Roland Garros #14 Juju maakt het af ...

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Op zaterdag 9 juni 2007 23:36 schreef Rikketik het volgende:

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Trouwens, bedrogen mijn ogen me nou of komen Jankovic en Ivanovic ook naar Rosmalen?

Die komen ja

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Op zaterdag 9 juni 2007 23:36 schreef Rikketik het volgende:

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Trouwens, bedrogen mijn ogen me nou of komen Jankovic en Ivanovic ook naar Rosmalen?

en Hantuchova ook

Roger was given the "Prix Orange" at the French Open this week, honoured for exhibiting fair play and being a good sport. It is already the third consecutive year for him to receive the award.

ook nog even

quote van rafa's blog van vandaag:
Besides that there was a funny moment when I was asked about my favorite female player and I said that it was Henin. When I said that she was it because of her tennis and only that, all journalist were laughing, thinking about the double sense. I had to make clear that I just referred to the one which seems the most complete playing tennis. NOTHING ELSE!!!

The Essential Roland Garros Final Preview: Federer vs. Nadal

The Roland Garros championship is a repeat of last year’s final between the No. 1 and 2 players on the ATP circuit. This marks the first time since 1968-69 the same finalists are in back-to-back championships at Roland Garros. In 1968, Ken Rosewall defeated countryman Rod Laver and the following year Laver beat Rosewall.

This marks the third straight year Federer and Nadal are meeting at Roland Garros. Two years ago the Spaniard won in four sets in the semifinals and last year he defeated the Swiss No. 1 in four sets in the final.

Coming into the final, they have combined to win 36 of 37 sets in this year’s tournament. Nadal has not dropped a set (18-0) and the last player to win the Roland Garros title without dropping a set was Bjorn Borg in 1980. Nadal is also trying to join Borg as the only players (since 1925) to win three or more consecutive Roland Garros titles. Borg won four in a row from 1978-81 and six overall. Federer is trying to join Don Budge (1938) and Rod Laver (1962, ’69) as the only players to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time.

Both players have been broken 10 times in the tournament but Nadal has broken opponents 10 more times than Federer. Here is a look at the statistics of both players:

TOP TWO SEEDS IN FINAL
This is the second straight year the No. 1 and 2 seeds have reached the final and this is the fifth championship in the Open Era between the top two seeds (all involving a left-hander):

2007 – (1) Roger Federer vs. (2) Rafael Nadal
2006 – (2) Rafael Nadal d. (1) Roger Federer 16 61 64 76
1984 – (2) Ivan Lendl d. (1) John McEnroe 36 26 64 75 75
1978 – (1) Bjorn Borg d. (2) Guillermo Vilas 61 61 63
1968 – (2) Ken Rosewall d. (1) Rod Laver 63 61 26 62

LAST EIGHT GRAND SLAM CHAMPIONS
Federer and Nadal have accounted for the last eight Grand Slam titles since 2005 Roland Garros and this is the third Grand Slam final they are meeting in:
Final
2007 Australian Open Roger Federer d. Fernando Gonzalez
2006 US Open Roger Federer d. Andy Roddick
2006 Wimbledon Roger Federer d. Rafael Nadal
2006 Roland Garros Rafael Nadal d. Roger Federer
2006 Australian Open Roger Federer d. Marcos Baghdatis
2005 US Open Roger Federer d. Andre Agassi
2005 Wimbledon Roger Federer d. Andy Roddick
2005 Roland Garros Rafael Nadal d. Mariano Puerta

Dat is lekker wakker worden met zoveel info van Dutch

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Op zaterdag 9 juni 2007 22:54 schreef Zwaardvisch het volgende:
Wedstrijden van Federer tegen Nadal vergelijk ik altijd met de vroegere clashes tussen Agassi en Sampras, maar dat zal ik wel uit moeten leggen. Nadal beschikt over het charisma van een superster, Federer zal altijd de het introverte tennisgenie zonder allure blijven, net als Sampras destijds. Ook het spel van Federer is vergelijkbaar met dat van Sampras; Sampras was weliswaar serve en volley-specialist, maar ook iemand die slagenwisselingen perfect kon combineren en zijn racket zo ver naar achteren trok dat je nooit wist waar de bal zou komen. Federer heeft die greep ook, en speelt ook meer naar het net toe. Nadal is net als Agassi een powertennisser die het van zijn groundstrokes moet hebben, en de slag van zijn tegenstander probeert te beperken, hij probeert je dus defensief te laten tennissen, want hij is gewend ver van zijn tegenstander te spelen. Natuurlijk zijn zowel Federer als Sampras completere tennissers en kan Federer ook op gravel mee, maar op gravel speelt hij niet zijn natuurlijke spel.

