest Wed Mar 25, 2015 4:52 pm

I just realised Miami is only 4 hours "away"!

Kokkinakis-Berlocq one set all.

by noleisthebest Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:35 pm

This is unbelievable...BOTH Berlocq and Kokkinakis are receiving an MTO at the same time.
Berlocq having his calf, cough, cough - leg massaged and Kokkinakis his hip....
5:2 for Berlocq in the 3rd set....

by Tenez Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:54 pm

Yes I saw some of that. It was really stupid. But it did work as Kokki lost his serve to love right after that. But Kokki was 4/0 down and had a few points to come back at 4 all!

He has to learn!

by noleisthebest Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:41 pm

Just saw some 18 year old Korean, Chung, knock out Granollers in 3 sets. He looked like a slower version of Coric (probably the lack of thise extra muscles). Hands up who's heard of him before?

Granolers' game that kept him in top 30 for a long time looked so obsolete.

Another proof tennis is moving on.

by Tenez Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:05 pm

noleisthebest wrote:Just saw some 18 year old Korean, Chung, knock out Granollers in 3 sets. He looked like a slower version of Coric (probably the lack of thise extra muscles). Hands up who's heard of him before?

Granolers' game that kept him in top 30 for a long time looked so obsolete.

Another proof tennis is moving on.

I believe that is the guy who beat Coric in Wimbledon Junior when they were both 15 or 16.

by noleisthebest Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:05 pm

It must be really hot in Miami, I've never seen a player put an ice towel under his shoes!

Stakh trying to level the match.
In his usual, elegant style, of course.

Serve keeping Almagro in.

by Tenez Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:45 pm

Miami is unbelievably hot! I went there once in March...awful...and I like and can usually cope well with the heat.

by summerblues Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:59 am

noleisthebest wrote:I just realised Miami is only 4 hours "away"!

Kokkinakis-Berlocq one set all.

Miami is normally 5 hours "away", but you have not yet switched to the Daylight Savings Time (aka Summer Time) while we did already. Next week, it will be back to 5 hour difference.

by summerblues Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:03 am

Tenez, I was just thinking...

...do you ever post on 606v2 under a new id?

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:56 am

Do you have one poster in mind in particular?

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:00 am

Tenez wrote:
noleisthebest wrote:Just saw some 18 year old Korean, Chung, knock out Granollers in 3 sets. He looked like a slower version of Coric (probably the lack of thise extra muscles). Hands up who's heard of him before?

Granolers' game that kept him in top 30 for a long time looked so obsolete.

Another proof tennis is moving on.
I believe that is the guy who beat Coric in Wimbledon Junior when they were both 15 or 16.

My foggy brain read Coric as Cilic and I was just going to tell you how Cilic is 27....

But, yes, that is the one!!!

My "hands up who knows this guy" question was totally rhetorical.

Now that it is him, he suddenly looks so much more meaningful!

So...just as I asked where are all the 18 year olds the other week, Miami gave out WCs to several of them - Chung, Kokkinakis and I think another Auusie...Coric played qualifications...it's almost weird to see so many of them kind of out of nowhere!

Yes, this Chung was quite decent, looked better than Granolers in every department, nothing special, though.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:10 am

summerblues wrote:
noleisthebest wrote:I just realised Miami is only 4 hours "away"!

Kokkinakis-Berlocq one set all.
Miami is normally 5 hours "away", but you have not yet switched to the Daylight Savings Time (aka Summer Time) while we did already. Next week, it will be back to 5 hour difference.

Yes, that makes sense, I remember now it was the same last year - I was happy how I didn't have to stay up too late and then after the weekend, when all the big matches started the clock was moved back.

This is the last of it till August, though!

Tennis is coming to Europe diva

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:13 am

Match of the Day:

Dolgopolov-Berankis
&
WELCOME BACK AGAIN
Delpo-Pospisil

by summerblues Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:24 am

Tenez wrote:Do you have one poster in mind in particular?

Well, here I am reading through 606v2 when all of a sudden I see Tenez smiling at me from the pages smiley

I was surprised to see you there, did not think you had interest in that. It is a bit odd to post under a different id. If you are interested in posting there why not get reinstated with your usual id? I imagine they would be ok with that and you do not strike me as someone who holds grudges either.

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:59 am

If I wanted to rejoined I would have used my name as I would have been found out very quickly. I was actually asked to rejoin a year or so ago but was never keen. ....the rest can't be discussed on the open.

by N2D2L Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:44 pm

I don't think Tenez is that Messi person, if that's what you're suspecting SB.

by N2D2L Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:50 pm

Either that or Tenez has been very very clever...

by N2D2L Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:55 pm

Tenez wrote:If I wanted to rejoined I would have used my name as I would have been found out very quickly. I was actually asked to rejoin a year or so ago but was never keen. ....the rest can't be discussed on the open.

I'm trying to decipher what this sentence means, you've mixed up the tense of your verb, and I think you may have also missed out a negative (which would dramatically change the meaning of the sentence).

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:24 pm

Kim Jong-Un wrote:Either that or Tenez has been very very clever...

You see....I can recognise you with whatever pseudo you choose...but looks like you can't find me out. Winking

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:14 pm

summerblues wrote:
Tenez wrote:Do you have one poster in mind in particular?
Well, here I am reading through 606v2 when all of a sudden I see Tenez smiling at me from the pages

I was surprised to see you there, did not think you had interest in that. It is a bit odd to post under a different id. If you are interested in posting there why not get reinstated with your usual id? I imagine they would be ok with that and you do not strike me as someone who holds grudges either.

