View Poll Results: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the top?
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Yes, and he will cement his reputation as the best player ever
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No, he will forever be two weeks short of the record
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07-08-2012, 11:46 PM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
funny the majority said no before today and now suddenly yes is barely the majority 
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07-09-2012, 12:36 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
Yes Federer!
Dedicated to SetSampras and Fireballer. WAG.
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07-09-2012, 01:12 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
I bookmarked page 29 for some reason 4 months ago: http://www.menstennisforums.com/show...193403&page=29
So many nonbelivers in one single page....
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Originally Posted by GSMnadal
Big problem for Federer is that he needs to win a slam, and that ain't happening.
He can win all the Basels and Rotterdams he wants, if Nadal and Djokovic are going to split those 8000/4800 points between them, there's not much he can do.
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again and again... Fed will never get to be #1 AGAIN. too many delusional people here. just, get over it. when did Fed win his last slam? please.
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it's all really silly, lol. the many fans of federer have to start to be serious, come on people.
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how long are people going to keep deluding themselves that fed is going to win any more slams? i guess you can't just expect someone to stop being insane..that's why they are insane.
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Originally Posted by Sunset of Age
I think a vast majority of (sane) Fed fans already realize that the chances of this to happen are around 0.0000001%.
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Thank god someone was insane enought to do his homework on tennis history to know tennis is not constant, but changes all the time:¨
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Far more incredible stuff has happened in the past, like who expected Connors to still win a slam when he was beeing dominated by the 5 years younger Borg and 10 years younger Mcenroe 79-81 and hit the age of 30 in 1982 without having won a slam in 4 years. Go take a look what happened in 1982....
How about Sampras going 2 years without winning a single title and looking like a corpse out there when beeing destroyed by the Hewitts and lesser known players at that time, just to win Usopen 2002?
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07-09-2012, 01:28 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
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I bookmarked page 29 for some reason 4 months ago: http://www.menstennisforums.com/show...193403&page=29
So many nonbelivers in one single page....
Thank god someone was insane enought to do his homework on tennis history to know tennis is not constant, but changes all the time:¨
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07-09-2012, 01:30 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
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You missed the point of my post... |
Sorry if my sarcasm detector might have been down, all I remember was a strange discussion we had about sillyness.
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07-09-2012, 01:33 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
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Sorry if my sarcasm detector might have been down, all I remember was a strange discussion we had about sillyness.
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It was an homage to Alex999 posting style. He was in a phase when most of his posts sounded like that and included the word silly. |
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07-09-2012, 01:33 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
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Conversely, if Nadal and Nole slip up at any of the Majors, and Federer doesn't, they can say goodbye to #1.
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07-09-2012, 01:42 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
Never thought it possible by the end of USO 2011. Truth.
He said "I can get back to number #1" at the beginning of the year and I thought in your dream. Shame on me.
He pulled Woziacki since September 2011 (playing more tournaments) and now .......... GOATness more and more confirmed.
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07-09-2012, 01:42 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
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Very very unlikely to happen. Did people see Fed these last 2 weeks?! He was atrocious. No two ways about it. Says a lot about Del Po that he couldn't beat a Fed playing like this. Goffin, Ungur & Mahut took sets off the guy - think about that.
He wasn't good in Rome either - just had a good draw to the semis - titans like Berlocq, nearly retired JCF and Seppi was a great Masters draw. Looking at his level of play he has not been anywhere close to slam winning form - the biggest worry has been his serve. Is he suddenly going to recover and have enough to beat the likes of Nadal/Djoko/Berdych/Tsonga/Del Po/Murray on grass? The only way I see him winning is by again having a LOT of luck with the draw - with the serve & FH as they were in the semi vs Novak I can't see him beating even Berdych/Tsonga/Del Po, let alone fellow top 4 players.
Frankly no way is he anywhere close to Nadal & Djoko's level right now - they've got to the last 4 slam finals, Nadal the last 5. So if by some miracle he did get to no.1 in the next month it would be quite laughable - no players would actually think he's the best player in the world no matter what the ranking said.
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07-09-2012, 01:45 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
Feds truly needed All the Stars in Heavens to align - Nadal bolting out early, himself beating Djokovic and grabbing the title, in this case involving a very good Murray - and somehow it indeed happened.
All of this while he looked rather dire in the earlier stages of the tournament, being bogged down by back spasms in both the match against Benneteau (  ) as well as in the match against Malisse (  ), who, in all honesty, should have boinked him out of the tournament. Not that far off from a 0.00001% chance I'd say.
Can't see what's so wrong with the massive number of posters who claimed it was unlikely to happen - including me.
But bloody hell it feels so nice to be so VERY WRONG about this this time! 
Roger Federer - The Return of the King 
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07-09-2012, 01:47 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
Apparently this is already a done deal. |
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07-09-2012, 01:53 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
He played really well at quarter, semi and final. Almost vintage Fed. Serve not great at final but bh, net points and overheads cohesive. He's been pretty calm this whole year; making less easy mistakes/shanks. He improved a lot after started working with Paul Annacone!
Fed has the most beautiful but still very powerful game of tennis.
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07-09-2012, 02:08 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
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all those are precious gems... 
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yeah... if one ever just simply look at the history of world no 1s...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ingles_players
it's far more common for the top players to constantly get back into #1 and trade places with other greats at that time... than to not get back at #1 at all... and considering federer just needs to get back to #1 to match and break the record... statistically it is more likely to get back to #1 than now...
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07-09-2012, 02:11 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
It would be funny if Novak played and won Newport just to stop Fed beating the Sampras record.
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07-09-2012, 02:48 AM
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Re: Will Federer regain the #1 spot and break Sampras's record for most weeks at the
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It would be funny if Novak played and won Newport just to stop Fed beating the Sampras record.
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I doubt Novak would even win Newport, those are very fast grasscourts and Djokovic would face a bunch of those old guard grasscourt specialists and big servers.
He has only won 1 grasscourt tournament for a reason, you know...
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