Ljubicic Salutes Nadal & Federer
felangey
tennis will come eventually, for now Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal remain
the undisputed top players in the game.
In explaining their dominance, Ljubicic highlighted their absolute
consistency when they step on court. "When they play, they play absolutely
their best, and it's really difficult to beat them. It makes a difference at
the end of the day that they never give up on a single point. They are
always in great shape when they have to be in the big tournaments. They are
able to compete everyday and really give their absolute best when they are
on the court, which I don't think was always the case with past champions.
"I always felt with [Pete] Sampras and [Andre] Agassi they had two or three
tournaments where they were not good at all and they would lose first round.
That's not happening with these two guys. That's why they've been up there
for such a long time, because it's really difficult to win one single game
against them."
Australian Open champion and World No. 3 Novak Djokovic is one player
threatening to break the Federer-Nadal stronghold, and confidently
dispatched Federer in straight sets in the semi-finals in Melbourne. The
31-year-old Ljubicic insists, though, that the Serbian must maintain his
focus if he is to dislodge the Top 2 in the South African Airways 2011 ATP
Rankings.
"That's what happened in Australia, Djokovic just played better than
Federer. If he can do that five times a year then he's going to be No. 1 in
the world. But otherwise he's still going to be behind and trying to get
them. Now it's a question of how motivated he is, whether he can keep going
like that, because for Federer and Nadal it's natural to be focussed and
stay there.
"A changing of the guard will come eventually," the Croatian continued.
"Roger is 30 years old this year; he's not going to be there forever. I
still think that Roger can win Slams and I still think that if he managed to
win a Slam this year, or a couple of Masters 1000, he would still be in the
Top 2 or 3. He's not going to disappear all of a sudden. But definitely
Djokovic, [Andy] Murray and these guys will start to be more difficult for
Nadal and Federer.
"It's just nature. I don't think it's Roger's fault or something that
Djokovic and Murray are doing better than other guys. It's just natural that
that change will come eventually."
TT
Frankly I'm not all that interested to read the whole thing through to
learn hpw many different different ways Ljube can suck Roger's c/d*ck.
RzR
not nearly as much as you can suck nads
Sakari Lund
>World No. 15 Ivan Ljubicic believes that while a changing of the guard in
>tennis will come eventually, for now Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal remain
>the undisputed top players in the game.
>
>In explaining their dominance, Ljubicic highlighted their absolute
>consistency when they step on court. "When they play, they play absolutely
>their best, and it's really difficult to beat them. It makes a difference at
>the end of the day that they never give up on a single point. They are
>always in great shape when they have to be in the big tournaments. They are
>able to compete everyday and really give their absolute best when they are
>on the court, which I don't think was always the case with past champions.
>
>"I always felt with [Pete] Sampras and [Andre] Agassi they had two or three
>tournaments where they were not good at all and they would lose first round.
>That's not happening with these two guys. That's why they've been up there
>for such a long time, because it's really difficult to win one single game
>against them."
He makes good points here.
Joe Ramirez
Agassi himself said essentially the same thing when he was comparing
Federer and Sampras.
Sakari Lund
Having read the Agassi book, "they had two or three tournaments where
they were not good at all" sounds like a serious understatement...