Grand Slam

[Admir_Sa]

Kakva je Genie buduca teniska kraljica to je nevjerovatno

[Puma]

Ko ima vremena i solidno poznaje engleski jezik, obavezno nek procita ovaj intervju sa Gulbisom:

On spending a night in a Swedish jail in 2009 under suspicion of soliciting a prostitute: “It was great fun, but I’m never going to go to Sweden again in my life. If you go out and meet some girls, and immediately you’re put in jail, that’s not normal.”

“When I meet a girl, I don’t ask her what her profession is. I don’t ask if she’s a hairdresser or something else. I just meet her. And she meets me. She maybe doesn’t ask what I’m doing. Anyway, if she does ask, I usually lie; I say that I do nothing or I’m a musician or something. Suddenly, the police come and take me to jail, so I spend the night in jail for nothing, really nothing. So I’m upset with the Swedish government.

“It was very funny. I think every person should go to jail once.”

Here’s how he described the encounter in another interview:

“I went out, met a girl, asked her to come to my room, and they came and arrested me. I spent eight hours in prison. There were a couple of problems. One is that I had to [use the bathroom] like crazy and they wouldn’t let me for two hours. The other was, well, I watch these American movies and you get a phone call. They said in Sweden, we don’t have this rule.

“t was nothing. They have many, many stupid rules, just like in your country [the United States].”

• On what a night out on the town with him would look like: “What do people do when they go out? They get drunk. To go out and not drink, I don’t understand it. If you go to a nightclub, what is to enjoy there? Nothing. The music is too loud, everybody’s sweating, everybody’s dancing, it’s dark, everybody’s pushing, everybody’s drunk. And if you’re the only guy sober in the nightclub, you don’t enjoy it at all. If you’re into the groove, you know, you have a couple drinks, you’re on the same level as the club, you can sometimes get something positive out of it. But it’s not what I like. I prefer to stay in my friends’ company, invite girls over, we have drinks in a normal quiet environment.

Also, when you’re in a tournament, you can’t drink. It’s just stupid. I believe tennis players shouldn’t drink at all. If I start drinking, I’m going to drink until the morning. I can’t go to a nightclub and drink four beers and I’m good. If I go out, I go full night out. I have nothing to do the next day, I can sleep, then afterward I go for a run or something like that. But if you’re in a practice week or in the middle of a tournament, there is no chance I’m going to go out.”

• On Russian vodka and America’s lousy beer: “I like pure vodka. Shots, with some nice food. Also, one very good drink which I like — you drink a shot of vodka and then you drink milk. The milk is very good for your stomach. After vodka, it calms you down. You don’t get the burning feeling. Try it.

“Vodka is dangerous. You really need to control yourself not to get a blackout. If you want to go easy, beer. I enjoy beer, but not this piss kind of beer you have in America.”

• On losing his wallet in Miami: “One girl asked me if I want to go for a swim. The nightclub was right by the ocean. I said, Yeah, sure, let’s go. So we went out on the beach. I left my wallet and my mobile phone inside her bag. We went for a swim for like 20 minutes. There was no people at all, it was a full moon, very beautiful warm weather, so we left her bag under a chair at the beach. We came back and nothing. So now I’ve been living here on my coach’s salary.”

• On not getting distracted by women during tournaments: “When I’m in a tournament, I don’t pay attention to those things. As strange as it sounds, I go to dinner with my team, I stay with them. What happens around, the girls, that’s … I don’t want to lose energy for that. If you meet a new person it takes energy, you know? If you meet a girl, I’m not ready to go in relationship with her straight away, so it’s like, What is in my mind? For every normal guy, in your mind is to get the girl in bed. As soon as possible. It all takes energy. In a tournament, I don’t do that.”

• On having sex before matches: “For a woman, I believe it can bring some energy. For men, it’s opposite. I don’t think it’s good.”

• On whether he has a girlfriend, in 2011: “Don’t worry about me. I have my own thing. I’ve never dated a girl. I don’t let her believe that she’s my girlfriend.”

• On his plans to celebrate his 23rd birthday, which came on the same day he won his first-round match at the 2011 U.S. Open: “I will go to sleep as fast as I can. Enough with the celebrations. I’ve had enough celebrations in my life.”

• On having no regrets: “I’ve done all the possible wrong things that you can do in a tennis career. But I’m very happy I made the mistakes that I did. That’s important to understand. They were my mistakes, not others’, and I learned from them.

“The mistakes are simple. After playing a good tournament, you get a week off. You can spend that week the right way, going for a one-hour run each day or going to the gym. Or you can do nothing like I did. You eat and drink whatever you want and not sleep at night. After that one week, maybe at 17 you don’t feel it. At 22 years old, you start to feel it. And you don’t play so well.”

