no, subby, cricket would still be played for another 4 days before they determine a 'winner'

the match and Aussie open was great, and both Djokovich and Nadal are champions.

It was an amazing match and I'm glad that I woke up early to watch it. I'd love to see Djokovic win all four Grand Slams this year.

Nadal loses 7th final in a row to the Serb. Still no cure for Djokovic.

Now the interesting question : of the RG final is Nadal vs Djokovic... is Nadal still the favorite?

/reusing my headline joke
//red ;_;

I saw this highlight...and holy crap tennis is still boring to watch. Feel like a farking cat watching a ball on a string or something.

Don't mind playing it though.

I like that Djokavic Hulked his shirt off when he won. That guy is seriously intense.

novak played about 12 hours of tennis in the last two days. half a damn day.

you, subby, submitted this headline after 5 minutes on the espn home page.

/dont make djokovic chokeabiatch

expobill: the match and Aussie open was great, and both Djokovich and Nadal are champions.

With four really great players (sucks for Murray that he can't win one), this is one of the best eras for tennis. Problem is with no Americans at the top, it doesn't get as much notice as it should. Coverage hasn't been bad, just not as high as say if a US guy was one of the four. I can't blame Roddick for falling away skill wise, if given the choice between practice and staying at home for 16 hours with his wife, well I think we know what most pick.

both men's semis and the final were just unreal. the top 3.75 (Murray's closer to that group than he is to the rest of the pack but isn't quite there yet) are insanely good. this isn't a golden era; it's a platinum one. I'm just sad my main man Fed is probably done winning majors.

You got Balkanized!

expobill: the match and Aussie open was great, and both Djokovich and Nadal are champions.

Dammit. Another liberal who thinks score shouldn't be kept and just give everyone a Participation trophy...

Watched a large portion of this live. Was feeding the newby at 4am this morning. Went back to bed and woke up and still saw 2 hours to the end. Epic match in my opinion and Joker winning was icing on this cake. Simply amazing.

Anybody know where the hockey thread is today?

Just how many time outs does each side get to make it last that long?

/understands tennis about as much as cricket
//needs more shuttlecock

Ah, yes, soon we'll have the perfect sporting event: five hours of pre-game analysis, followed by ten seconds of action interspersed between four hours of commercials, followed by five hours of post-game analysis.

Or, as we here in the States call it, "Super Bowl Sunday".

IlGreven: Ah, yes, soon we'll have the perfect sporting event: five hours of pre-game analysis, followed by ten seconds of action interspersed between four hours of commercials, followed by five hours of post-game analysis.

Or, as we here in the States call it, "Super Bowl Sunday".

You obviously haven't been paying attention to the Super Bowl. It is at least 15 hours of pregame and postgame analysis.

Jonny Chimpo: IlGreven: Ah, yes, soon we'll have the perfect sporting event: five hours of pre-game analysis, followed by ten seconds of action interspersed between four hours of commercials, followed by five hours of post-game analysis.

Or, as we here in the States call it, "Super Bowl Sunday".

You obviously haven't been paying attention to the Super Bowl. It is at least 15 hours of pregame and postgame analysis.

Man, you haven't been watching for years. The Super Bowl coverage is just about to start now that the Patriots have left for Indy. I would put the pregame coverage at about 6 days with the postgame around 2-3 days pending if any big news breaks at the beginning of next week.

TheManofPA: Jonny Chimpo: IlGreven: Ah, yes, soon we'll have the perfect sporting event: five hours of pre-game analysis, followed by ten seconds of action interspersed between four hours of commercials, followed by five hours of post-game analysis.

Or, as we here in the States call it, "Super Bowl Sunday".

You obviously haven't been paying attention to the Super Bowl. It is at least 15 hours of pregame and postgame analysis.

Man, you haven't been watching for years. The Super Bowl coverage is just about to start now that the Patriots have left for Indy. I would put the pregame coverage at about 6 days with the postgame around 2-3 days pending if any big news breaks at the beginning of next week.

This is one time I'm grateful to be in SoCal. It will be quite easy to avoid the whole thing considering who's playing.