Federer heeft zeker wel uitstraling. Hij straalt onoverwinnelijkheid uit, behalve tegen Nadal in het verleden. Verder denk ik niet dat Nadal een carriere a la Agassi uit kan bouwen. Zoals hij speelt hou je dat geen 10 jaar op topniveau uit.

ik hoop dat federer wint !

nadal

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 02:14 schreef wimderon het volgende:

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Federer heeft zeker wel uitstraling. Hij straalt onoverwinnelijkheid uit, behalve tegen Nadal in het verleden. Verder denk ik niet dat Nadal een carriere a la Agassi uit kan bouwen. Zoals hij speelt hou je dat geen 10 jaar op topniveau uit.

Heb je mijn reactie ook gelezen? Vond hem wel goed eigenlijk.

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 01:45 schreef TheDutchMachiavelli het volgende:
Dat is lekker wakker worden met zoveel info van Dutch

Ja, zeker. Da's even schrikken.

Nog een uurtje of 6 voordat de eerste punten gemaakt worden

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 09:30 schreef Muzic.nl het volgende:
Nog een uurtje of 6 voordat de eerste punten gemaakt worden

Wat zou er deze ochtend en begin vd middag in Federers hoofd omgaan?

Roger en Rafa Ready to Rumble in Paris


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Here is a history of the duo’s 11 meetings, from the first match at Miami in March 2004 to their most recent match in the 2007 Hamburg final.

2004 NASDAQ-100 Open, Miami, 3rd RD. Nadal d. Federer 63 63
Federer came into the ATP Masters Series event on a roll, having won the Australian Open final over Marat Safin in February and the Pacific Life Open (also a Masters Series event) in Indian Wells over Tim Henman just before coming to Miami. He had lost only once in 2004 prior to this match (in the quarterfinals of Rotterdam to Henman). Nadal, the youngest man in the tournament at 17, was just starting to emerge as a force on the ATP circuit and hadn’t yet won a title. He breezed by Federer in only 69 minutes for the best win of his career at that point. The Spaniard said after the match that it was probably the best he had ever served.

2005 NASDAQ-1OO Open, Miami, F. Federer d. Nadal 26 67(4) 76(5) 63 61
Federer was primed for revenge. Again he came into the Miami event with only one loss for the year (to Safin in the semifinals of the Australian Open) and fresh off a title in Indian Wells (d. Hewitt). Nadal was a year older and wiser, already having won three ATP titles. The balls were flying at Federer from Nadal’s exploding topspin groundstrokes, and the Spaniard was running down every ball in sight. Before he knew it, Federer was down 5-3 in the third set tie-break, two points from defeat. But he rallied back, and leveled the head-to-head series at 1-1

2005 Roland Garros, Paris, SF. Nadal d. Federer 63 46 64 63
Theirs was the most eagerly awaited match of the tournament. Federer was already No. 1 in the world, and Nadal was fourth, behind No. 2 Marat Safin and No. 3 Andy Roddick. Nadal came to Roland Garros on the heels of clay-court titles at the ATP Masters Series events at Monte-Carlo in April (d. Coria) and at Rome in May (d. Coria again). Federer, meanwhile, was fresh off of his second straight clay-court crown at Masters Series Hamburg in May (d. Gasquet). Federer evened the score by winning the second set, but after that his form fell, while Nadal kept the pressure on, ousting Federer in four sets on the way to winning the Roland Garros title on debut.

