[tsmile789]

These polish players are so bitchy

[Time Violation]

Originally Posted by GSMnadal

Love how all the Federer and Nole fans who were loving him during his Paris run have suddenly turned on him

That means you cheered for Ferrer then?

[Beesley]

Polish nobody criticizes Federer and Djokovic's attitude. Nice.

[Nole Rules]

I still like the guy but not as much as before.

[Ivelina_P]

Originally Posted by GSMnadal

How bloody awesome is this guy, and so right. Tomic and Janowicz

Isn't it great how cocky and wide-mouthed those young talents are?
Full contrast to our "so devoid of personality" top players.
MTF just acquired the heroes it deserves!

[djokovicgonzalez]

Hmm a bit much, but I don't mind that mucg

[Litotes]

Originally Posted by GSMnadal

Love how all the Federer and Nole fans who were loving him during his Paris run have suddenly turned on him

Not "all". I don't mind these kind of interviews at all. He's entitled to both his opinions and his mistranslations.

[Abel]

The honesty is refreshing, I'd prefer to see more interviews like this one from players.

[nole_no1]

Who's this mug to talk about Djokovic and Federer? Poor wannabe guy

[duong]

Originally Posted by gulzhan

First, he said he liked Safin's character, not his sports or political career. I love Safin's character! He is fun, full of life, strong, generous, kind. A real man. But you won't appreciate it, of course, since your idol doesn't even know what that means.

Second, Russian politicians are the same as politicians in all the other countries, including France and Switzerland. They might hide it worse but beneath it's all the same. This you must understand however. Your idol is a master in covering shit.

So what you say is that Safin as a politician has to hide some things because he has to "think" about the consequences, conflicting interests and power situations.

FYI Federer is the president of the players' council, he's not any player who can shout without having any political job to do and only thinking of his own interests.

Beside that, Fed in my eyes is a real man as much as Safin. But that I don't expect you to say anything objective on that

[jrm]

newsflash: stars can afford it

[duong]

Originally Posted by Looner

It's also funny the issue of prize money is the topic again when Wayne Ferreira recently claimed Fed was involved in making the slams pay more from way back in 2003 but because the ATP adopted a similar position the movement stopped temporarily (it's in a NY article by Christopher Clarey where he talks about the consecutive appearances at Slams).

and in the meantime as the French Tennis Federation and French newspapers keep on blaming Federer for being the only responsible for the prize money which they have to increase, even claiming that he asks for that only for his individual interest ...

Yes, that's how things go : it's never good to take political responsibilities for one's popularity in the eyes of emotional people.

Janowicz like a few other players just saw Nadal shout for a boycott, whereas Fed was cautious and asked the players to cool down and that boycott threats were a bit premature, and in his mind he has this emotional picture printed, and he judges according to it.

That's emotional primary judgment and he was not the only player reacting like that.

It was actually good politics from Nadal, as far as his own popularity was concerned, except that his goals finally failed for a two-year ranking system despite the support of most top-10 players of the time (his call to change the calendar and have the WTF right after the US Open seemed to be progressing until recently where the recent news have not looked as encouraging for that plan) ... but for the goal at stake for lower-ranked players, the slam prize money, Fed took a bigger part ... even though clearly boycott threats helped the claim a lot.

[duong]

Originally Posted by Nole Rules

I still like the guy but not as much as before.

Personally, I like him just as much, and am actually not surprised : he looked that kind of emotional character from the start. He's nice in his sincerity and emotions, but as I said, I wouldn't rely on him to understand our world better.

By the way, Safin has never looked as sincere to me as Janowicz does, and he also has always looked much smarter.

[Prodigy.]

He has a right to his opinion. I still love the guy despite his comments on one of my other fav's Djokoivc... Besides, he's spot on with the olderer comments.

[RIboy]

spot on Jano, kudos