Re: y r the chair umpires
by bango tango on Jan 27, 2011 11:27 PM
"Players can use short-acting steroids in combination with human growth hormone which will produce muscle mass and enormous power, and while they can stop just before a competition and test clean, they still get the performance benefit of the drugs" Former chief executive of the Australian Sports Drug Agency, John Mendoza, 2002, claiming that tennis was approaching a crisis similar to the one swimming faced at the farcical 1994 Rome world championships and that cycling encountered before the Tour de France drug busts in 1997.
Re: fedrer lost motivation once nadal was out :-?
by bango tango on Jan 27, 2011 11:12 PM
ON last 4 GS he lost, he has some kind of injury/illness. FO 09 he had knee issues but was playing an exho before Wimby draw to "test" his knee. USO 09 loss to Delpo- he was just coming back from injury plus an slight abdominal tear so thats okay (he is yet to get to top form) - so all is well. AO 10 - knee tear again. Now AO 11 - virus plus hammy but play almost invincible tennis in between all this. He would have brought injury issues during Wimby 10 if he had lost to some nobody in the 5 setter in the early rounds after MTO drama. He survived and won the whole tournament and he is fit.
