re: The Unofficial 2015 Australian Open Thread

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No. Nadal is one of the greatest of all time and rarely loses. My complaint with him is he has almost never had a loss where injury hasn't been the excuse.

And I've seen him whip Fed enough to know he's just owns Fed. I'm talking about those tournaments where he comes in with an injury issue and his camp starts dropping the injury excuses before the tournament starts. He either runs through everyone like a buzz saw and his camp acts shocked because he was soooo injured before the tournament or goes through more than 1/2 of the draw with ease, but then has that one tough match and all of a sudden, he starts looking uncomfortable on the court and the "injury" becomes the excuse.

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I think your theory about his camp dropping injury stuff for the purpose of using them as excuses if he eventually loses is ridiculous.

I think your theory that "he has almost never had a loss where injury hasn't been the excuse" is even more ridiculous.

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I think your theory about his camp dropping injury stuff for the purpose of using them as excuses if he eventually loses is ridiculous. I think your theory that "he has almost never had a loss where injury hasn't been the excuse" is even more ridiculous.

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That's fair.

But I think Nadal's constant time violations are ridiculous.

I think Uncle Toni's comments that Nadal is being unfairly targeted with warnings by umpires for time violations is ridiculous. Rules are rules - follow them.

I think Nadals and Toni's complaints about how long the hard court season is are ridiculous.

Same with their complaints tat it's not fair that the World Tour Final is played on indoor hard courts.

Same for Uncle Toni saying he wished Federer and Djoker would get injured.

The same for one of the greatest of all time constantly getting coached during matches by Toni.

And, most of all, the injuries. No, I don't think he's faked ALL of his injuries, but many are suspect given the frequency he has called for medical time outs when the opponent has the advantage. And then there are the excuses that follows in the days after losses. It has happened a lot with Nadal. He now has this reputation and its for this reason that the Australian Open fans started to boo him vs Wawrinka. Maybe his back was truly injured in that match, but the fans simply tired of it and they showed their displeasure with his actions -people are tired of him playing the injury card when he's down.

Why did Melbourne switch from Rebound Ace to the slower surface few years ago?

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When shade would come across the court, the ball would react differently in the shaded area than in the part with sun," Tiley said. "That's because the court was retaining some heat, and it was a thicker rubber underneath."

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Nadal has Rosol in the 3rd round.

Bahgdatis or Gabashvili? Playing a parylay, want to throw in Marco for the solid odds.

Is it on espn2?

And goodbye Ivanovic.

Nadal rolling it seems

How's are his knees holding up?