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IncrediBale · 10-07-2012, 06:14 PM

Next tournament for Nole is Shanghai Masters

His draw:

R1: BYE
R2: Andujar or Dimitrov
R3: Kohlschreiber
QF: Tipsarevic
SF: Berdych/Tsonga
F: Federer/Murray

Good luck Nole

Win the whole thing and hope Fed looses before QF so you will be n.1

R2: H2H against Andujar 2:0 (last win Indian Wells 6-0, 6-7(5), 6-2 )
Dimitrov never played together.

R3 Feliciano Lopez 4:0 for Nole

dropped just set against him

QF:Tommy Haas 3:2 for Nole

SF: Berdych

Noleta · 10-07-2012, 06:37 PM

Thanks KingDom,good luck

Ajde Nole

Lee · 10-07-2012, 11:35 PM

All finalists this week are in Nole's half with 3 of them in Tsonga's quarter

Although Murray is in Fed's half, but big hitters like Tsonga, Raonic and Berdych are in Nole's half. The good news is Raonic and Berdych are in Tsonga's quarter so Nole will only need to face one

kalisita · 10-08-2012, 03:02 AM

Ajde Nole!

Yolita · 10-08-2012, 03:30 AM

Ajde Nole!

shuhrat · 10-08-2012, 08:17 AM

So it's Dimitrov. Definitely an intriguing match-up. Hopefully he's ready for the challenge from the youngster mentally and physically.

Idemo, Nole!

minh · 10-09-2012, 11:19 AM

Always stay focused and positive, Nole. Good luck

Yolita · 10-09-2012, 09:46 PM

I won't be able to watch the match (it's at about 3am for me).

I don't expect Novak to be troubled by Grigor's game...Grigor can play really well, but doesn't have the game to troubled Novak, in my opinion.

I hope Novak starts strongly and doesn't play more than he has to.

Go for the title, Novak.

shuhrat · 10-10-2012, 09:11 AM

Again it took him less than an hour!
W/UE: Nole 18-18, Grigor 4(?)-23(?), only lost five points on serve!
Judging from the numbers, while he was very dominant on serve, it probably wasn't the cleanest match, which is somewhat expected from Nole anyway. Good job.

IncrediBale · 10-10-2012, 03:30 PM

So R3 against Feliciano Lopez H2H 4:0 for Nole

dropped just set against him

Lopez defeated P Kohlschreiber 63 64

Lee · 10-10-2012, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by shuhrat

Again it took him less than an hour!
W/UE: Nole 18-18, Grigor 4(?)-23(?), only lost five points on serve!
Judging from the numbers, while he was very dominant on serve, it probably wasn't the cleanest match, which is somewhat expected from Nole anyway. Good job.

18 UEs?

he statistian is a bit stingy.

Anyway, Nole broke early in each set and since he had no problem with his own serve, he's been pretty aggressive in his return games and had no patience in setting up points and tried to hit a winner in a not so perfect position. That's probably the reason for the UE counts.

star · 10-10-2012, 04:15 PM

I looked at the scores and see that R.Federer is playing. I thought he was skipping this tournament.

Anyway, I'm glad he's playing. Hopefully, Nole will triumph and hold up the trophy.

I also hope that they won't force Nole to dance. I guess the organizers don't understand that it's kind of treating him like some sort of trained monkey.

Lee · 10-10-2012, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by star

I looked at the scores and see that R.Federer is playing. I thought he was skipping this tournament.

Fed is desperately trying to hold onto the #1 ranking to have 6 years ending as #1 even not consecutively. This is the only tournament he can gain points in ranking.

star · 10-10-2012, 06:18 PM

Race results are fairly telling at this stage of the season.

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1 Djokovic, Novak (SRB) 10,410 0 14
2 Federer, Roger --(SUI) -8,895 0 17

It's interesting to me that Nole has around 1500 more points while having played 3 fewer tournaments. Usually Federer gets kudos because of his scheduling, but he's evidently felt pressed this year to keep up with Nole. Or maybe he felt that since Nole had so many points to defend, he should play everything he could in order to claim the number one spot.

Lee · 10-10-2012, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by star

Race results are fairly telling at this stage of the season.

It's interesting to me that Nole has around 1500 more points while having played 3 fewer tournaments. Usually Federer gets kudos because of his scheduling, but he's evidently felt pressed this year to keep up with Nole. Or maybe he felt that since Nole had so many points to defend, he should play everything he could in order to claim the number one spot.

Nole has 560 points to defend for the rest of the season while Fed has 3000 points

so getting some points and prevent Nole from gaining more in Shanghai definitely helps. Especially Nole does not sign up for Basel where he will lose 180 points. Nobody knows what will happen for the last few weeks and whether Nole will gain more points on Fed.