2006 Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, F. Nadal d. Federer 26 64 64
Federer came into the pair’s first encounter of the 2006 season undefeated, having won the title at Doha (d. Monfils) and the Australian Open (d. Baghdatis). Nadal was just getting his groove back after suffering an ankle injury at the Madrid Masters Series event in October. Dubai was only Nadal’s second tournament since suffering the injury. He opened the year with a semifinal showing at Marseille in February (l. to Clement). This was the first match between Federer and Nadal with the Spanish superstar holding the INDESIT ATP Ranking of No. 2. Nadal won the encounter despite winning less points: 71 to 78. They each broke serve three times, but Nadal won the points that mattered. The win represented his 10th straight victory in finals. Nadal’s victory also broke Federer’s Open Era record of 56 straight match wins on hard courts.

2006 Masters Series Monte-Carlo, F. Nadal d. Federer 62 67(2) 63 76(5)
Between the Dubai match and this one in April, Federer went undefeated, winning Masters Series events for the third year in a row at Indian Wells (d. Blake) and the second year in a row at Miami (d. Ljubicic). Nadal, meanwhile, reached the semifinals of Indian Wells (l. to Blake) and fell in the second round at Miami (to Moya). But Nadal regained his footing at Monte-Carlo. He took the exciting match in 3 hours and 49 minutes and overcome a 0-3 deficit in the final tie-break.

2006 Masters Series Rome, F. Nadal d. Federer 67(0) 76(5) 64 26 76(5)
In May, only three weeks after their Monte-Carlo match, Federer and Nadal were at it again. Federer rested in the time in between the two tournaments, while Nadal went to Barcelona and won the title (d. Robredo). This match was the best between the two warriors yet, lasting five hours and five minutes. Federer forced the action, successfully approaching the net again and again. The Swiss tennis genius won more points than Nadal, just like in Dubai, 179 to 174. But once more Nadal won the big points. Federer had two match points with Nadal serving at 5-6, 15-40 in the final set. But he missed forehands on both opportunities. With the victory, Nadal tied Guillermo Vilas’ Open Era record of 53 straight match wins on clay. He also lifted his career record in finals to 16-2, the best winning percentage in Open Era history. Even after the defeat, Federer had an incredible 2006 record of 39-3, with all three losses at the hands of Nadal.

2006 Roland Garros, F. Nadal d. Federer 16 61 64 76(4)
The stakes had never been higher in a Federer-Nadal showdown than when the top two players in the INDESIT ATP Rankings went head-to-head in the Roland Garros final. Playing in his first Roland Garros title match, Federer was attempting to become the first player since Rod Laver in 1969 to win four straight Grand Slam events, and just the third player in history to achieve the feat. Nadal was looking to become the youngest player to defend the Roland Garros title since Bjorn Borg in 1974-75. The Spaniard also was trying to improve his perfect record at Roland Garros to 14-0, his clay court winning streak to 60 matches and to notch his 100th career clay court win.

Federer broke Nadal twice in the first set to race to a 5-0 lead. But then Nadal began to dominate the match with his crushing forehand and Federer struggled with many unforced backhand errors. Nadal did not drop serve again until he tried to close out the match at 5-4 in the fourth set. But he clinched the match soon after in the tie-break. Nadal won his 14th consecutive final (second only in the Open Era to Federer's mark of 24 straight finals won).

Four-time Wimbledon Champion Roger Federer

2006 Wimbledon, F. Federer d. Nadal 60 76(5) 67(2) 63

The pressure was on Federer, as the top seed and three-time defending champion was playing in his favorite surface, riding a 47-match grass court winning streak and facing Nadal in a surface that the Spaniard had not manged to produce good results prior to this year's Wimbledon.

Federer started the match in hot form, breaking Nadal in the second, fourth and sixth games to take the set 6-0. The Spaniard would break Federer in the first game of the second set and serve at 5-4 but fail to close it out. Federer won the second set in a tie-break 7-5 but ended up losing the third set also in a tie-break (7-2). In the fourth set Federer took early control, breaking Nadal at 2-1 and 4-1 and eventually winning the Championships when serving at 5-3.

Federer, who captured his 39th career title and eighth Grand Slam crown, became the sixth man to secure four straight Wimbledon titles.

