No news from David. Which in this case probably does mean good news.
So - what to do with the blog? I'll be covering Argentina's upcoming Davis Cup quarterfinal tie against the Czech Republic (July 10-12) because it's important to David, whether he's playing or not. But as I've said before, I've also been trying to think of other things I could do to keep the blog alive and maybe make waiting for David's return a little easier...
Part of my plan is this new Best Of-3 series: three YouTube clips of David (the best I can find), one theme. Maybe you already know some of these clips, maybe you know all of them. But even if that should be the case, maybe you'll enjoy having a look at them again.
And on the eve of this year's Wimbledon final, what better way to start than with three clips from three great matches, David vs Roger Federer:
This clip focuses on the fifth set of the match and its special dramaturgy, from David leading 4-0 to Federer failing to serve out the match and the eventual tiebreak. This video is of better quality than most other clips from this match.
A few months later at the Masters in Rome, it was Federer who prevailed in the third-set tiebreak. This clip (uploaded fairly recently) shows a number of great rallies from a truly great match - even if David lost in the end.
The second of David's two victories over Federer during the weeks of Madrid and Paris. This highlights clip contains almost ten minutes of footage from this very entertaining match. - Enjoy.
More Best Of-3s to come. About all kinds of themes... :)
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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It's interesting that you've described that Rome 2006 final as a 'truly great match'. I've never seen it before, but I remember reading the comments on it afterwards on MTF with the consensus of it being that Federer was horrible, and that David didn't play that well either. So I translated that to mean that it was "an average match".
I've now had a look at the archives and it's even worse reading back on it. I shouldn't have done it (now I'll really be excited to watch it when it comes in the mail), but I was interested in looking at some comments of some other matches to see if it's worth purchasing and saw it on the same page.
Well, I think it was a great match. As in an entertaining one. And the rallies in this clip show it. Don't really care what people say about it on MTF...
In any case, that clip is really good. Which is the main reason I chose it. :)
Well I'm sure that the majority of them were spoiled Federer fans, I'd imagine if a similar match was played like that today that more people would have liked it.
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