The legend of McEnroe, Connors, and Courrier lived in the days of hard-hitting, sweat-filled, and intense tennis action At the time, you could also find Ivan Lendl, the early days of 12-time slam champion Pete Sampras, and Andre Agassi when he either wore a toupee or he dressed his hair like a hippy. Those days were fabulously unpredictable with great matchups from top to bottom...with many upsets and people flocking to tyhe arenas and buildings for this burning passion for racquet sports.
What's the catch here; for the last four years, the world has been given an opportunity to watch some of the best tennis by an individual in the history of the world while the world's youth tries catching up to a Swiss Lambourgini. Unfortunately, the older mechanism adapts itself to the changes in it's environment and performs better than the newest of models out thre including Novak Djokovic, and Nikolai Davydenko.
Roger Federer is no surprise to be the men's number one seed entering the Aussie Open. It's even more shocking, though, that every seed determined at the end of the year has not changed for this tournament especially considering most have competed in one tournament by now. The top 32 seeds have been named. Either way, it would be assinine to believe anyone else but the worlds number one would be the favorite in this tournament to win everything.
The new plexicushion surface at the Open may not have rave reviews by Novak Djokovic, Jelena Jankovic, but it may provide Rafael Nadal a clear advantage like the one he enjoys at the French Open because of how slow the ball moves from one side of the court to the other. According to Jankovic and Djokovic...the thought was that te ball was going to be faster. As it turns out, the two players believe the opposite is true.
Even American competitor, Mardy Fish, had the same idea saying, "It's a little bt slow for me. The balls get really fluffy and it plays extremely slow. I am not a big fan."
STOP TRYING TO SLOW ROGER FEDERER'S PURSUIT OF PERFECTION and his glory to get to number one in all-time grand slam marks...let the Austrailian open be one of the hard court surfaces in the world and do not change the traditional surface there.
By the way, Justin-Henin wil win the Austrailian Open in spite of the court controversy with te changes in the surface. There is no woman out there who has come quite clos to knocking her out of a competition and I don't see why it could happen now.
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