kam77 wrote:bitty41 wrote:kam77 wrote:I'm not bashing soccer or hockey. I appreciate soccer very much. I'm not a hockey fan but i never said anything bad about it. I just think Tennis has changed from 20-25 years ago. I used to watch every slam. Nowadays the rage is tall players with booming serves using hi-tech racquets designed to get the most juice out of their serves. So what has happened to the sport as the court dimensions have stayed the same while the players have gotten bigger and using more powerful equipment? We've lost the beauty of the long rally. We aren't seeing opponents break serve. If each player holds serve and the match must be won by two games, its possible for these long matches to happen. Something like this wouldn't have happened against an Agassi or a Connors. Those guys could return serve. Then again, they never really had to play against serving machines like Isner.
Yeah i applaud their stamina. Not much else to say.
How many tennis players ever get the opportunity to play at Wimbledon? I completely disagree with your take on this match in the sense that both players could have thrown in the towel and just accepted defeat. So for me I don't care if this Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal or Joe Schomoe vs Joe Schomoe 2 it' still an achievement. Matches like this reminds the rest of us why we're sitting in front of a computer and not smashing a ball at Wimbledon.
If its about Stamina, i'll go with a 12 round boxing match. Watching that much tennis is absurd. Y'all aint tennis FANS are you? Did anyone here watch the match, the whole thing? Man up! Y'all just repeating what they told you on sportcenter.
I'll man up. It's my home slam, I watched it. This wasn't via SS for me, it was live. Let me put it to you this way Kam. In today's game the undisputed king of the serve is Ivo Karlovic. He's 6'8 and puts it anywhere he wants. So why isn't he the no 1 player in the world? Because sport, like life has an ebb and flow and you can't keep such a high standard up for an entire game. You have to adapt. But these two guys, they held serve for 137 games in a row!!! The kind of physical stamina and mental intensity required to do that is unfathomable to normal people like you and me. You might have a point that this wasn't classic tennis in a Fed, Rafa, Murrey, NoDjo kind of way but what it was was an incredible display of tennis nonetheless. Yesterday, these two guys kept it up for 7 hours, with 3 minute breaks every 3 games and not one comfort break between them. That's 5 hours longer the a basketball game, hockey game or soccer game. It's the equivalent of about 100 rounds of boxing (with breaks every three rounds). It was like Ray Allen and Reggie Miller playing horse for 685 rounds and not missing. I truly can't get how you don't see the sporting genius in this. If it was so easy, then how come it has never come close to being done before?
I don't watch 11 hrs a of tennis in a year, but it's like two dudes ging into extra innings throwing a no hitter. It's boring but historical achievement to behold.
Isner crapped out today. Lost in straight sets.
Nalod wrote:I don't watch 11 hrs a of tennis in a year, but it's like two dudes ging into extra innings throwing a no hitter. It's boring but historical achievement to behold.
Yes, a historical footnote.
