Haas V Simon

Tommy is gonna win this tourney, I dont see any real competition for him

beat those mugs hehe

bulls already won it

Murray or Ferrer aren't going to be disgustingly bad like Novak was though

No prob. AZ, usually every player in top 200 can generate very good level tennis, and will do so once in a blue moon, you might have watched them in those particular moments imo...

he didn't do a lot long really, haas just attacked when it mattered on simon serve  broke and served out

Forget the lay and backing simon :/

tommy on fireeeee

cant see him losing

That's another great rally from Haas.

Joy to watch tbf

Mar 27, 2013 -- 9:38PM, realhalford wrote:

No prob. AZ, usually every player in top 200 can generate very good level tennis, and will do so once in a blue moon, you might have watched them in those particular moments imo...

i agree. watching two players geenerating very high levels of tennis against each other in the same match is absolutely priceless tennis

Haas vs Nadal would be a treat. battle of the two strongest players mentally on tour

Game

3/2012 ATP Australian Open (AUS)    Hard    Rafael Nadal    Tommy Haas    6-4 6-3 6-4         Second    1.02    -    13.66

lucky with net

simon is **** at the net

anyone lose on this match

Simon not even won a game since i backed him, perfect timing.

Haas 8/1 to win tourny

Did you watch him also when he was number 2 in the world ?

simon wont come back here

Amazing scenes in Chicago

no, i was too young

Mar 27, 2013 -- 9:44PM, hollywood85 wrote:

Amazing scenes in Chicago

what happened?

lequeen choked in the crunch time as often

Miami 27 game winning streak ended

Didn't Haas play Fed close or beat him in the last year or two too?

Mar 27, 2013 -- 9:44PM, ;[p wrote:

lequeen choked in the crunch time as often

no way lol  crazu

Mar 27, 2013 -- 9:45PM, GWB_III wrote:

Didn't Haas play Fed close or beat him in the last year or two too?

beat him in Halle

match point

Last year Halle final. 1.07 SP

Haas was easy money tonight

old man was correct

thx aaronh

old man, very wise old man

Haas would pulverize Mugry atm ... only if he can beat Sillyc tomorrow ...

Haas is unreal lately

MATCH POINT

Backing Haas to win tourny

why cant they settle ste1 winner wanted to put all on haas now no more odds thanks betfair!

8/1 stan james

ferrer will beat tommy

Game over

looks like tommy is #1 candidate for title here

anyone lose on this

ferrer will beat him easy ffs you will see. i like tommy but he has no chance

this court is a slow hard court, it will suit ferrer

trying to figure out his weakness when he's playing like this. anyone thought of it yet?

del potro smashed at indian wells

6-1 6-3

if simon played liek this against most other players, he would have probably won

ferrer almost lost to melzer today

melzer choked big..

Amazing scenes in San Antonio

weaknesses?? not many really

almost is a big difference

in tennis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2TdfSwH8g - no more dancing for you guys

He can start hitting errors and get really aggravated, lose control a bit. Not as fast as a lot of guys obviously (could hurt vs. Ferrer). Has a very complete game though, all the shots.

out hit  out moved out everything

yeah but this match showed that ferrer isn't good here

he looks good to me destroyed mugzer at the end mugzer played very well this tourney, ferrer is 2-0 over haas

looking at ferrer early on and even on the clay this season he has trailed in matches and haas could get on top early and stay ahead

i think opposite

2-0 tommy i guess

ferrer not bottling when behind just uppering his level and gettin even more intensity

haas at halle took out fed  take out novak  doesnt fear any player

i said 2-0 h2h

i think 2-1 ferrer

noivak took out himself tbh 30 errors is quite unbelieveable

-23 winner/unforced error differential is crazy

haas solid as you get  and moves like the top players...gulbis the only man who can stop him these days

and raonich

3/2013 ATP Australian Open (AUS)    Hard    Jarkko Nieminen    Tommy Haas    7-6(3) 4-6 6-3 4-6 8-6

Against Ferrer will be a different story, but I think Haas can take him out too.

