{"id":669,"date":"2007-08-15T23:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T07:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=669"},"modified":"2007-08-15T23:43:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T07:43:19","slug":"carnage-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/carnage-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnage in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleven of the top twenty ATP players were on the blistering courts in Cincinnati today and lots of them, six to be exact, lost. The scoreboard looked more topsy turvy than the roller coaster ride at Kings Island<\/a> which does repeated 360 rotations while dropping you 138 feet. Very hard on the tummy.<\/p>\n

For starters, Nicolas Almagro<\/b> beat Ivan Ljubicic<\/b>, Sam Querry<\/b> beat Mikhail Youzhny<\/b>, Carlos Moya<\/b> beat Novak Djokovic<\/b>, and Juan Carlos Ferrero<\/b> took out Fernando Gonzalez<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Oy, what is wrong with Gonzalez? He has yet to win a match in the summer hardcourt swing. And what\u2019s up with clay courter Almagro? He has now won a total of four matches on hardcourt in this year.<\/p>\n

Kings Island is next to the stadium so Rafael Nadal<\/b> could probably see that rollercoaster during his match with Juan Monaco<\/b>. But it was his forearm, not his tummy, that was bothering him. He was hitting his forehand short and putting drop shots into the net. He still managed to get to the first set tiebreaker but he lost it then called for the trainer and by the time he was down 1-4 in the second set, he retired.<\/p>\n

Lleyton Hewitt<\/b> beat Richard Gasquet<\/b> who retired with a blister on his right hand. After the match Gasquet said: “Two days ago, I couldn’t touch my racket, but yesterday it was better.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m only a fantasy tennis player. I don\u2019t pay anything to play the ATP fantasy tennis game and if I win, my prize will be a South African safari for two. But if I were a gambler and I\u2019d put a few thousand dollars on Gasquet, I\u2019d be pretty mad to find out he couldn\u2019t pick up a racket just two days ago and I knew nothing about it.<\/p>\n

Here we go again. Lack of injury disclosure. We didn\u2019t know that Nikolay Davydenko<\/b> had a stress fracture in his foot when he lost that highly suspicious match to Martin Vassallo-Arguello<\/b> in Sopot<\/a>. Over $7 million dollars was laid on the match at Betfair.com, much of it against Davydenko after he\u2019d already won the first set 6-2. Davydenko ended up retiring in the third set.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m obsessed with this injury disclosure thing. I didn\u2019t pick James Blake<\/b> for my fantasy team this week because he withdrew from Montreal last week with an abdominal strain. Without specifically knowing his current condition, how did I know whether to pick him this week or not? He looked like it was bothering him in his victory over Nicolas Kiefer<\/b> today \u2013 he wasn\u2019t extending on overheads or getting much topspin on his second serve – but after the match he said it was indigestion.<\/p>\n

Why is it that I don\u2019t believe him? I find myself trying to decode verbal and visual signals in the absence of real information. It\u2019s like trying to read cues from your lover. If you read too much into his or her facial expressions, you\u2019ll be accused of being paranoid. If you ignore them, you\u2019ll be accused of neglect.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been in contact with a Betfair user that bet on that Davydenko match and followed the situation closely, by the way. I should be writing something about it in the next few days.<\/p>\n\n

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Eleven of the top twenty ATP players were on the blistering courts in Cincinnati today and lots of them, six to be exact, lost. The scoreboard looked more topsy turvy than the roller coaster ride at Kings Island which does repeated 360 rotations while dropping you 138 feet. Very hard on the tummy. For starters, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ams-cincinnati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}