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Yen_Aireena posted on 9-6-2014 12:41 PM 
I have a confession to make. And I am ashamed to admit it.
But I had doubts.
I didn't believe i ...
amboih sampai 90 tahun dok dlm wheelchair pun ada? hahahah!
yup, me too... dah rasa mcm susah je nak menang RG kali ni sbb clay season dia teruk. Menang Madrid pun sebab Nishikori retired...
masa Rome 2014 Final pun lepas menang set pertama pun still Djokovic boleh kejar
Final RG ni 50-50 laa..
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Mulan posted on 9-6-2014 12:49 PM
amboih sampai 90 tahun dok dlm wheelchair pun ada? hahahah!
yup, me too... dah rasa mcm susah j ...
kan...
dahla 1st time di clay court dgn Ferrer (Barcelona Opens) & 1st time kalah dgn Nicolas Almagro..
dgn injured yg masih menghantui Nadal...
rezeki berpihak pada Nadal..
anyway gud job pd Novak...
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28 fascinating facts about Rafael Nadal on his 28th birthday. (June 4, 2014)
1. Nadals birthday always falls during the French Open, which is a perfect bit of symmetry. Its like Meryl Streep having a birthday on Oscars Sunday. On Tuesday, Nadal was feted with song, cake and thousands of flashes from media cameras.
2. When he turned 28, fellow clay-court great Bjorn Borg had already been retired for 2.5 years.
Borgs last Grand Slam was the 1981 U.S. Open, when he was 25 years, 3 months old.
3. Nadal is 63-1 lifetime at Roland Garros.
The lone slip-up came in 2009 when Robin Soderling pulled the upset in a fourth-round match.
4. If he wins the French Open, hell have more titles there than any player has anywhere else. (check!)
Only two players have ever won the same tournament eight times. Guillermo Vilas won Buenos Ares in his native Argentina eight times, while Nadal has pulled the feat at Monte Carlo, Barcelona and the French Open. With a win this year at Roland Garros, Nadal would become the first player in ATP history to win the same tournament nine times.
5. He was in a Shakira video.
Nadal, or a publicist whispering in Nadals ear, talked about working with the Colombian pop star on 2009s Gypsy.
It has been a great experience and I had a lot of fun doing it. I had some time in between tournaments and preparation and could not miss this opportunity. Shakira, as always, was spectacular. Working with a woman as charming as her, well, it makes it a lot easier to tell the truth. It was great, very easyarrow-10x10.png, shes really sweet and that always makes the hours go by faster.
6. Only one active player has a winning record against Nadal.
Nikolay Davydenko celebrates defeating Nadal in 2009. (AP)
Its not Djokovic, Murray
12. The 12-year-old Rafa looked a lot like the current Rafa.
Heres Nadal as a pre-teen, playing lefty with a two-handed backhand, definitely not receiving any coaching signs from Uncle Toni during the match and coming off as charmingly modest in a post-match interview.
13. He has the highest career winning percentage in ATP history.
Nadals 83.75% is better than Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Federer. Most of those players, however, saw their percentages dip once they fell out of their prime. (Borg is the exception, of course.) All Nadal stats, but especially this one, make his poor performances at Wimbledon the last two years (2R, 1R) all the more mind-boggling.
14. Nadals 81-match winning streak on clay is the longest streak for any player on any surface.
From April 2004 through May 2007, Nadal went 81-0 on the crushed brick. The streak was snapped by Roger Federer in Hamburg.
15. He can occasionally look like Hannibal Lecter and/or the talented Mr. Ripley.
Someone gave Rafa a hat for his birthday. He failed to heed a time-honored rule of politics: Never wear the hat.
16. Nadal celebrates his French Open titles the same way every time.
Here he is in 2005, after winning his first title.
17. And again in 2006
18. and in 2007
19. and in 2010
20. and in 2011
21. and in 2012
[img]http://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/usatsi_6313010.jpg?w=1000&h=627 ?w=1000&h=627[/img]
22. and, finally, in 2013.
23. The lone exception was in 2008, when he stayed clean and celebrated with a simple raise of the arms.
Why did he forego a roll in the clay in 08? That was the year he defeated Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 in the final. It was the worst defeat of Federers career and one of the worst in the history of Grand Slam finals. Given my relationship with Roger I did not want to celebrate too much, Nadal said after the match.
