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#481 Cukuru Tazaki

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Posted 23 March 2015 - 19:53

Pozvacemo Suzanu Mancic da pomogne oko orosavanja, ona ima iskustva sa tim



#482 Kido from Junkovac

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 01:53

http://www.atpworldt...r-Djokovic.aspx

 

Eh, kad bi vise teniskih novinara ovako znalo da analizira kao O'Shonesy.



#483 McLeod

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 12:53

Odlican clanak, procitao sam i ja juce, zaboravih da postujem. Stvarno odlican, preporuka svima da procitaju.



#484 taliesin

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 14:01

Evo jednog komentara sa tennis.com-a koji je po mom misljenju takodje odlican, tim pre sto dolazi od "obicnog" gledaoca:

 

Many a Monday morning, this Novak Djokovic fan has awoken the same way that I went to sleep, either happy, or sad. Either eager to "Extra extra, read all about it", or sluggishly making coffee and deciding to avoid all articles on said Final. Today I made coffee with a spring in my step. Today I was happy and eager, despite Sports Center having a good laugh at No1e's hand shaking while he sipped his beverage of choice, last night. I was pleased after their delight, that the World's No. 1, got the last laugh. Too visceral of me? Too eager of me (like the coffee I brewed this morning), to want to give a stiff middle finger to all who chuckled at No1e's shaky episode? No. Nor do I care about the remarks that follow today, or have in the past, the past 8 years, or 2 days ago. While it might have been a perfect Monday for the "Anybody But Djokovic" crowd "if" the 2nd set choke, got even chokier in the 3rd, and the headlines were different, it was not, and perfection was averted. This time. The moniker "Chokevic" would be in full flight, not his game or the victory. You could be diplomatic about the 2nd set, and the crowd, as No1e was post-match, and conclude that it is what it is. Or, you could call it for what is was, as Gulbis once did in a post-match presser: "They clap wildly when you double-fault; What is that?!", rude beyond belief. 

With the narrative "The Era Of Djokovic" being applied to this 2015 tennis season, the brush back pitches from his detractors are rampant. The response to anyone who embraces this narrative, or anyone who dares defend his (No1e) predicament of having to battle not only Roger, but the crowd as well, is deemed "victimology", and for Chrissakes is it getting old! I beg to differ, for after 8 long years of this 3rd wheel treatment of a fine Champion, and a World No. 1 during these last 3, it's the disrespect that is getting old, getting tiresome, and getting inexplicably sad. I know I know, it's Roger, but with the crowd helping this greatest of all time yesterday, and at Wimbledon 2014, isn't it Roger who faltered in both, and not No1e? Glad that with risking a pie in the face, No1e still pointed out that while the nerves got to him in both matches, so too did the nerves get to Roger. It happens. They're BOTH human, after all.

Over on the main ESPN tennis page, Howard Bryant penned an article largely emphasizing the fact that Novak Djokovic will never be loved, and that "maybe" just maybe, he finally gets it, as do his fans. I see a crowd who is overwhelmingly not rooting for you, as a giant bully, a mob if you will, but you can't walk away as advised. Instead you either silence them, or thew chew you up, then spit you out. Me, I would start crying, then off I'd go, stretched-out on a gurney inconsolable. Don't have to wonder "why" these guys, win or lose, are our heroes. No1e is my hero.

 

Another can of worms, is whether to watch the match on ESPN, or on TTC; Luckily I have both. After the original/LIVE broadcast of this Final which was featured on ESPN, ESPN promptly pulled the plug and went to Basketball, choosing not to show the trophy presentation. TTC, which aired this match later last last, showed the entire ceremony. I guess Howard Bryant, that even ESPN, who signs your paychecks, isn't a fan of Novak Djokovic either...