Comments on: Federer Lets Sampras Win in Macau http://www.flumesday.com/2007/11/25/federer-lets-sampras-win-in-macau/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:11:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Dan http://www.flumesday.com/2007/11/25/federer-lets-sampras-win-in-macau/#comment-9597 Dan Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:32:26 +0000 http://www.flumesday.com/2007/11/25/federer-lets-sampras-win-in-macau/#comment-9597 Frankie, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Kidding. Those are some good points. But someone did make an interesting call (was it Courier or McEnroe) that if men's matches were 2 out of 3 sets, as opposed to 3 out of 5, that Sampras would still be ranked in the top three or four since success would be more about fundamentals as opposed to both fundamentals AND conditioning. Frankie, you have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about. Kidding. Those are some good points. But someone did make an interesting call (was it Courier or McEnroe) that if men’s matches were 2 out of 3 sets, as opposed to 3 out of 5, that Sampras would still be ranked in the top three or four since success would be more about fundamentals as opposed to both fundamentals AND conditioning.

]]> By: Frankie http://www.flumesday.com/2007/11/25/federer-lets-sampras-win-in-macau/#comment-9554 Frankie Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:06:22 +0000 http://www.flumesday.com/2007/11/25/federer-lets-sampras-win-in-macau/#comment-9554 It's nonsense to think thst just because Sampras won the third of the exhibition matches against Federer that he is now capable of a comeback!! Sampras looked like a 30-something on the court and there is no way I could see him performing at a pro level on successive days of a tournament (not even a challenger). He struggled with his fitness throughout his career, even when he was at his oeak, so please don't continue with this idiotic notion that he can make a comeback. My thought on the exhibition series is that the matches were not taken seriously by either player - they were a source of entertainment for thousands of people willing to pay good money to see a former no. 1 take on the current no. 1. The matches were a novelty - nothing more, nothing less. It’s nonsense to think thst just because Sampras won the third of the exhibition matches against Federer that he is now capable of a comeback!! Sampras looked like a 30-something on the court and there is no way I could see him performing at a pro level on successive days of a tournament (not even a challenger). He struggled with his fitness throughout his career, even when he was at his oeak, so please don’t continue with this idiotic notion that he can make a comeback.

My thought on the exhibition series is that the matches were not taken seriously by either player - they were a source of entertainment for thousands of people willing to pay good money to see a former no. 1 take on the current no. 1. The matches were a novelty - nothing more, nothing less.

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