24. But once Rafa gets the trophy, he does the same thing every time.
25. Nadal has an identical record at the Australian Open and U.S. Open.
In an interesting statistical quirk, Nadal is 41-8 at both the Australian and U.S. Opens. Hes won one title in Melbourne and twice in New York.
Seven men have won eight or more GrandaSlams in the Open Era. But what happens if you take away each players favorite major? Heres the amount of titles each has won at their three worst Slams.
Federer (10), Sampras (7), Borg (5), Lendl (5), Nadal (5), Agassi (4), Connors (3).
Granted, this is a mostly frivolous exercisearrow-10x10.png. You wouldnt take the paintbrush away from Van Gogh any more than youd take clay away from Nadal. But when having the G.O.A.T. debate, you hear a lot of hes not great off of clay. The fact that he has any many slams off that surface as Borg and Lendl is a firm rebuke of that statement.
27. Amazingly, Nadals best tournament hasnt been the French Open. (Mathematically, that is.)
Though the 63-1 mark in Roland Garros is crazy, Nadal is actually better at the Olympics, where hes undefeated lifetimes. Its less impressive when you consider that hes just 6-0 there, however. (He didnt make it in 2004, won goldarrow-10x10.png in 2008 and was injured in 2012.)
28. Roger Federer won two Grand Slams after turning 28.
If Nadal follows the Feds path, hed wind up with 15 majors, two short of Federers current record of 17.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/06/ ... ting-french-open-28
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cyclops_psycho posted on 9-6-2014 05:35 PM
wow..terus meriah thread ni..ahahaaa.. good2x..
anyway, i lg prefer kot ada 12 DF macam Ma ...
aha.. betul tu. i setuju better DF throughout the match rather than during championship point. 2x lak tu Djokovic ni. sian plak.. tapi kalau mengenangkan cara dia celebrate lps kalahkan Nadal tahun 2011-2012 berturut2 pastu siap koyak2 baju, sorry, i tak berapa sian laa bila dia kalah... tak kira laa camana cara kalah dier. 
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Rafa looks ahead to Wimbledon after Roland Garros title
Monday, June 09, 2014 /by AP
PARIS (AP) -- His ninth French Open title behind him, Rafael Nadal already is thinking ahead to what's next: Wimbledon.
That's why he planned to waste no time and go directly from France to Germany on Monday to get ready to play in a grass-court tuneup tournament.
Nadal's collection of 14 Grand Slam titles, only three shy of Roger Federer's record for men, includes two championships at the All England Club. But the most recent came in 2010, and Nadal's past two trips to Wimbledon were quite brief: He lost in the second round in 2012, and the first round in 2013.
''I want to try to play well again in Wimbledon,'' the No. 1-ranked Nadal declared Sunday night after beating No. 2 Novak Djokovic 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 in the French Open final to improve to 66-1 at the clay-court tournament. ''I'm healthy. That's the most important thing, I feel.''
The big question about Nadal always was longevity, and whether his 6-foot-1 (1.85-meter), 188-pound (85-kilogram) body would hold up to the constant pounding from his relentless style.
Well, now he is the only man with at least one Grand Slam title in 10 consecutive years. And having turned 28 last week, the Spaniard is roughly two months older than Federer was when he got his 14th major.
But Nadal was slowed by a bad back during a loss in January's Australian Open final. Of more concern: his knees. He decided not to defend his Wimbledon title in 2009, then was sidelined for the last half of 2012 because of a problem with his left knee.
''I hope my knee will have the positive feeling on grass, because I feel my knee (is) better than last year in the rest of the surfaces,'' Nadal said. ''Grass always was a little bit harder for me after the injury.''
This part of the tennis schedule is unforgiving, allowing two weeks to adjust from clay to grass between the French Open and Wimbledon. That changes next year, when a third week gets added.
For now, there is time to contemplate story lines that will matter when Wimbledon starts June 23.
Djokovic, for example, will try to set aside his latest disappointment in Paris, coming up short again in his bid to complete a career Grand Slam. Djokovic has won six major titles - four at the Australian Open, plus one each at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open - but he has lost in the finals at three of the last four Slams.
