Massu defeats Blake 7-6(3), 7-5

:woohoo: what a great win for Nico!!!! :rocker:

Nico has recovered his fighting spirit :fiery:

VAMOOOS NICO!!!

James oh James!!! What a choker you are :rolleyes: Up 5-3 in the first set, then 5-2 in the second and still managed to lose... :o

Congrats Nico, nice fight!!

Great win!!

What a choke by the biggest choker of them all. I think he had 40-0 in the
1st set when serving for it then lead 5-2 in the 2nd to lose 5-7. Trademark James.

:woohoo: :woohoo:

finally a great win, Nico :devil: :cool:











James :wavey:

James :sad: Choking again? :smash:

Congrats to Nico. Good win for him. :hatoff:

that was bad james....real bad.

In the 1st set James had 5-4 and 30-0, he hit a clear ace and was cheated :(. It was 30-15 instead of 40-0.It is embarassing that Hawk Eye is not used.

I admit I thought it would go to a third set, but I prefer to think of it as Nico not giving up more than James choking :lol: They both had trouble holding serve. :awww: And clay is Nico's best surface, and not James' of course. :p

I'm a fan of James, but he deserved to lose today. Serving for set 3 times and getting broken in all 3 cases ... :help:

I'm a fan of James, but he deserved to lose today. Serving for set 3 times and getting broken in all 3 cases ... :help:

I thought he played well and should have taken it to a decider at the very least, it was the best I have seen him play for a good while. Its the choking thats holding him back... :(

NICOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO¡¡¡¡¡

:bounce:

If he hadn't been cheated in the 1 st set he would have won this match.

If he hadn't been cheated in the 1 st set he would have won this match.

:retard:

I thought he played well and should have taken it to a decider at the very least, it was the best I have seen him play for a good while. Its the choking thats holding him back... :(

Yes, he played well, especially given the fact that it was on clay, but he was absolutely hopeless in the most important points :(

Once a choker always a choker.

bravo nico!!!

:woohoo:


Great Nico! :woohoo: :bounce:

GRANDE NICO !!!!!:worship:

James :tape:

If he hadn't been cheated in the 1 st set he would have won this match.

This excuse is original.

Nice to see Nico win a match....Congrats

At least he has his form back, but I guess the choking will never go away :unsure:
Its never dull being his fan thats for sure!! :angel:

Why would James choke against Massu? :confused:

Good job for Nico to hang in and win this one! Bien hecho...:woohoo:

James was roughly cheated at 5-4 30-0.

Blake :smash: :help:

"Don't worry, I'll be in the semis after I win my round robin group...um..."
James Blake

GRANDE NICO!!!!:cool:

Congrats to Nico!!!

jimmy sucks this season

Great win Nico :worship: :woohoo: :banana:

nico rulezz

pity he would lose tomorrow :shrug:

Well I'm sure he has to be somewhere to accept an award for his "nice guy" image somewhere and then maybe he can talk about what a nice guy he is to the press.

lemme roll my eyes.

Very few players can shove their opponent around on their worst surface for the better part of two sets only to see their game completely fall apart when it was time to close the deal.

Very few players can shove their opponent around on their worst surface for the better part of two sets only to see their game completely fall apart when it was time to close the deal.

I don't think you all are giving Nico any credit. :lol:

Nico had chances to break James on numerous occasions (and didn't take advantage of them).

It was a break-fest for both of them.

I didn't see the match, but their stats were fairly close.

I highly doubt that James shoved Nico around the court. :shrug:

what a fight nicooooooooooooooo :woohoo:

keep on fighting OLYMPIC WARRIOR!!!!! :fiery:

Hey All,

I agree with the ones that said that James deserved to lose because he didn't win. What is a choke exactly - by the way?

Naturally - he didn't play the important points well. And you know why? His serve needs improvement. I've been saying that for three years. Last year it became better, but over all - it was not together because his seconds would still hold him back in many points. I need to take a look at James' serve % so far this year. I forgot - but my God - he just can't hold serve when it matters. I suppose that could be considered a choke - but then again - one has to look at the surface. If he had been playing on hard courts or grass - he probably would have done better - but I don't care what surface it is - one has to learn how to hold their own. Hold you own darn serve for goodness sake.

It doesn't seem as if he practices enough getting the first serve in. He needs to take a little bit off of it and train his mind to prepare for the return game. He didn't play that bad today - although the score board doesn't show winners and errors. Anyone got those stats. My bad - I just got in and only read the first page of this thread. But still........................................

Another thing he and anyone else deserves to do is fall out of the top ten if they don't play well enough on all surfaces. I could care less if James fell out. To do and be better one has to know better - I always say.

I have to give it to Rafa - because at least he knows that he wants to be an all surface player. These Americans have the chops to achieve on clay - but they are perpetrating that since they've already been dismissed on it - then they'll just wait on the other seasons. Bunk!

Anyway - James got beat by one clay court specialist today - but he and Mardy took out two in doubles. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

"KEEP IT UP JAMES AND MARDY" "CONGRATS NICO"

Expected win by Nico. :banana: Great fight from him.

Nice choke James.:lol:

if i was his coach, one day out of nowhere I'd go at him with my belt and beat him to tears.

i'd then tell him that from now on every time he f**ks up he's getting the belt, and he better think about that when he's letting guys just take matches from him at no cost.

that's sure to scare the little girl right out of him

I saw some highlights and Nico was very fast around the court.
James was too in a hurry to hit today, netted a lot of easy balls

James cocked this up, oh well it's always the same with him.

Huge upset.

Hopefully his confidence is down :bounce:

James wtf :mad:
buy a brain plz :rolleyes:

That is wonderful news! :)