{"id":345,"date":"2006-05-14T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T02:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=345"},"modified":"2006-05-14T18:49:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T02:49:43","slug":"atp-fantasy-tennis-hamburg-federer-nadal-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/atp-fantasy-tennis-hamburg-federer-nadal-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Fantasy Tennis: Hamburg, Federer-Nadal VII"},"content":{"rendered":"

My fantasy tennis strategy is now officially kerpluft [totally undone, beyond hope, s.n.a.f.u., etc.]. I expected Nadal to skip Hamburg as he did last year to rest up for Roland Garros. Did he suddenly forget how many injuries his nineteen-year-old body has already absorbed? That would have left Federer alone in the draw. I planned to choose Federer for Hamburg, Wimbledon, Cincinatti or Toronto, the US Open, and, depending on whether I choose Nadal for Madrid or not, Madrid or Paris. Now what do I do?<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, even after the huge disappointment of losing to Nadal with two match points and a 5-2 lead in the tiebreaker, I believe that Federer will win Hamburg. I am banking on Federer’s ability to see the match as a positive step on his path to Roland Garros. He has won Hamburg three times and he played Nadal exceptionally well today.<\/p>\n

But because I forgot, yes forgot, to put Nadal on my team last week, I now have to use both Federer and Nadal in Hamburg. I’d have preferred to use them both for either Cincinatti or Toronto because the second prize is $200,000 instead of $170,000 for Hamburg, and Nadal did win Toronto last year. But he also lost in the first round at Cincinatti so I have to get my money while I can. How many of you have used both Federer and Nadal in the same week?<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping for Federer – Nadal VII. When is pay-per-view coming?<\/p>\n

Fernando Gonzalez is having a good year and Ljubicic did get to the semifinals in Hamburg in 2004 so I have them both in the quarterfinals. I don’t know if Davydenko is recovered from his injuries but he’s still in the draw and he’s a gamer. I expect Robredo to bounce back and Monfils to keep rolling. The only surprise in there is Melzer. I have him beating Gaudio in the third round because Gaudio has been so up and down and Melzer is on the rise.<\/p>\n

I don’t know why I have Coria through to the third round, I think I’m trying help the cranky little guy get back to his old self.<\/p>\n

Here’s the draw as I see it along with big thanks to The Tennis Channel<\/a> for broadcasting ten hours of tennis a day. I’m going to pray that the channel continues to grow even though its founder and president, Steve Bellamy, is leaving.<\/p>\n


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My fantasy tennis strategy is now officially kerpluft [totally undone, beyond hope, s.n.a.f.u., etc.]. I expected Nadal to skip Hamburg as he did last year to rest up for Roland Garros. Did he suddenly forget how many injuries his nineteen-year-old body has already absorbed? That would have left Federer alone in the draw. I planned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}