TheManofPA: Jonny Chimpo: IlGreven: Ah, yes, soon we'll have the perfect sporting event: five hours of pre-game analysis, followed by ten seconds of action interspersed between four hours of commercials, followed by five hours of post-game analysis.

Or, as we here in the States call it, "Super Bowl Sunday".

You obviously haven't been paying attention to the Super Bowl. It is at least 15 hours of pregame and postgame analysis.

Man, you haven't been watching for years. The Super Bowl coverage is just about to start now that the Patriots have left for Indy. I would put the pregame coverage at about 6 days with the postgame around 2-3 days pending if any big news breaks at the beginning of next week.

The 15 hours for the pregame was the day itself starting at 3 AM officially. The postgame reference was that there are quite a few channels that spend the last 2.5 hours of the day talking about the game. With that calculation is should be 90 hours a pregame analysis in a 24 hour span.

Jonny Chimpo: TheManofPA: Jonny Chimpo: IlGreven: Ah, yes, soon we'll have the perfect sporting event: five hours of pre-game analysis, followed by ten seconds of action interspersed between four hours of commercials, followed by five hours of post-game analysis.

Or, as we here in the States call it, "Super Bowl Sunday".

You obviously haven't been paying attention to the Super Bowl. It is at least 15 hours of pregame and postgame analysis.

Man, you haven't been watching for years. The Super Bowl coverage is just about to start now that the Patriots have left for Indy. I would put the pregame coverage at about 6 days with the postgame around 2-3 days pending if any big news breaks at the beginning of next week.

The 15 hours for the pregame was the day itself starting at 3 AM officially. The postgame reference was that there are quite a few channels that spend the last 2.5 hours of the day talking about the game. With that calculation is should be 90 hours a pregame analysis in a 24 hour span.

I concede because your point is an even funnier statistic compared to mine. I can't call it sad because I'll probably have most of it on as background noise when I wake up.

Is the Pro Bowl even on? Does anyone care?

IlGreven
Or, as we here in the States call it, "Super Bowl Sunday".

You know, the last couple of weekends was the first time I watched football outside of Super Bowl games; I was kinda surprised that sometimes stuff actually seems to happen in football.
Going by the Super Bowl coverage on a TVstation that isn't allowed to show any ads, I was used that 75% of a football game is guys in tights just standing around waiting for some signal that they're allowed to continue playing.

IlGreven: Ah, yes, soon we'll have the perfect sporting event: five hours of pre-game analysis, followed by ten seconds fifteen minutes of action interspersed between four hours of commercials, followed by five hours of post-game analysis.

I decided to put the actual amount in there because that's still really sad. 45 minutes of standing around, no wonder it's the perfect TV sport.

So how about that tennis match?

Work ethic = 1
Steroids = 0

Its mes tennis, nobody cares.

aw c'mon, it's hard enough to be a tennis fan in this football-dominated country, let's not threadjack the extremely occassional tennis thread with football talk...

/whine

TheManofPA: expobill: the match and Aussie open was great, and both Djokovich and Nadal are champions.

With four really great players (sucks for Murray that he can't win one), this is one of the best eras for tennis. Problem is with no Americans at the top.
that is no problem because the talent level is incredible!

virulent_loser: both men's semis and the final were just unreal. the top 3.75 (Murray's closer to that group than he is to the rest of the pack but isn't quite there yet) are insanely good. this isn't a golden era; it's a platinum one. I'm just sad my main man Fed is probably done winning majors.

I don't really see it as a great era. There are 3 great players, but it's more 3 eras passing closely together.

Federer dominated for years, then Nadal finally beat him off of clay and he dominated, and now Djokovich is dominating.

A great era would be if the 3 of them would battle back and forth, but right now it seems Djok>Nadal>Federer.

Nadal has won 10 of last 13 vs Federer
Djok has won 10 of last 12 vs Nadal
Djok has won 4 of last 5 vs Federer


And Murray isn't in the same class. He's only made 3 GS finals and got swept in 3 sets in each.