On playing doubles: “I’ll tell you one big secret. Singles players don’t care about doubles. Doubles is for practice.”

• On hiring former top-10 player Guillermo Canas (who once served a 15-month doping ban) as his coach: “I also have a bad reputation, in a certain way, so we suit each other.”

• On upsetting Tomas Berdych in the first round of Wimbledon in 2012: “I’m really happy that I didn’t choke in the end, as usual. I’m very well-known for mental strength. Ask around. Watch my previous matches.”

• On why he’s had some success at Grand Slam tournaments: “If you make it here, that’s it. You’ve done something in your life.”

• On the state of his career, in March 2012: “If I don’t make nothing out of this year, next year, that’s it, my career is over. I’m not the kind of guy who’s going to break his body and everything when I’m 28. I don’t want to be like [Andre] Agassi, who started to play when he’s 30. I don’t want to spend all my life running around, warming up, and all that stress. … I’ll be doing nothing in the country house.”

• On winning three points in the second set of a 7-6 (1), 6-0 loss to Gilles Simon at the 2011 Sydney International: “OK, I made three points. Bad luck. Next time I will make four.”

• On whether he preferred to face Mardy Fish or 6-10 ace machine Ivo Karlovic in the 2010 Delray Beach final: “Better Fish, because he’s a normal tennis player. [Fish] serves well, but at least it’s understandable.” [Gulbis wound up beating Karlovic 6-2, 6-3 for the first of his two career titles.]

• On beating Roger Federer 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 at the 2010 Rome Masters, where he finally converted his seventh match point: “Well, I s— my pants a little bit, excuse my language.”

• On his early tennis training: “Until the age of 13 or 14, I practiced four or five times a week for a couple of hours each time. That way, I was really happy to go to practice. I was going to school, doing what regular kids do, and tennis was something I was really happy to do. I see kids who are 14 practicing six to seven hours a day. That’s crazy.”

• On breaking a lot of rackets: “They put so much effort into making those rackets and an idiot like me goes and breaks them.”

• On his love/hate relationship with the game: “I don’t hate tennis. It gets on my nerves a little bit when I’m playing badly.”

• On contemplating an early retirement, during a 2011 interview: “On one side, I don’t like tennis. I don’t like the traveling, I don’t like the attention, all the pressure. But on the other side, I’m thinking, What else would I do? I’m 22. Would I go to college, would I stay at home and do nothing, would I think about how to make some money, or would I live on my parents’ money? But no, I’ve decided I would prefer to play tennis.”
More Quips

• On what he does with his, at times, unruly hair: “I think all the products are for girls. The body lotions, the creams, the makeup, whatever, is just for girls. Guys should be natural. Of course you have to take care of yourself, you have to go to shower, you know, so you don’t smell bad. The rest is just natural.”

• On the rumors that he travels to tournaments in his father’s private jet: “Yes, and I have a helicopter, a submarine and a spaceship.”

• On coming from a wealthy family: “Because I come from a wealthy family, it’s more normal for me to have this money as a tennis player. It’s OK if it’s there, it’s OK if it’s not there. It’s not a big issue for me. If you come from a poor family, you want to pull yourself up, you have a goal to earn money. I don’t have that goal.

“The fire in me is that I want to prove to myself that I can do it, that I can be at the top. I don’t care about money, I don’t care about fame. I don’t like money and fame. I don’t need them and I’m not living for them.”

[samirr]

Ako Monfis ne osvoji turnir bićeš u Top10 prvi put u karijeri, da li si srećan zbog toga?

„Biću srećan ako Gael osvoji. Sviđa mi se taj momak. Volim kada igra dobro. Trebaju nam takvi momci.“

Ernest Gulbis od Letonije

[samirr]

Gulbis o igračima bolje plasiranim od njega:

"Bez uvrede, ali kad vidim kakvi su igrači u prvih 50, ja sam malo šokiran. Ne znam neka od tih imena. Čak sam došao ovdje na turnir, vidio neke od njih i upitao prijatelja: "Tko je ovaj?

[TMmanija2012]

Monfils vs Gulbis..kakvo bi to ludo finale bilo..to je jedini mec gdje ne bih znao za koga da navijam

[Mancini]

Kada Nole izgubi onda izgubi zato što je sam sebe pobijedio a ne zato što je protivnik bio dobar. Ovdje pojedinci vole ljudima "udarati" na inteligenciju čudo jedno.

[rio_Ferdy88]

Kakva je Genie buduca teniska kraljica to je nevjerovatno

Kakav comeback

Očekujemo da Genie osveti Mugi, šteta za nju jer onaj gejm na početku 3 seta koji je trajao 10ak minuta i kad je propustila 5 brejk prilika je bio ključan.



