2011 French Open - Men

[BB73]

Who wins the title on the red clay at Roland Garros?

Here's the draw of seeded players (Djokovic and Federer are in the bottom half).

Nadal - 1
Davydenko 28

Querrey - 24
Verdasco - 16

Fish - 10
Simon - 18

Bagdhatis - 27
Soderoing - 5

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Murray - 4
Raonic - 26

Dolgopolov - 21
Troicki - 15

Almagro -11
Mayer - 20

Anderson - 32
Melzer - 8

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Ferrer - 7
Stakhovsky - 31

Llodra - 22
Monfils - 9

Wawrinka - 14
Tsonga - 17

Tipsarevic - 29
Federer - 3

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Berdych - 6
Garcia-Lopez - 30

Cilic - 19
Youzhny - 12

Gasquet - 13
Bellucci - 23

Del Potro - 25
Djokovic - 2

 

[gracelhink]

The Gluten free diet seems to be working so far for the Djoker.
Is this just a coincidence or is this a new performance trend in athletics?

 

[Bucknut24]

Cilic gone already

 

[Bucknut24]

wow, Isner up 2 sets to 1 against Nadal winning the 2nd and 3rd set tiebreaks by the score of 7-2 in each of them....currently the score is 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, 1-1

match is on tennis channel if you have it...or espn3

 

[Bucknut24]

Nadal comes back and wins the 4th 6-2 and the 5th 6-4

 

[gracelhink]

No shockers in the men's draw.
The top 4 seeds made Friday's semifinals.
#1 seed Nadal (Warrior mentality) faces #4 Murray, (who seems to have recovered from an ankle injury early this week).

#2 seed Djokovic (with his gluten free diet and trying to surpass Ivan Lendl's 42 match win streak) vs. #3 Federer (who seems to be focused and a legitimate threat for the title)

 

[Bucknut24]

damn it, I was thinking it was today the djoko/fed match...wwhen was the last time joker played? seems forever ago

 

[Bucknut24]

damn what a match between Federer/Djokovic...

Fed ends Joker's streak winning 7-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6

 

[MObuckeye13]

damn what a match between Federer/Djokovic...

Fed ends Joker's streak winning 7-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6

That sucks, I really wanted to see a Nadal/Joker final

 

[BB73]

That sucks, I really wanted to see a Nadal/Joker final

Yeah, a clay court final with the greatest player of all time against the greatest clay court player of all time will really suck.

 

[Bucknut24]

so I was playing tennis in almost 100 degree weather today, and I hit a beautiful drop shot down break point, almost looked like a Rfed shot....it kinda looked like i knew what i was doing

i did win 6-2, 6-1 in a 4.0 USTA, ok sorry to brag, but watching grand slam tournaments always gets me pumped when I go out and play a match...still trying to teach myself a 1 one handed backhand

 

[morbitzerker]

Anyone else watching the Final?

Fed had a chance to make a statement but let Nadal creep back and take the first set. Fed finally breaks Nadal and ties the second set at 4-4, and subsequently gets broken and is now down 5-4 with Rafa serving.

 

[Bucknut24]

yea, Nadal just looks to be too much for Fed

 

[morbitzerker]

Looked like the rain delay may have helped Roger a bit, but Nadal closes him out in the tiebreak to take a two set lead. Not sure if Fed can mount any sort of comeback but it would be an all-time comeback anyway.

 

[MObuckeye13]

Yeah, a clay court final with the greatest player of all time against the greatest clay court player of all time will really suck.

I just wanted to see the best clay court player in the world against the hottest player in the world. I thought joker would have a really good chance to knock off Rafa