BURNING PLANET? JANKO VS. NISHIKORI

Quote Originally Posted by DooMz:

tips +500 lol

Quote Originally Posted by BurningPlanet26:

I was out with a friend having lunch to celebrate yesterday; came back only to see the end of the first set on; sorry I did not think to check in here.

My initial reasoning was that Kei loves clay, is 19-2 on challenger level in clay and made a final in his first atp clay tournament this year where he clearly choked.

Janko beat his ass twice but it was on hard and the second time I think Kei was still fucked up about his tournament choke. Also the last time I saw Janko play with the home crowd was in the Davis Cup final last year. He seemed like one of the rare types who actually perform worse with the crowd behind him; like the pressure of impressing them causes him to overpress.

Anyway this match was I thought pretty well played from 2-2 in the third until that horrific tiebreaker. Nishikori is just a huge, gigantic choker. He is such a huge choker that some people call him a pusher when he is anything but simply because they only saw him play when nervous, and once he gets nervous he becomes this disguting combination of being too defensive and making tons of stupid errors. It is all in his own head. Total waste of talent at this point.

That tiebreak left a very sour taste in my mouth about Kei, as if losing to Sweeting in a clay court final was not bad enough. I was enamored with this dog due to thinking people did not know how much he liked clay and him cashing dogs for me vs Fish and Cueavas on clay earlier this year in straight sets. But he has been shit ever since and really strikes me as one of the mentally weakest players in the top 50 to be honest. That was what I came away with today, confirmation of that strong suspicion.

Good call on TipsNoFix. I did not think he would fix this myself because it was his home crowd but I would not put it beyond him. Maybe he faked the injury to take the pressure off, which would be a brilliant ploy.

Quote Originally Posted by Gavinnick:

 thanks man I love youre write ups .....I knew Kei loved clay and it was his favorite surface.....but I still couldnt get over the fact that TIps kicked his ass twice already and now on his home court....didnt realize that the home court was actually a slight negative LOL