Haas won 3 games vs Delpo last week

Backed Simon at 3-4 1st set, won 1 game since

What makes it an even hard loss to take is i originally backed Haas.

thats tennis

I wanna take some of the stuff haas is taking these days
Must be one helluva drug

playing like a bollockless sex change monk will only get you so far. Haas chewed him up and spat him out.

Wheres all the people saying "oh no old man" at any one whos 30...Haas showing what can be done, unlike muppets who retire at 29 and stuff, oh and hello Michael Owen in football...lazy no commitment mugs!

Mar 28, 2013 -- 2:04AM, doridoru wrote:

Wheres all the people saying "oh no old man" at any one whos 30...Haas showing what can be done, unlike muppets who retire at 29 and stuff, oh and hello Michael Owen in football...lazy no commitment mugs!

Difference being mate, that if you are injured; you play less earlier on in your career. Aslong as you can get back to 100% fitness, then you will be able to sustain your playing career for longer.

Look at Roddick/Hewitt for an example; Roddick barely had a major injury for most of his career, and had to retire due to niggling injuries and dropping of level. Hewitt is still going and playing at an ok level, and will be able to sustain it for a year or two more, due to the fact he has had injury lay offs.

It is part of the reason why Nadal is playing shorter years and why the 7-month lay off will aid him, to probably play an extra year or two at the end of his career.

Didn't Linford win Barca 92 gold at 32 or 33? I think its an English mentality that sportsmen are done at 30, If beckham had stayed at Man Utd hed have retired years ago..

yes
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/94-old-belgian-bolt-victorious-sprint-classic-114311393.html

am 34 and i just became world champion at 32 and 34,i was backwards running on a league of their own this week.

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Didn't Linford win Barca 92 gold at 32 or 33? I think its an English mentality that sportsmen are done at 30, If beckham had stayed at Man Utd hed have retired years ago..

what like ryan giggs did.
you didn't think that thru did you !!!

Tommy has had a wretched time with injury so nice to see him enjoying an indian summer. he would have been a permanent fixture at the top of the game if not for missing whole seasons at a time.
wasn't he ranked 2 or 3 at the time of his first bad injury?

Bolletieri says they should make a film about him, he bloody loves Tommy Haas

if he wins this tourney they might well make a movie

not sure about that I guess Ferrer has just spend 2? weeks of training on hardcourt since southamerica - if he has time to play the forehand the surface does not matter but the backhand under pressure could be the key also as a very precise backhand longline by haas to punish Ferrer for going inside out.

Bolletieri was saying that it is one of the most amazing stories ever

less than 2 years ago Tommy Haas was 32 years old and ranked 896 in the world

quite a remarkable feat to come back and be virtually pushing for the top 10 at 34

amazing stuff

would be great to see him make the WTF's but seems like slams will be his downfall

can't play bo5

might get some better draws now he has a higher ranking

feck me he only has 125 points to defend in the next 3 slams, would only need one decent draw and get a R4, QF in one of them to make a big improvement

could get up there this year

It was his fifth comeback - both ancles, shoulder 2 times, hip, ellbow - coming back into the top 10 or close to it in all attempts and beating the top guys again - Federer, Djokovic, Tsonga, Berdych, Cilic, Almagro etc. is a carreer achievement which is hardly comparable. I gues i've said this before but he was missing so many years where others were able to improve their tennis.

And I'm reapeating my self again saying that Haas, Nalbandian and (Gonzalez) are all time greats for me -

Haas at least has beaten the legends of the current generation also as the legends of the previous one - he is 4:6 vs Agassi, 3:5 vs Sampras, 3:10 vs Federer and 3:4 vs Djokovic - I don't have to metion that nadal got very luky winning in straight sets vs haas 5 times.

he's been a bit unlucky with the GS draws lately. Kohlschreiber 1st round at Wimbledon, Morrillo King Gulbis 1st round at USO and Nieminen 1st round at AO. Although he should have won some of those, there are definitely easier 1st round opponents out there. Bo5 could be an issue at later stages of the slams though should he make it that far.

blokes a blooming hero basically, could have retired 2 years ago and chilled out

best slamless player ?

Gulbis was really on fire in the fifth set haas was playing good at the us open and in delray beach - and raonic is unbeatable in san jose, he was not only serving above HIS average but also had 15-20 return winners. One break he got were 4 return winners.