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       Cuckoo  Crazy  Commentators
       By: thetruth Date: March 26, 2014, 6:07 am
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       Is it me, or are the majority of these commentators  crazy? The
       things  they say make absolutely no sense to  me. I don't get
       their logic.
       Watching the Rafa-Hewitt match they described Rafa's game plan
       as simple, but effective.
       If it was simple, he wouldn't have spent the last decade in the
       #1 and #2 position in the world. What they don't understand is
       that Nadal doesn't play by instinct, he plays like a chess
       master. No one understands the geometry of the court better than
       Nadal. That's his strength. He maneuvers his opponent into
       difficult positions on the court by either running them ragged
       or making them try go-for-broke shots.
       His game has been analyzed for ten years by sports analysts,
       players, coaches, etc. and no one has been able to put him away
       indefinitely. None of the other players lead him in H2H because
       he plays extremely smart, low-risk, high-reward tennis, whereas
       many of the other players play high-risk, low reward tennis.
       And when an opponents finally figures out what he is doing, they
       may win some matches from him, before he turns it around again.
       There was a time, when he was quite a bit younger that he could
       be hit off the court by the likes of Berdych and Blake, but that
       only lasted for three matches in Berdych's case and the same for
       James. del Potro has done it once or twice, but overall the H2H
       shows that del Potro's wins are few and far between. Raonic
       can't do anything with him, and if he gets his racket on Isner's
       serves, he wins the match there too.
       So how can his game be so simple, when only Djokovic had any
       sustained success against him, and then turned around after 2011
       and lost three major matches against him?
       The problem? They are too limited and unable to incorporate
       different perspectives. They only see one type of "talent" and
       deem everything else as odd. Before Dolgopolov beat Rafa, they
       kept saying his game was "funky." They couldn't see the talent,
       they kept saying it was "unorthodox." Same with Murray. They've
       found plenty to criticize his game over the years, but never saw
       the strategy that goes into the way that he plays. Evidently,
       it's pretty because he's been at the top of the game for a long
       time.
       OTOH, they constantly rave about the more "talented" players
       like Tsonga, Gasquet, and Gulbis. All of whom have zero majors
       between them.
       Headscratching, indeed.
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