Nadal V Federer

[marquess]

I sometimes wonder if I am the only tennis fan in Bangkok? For the second time in just under a month with haven't had a live broadcast of a final between the number one and number two players in the world. I have four sports channels and they couldn't put it on one of them! I realise the the Grand Prix was on, but this all finished at 20.40, but instead of cutting live to the final, which being the best of five sets and between the two top players in the world was bound to go on for sometime. No! We get another football replay, followed by months old wrestling! Thus being left with and hour and a half to show what turned out to be a scintillating five hour match. Who is in charge of programming at UBC and how does his or her brain work? Still I shouldn't go on, I don't want to give offence to the ardent football and wrestling fans!

[paulfr]

I am an avid tennis fan too. I was able to see the final but it was not on at the time the UBC monthly program said it was. It said at 9pm it was to be live but instead there was NBA basketball and then some motorsports at 10pm. However, the next day at 2pm it was on and I recorded it while I was at work. So I did get to see it.

Also, a shortened version was replayed at about 7pm last night.

My peeve is that the listings are not always accurate so I often get up in the middle of the night to make sure my recorder is recording tennis and that it is not 1-2 hours early or late from the listing as it often is.

Anyway, I am sorry you didi not get to see it. It was a classic 5 set match which Fed came back from 1 set down and 3 of the sets were decided with tie breakers.

Fed changed his strategy from Monte Carlo and it was working well for much of the match. Instead of making Nadal run side to side, he hit down the middle cutting off Nadal's angles and then when he could made Nadal run, took the net and won the point. But in the end, again Nadal's defense was just too much and Fed's errors were just one too many. Gotta concede that N is king of clay.

Wait for Wimbledon and US Open ...... Fed will win there.

Cheers

[ProThaiExpat]

Its all in the surface, in my view. The clay court was quite dry and hard and the balls were traveling very fast in minimum humidity. Thus Fed's chances against N were greatly improved, as they are on any true hard surface.

As a "old" natural flat hitter, I found the heavy top spin hitters to be the toughest to deal with and this seems the case with Fed. They both seem to be getting better on their least favorite surfaces, so their matches may become the Agassi v. Sampras classics in the future.

[Rhys]

Dude.. What did you expect. if the Folding Chair Paradorn is not on.. then you don't see tennis on the tube..

Actually.. The classic game.. Rod Laver vs Ken Rosewald.. That was tennis..