Name The 2011 Grand Slam winners! (Page 3 of 3)

Here are the results so far:
Pre-tourney teams:

Aiur teams total: 456+496=952
Don teams total: 440+640=1080

Aiur match picks total: 176+256=432
Don match picks total:  248+280=520

And your picks were as good as mine?  Sure they were.  In your dreams.

Perhaps you should consider the fact that I have always had your back, whether you were making sense or not.  But you don't really get what it is to be a friend, now, do ya?

Last edited by DonDenman (Jan. 30, 2011 4:10pm)

Don--
The meer fact that you say that Nadal would have won this tournament if he wasn't injured is irrelevant and lame. Nadal is prone to injury, injuries are part of a sport, and he lost so therefore he lost fair and square in my book. For Nadal to win what you predicted would be a calendar slam, he would have to be a complete player for a whole year. Unfortunately, he has never been up to that challenge and really never will unless genetics or playstyle change. Impossible. Just like Nadal himself said it.

I am going to say Murray is going to win this thing tonight. Celebration in the UK. And my pre-tourney picks will come true on both mens and womens sides.

You completely lost your head because I called changing your picks a day before the final "silly." You either have some type of mental disorder or the personality of a pre-teen.

To everyone else, I didn't realize the gravity of the word "silly." I'll see you guys in May.

So happy for Novak, what a fantastic game he played. There seemed to be no limit to what he could reach in that game, I swear he's made of elastic that boy.

Brilliant final, it was so tense I spent half the time hiding in the bathroom.

Will get a blog up later guys.

The first set was exciting, and there were some great points and amazing winners by Djokovic, but I thought Murray would put up much more of a fight. Djokovic very much deserved this win - he's on fire. Could he win Wimbledon? Probably not, but he will have a great shot at the US Open this year.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Nole carries his great form forward to Indian Wells and Miami.  Seems to me the first big test of whether he can sustain this form will be when the tour moves to clay.  That should tell us a lot.

Cant see Djokovic making the Roland Garros final, he will wilt with the long matches required to win it all, there are a lot of good clay court players and guys who will stay out there for hours to do battle.
Quarters will be his lot I think, maybe semis if he is lucky, Rafa, Fed and Soderling and maybe monfils will be the ones to watch.

Judging by his track record on clay, I think Djokovic wouldn't merely be lucky to make the semis! He did back to back in '07 and '08.

Djokovic is playing much better than he was the last two years.  Djokovic isn't the only player who likes clay.  Certainly Soderling is more dangerous at RG than at the other Slams, and Berdych is a very strong clay court player as well.  The list goes on.  Verdasco and Ferrer are great clay courters, to mention only the most obvious.  So the semis for Nole is by no means a foregone conclusion -- or even probable, really -- but still, if the great form continues onto the clay, he has to be one of the top three favorites for the semis.

I, too, doubt Nole's newfound stamina will translate to clay, and if it doesn't, neither will his form.  We'll see.  Ferrer and Wawrinka are on fire, too.  Nalbandian's on the way back and -- we hope -- Delpo as well.  Great mix in men's tennis right now and it's going to get better.

Murray, however, is in decline.  This is the second time in his short career he's been in obvious decline. 

This causes me to conclude that he may be a worse head case than anyone yet imagines.  He may turn out to be a more talented version of Andy Roddick.  If so, it will be because he failed to overcome the same problems and demons that have so often defeated Andy.

Based on movement and hands only, Murray stands alone at the top.  Sure, Rafa and Fed and Djokovic and Ferrer move incredibly well and have great hands.  But not as good as Murray at both.  However, having said that, Murray's everything else falls short and tends to fall apart.  I hate to say it, but I think the smart money is on him falling out of the top 10 without ever returning to #2.