2006 Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai, SF. Federer d. Nadal 64 75

Federer notched his second straight victory over Nadal, ending with a vicious cross-court winner to become the first player to reach four consecutive finals at a circuit-ending championship since Ivan Lendl. He broke Nadal early in the opening set and clinched it with a second break of the Spaniard after 49 minutes. Nadal got out of jail twice on match points in the tenth game from Federer errors, but could not hold off the World No. 1 as Federer wrapped up the win two games later. The Swiss went on to capture his career-best 12th title by defeating James Blake in the final and finished the season with a 92-5 record.

2007 Masters Series Monte-Carlo, F. Nadal d. Federer 64 64

Federer entered Monte-Carlo on the heels of two surprisingly early exits, seeing his career-high 41-match winning streak come to an end with an opening round loss to Guillermo Canas in Indian Wells and losing to the Argentine again in the fourth round at Miami. He regrouped at the year's first clay court ATP Masters Series event to set up a final rematch with two-time defending champion Nadal. But Nadal, who dropped serve just three times in his five matches, proved too much for the top seed in their first meeting of the 2007 season. He broke Federer's serve once in each set and saved all three break points he faced to capture his eighth career ATP Masters Series shield and extend his Open Era record-winning streak on clay to 67 matches.

Federer & Nadal2007 Masters Series Hamburg, F. Federer d. Nadal 26 62 60

Federer had gone four tournaments without lifting the trophy - the longest title drought of his 172-week reign as ATP World No. 1 - but capped off his week by avenging two years of clay-court torment at the hands of Nadal. He snapped the Spaniard’s 81-match clay winning streak and 16-0 record in clay-court finals, denying Nadal a historic sweep of the clay ATP Masters Series titles as he hoisted the Hamburg trophy for the fourth time.

After a lackluster first set in which he faced break points in his first three services games and lost five consecutive games, Federer changed course and took the attack to his arch rival. He conceded just six points on serve in the second set and seven points on serve in the third set as he hit peak form in his last appearance before Roland Garros.

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 00:50 schreef TheDutchMachiavelli het volgende:
quote van rafa's blog van vandaag:
Besides that there was a funny moment when I was asked about my favorite female player and I said that it was Henin. When I said that she was it because of her tennis and only that, all journalist were laughing, thinking about the double sense. I had to make clear that I just referred to the one which seems the most complete playing tennis. NOTHING ELSE!!!

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Z'n blog is sowieso leuk .

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 11:17 schreef addictivebeat het volgende:
hoe laat begint het?

15.00...

15.00 uur, maar wegens formaliteiten beginnen ze denk ik rond 15.15 uur pas echt te tennissen.

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 10:41 schreef TheDutchMachiavelli het volgende:
Wat zou er deze ochtend en begin vd middag in Federers hoofd omgaan?

Hij zal zich afvragen of hij wel een set weet te pakken vandaag.

Erg warm en zonnig vandaag in Parijs, zal Nadal blij mee zijn.

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 11:20 schreef Piet_Veerman het volgende:

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Hij zal zich afvragen of hij wel een set weet te pakken vandaag.

Erg warm en zonnig vandaag in Parijs, zal Nadal blij mee zijn.

Nee, Federer is daar blij mee. De baan is nu tenminste lekker snel in tegenstelling tot begin van het tournooi toen het supertraag was door alle regen.

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 11:23 schreef TheDutchMachiavell... het volgende:

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Nee, Federer is daar blij mee. De baan is nu tenminste lekker snel in tegenstelling tot begin van het tournooi toen het supertraag was door alle regen.

Nee Nadal is daar blij mee. Zijn topspinballen zullen nu lekker hoog opstuiten.

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Op zondag 10 juni 2007 11:23 schreef TheDutchMachiavelli het volgende:

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Nee, Federer is daar blij mee. De baan is nu tenminste lekker snel in tegenstelling tot begin van het tournooi toen het supertraag was door alle regen.

Als het een slijtageslag wordt (hallo Herbert) in de hitte is er natuurlijk maar 1 winnaar.
En ik kan me vergissen, maar spinballen stuiteren hoger bij droog weer doordat ze lichter zijn dan bij vochtig weer.