Convergence
Convergence is one of those new tech terms which is really hot right now - a phone which plays music, an iPod which plays photos etc. But this weekend is sport convergence - England's first game in the World Cup, India's second test against the West Indies and the Federer - Nadal final at the French Open.
Bring it on!
Bring it on!
posted by Akash at 10:02 AM
4 Comments:
it's a take the phone off the hook sunday........you missed out the silverstone grand prix, but as previously discussed, i'm not sure that counts as sport.
Sounds like yje first windies-indies test was quite excitin??
wont be time to fit it all in. ...Federer Nadal has to taek precedence, no? There will not be a bigger match this year.....grand slam or roger slam at stake, chance to be an all surface winner, and the posssibility of his first loss in a major final.......
One thing is for sure. it's gonna be a long match, as any involving Nadal tend to....and if if i had to bet now, i say he edges it......colse though Federer got in Rome, Nadal was not playing his best.......fasciinating......
and so it proved.....strange performance from federer...flew through the first set, and then lost concentration......hmnnn......
Sandeep, i am disappointed about the Federer /Nadal match - can't stand the fat ass Nadal and his time wasting, unsportsmanlike tactics - anyway, remember we had that argument whether the tennis these days is substantively better these days - well Pat Cash in the Times yesterday completely agreed with me that tennis of Borg/Macenroe era and just beyond was far superior to what it is now - and that is only Nadal and Federer - and only on clay - otherwise Federer runs riot over all -
i watched Nadal play in the quarters i think and couldn't stand him - so fucking dull to watch - anyway i note that he moves well - but dont rate his raw talent at all
yes, he may have preferred it, bit for what reasons. I dont think he would agree that they were better players, when you consider technical and athletic gifts.He probably just found the game more interesting.
There may have been more differences in style and nuance, but this era defintely has it in terms of speed and power of the game. But at the top level the tennis on hard courts and even on grass is breathtaking in a way it wasnt 20 years ago. Remember Federe is hitting shots on grass these last three years that no one has played before.
But i guess i can see there some things that have been lost over time.Too many baseline sluggers can be a bit monotonous sometimes these days. James Blake is a very good example, an athlete playing tennis, who sometimes is in fantsatic marathons but who isnt very stylish. There aren't the clash of styles that perhaps we once saw, but this is common to many sports as they become increasingly athletic. Golf is itself going through the very same identity crisis, as young colllge athletes break on to the pro tour and whack the ball a mile.
But in the top handful of tennis players there are enough stylistic differences to make for some fascintaing contests. Nalbandian is a pretty sttylish dude, as was Kuerten on grass. And Nadal is a way better player than Hewitt, whose defensive preowess he has trumped.
indeed it is largely a clash of styles that accounts for Federers problems with Nadal. I dont much like teh spaniards bruising style, but he is more than just a defensive genius, he can play well on the front foot.
Anyway heres hoping Roger takes care of him at teh US Open later this year.
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