Rafa's relentless march to roland garros starts now

I'm still happy with my Stan bet, but I don't see him beating Rafa on Sunday.

couldn't have asked for a better situation.  Enjoy the final GCK

u not guna trade plat?

GRANT KNEW !

Jun 7, 2017 -- 12:28PM, GRANTCKING wrote:

Jun  7, 2017 -- 12:26PM, lewisham ranger wrote:this is pathetic from Djokovic, terrible call from me (and thanks for pointing that out) however wouldn't it slightly worry you how well thiem is playing? will give rafa a tough match for sure....im happy with my bets, still holding on to bets at 7/2 and 3/1 and a few more at 2/1 and 6/4

If i see a screen shot of all them bets I will x5 my brook bet so 1k if you prove you made them bets! you dont bet 2 days in advance never mind 5 months to get 7/2 WHAT A DREAMER

More chance of Tomtimtum being seen in Brighton with a boenhead than cooper backing a 7/2 winner ?

reply in the thread "u already lose the brook bet and u didn't pay up, jog on u labour voting chancer"

Djokovic is a cheating DOPER!

Absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever.

Has a better doctor than Sharapova, the only difference!Did not get caught! YET!

TheBhoys, see the Joker to win RG thread. All my trading was completed during the 2nd semi.

Well done Grant Now for Wimbledon and US Open. If Rafa can stay healthy for next 3 years, he will surpass Fed's career Slams total. Fed must be bricking it already. Wimbledon going to be great this year.

never in doubt

he only lost 35 games in the whole tournament. that's about 1.5 games per set.

Wesday knew

almost time to restart the march

I don't see him winning as many clay titles this time round, but as long as he wins the big one, Rafa fans will be happy.

Vamos !

ready....steady....GO

Only injury can stop Nadal at the French Open surely

Did think thiem was his biggset threat at rg but destroyed him today

Nadal on clay at the moment is like how Mike Tyson was in his heyday.

Opponents are beaten before they step out on court.

Yep, the only thing stopping an 11th RG is injury.

he's going to stumble soon

Only if he forgets to tie his laces.

btw, wasn't he ALWAYS injured, when he lost a match? I can't remember otherwise, it became his habit

As did making excuses for the biggest losses in your career, said he lost Wimbledon08 because he was scared from the thrashing a month earlier at Roland Garros. Said he was the better player v Delpo at USO09 for 4 of the 5 sets. Lots of subtle classless comments from Fed over the years that the media don't report.

Choosing to miss the French Open for the rest of his career will reflect very badly in years to come, it's not he has no chance. There is no doubt if Nadal wasnt around, he'd never skip the clay season, it's all about avoiding him and keeping the h2h healthy for his legacy status, which is really quite sad tbh.

it's not like he has no chance*

It's only in the mind of those grasping at straws to find sth where Nadull outperforms Fed, that Fed would care about the h2h vs Nadull thinking of his legacy.

He was just lucky he was born in 1981 and not 1986 when Nadal was, imagine if they were born in the same year, do you really think it'd currently be 20:16 in slams, of course not. And he wouldn't currently hold a record for longest Number 1 either, his decline started when Nadal and Novak came good.

Moreover, imagine if there had been 2 clay court slams rather than 2 hard court slams, the Slam totals would be reversed and then some.

The tour is weighted against clay court players and favours those on hard, there are 6 masters events on hard, 3 on clay, 2 slams on hard, 1 on clay, and the World Tour finals is always hard indoords favouring Federer's tennis when really the surface and location if need be, should be alternated.

Nadal has a better slam conversion rate in slams - 1 slam win every 3.19 events played, Federer = 1 slam every every 3.6 events played.
Nadal has a better Masters conversion rate - 1 masters win every 3.5 events played, Federer = 1 Masters every 4.8 events played
And he won an Olympic Gold on hard court, Federer hasn't on either grass on hard. And he's won

Not many areas where Federer has outperformed Nadal, and no straw clutching based on all that

If he wasn't for knee problems 6 or so years ago, he wouldn't have had so many first week exits at Wimbledon whereas before hand he was making finals almost every year.

there are much more clay court tournaments than on Fed's best surface, grass. In former times, 3 GS tournaments were played on grass, imagine what the GS count would be then

Nobody likes Grass, it's not real tennis.
Federer likes quick, fast surfaces, plenty of fast hard courts, his style suits it, Nadal's suits clay.

I've always said the US Open or Aussie open should alternate between clay and hard at least.

train derailed

like it was v Thiem in Rome last year, we all know what happened next, Nadal dropped the fewest amount of games he's ever dropped at Roland Garros en-route to winning his 10th French Open

Federer #1 even without playing the clay season

May 11, 2018 -- 7:17PM, mesmerised wrote:

like it was v Thiem in Rome last year, we all know what happened next, Nadal dropped the fewest amount of games he's ever dropped at Roland Garros en-route to winning his 10th French Open

mes I was away to post similar!!!

May 11, 2018 -- 7:44PM, bb66 wrote:

Federer #1 even without playing the clay season

federer is a pus sy simples

rafa is going to chin all the mug layers, cannot wait, VAMOS RAFA!!!

Cooper you're hilarious

I try hard I always give mt=y best

If I have seen Doctor

will see..how he does in French Open.

They keep lining them up and rafa keeps knocking them down!

never read so much utter garbage as that written on this thread. why can't people just celebrate the fact that we are lucky to witness these great players in the same era rather than constantly trying to bring them down.

bb66    11 May 18 19:44 
Federer #1 even without playing the clay seasonLaughLaugh

Don't forget to check the rankings in the morning you feckin' mug

That sweaty mug will get beat in the Final! I have it on good authority Robin Soderling is in qualies and will take Nadal out in the second round

before the final I should have said

another pretender goes down like like amir khan after getting chinned by canelo

Rafa deserves to win 4 you after that comment ! genuinely made me smile

big day ahead guyz

Grant C King knew. How do you do this G?

can we make it number 12 next year?!?! wouldnt bet against it!