Nova grada ženskog tenisa stasa, Genie, Halep, Mugi, Stephens, Robson, Ajlica i Mladenovićka

[HercegovinaBosna]

Kada Nole izgubi onda izgubi zato što je sam sebe pobijedio a ne zato što je protivnik bio dobar. Ovdje pojedinci vole ljudima "udarati" na inteligenciju čudo jedno.

Ma gluposti se pišu nema dalje. Čim vidiš da neko pomisli da finale može biti Gulbis - Monfils sve ti je jasno kakvi su to cirkusanti

[Edin TM87]

Kakvo bi osvjezenje bilo neko finale bez Nadala, Djokovica, Murraya i Rogera... Al' nemoguce haman da se desi

[HercegovinaBosna]

Kakvo bi osvjezenje bilo neko finale bez Nadala, Djokovica, Murraya i Rogera... Al' nemoguce haman da se desi

Buraz kako će moći biti moguće kad jedan debil poput Gulbisa izjavi da voli da puši marihuanu i da takav debil bude u finalu pored mrtvih profesionalaca, pravih tenisera.

[Mig_Mig]

Usput za ovu raspravu oko Andya, covjek se vratio na svoj stari nivo! 2m iza osnovne, previse pasivan, i sve ove "igrace" moze da dobije cekajuci unforced errors, cim se sa druge strane pojavi nole ili rafa, ferer, a sa ovom igrom gulbis, monfils .. prica ce biti zavrsena!

Ma ja. Nije da je Andy osvojao vec GS.

Ako si pazljivo citao, onda nemam sta da ti odgovaaram ! rekao sam da je na svom dosadnom starom nivou! 2-3m iza osnovne linije ! Lendl je od njega napravio ofanzivca, a ono sto je prije njega i sada sto radi je za 2 nivoa ispod noleta i rafe a nivo ispod navedenih igraca !

[HercegovinaBosna]

Ne znam od kad pratiš Andy-a koji je oduvijek ovako igrao, samo izvlačenje na forhend i njegova trenutno forma koja je jako loša, a to je više do njega samog. Da budeš u vrhu svjetskog tenisa uvijek moraš psihički biti jako stabilan i bez oscilacija a on oscilira a to je tako bilo skoro uvijek..

[Consigliere]

Kako nema ona kad su ga pitali sta ocekuje od meca sa Nadalom (polufinale Rima cini mi se): Vjerovatno cu izgubiti!

[KiaKaha]

Pa na svim prognozama koje sam danas pogledao,od 15h nije bilo ni oblaka,a kisa sipa trenutno Prekinut ce se ovo,ukoliko ne prestane ubrzo

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[soxx]

Errani ko amater

[DukeOfWellington]

Evo opet medical. To mora da se ukine.

[EmirSioux89]

Kako mi je simpatična Andrea, cijeli turnir sam je pratio zasluzila je da ide dalje.Inače što se tiče žena navijač sam Ivanovićeve, ali ona ispade pa cu reko za Muguruzu do kraja i šteta što ispade.Pa nade polažem u Andreu

Nadam se da će Nadal riješit brzo meč da ga ne prenosi sutra...Vamos Rafa!

[Greivis]

Trenirao si sa Đokovićem kada ste bili mali, ko je tada dobijao?

„Pa i nismo provodili toliko vremena zajedno. Ja sam došao u akademiju Nikija Pilića i on je već bio tu. Ja sam ostao, a on je odlazio i dolazio. Tokom tih pet godina proveli smo možda mesec dana trenirajući zajedno. Možda i manje. Odigrali smo nekoliko setova. Nisam mogao da ga dobijem. Ali mogao sam na tepihu, imali smo neki brzi tepih u dvorani i tamo sam ga pobedio. Ovo sam već rekao. On je bio izuzetan profesionalac već tada. Sećam se da smo imali zajedničkog prijatelja. To je bio neki Hrvat koji je bio već u tom dobu ženskaroš. Stalno se sređivao, stavljao parfem, naočare za sunce, stalno je bio sa devojkama. I video sam Novaka koji se istezao. Novak mi je rekao: ’Da, možeš da imaš bilo koju. Možeš da imaš bilo koju devojku na svetu. Ali ako želiš da budeš zaista uspešan moraš sve da radiš u svoje vreme. Nešto tako mi je rekao. Još uvek se toga sećam. To je klinac koji ima 15 godina. Nikada to neću zaboraviti“, rekao je Gulbis.

Djoker.

Pocet cu jos navijat za njega.

[EmirSioux89]

Bravooo curoo! Idemo po titulu!

[EmirSioux89]

Kuznjecova povrijeđena il' šta već, kreće se ko invalid po terenu?