Tennis Tip Of The Year

[The Camel]

Might be a bit of a leap of faith to ever have Berlocq and quality in the same sentence Keith. Hes a very average clay court mug but yeah, at least he does have 215 games on the red stuff, winning 133. I saw him play Kohlscreiber on hard and the tennis was just abysmal but obviously he is all about the clay.

Raonic has only ever played twice on the surface and lost both times.

Got to be just a watching brief for me @ the prices all things considered but I would be a touch disappointed if Raonic doesn't come through it considering he has shown no signs of bounce so far in 2011 despite playing a whopping 24 games.

Its a lot of travelling just hours after a long setter, bit surprised he hasn't pulled out. I guess he is just desperate to try and improve on the surface ahead of the bigger master series tournaments and ultimately the French Open.

Got Berlocq mixed up with Bellucci 

[Horneris]

ahhh lol, explains things, Bellucci is very talented.

In regards to your question Tank, yes you would think so, but i've still not seen anything like it in terms of height and power so i still think it will be difficult for them. He is only 20 too, improvement would be sick.

His massive weakness is his backhand (i'm hoping it can be worked on to become average like a Soderling/Berdych backhand, solid enough when they absolutely can't run round the forehand). At the moment Federer would pick it apart. Roddick didn't have the ability to do so.

[The Camel]

I know next to nuffink about tennis.

Have a question regarding this Raonic bloke.
When he starts to win stuff, will people (and their people) devote more time and energy into looking at video of his serve and figuring out how to read it etc thus nullifying the weapon?

I sat ringside on an outside court at the Aussie Open for a match between John Isner and Fabrice Santoro.

Isner has a truly terrifying serve and had about 10 times the power of his oppenent.

But it was remarkable to see the Frenchman pick him apart, using the power and his amazing reflexes to outsmart the American.

Power certainly isn't everything in tennis.

[Horneris]

Santoro was a wizard!

[Horneris]

sigh, Raonic has pulled out of the match tomorrow to allow some time to rest after his match v Roddick.