That includes a defeat at the All England Club a year ago, when Andy Murray became the first British man to win the title since Fred Perry in 1936. So Murray would be the center of attention, anyway, and he gave everyone another reason to keep a close eye on him by hiring former women's No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach.
The fourth member of the Big Four, Federer, has lost before the quarterfinals at three of the last four Slams, a stretch that began with a second-round exit at Wimbledon.
It will also be worth watching how players who had breakthroughs at the French Open follow that up. Ernests Gulbis, for one. Simona Halep, Andrea Petkovic and Garbine Muguruza, too.
And then there are a couple of previous Wimbledon winners who followed very different paths in Paris.
Serena Williams was the defending champion at the French Open, and departed in the second round, beaten 6-2, 6-2 by Muguruza. Williams vowed to ''go home and work five times as hard to make sure I never lose again.'' After her last early exit at Roland Garros - in 2012's first round - she went on to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
Sharapova, meanwhile, earned a second French Open title and fifth major overall, overcoming a dozen double-faults in her three-set victory over Halep in the final. Now it's on to Wimbledon, where Sharapova won her first Grand Slam championship at age 17 in 2004.
''Even though you always remember those incredible moments of holding that trophy,'' Sharapova said, ''you got to try to erase that from your mind because you got to create new ones.'' |
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Persistents Pay Off
Monday, June 09, 2014 /by Steve Tignor
Today we bid adieu to a French Open that jolted us with surprise over the first week, especially on the women’s side, but which ended with two familiar faces holding the winner’s trophies. After a slow start to 2014, the Persistents—i.e. Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal—showed that they still pay off.
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Rafael Nadal
Rafa turned 28 at this year’s French Open, and this may have been his canniest, savviest, most veteran victory in Paris. As he said afterward, he had struggled with his confidence after his loss at the Australian Open, but he had started to feel the motivation again a month or so ago—"my mentality was there again, no?” is how he put it. Nadal played better in Madrid, and better still in Rome, but he saved fifth gear for his quarterfinal win over David Ferrer and his semifinal win over Andy Murray in Paris, two of his most thorough and convincing victories of the season. By now, peaking for the final at Roland Garros is a matter of instinct for Nadal.
When Rafa reached the final, even though he didn’t have his best to start, he knew exactly when he needed to find it: “Without that second set, I don’t know if I have this trophy with me now,” he said afterward.
It’s one thing to know when to turn it on, though, and another thing to do it. Nadal found his forehand in the middle of the second set, and swung the match in his direction just in time. And when he suffered a rare bout of exhaustion and nerves while trying to close it out at 4-2 in the fourth, he knew that disaster wasn’t inevitable, if he could just hang on a little longer.
What gave him that belief? You can find the key in the words he said right after the match: “Today the tennis gave me back what happened in Australia.”
Nadal hasn’t won Roland Garros nine times because he’s the most confident player in the tournament’s history—he's the first to tell us that he isn't. But he is realistic, and when it comes to tennis, he believes in a sort of cosmic justice. Last year, after his five-set win over Djokovic in the semifinals, he said that, essentially, it was only fair that he would get to win a marathon over Nole, after Nole had won one over him in Australia in 2012. This time, he believed it was only fair that he would survive a physically grueling major final, after a back injury had kept him from competing seriously in his last one, in Melbourne.
Nadal doesn’t believe he’s going to win every match, even at the French Open. He believes, instead, that losses will follow wins and that—even when things are looking their worst—wins will follow losses, and can even be inspired by losses.
That’s the kind of sensible confidence any tennis player can use. But only Rafa could be realistic enough to do something totally un-realistic like winning nine titles at Roland Garros in 10 years. A+
Maria Sharapova
To me, this was the finest and most characteristic performance of her career, precisely because it wasn’t. In her past Grand Slam title runs, Sharpova has tended to steamroll the competition for the better part of two weeks. This time she did anything but—this title was precarious and nerve-wracking from the opening games of the second week all the way to the end.
Stosur, Muguruza, Bouchard, and Halep: Each of them outplayed Sharapova for long stretches, each of them came within at least two games of beating her, and each of them ended up watching her run away with the match. When Serena Williams loses on clay, Sharapova is almost always there to capitalize. This time, Serena’s defeat appeared to be a double-edged sword for her: The more determined Maria became to win the title—the word hellbent comes to mind—the more constrained her game became.
