Richard Gasquet : "Roger Federer was monstrous."

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Silverbullet96

Discussion Starter · Dec 11, 2014

http://www.tennisworldusa.org/Richa...His-Injury-Wasnt-Serious-articolo21566.html.1

"It was very tough to lose that tie. There were so many people in Lille who came to watch. I tried my best in the last rubber. I tried to change my tactic, but I just couldn"t. I was beaten technically. He is a "monster" of greatness, it really wasn"t a mental block from my part. I didn"t have time to hit the ball that it was back already, Roger served well and I just didn"t make the difference with my backhand. His experience is incredible. On those kind of matches he is just perfect and he really isn"t afraid of the moment, the situation, he doesn"t feel the pressure of the event. I could have as well tried to agitate the crowd after every point, but it wouldn"t have made a difference. I had some little physical trouble, but he came from a tough and long season of tennis. Even without much training on the surface he knew what he was doing. His back injury wasn"t really serious. Maybe if I had 10 more matches won on my shoulders it could have been different for me"

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Sri

· #2 · Dec 11, 2014

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Monsterer

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Time Violation

· #3 · Dec 11, 2014

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Lol, 19 yr old Gasquet had better chances against prime Fed, what did he turn into.

NSMv1924

· #4 · Dec 11, 2014

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Gasquet is just so weak, no weapons whatsoever and now he's copying Berdych mentally :facepalm:

:facepalm:

Yolita

· #5 · Dec 11, 2014

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:lol:
I still love you, Richie.

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pepita1964

· #6 · Dec 11, 2014

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NSMv1924 said:
Gasquet is just so weak, no weapons whatsoever and now he's copying Berdych mentally

Nadal loves Gasquet even more does not he?! He played in SF of USO 2013 . In Beijing Rafa beat him 63 60 after his come back from wrist injury.
Well Klizan challenged Rafa a lot more.

acacacacademy

· #7 · Dec 11, 2014

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haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaha.

Poor Gasquet. His career has been on a downward trajectory ever since that soul-destroying loss against Murray at Wimbledon in 2008.

Min son

· #8 · Dec 11, 2014

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Monfils was able to tame that monster. :worship:

:worship:

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nitrotaj

· #9 · Dec 11, 2014

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Worst top 10 player ever. His overhyped backhand makes me sick.

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NadalPhan

· #10 · Dec 11, 2014

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nitrotaj said:
Worst top 10 player ever. His overhyped backhand makes me sick.

Because his BH looks fancy, people think he actually has a nice BH.

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Wojcirej

· #11 · Dec 11, 2014

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pepita1964 said:
Nadal loves Gasquet even more does not he?! He played in SF of USO 2013 . In Beijing Rafa beat him 63 60 after his come back from wrist injury.
Well Klizan challenged Rafa a lot more.

And you're involving Nadal in thread about Federer and Gasquet because... ?

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Min son

· #12 · Dec 11, 2014

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NadalPhan said:
Because his BH looks fancy, people think he actually has a nice BH.

His BH is one of the best on tour.

Imperator

· #13 · Dec 11, 2014

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NadalPhan said:
Because his BH looks fancy, people think he actually has a nice BH.

What else did/does he have what made him a top 10 player for so many weeks then?

Fargif

· #14 · Dec 11, 2014

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Rich had a bad year. Just like a few others. The French squad never had a healthy team all year.

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leng jai

· #15 · Dec 11, 2014

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NadalPhan said:
Because his BH looks fancy, people think he actually has a nice BH.

True, nice is an understatement for Gasquet's backhand.

RForehand

· #16 · Dec 11, 2014

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nitrotaj said:
Worst top 10 player ever. His overhyped backhand makes me sick.

Not even close. Monaco was a worse top 10 player

leng jai

· #17 · Dec 11, 2014

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How come someone who beat peak Federer as a teenager and made a slam semifinal be the worst top 10 player ever?

DBR

· #18 · Dec 11, 2014 (Edited)

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Silverbullet96 said:
http://www.tennisworldusa.org/Richa...His-Injury-Wasnt-Serious-articolo21566.html.1

"It was very tough to lose that tie. There were so many people in Lille who came to watch. I tried my best in the last rubber. I tried to change my tactic, but I just couldn"t. I was beaten technically. He is a "monster" of greatness..."

Is it too hard for people to quote from a reliable source that has accurately translated French into English? These tennisworldusa.org articles are dreadful.

For sources on this one, they cite L'Equipe (the original French source) as well as an English translation which was done on twitter. Tennisworldusa.org hasn't even managed to keep the quotes accurate between the English translation on twitter and their own English article. :facepalm:

In l'Equipe, Richard said "Federer a été monstrueux" or "Federer was monstrous." It's a phrase he uses to say that someone played really well. Played a huge match. He hasn't called Federer a "monster of greatness."

MODS - please change the thread title. Far too much inaccurate online "journalism" gets quoted on here.

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miura88

· #19 · Dec 12, 2014

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DBR said:
Is it too hard for people to quote from a reliable source that has accurately translated French into English? These tennisworldusa.org articles are dreadful.

For sources on this one, they cite L'Equipe (the original French source) as well as an English translation which was done on twitter. Tennisworldusa.org hasn't even managed to keep the quotes accurate between the English translation on twitter and their own English article.

In l'Equipe, Richard said "Federer a été monstrueux" or "Federer was monstrous." It's a phrase he uses to say that someone played really well. Played a huge match. He hasn't called Federer a "monster of greatness."

MODS - please change the thread title. Far too much inaccurate online "journalism" gets quoted on here.

How did they get "monster of greatness" from that? Surprised they didn't translate it as "Federer had a monstrous summer".

Federer-Fan

· #20 · Dec 12, 2014

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miura88 said:
How did they get "monster of greatness" from that? Surprised they didn't translate it as "Federer had a monstrous summer".

In this context, 'été' doesn't mean 'summer', it's a past tense of 'be'. :yeah:

:yeah:

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