Apr 20, 2018 -- 5:26PM, mesmerised wrote:

Only injury can stop Nadal at the French Open surely

injury almost got him, not quite

2019 march, lets go!!!

march well underway in monte carlo

what price would you make nadal for barcelona if and when he walks it this week?

The march has officicially ended

Oh my did Wafa have a sore knee Your obsession with sweat laden Wafa with a the dress sense of a 10 year old ADD is worrying Cooper. Hope you are prepared 4 a RG beatdown

May 21, 2018 -- 5:51PM, bobweenit wrote:

That sweaty mug will get beat in the Final! I have it on good authority Robin Soderling is in qualies and will take Nadal out in the second round

Jun 7, 2018 -- 12:58PM, GRANTCKING wrote:

another pretender goes down like like amir khan after getting chinned by canelo

Ayear goes by Khan still getting chinned

its true

Jun 7, 2018 -- 12:58PM, GRANTCKING wrote:

another pretender goes down like like amir khan after getting chinned by canelo

lol

G, is the march still on?

the march is def still on, just some temporary red tape!

Apr 18, 2019 -- 6:35PM, fordyce wrote:

what price would you make nadal for barcelona if and when he walks it this week?

not much money in the market but hes currently 1.78

Another loss on dirt

time to find a new hero ya mug

http://community.betfair.com/tennis/go/thread/view/94186/31319861

jesus this is sexy so far, what a kicking

6-0 bagel 1st set VAMOS

Does anybody on the Forum think it's right for the Tennis promoters to sell their tournaments to companies like Amazon who stream the matches and end up being up to
a minute behind the live action.

May 19, 2019 -- 4:56PM, Baulkline wrote:

Does anybody on the Forum think it's right for the Tennis promoters to sell their tournaments to companies like Amazon who stream the matches and end up being up toa minute behind the live action.

I cant stand it either, its a joke

rafa, the king is back!!!

May 19, 2019 -- 4:56PM, Baulkline wrote:

Does anybody on the Forum think it's right for the Tennis promoters to sell their tournaments to companies like Amazon who stream the matches and end up being up toa minute behind the live action.

Send a tweet to Papa Bezos. He claims to take customer support seriously so might listen.

is everyone ready for the big day, what a fecking march this has been, lol at the doubters after monte carlo and madrid

Anyone but Lance Nadull.  PUH_LEASE.

Is Lancey still getting grooming lessons from Iberian Tramps?

another year complete, VAMOS

VAMOS Rafa, the champion for a 12th time, .   a ridiculous achievement really when you think about it.

and Bravo Dominic, your time will come.

A truly remarkable achievement.

Thanks Grant C King

since GRANTCKING was banned by an upset liberal its up to me to reconvene this years march!!! VAMO!

ttt

this could be the 5th year on the trot that Rafa has marched (copyright GrantCKing) to the RG title.

And he was already supposed to be past his best when this thread was started 5 years ago

Sep 16, 2020 -- 4:13PM, SuckMyBallsHamlin wrote:

since GRANTCKING was banned by an upset liberal its up to me to reconvene this years march!!! VAMO!

Tomtimtum is a woke vaxxer. He has his finger on the report button quicker than his dabber hits the paper on a winning line on the Brid pier bingo0. Gro09nt was a mug but he was our mug ]

35 and still going the hair transplant and Dr Fuentes have done well again. But I nthink Nole is on the special Serbian pills this time so we may have a upset even Neil88 says Rafa is a bad price

Jun 9, 2019 -- 2:07PM, alun2005 wrote:

Anyone but Lance Nadull.

Alun what a man!!

Rafa 1.1 atm. Is that a good price? I'm confident he will beat Djokovic but don;t know much about Tsitsipas.

I normally stick money on Rafa at the semi-final stage at Roland Garros after somebody on here predicted he was going to be almost unbeatable years ago. Sets things up nicely for Royal Ascot.

The only way he will lose the final imo is if he goes so long vs Djokovic that he's heavily weakened for that final, otherwise can't see those guys beating him. The price vs Djokovic has no value at all though, this must be the shortest he's been vs Djokovic for a long time, and not really sure why?

Nadal is half the price what he was v Novak in the final last year, maybe the fact Djokovic has played 2 long matches in the 4th and quarters and played after Nadal's quarter into the night so less recovery time.

would prefer Djokovic to win, really Nadal should be around 1.6

Son in law is in Paris for the match,someone told him in the hotel this morning that Djokovic has been having treatment for a thigh strain.maybe that’s the reason for the prices.

^ lovely ramping

top info. thanks. this explains Novak's actions on Wednesday. He knew his thigh would be toast if he had to play five sets against Matteo, hence the reaction after getting it done in four.

Jun 10, 2021 -- 1:13AM, bobweenit wrote:

35 and still going the hair transplant and Dr Fuentes have done well again. But I nthink Nole is on the special Serbian pills this time so we may have a upset even Neil88 says Rafa is a bad price

March over

First time I have lost a bet on Rafa at Roland Garros. Really surprised me as all the vibes seemed to to suggest Djokovic might not be fully fit and Rafa has won 105 out of 108 matches at that venue. Has Djokovic ever beaten him on clay before; if I'm reading the graph right he went out to 14.0 to win the title after losing first set? Just confirms there is no such thing as a certainly when betting.

Nole has smashed him at Rg before now. Second time in Pars Nole has beaten him. But we all know Rafa only loses big matches when injured