At no time was that more true than in the final. There Sharapova had to recover from one of the most stunning collapses I’ve seen from a champion of her reputation. Up 5-3 in the second-set tiebreaker, two points from what seemed to be an inevitable fifth major title, she lost four straight points, each one uglier than the last.
But Sharapova forgot them all—if her shoulder isn’t great for serving, it certainly helps her shrug things off. In shrugging off a double fault that made it 4-4 in the third, and winning the last eight points of the match, Sharapova imposed the one thing she has over every other woman (except one): her resolve. You’re probably tired of hearing that “Maria is a fighter,” but it’s not an insult to repeat it. No player reveals the truth at the heart of tennis—that’s it’s a game of will above all else—the way she does. A+
Simona Halep
I hope she was the discovery of the tournament for many. No one combines as much athleticism and elegance into one efficient package. What could be simpler than to move the ball around the court, smack a winner, and walk straight back to get the balls for the next point? What could be harder?
Halep’s French Open was a breakthrough, both in the way she won and the way she lost. She had never been past the quarters at a Grand Slam; now that barrier is broken. She had obviously never played a Slam final, and that barrier is broken as well. It was a learning experience, but you get the feeling, after she came back from a set down and pushed Sharapova, a Hall of Famer, to the limit, that Halep doesn’t have a lot left to learn. A
Eugenie Bouchard
Two Slams in 2014, two semis for the 20-year-old. She had her chances for more against Sharapova, but she showed just the slightest hesitation down the stretch in that match. For the most part, though, the best thing about Genie is that even when she attacks and misses, she’s not afraid to go right back on the attack again. A-
Andrea Petkovic
To me, it's always been more fun to listen to her talk than to watch her play, but her bulldoze job of Sara Errani was a shotmaker’s dream. Her enthusiast's personality would be a nice addition to the top of the game—kind of like Ernests Gulbis', but in reverse. A-
Garbine Muguruza
The 20-year-old Spaniard gave us the shock of the tournament, and probably the year, with her 6-2, 6-2 win over Serena. And while she couldn’t quite overcome Sharapova in the quarters, she wasn’t the only one. Her wallops are fun to watch. A-
Novak Djokovic
From my perspective, this had to be as disappointing as a loss can get for Djokovic. He hired Boris Becker to help him in these moments, but he came up short, physically and psychologically, to Rafa at Roland Garros again. It was Djokovic’s fifth straight loss in a major final outside of Australia; worse, it came after he had beaten Nadal four straight times.
If I were Becker, or Marian Vajda, or someone else in his camp, I would try to do nothing more than to get Djokovic to compete clearly, steadily, and on something close to an even keel for the duration of one of these big finals. On Sunday he played well early, but when Rafa made a run in the second set, Djokovic quickly despaired, and his body and game slumped—he slammed a racquet, and spent much of the fourth set chattering to himself. Novak obviously had physical issues, too, but his attitude was more negative, for a longer stretch of time, than I would have expected in this, the biggest match of his season. Granted, he was playing Nadal at Roland Garros, but he’s beaten Rafa nearly 20 times in his career.
