kozmasrightfoot, Sat 31 May 16:57

Jacob Fearnley from Edinburgh is just about to play Englishmam Cam Norrie. Should be a cracker. TNT 4

At the start of 2024 Jacob was ranked outside the top 600, now he`s just inside the top 50 and British no 2.

Feast your peepers.

Mone the Jacob.

kozmasrightfoot, Wed 11 Jun 13:40

Bang on again wee eck (ive read a lot of sensible comments from you). Tennis players are far and away the fittest and most mobile athletes going.

Footballers train a few hours a day and play for 90 minutes once or twice a week and they don`t all run about every minute. Tennis players are on their own, run about non stop for between 2 hours and 5 hours. If they manage to win their match they generally play the next day and the next until they lose. Grand Slams and the 9 Masters titles they usually get 1 day off. So to win a Slam you have to play 7 5set matches in 14 days. Masters are only best of 3 but feature all the top players so you see a lot of matches going over 3 hours long.

I watch as much (if not more) Tennis as I watch football, and the respect I have for tennis players is above reproach. It annoys me when Footballers whine about playing 2 or 3 matches a week.

As for the final, it was brilliant. I thought Sinner would win for sure and almost turned it off when he 2 sets and a break up. Glad I persevered. I love watching Carloz as he`s got so much variety to his game and plays to entertain. Sinner bores me silly.

I think that Sinner is bad for the sport. My reason (I really watch a lot of tennis) is that he`s almost invincible. The only player capable of beating him is Carloz, whereas Carloz is capable of losing to any top 100 player because he can be prone to a lack of focus at times. It`s not healthy to have one player so utterly dominant. It`s been around 2 years since he last suffered a shock result, since then he just steamrolls over pretty much everybody. He barely loses a set ffs, and that kind of 1 man dominance just bores me. I also don`t like his style. He hardly ever comes away from the baseline except against the best players. It`s like how I got bored of golf during Tiger`s peak.

At least in tennis, Sinner doesn`t play every tournament so when he doesn`t It`s more unpredictable, making it more enjoyable. I`m sure others feel differently.

For me, Carloz is the better all round player but that lack of focus is dragging him down. The rest of the current players are far to inconsistent to win a Slam. There is Novak but he`s 38 and you can see that father time has finally started to catch up to him. The overall standard of players this era is very poor compared to what I`ve been blessed with the past 10 -20 years, with the 3 greatest players ever, an unlucky Andy Murray who would win 2 - 3 times what he won if he was born ten years later, and a wealth of other top class players (Big Stan, Del Potro etc).

Players like Fritz, De Manure, Shelton etc etc etc wouldn`t have been near the top 20 in that era.

One last thing. You think football forums are bad when it comes to abuse and disrespect? Football forums are tame compared to tennis ones. Some of the stuff I read on them would merit a black card on here. Totally disgraceful 😆 .

And breathe.

It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983