Best bit you woke up at 5 AM your time to write this post! Laugh

Or was it a sleepless night? Yikes

by N2D2L Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:45 pm

Tenez wrote:
Kim Jong-Un wrote:Either that or Tenez has been very very clever...
You see....I can recognise you with whatever pseudo you choose...but looks like you can't find me out.

lol Tenez, I always go out of my way to make it ridiculously obvious it's me, that's clearly not the same Winking

I noticed your arguments were the same, but I saw your first month of posting was just in snooker, and you kept insisting that you didn't know much about tennis.
When SB pointed it out, I looked a bit closer and noticed you kept calling Raonic 'Rao'.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:21 pm

Kim Jong-Un wrote:
lol Tenez, I always go out of my way to make it ridiculously obvious it's me, that's clearly not the same

I must admit you do make an effort....
You've even been a Brazilian woman under the name of Snake eyes Laugh

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:23 pm

Shoot! I made the effort to write Djokovic and Federer instead of Djoko and Fed. I enjoyed my visit over there. Hopefully they enjoyed mine.

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:24 pm

noleisthebest wrote:
Kim Jong-Un wrote:
lol Tenez, I always go out of my way to make it ridiculously obvious it's me, that's clearly not the same

I must admit you do make an effort....
You've even been a Brazilian woman under the name of Snake eyes

I don't think that was Kim...

by N2D2L Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:27 pm

Tenez wrote:
noleisthebest wrote:
Kim Jong-Un wrote:
lol Tenez, I always go out of my way to make it ridiculously obvious it's me, that's clearly not the same

I must admit you do make an effort....
You've even been a Brazilian woman under the name of Snake eyes
I don't think that was Kim...

Yep, that wasn't me.

by N2D2L Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:27 pm

Tenez wrote:Shoot! I made the effort to write Djokovic and Federer instead of Djoko and Fed. I enjoyed my visit over there. Hopefully they enjoyed mine.

Do you want to post on the forum as Tenez ? I can have a word with the admin.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:28 pm

Kim Jong-Un wrote:
Tenez wrote:
noleisthebest wrote:
Kim Jong-Un wrote:
lol Tenez, I always go out of my way to make it ridiculously obvious it's me, that's clearly not the same

I must admit you do make an effort....
You've even been a Brazilian woman under the name of Snake eyes
I don't think that was Kim...
Yep, that wasn't me.

I am not convinced.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:28 pm

Tenez wrote:Shoot! I made the effort to write Djokovic and Federer instead of Djoko and Fed. I enjoyed my visit over there. Hopefully they enjoyed mine.

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:08 pm

Kim Jong-Un wrote:
Tenez wrote:Shoot! I made the effort to write Djokovic and Federer instead of Djoko and Fed. I enjoyed my visit over there. Hopefully they enjoyed mine.
Do you want to post on the forum as Tenez ? I can have a word with the admin.

Thanks. Honestly I don't want to spend too much time on forums. Happy here in my own forum. I'd like to invite a couple or old posters here but I am pretty sure they would not like it here .

by luvsports! Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:52 pm

So you were Messi? Haha i thought so!

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 9:30 pm

Dolgo-Berankis starting.
Anyone watching?

Let some tennis flow....

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 9:37 pm

noleisthebest wrote:
Tenez wrote:Shoot! I made the effort to write Djokovic and Federer instead of Djoko and Fed. I enjoyed my visit over there. Hopefully they enjoyed mine.

Nobody liked this?
I thought it was hillaryous! Winking

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:12 pm

luvsports! wrote:So you were Messi? Haha i thought so!

Yes I noticed you stayed away from the argument. But you made the right points on doping.

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:14 pm

noleisthebest wrote:
noleisthebest wrote:
Tenez wrote:Shoot! I made the effort to write Djokovic and Federer instead of Djoko and Fed. I enjoyed my visit over there. Hopefully they enjoyed mine.

Nobody liked this?
I thought it was hillaryous!

I went back to V2, it was not nearly as good as Mary Juana though I inhaled fully.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:19 pm

Tenez wrote:
noleisthebest wrote:
noleisthebest wrote:
Tenez wrote:Shoot! I made the effort to write Djokovic and Federer instead of Djoko and Fed. I enjoyed my visit over there. Hopefully they enjoyed mine.

Nobody liked this?
I thought it was hillaryous!
I went back to V2, it was not nearly as good as Mary Juana though I inhaled fully.

One thing I've got to try before I die Big Grin

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:21 pm

Dolgo in one of his crazy moods...he must've hit a hundred different shots so far...love it!

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:41 pm

Coric seemed slightly injured today. He was not running as fast and as much but regardless i was not that impressed as I was just a couple of weeks ago. I don;t think he has the weapons needed for future success. He simply arrives too late on the tour. He will get to play better than Djoko and Nadal...but that won;t be enough in a couple of years time.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:48 pm

I agree.
I only saw one or two points...he was just pushing the ball, keeping it in play, looked slow and very tired.

The next generation of winners will have to have weapons.

If his body holds, Nishi, not Coric will replace Nole.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:12 pm

Vesely - Delbonis into 1st set TB.
Vesely's got to win this type of matches.
He looks heavy on his feet in receiving game.

by noleisthebest Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:22 pm

...and Vesely manages to squander 4:0 in the TB and loses it 4:7....
He actually played very safely with his FH; recipe for disaster for a guy of his size...

by Tenez Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:34 pm

noleisthebest wrote:Vesely - Delbonis into 1st set TB.
Vesely's got to win this type of matches.
He looks heavy on his feet in receiving game.

Apparently Vesely wasted 6 SPs in that first set...which he lost. But I suspect he is not 100% he retired recently froma match and took a long break after that TB.

by noleisthebest Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:15 am

Don't know what it is, but he looked different.

In the meantime, he wins the 2nd set...

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