Only when he was down 2-4 in the fourth, with his back to the wall and Rafa struggling physically, did Djokovic appear fully composed and in a competitive groove again. He wasn’t hanging his head, but he also wasn’t just trying to fire off immediate winners, the way he can in those situations. He was competing with a clear head. It didn’t win him the fourth set, but I’m willing to bet it would have won him a fifth. B+
Ernests Gulbis
To say Gulbis was due for a deep Slam run may be the understatement of the tennis season—he had been due, due, and due again. But at 25 he made it happen, beating Roger Federer and reaching the semifinals. I didn’t like the way Gulbis finished; the moment it appeared possible that he could take Djokovic to a fifth set in the semis, he disappeared. But now, at least, he has shown that he can overcome his weaknesses. As for his off-court activities, while his views on women may be retrograde, his press-conference talk is fun for the rest of us to talk about. B+
Andy Murray
He played one of his best clay-court matches against Fernando Verdasco, and hung in heroically under trying circumstances against Philipp Kohlschreiber and Gael Monfils. Then, against Nadal, he came out flatter than a pancake that had just been run over by a truck. The semis is a solid result for a man about to defend his Wimbledon title. And kudos to him for hiring a woman, Amelie Mauresmo, to be his coach there. B+
Milos Raonic
Slowly, steadily, just a little monotonously, a future is arriving on the men’s tour. B+
Taylor Townsend
We knew she had shots; now we know she has potential. B+
Gael Monfils
There are few sights in tennis finer than seeing La Monf in full, winning flow at the French Open. There are few sights more exasperating than seeing him roll over and give in at the same place. B
John Isner
His time on court caught up with him again in the end, but the Big American had a career-best showing in Paris. B
Sam Stosur
She was playing well enough to win the tournament, until the moment when it seemed possible that she could actually win the tournament. Then she didn’t win another game. B-
Carla Suarez Navarro
There’s choking, and then there’s losing 12 straight points when you’re up 4-1 in the third in the quarterfinals of the French Open. B-
Sloane Stephens
This time a fourth-round finish didn’t feel like the mark of a “big match” player. Which probably had something to do with the fact that, when she got there, Sloane was outclassed by Halep, a woman she had beaten 1 and 1 at a major last year. B-
Caroline Wozniacki
She went out in the first round on a very tough day, but she handled her press conference afterward with straightforward dignity, and even a little humor. B-
Roger Federer
As he shifts to grass, his early-season momentum has dissipated, and his struggles serving out sets are still with him. So let's emphasize the shifting-to-grass part. C+
Ana Ivanovic
Is it possible for her to ask draw makers to keep her out of Lucie Safarova's way in the future? That alone might be worth a month of practice. Now Ana has to start all over in getting our hopes up again. C
Serena Williams
Yes, she’s still No. 1. Yes, she lost to a good young player. And no, she can't win them all. But in three of the last four Grand Slams, Serena has gone out before the quarterfinals. This time she struggled even to challenge a 20-year-old ranked outside the Top 30. Will that 20-year-old’s game plan—hit deep and down the middle—become a template for others? C-
Stan Wawrinka
He's Stan, not Stanislas now. The question is: When we will be able to call him Stanimal again? C- Last edited by Mulan on 10-6-2014 02:12 PM
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Words can't describe how happy I am to hold this trophy again. Thank you for being part of the journey with me! |
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sian plak Djoker...dahla melepas RG lagi kali ni...
FFT ni dah berpuluh tahun pun masih buat silap kasik trophy... memula kasik yg umpire punya (bulat)
pastu baru tukar yg Runner up punya...
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korang ada download tak match tennis? kat mana ya tmptnya? |
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Yen_Aireena posted on 12-6-2014 06:37 PM
korang ada download tak match tennis? kat mana ya tmptnya?
yes, i do! via torrent 
Final RG ni (hi-def) saiz 15.++GB... lepas Wimbledon abis baru siap agaknya... besor pastu my streamyx lak yg cheapo... slow melow laa..
takper I sabar & redha saja menunggu.. dgn tak OFF laptop & modem kat rumah. harap takdelah ribut petir masa i kat ofc ni.
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Nadal dah kalah kat Halle...
takper.. kasi rehat badan sket... praktis jer kat belakang rumah  |
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Mulan posted on 13-6-2014 09:11 AM
yes, i do! via torrent
Final RG ni (hi-def) saiz 15.++GB... lepas Wimbledon abis baru ...
iolss try upload yg 15G.. tp cam x gerak2 je walau dah sehari menunggu..
last2 iolss upload yg 4G jer...
anyway tq ye..
tgh try2 cari gak game2 yg lps yg best2 utk disimpan...
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waa... ptg ni dah boleh tgk Singles Draw utk Wimbledon 2014...  |
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Mulan posted on 20-6-2014 11:52 AM
eikk? ni Maria masa baby ke???
kaler mata tu mata Maria dah.. tapi chubby nyer
bukan kot sbb kaler mata jekk sama
tp hidung xsama
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ashburn posted on 20-6-2014 12:01 PM
bukan kot sbb kaler mata jekk sama
tp hidung xsama
a'ah laa hidung baby tu tak mancung sgt... belum tumbuh abis lagi kot tak?
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Post time 9-6-2014 12:49 PM
