Gribz 743 Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 Will certainly be an intriguing match, can see it being a 5 setter. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 Wish I bet on 3-2 Djokovic, it was a banker although the odds in the 4th set when he was 5-2 up would have been more attractive. Wasn't a classic final but decent all the same. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 5,952 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 fit lads they are 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthter 542 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 nearly 4hrs for the match.....yet footballers complain about playing more that 3 x 90min games in a 10 day period. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 nearly 4hrs for the match.....yet footballers complain about playing more that 3 x 90min games in a 10 day period. Plus 5 or 6 matches in the last 12 days before the final. There was a discussion about this on here around a year ago about that, I was arguing how much more tennis players have to give. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 5,952 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 we should hire their fitness coaches 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 we should hire their fitness coaches Tennis players actually don't run very much. In a match it's something like between 1 and 2 miles. For footballers it's between 6 and 7 miles... Not saying it's any easier but it does help explain the ability to play for over 4 hours when footballers get cramp at 2 hours and getting to 8 or more miles. We're also only usually looking at say the best 16 players in the world. For Rangers we're looking at players in top 10,000 or something. Probably lower than that. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The likes of Nadal, Murray and Djokovic are real athletes, that's the main difference. Our players are basically just run of the mill woeful Scottish players. Andy Murray would be at least twice as fit as anyone in our squad. He has a continental style to his conditioning. Tennis is all about agility, strength and technique anyway. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 As already alluded to you're comparing the 1,2 and 5 in the world of one sport to those in another sport who would mostly struggle to get in the top 3000 of another sport. My figure notionally comes from thinking that there are at least 200 players in each of the top 15 leagues around the world that would be far better than ours. When you think further, that's a pretty conservative number when you take into account every league in the world. But it's all apples and oranges anyway. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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