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DualMedia · 07-12-2010, 02:18 AM

whats first?

Truc · 07-12-2010, 07:18 AM

He's playing Stuttgart and Hamburg on clay first. He'll start his hardcourt season in Toronto in August.

Senegal · 07-17-2010, 09:36 PM

Not entirely the right thread but a final, eh?

Barely seen more than a set per match this week unfortunately. Hopefully he'll grind out another one tomorrow though.

Puschkin · 07-18-2010, 03:16 PM

Still on clay in Stuttgart

Gael started the final poorly, particularly on serve, injured his ankle towards the end of the first set. Better serving allowed him to go up 2-1 in the second set, but movement was clearly hampered and he retired afterwards.

Cloudygirl · 07-19-2010, 05:28 PM

And he's missing Hamburg cos he's injured just saw that on twitter.

MsTree · 07-19-2010, 09:52 PM

Poor Gael hope he recovers soon!

Puschkin · 08-10-2010, 10:02 PM

Rasheed shaking his head in desperation after Gael squandered a 6-5 lead against Devvarman in Toronto, got rebroken to love.

Puschkin · 08-12-2010, 07:36 PM

Gael is outright dreadful in teh first set against Murray.

dombrfc · 08-16-2010, 12:38 AM

Could have friend and doubles partner Kohly in R2 in cincy.

Puschkin · 08-17-2010, 03:52 PM

1st round Cincy against Falla: Up to now this is

dombrfc · 08-17-2010, 05:25 PM

Pathetic showing.

shadows · 08-21-2010, 03:23 PM

Might sound a bit melodramatic, but I'm starting to think the next couple of months could be make or break for Gael's career.

Right now he's living off points from a strong end to last year, if he doesn't defend at least some of them he will probably drop down in the rankings to around the #30 mark. Given his injury problems, coupled with an awful mental attitude to the game of late, I'd really not be confident about seeing him turn it around :/

Senegal · 08-27-2010, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by shadows

Might sound a bit melodramatic, but I'm starting to think the next couple of months could be make or break for Gael's career.

Right now he's living off points from a strong end to last year, if he doesn't defend at least some of them he will probably drop down in the rankings to around the #30 mark. Given his injury problems, coupled with an awful mental attitude to the game of late, I'd really not be confident about seeing him turn it around :/

I've sort of felt this way for a while (in regards to this season in general), but you could turn it around and say well maybe a drop down the rankings would be something that would motivate him and get a bit more fire in him as well I think. He's too difficult to predict at any rate, I think if anyone on this forum were to try and plan out his remaining career path they'd have an abysmal success rate.

shadows · 09-08-2010, 09:17 PM

Well, he might have picked up some valuable points so I guess we can ignore my worries on ranking for a while yet but...

...He has to reevaluate what on earth he's doing with his tennis. Even given the conditions, his performance has just been abysmal today.

soulage · 10-09-2010, 10:40 AM

He's in final of Tokyo vs Nadal. His best tournament of the year outside DC. Strange to see that gael will be i think the n1 french guy in the ranking next week but in menstennisforums one of the french with less comments