View Poll Results: Which of these compulsory 1000 level events would you drop
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05.03.2012 - Hard - BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA
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7.30% |
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23.03.2011 - Hard - Sony Ericsson Open, Miami, USA
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10.95% |
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01.05.2011 - Clay - Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain
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10.22% |
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08.05.2011 - Clay - Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy
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7.30% |
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08.08.2011 - Hard - Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada
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4.38% |
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14.08.2011 - Hard - Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati, USA
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20 |
14.60% |
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09.10.2011 - Hard - Shanghai Rolex Masters, Shanghai, China
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45 |
32.85% |
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07.11.2011 - Hard - BNP Paribas Masters - Paris, France
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17 |
12.41% |
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07-13-2005, 03:14 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by Neely
If you read above you would have noticed that I was saying this would require more grasscourt tournaments to be installed at the expense of clay and hardcourt ones.
The perfect Tour calendar would be: 25% of the play(weeks) for each of the four surfaces.
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I am just so used to your grass court propaganda and comments about the slowing of the surface, yet not complaining about the changes on clay. Perfect calendar would be less tournaments.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
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Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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07-13-2005, 03:19 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by GeorgeWHitler
I am just so used to your grass court propaganda and comments about the slowing of the surface, yet not complaining about the changes on clay. Perfect calendar would be less tournaments.
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Yes okay, less tournaments. But not the majority played on two main surfaces, clay and hardcourt, then followed by indoor and with only a few events on grass the whole year.
25% clay - 25% hardcourt - 25% indoor - 25% grass |
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07-13-2005, 03:21 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by Neely
Yes okay, less tournaments. But not the majority played on two main surfaces, clay and hardcourt, then followed by indoor and with only a few events on grass the whole year.
25% clay - 25% hardcourt - 25% indoor - 25% grass
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It won't happen, a fact due to simple maintenance issues of grass courts. There'd logically have to be cuts in the calendar, but that won't happen any time soon.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
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Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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07-13-2005, 03:21 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
i put it like that cos there's only 4 grass tourns one can possibly play (well 3 for most people) and one for the doofusus (Newport  )
another suggestion could be
6 clay, 6 hard and any 6 combination of (indoors and grass) which would be better.
re-doing the calendar is fine but its never gonna work especially as the slams wont budge.
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07-13-2005, 03:25 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
Newport should only be a half a point, as for the Slams if one of them changed the dates, then the others would depending on which Slam it was.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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07-13-2005, 03:27 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by GeorgeWHitler
It won't happen, a fact due to simple maintenance issues of grass courts.
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They can play one month on grass, why couldn't they play for two months on this surface. |
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07-13-2005, 03:29 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by Neely
They can play one month on grass, why couldn't they play for two months on this surface.
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What, play a whole month in Australia on grass, then move elsewhere?
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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07-13-2005, 03:31 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by GeorgeWHitler
What, play a whole month in Australia on grass, then move elsewhere?
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that would mean moving back to Kooyong 
cant see that happening...........
cant see anyone else having grass courts 
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07-13-2005, 03:31 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by GeorgeWHitler
What, play a whole month in Australia on grass, then move elsewhere?
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Why only in Australia? 15 years ago there was no Gerry Weber Open facility. Look how easy it can be to install a new and successful grasscourt tournament in Europe. |
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07-13-2005, 03:34 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by Neely
Why only in Australia? 15 years ago there was no Gerry Weber Open facility. Look how easy it can be to install a new and successful grasscourt tournament in Europe.
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Number of grasscourts for one, and now it's not practical to go around and building the most expensive surface to maintain everywhere.
It's not the 70s anymore.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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07-13-2005, 03:34 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by Neely
Why only in Australia? 15 years ago there was no Gerry Weber Open facility. Look how easy it can be to install a new and successful grasscourt tournament in Europe.
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they only did that cos they wanted to rival Queens in prep for Wimbledon.
if Wimbledon moved back a week or two then you would need more grass events.
cant see them playing more events in UK Manchester (capital of rain) comes back
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Good luck to all my favs in 2013 especially
*Mikhail Youzhny*Igor Andreev*Nikolay Davydenko*Dmitry Tursunov*Evgeny Korolev
*Haas*Ferrero*Federer*Nalbandian*
Berdych*Tsonga*Nishikori*Chardy
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07-13-2005, 03:37 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by TheBoiledEgg
they only did that cos they wanted to rival Queens in prep for Wimbledon.
if Wimbledon moved back a week or two then you would need more grass events.
cant see them playing more events in UK Manchester (capital of rain) comes back |
They should play one in Aberdeen.
I have been to 2 training sessions for DC this week and I have already had enough of that fodder infested cabbage patch already.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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07-13-2005, 03:41 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by GeorgeWHitler
Number of grasscourts for one, and now it's not practical to go around and building the most expensive surface to maintain everywhere.
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Then they should play at least more indoor events and get rid of some of the clay and hardcourt ones. |
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07-13-2005, 03:43 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by Neely
Then they should play at least more indoor events and get rid of some of the clay and hardcourt ones.
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There are enough indoor events as it is, takes away many of the natural factors that are associated with the game.
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“ On Nadal bumping him on the changeover, Rosol said: "It's ok, he wanted to take my concentration; I knew he would try something".
Wilander on Dimitrov - "He has mind set on imitating Federer and yes it looks good. But he has no idea what to do on the court".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Filo V.
I definitely would have preferred Gaba winning as he needs the points much more, but Jan would have beaten him anyway. I expect Hajek to destroy Machado, like 6-1 6-2.
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Machado wins 6-2 6-1
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07-13-2005, 03:45 PM
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Re: SHOULD SOME CLAY COURT TOURNAMENTS BE TAKEN FROM ATP SCHEDULE
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Originally Posted by GeorgeWHitler
There are enough indoor events as it is, takes away many of the natural factors that are associated with the game.
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If not more grass events (natural factor) can be installed, there are still not enough to guarantee the best possible and fairest balance between the remaining three: clay, indoor, hardcourt |
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