Comments on: Four by four in slams http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/ Personal blog of Jessica Zafra, author of The Collected Stories and the Twisted series Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Ronigurl http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-71453 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:49:58 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=20707#comment-71453 Watch this: http://www.nadalnews.com/2012/09/26/rafa-learns-to-bluff/#.UGQQ_8FhjTo Rafa trying to act and bluff his way. “I’m not Rafa” hihihihihihi

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By: iceberglettuce http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-71181 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:54:52 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=20707#comment-71181 Raonic looks promising out of all the young ones if he keeps on improving. Del Portro has been slowly coming back to form after his wrist injury back in 2010 and I would love to see him challenging for slams.

Interestingly, it’s been 29 years since a Frenchman has won a grand slam. Tsonga and the other French headcases (Simon, Gasquet, Monfils, etc.) really have bad juju.

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By: tophercraze http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-71177 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:28:36 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=20707#comment-71177 yeah, the symmetry of the top4 winning their slams in the order of their rankings is an OC’s fantasy come true. adrian monk would have loved this. as for the up and comers, really hard to choose one who have a good chance of breaking through in a grand slam against the current top 4. Isner? Raonic? Harrison? Dolpologov? can’t imagine any of them winning over say djoko or murray on hard courts or over fed on grass. let’s not even consider them ever winning on clay, even if we take out nadal from the picture. berdych, tsonga, del potro, or ferrer are the only ones outside of the top 4 who have realistic albeit slim chances of breaking through but these guys are hardly spring chickens themselves.

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By: Poli http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-71174 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:27:31 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=20707#comment-71174 Murray winning a slam is so sad.

No one truly stands out at the moment for me. Dimitrov is still all hype. Tomic can be fun to watch, but is generally useless. Harrison has a pretty nice all-around game. From the few juniors matches I saw recently, it looks like we’re up for a bunch of uninspiring Djokovic 2.0 grinders. Terrible. I blame the homogenization of court surfaces.

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By: jessicazafra http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-71172 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:43:20 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=20707#comment-71172 In reply to cjspotless.

The top 4 are late career or mid-career so we should be looking for the next batch of champs. Who’s coming up?

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By: cjspotless http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-71171 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:24:31 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=20707#comment-71171 Thank you Andy, for beating Nole. I really don’t like the guy.

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By: iceberglettuce http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2012/09/11/four-by-four-in-slams/comment-page-1/#comment-71165 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:00:45 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=20707#comment-71165 Great summer for British sport!

Quality of play wasn’t the best but it was a good final for sheer drama. Federer is getting close to 300 weeks total at number 1. I miss Nadal and his rivalry with Roger.

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