Re: Federer rages at Open's heart of darkness


"Lax" <Lax.Clarke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 30, 10:00 pm, David W <dw7...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 31, 11:50 am, Dave Hazelwood <the_big_kah...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 30 May 2007 18:38:28 -0700, Lax <Lax.Cla...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

5th match on Leglen and forced to play into darkness even though he
has told FO organizers in previous years that he isn't good in the
dark. I would be pissed too.

Yeah they fucked him good in the FO 05 making him play in the dark and
I am sure this is what he remembers.

He seems to be looked after a lot better at the AO. Apart from the
late match and the darkness, I don't think they'd dream of putting him
anywhere but on the main court there. Agassi was another they bent
over backwards to please. (OTOH, when Graf was no. 1 she had one or
two matches scheduled on MCA). The FO also scheduled Federer on the
opening Sunday last year, which he didn't like either.

And the funny thing is that they made this schedule yesterday when
everyone thought there would be heavy periods of rain today. So in
making that schedule, they couldn't have expected Federer to get his
match in today. Federer was lucky there wasn't much rain.

It's a bit pathetic claiming that they only scheduled you because they
expect you to win in straight sets yet acknowledging others were still
playing after. This is lame whining plain and simple. I've never felt
champions should get special treatment. There's something even worse about a
champion who complains yet fails to see that others have it much worse most
of the time and that if he had not played, somebody else would have to.


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