I think we are all curious to see how that wrist has healed. Good luck JMDP on your return.

Don't place too much hope on Delpo, he'll not be match fit. As Rafa only starts play on 30 Sept, I'm now more interested in the KL Open, so many interesting match-ups: Berdych vs Istomin; Youzhny vs Dolgo boy; Baggy vs Nishikori; Davy vs Stakovsky; Ferrer vs Tomic. Do not know whether there is any streaming available, as not shown over tv here.

I think in the Queen's club tournament this year, Rafa, Nole, Murray, Roddick, four of the top ten guys had shown up. Of course that was a warm up tournament for Wimbledon, so its understandable that so many top ten players showed up. This KL tournament is interesting, why did it attract so many top ten players, when some of them have to play next week in either Beijing or Tokyo, and followed that with Shanghai, ie playing for consecutive three weeks!

luckystar, I don't want to entertain the thought of "scared to rafa" but maybe the organizers of KL have approached these players earlier, while the organizers of Bangkok were joined together travelling to Spain to persuade Nadal to play in Thailand. The treatment they given to Nadal during his arrival in Bangkok speaks volume. For that, Rafa should win the tournament lolz lolz lolz.

@luckystar , 9/27/10 10:16 AM
Try www.tennisform.com

Ok thanks Augustina.

Your right luckystar we probabaly won't see Delpo back in form before next year.
last night I watched a qualifying match from Thailand on fromsport ... you could try there also.

OK smr will try both and see which is better. I watched this young guy from India, Bambri last night playing against one Malaysian guy and Bambri won the match. Bambri is one of those up and coming young players right? Among that group consisting Ryan Harrison, Grigor Dmitrov, Bernard Tomic, and one young Serbian player Filip something? (sorry can't remember his name). I think a few more American like Devin Britton, Chase Buchanan, too? Oh yes one more 17 year old from Spain, Carlos Beluda.

Will be interesting to watch this group of young players and see who is likely to be the next Fed or the next Rafa. I think it is very difficult to find another Rafa. Rafa appeared some 20+ years after Borg, whom many people compared Rafa against. Fed is sometimes compared to Sampras and also Laver. So the hunt for a new Fed and new Rafa is on...

i would say davydenko is cold. i hope he will heat up again like last fall, but can't see it coming.

very interesting tournaments this week!

luckystar I like to watch the newbies too. I'll keep an eye out for Bambri. I'm happy that young Canadian Milos Raonic won his match last night in Kuala Lumpur.

Hi smr, I heard about Raonic too, I think I saw one of his matches at some other tournament, quite impressive. It seems that this KL tournament is quite an interesting one, is there a match to be played between Ferrer and Tomic too? So many young players in this tournament, good to look out for them and see how they play. This is the first time I saw a Bambri match, the last time I saw him was in that exhibition with Harrison, Sampras and Agassi at Macau.

I think Tomic is one up and coming young player, he was impressive against Cilic at this year's AO. Tomic's style is really very similar to Murray's. So far I have watched those young players that I mentioned above played their matches, only missed out Filip and Carlos Beluda.

One 21 year old player to look out for - Dolgopolov - very interesting player, very special style of play. He is still in the tournament so hopefully can get to see his match.

Yeah luckystar,

I kinda like Dolgopolov..........i see a lot of prospects there!!!!

Awww Milos Raonic won and is now in his first atp quarter-finals. Granted he beat the lowest ranked main entrant to the tournament and a very tired Stakhovsky but we all need a bit of luck. :)

I am sure Nadal is there to handle Potro. On the other side I wish Yuki Bhambri puts up a decent fight against Ferrer in his second round match. Yuki just won his first ATP World tour match. Migrating to the senior level. Read more - www.tennisjunction.in

motraj - Del Potro is already out; lost to Rochus

Happy for Raonic and Bhambri, too bad Dolgo boy didn't make it. Too bad also De Bakker didn't make it in Bangkok, lost in three tight sets. So sad that Davy get knocked out so soon, he has so many points to defend from now on and he is not ready to defend them, poor Davy.

luckystar-davydneko is really struggling. He wont be at the WTF,and he will be out of the top 20 by the end of the year.

luckystar :)
Bit sad about Debakker's loss I watched much of that match and I really thought he would win ... i guess Brands just kept on serving strong. Dolgo was just unlucky in drawing a hot Youzhny.

De Bakker is one of my favorite together with Dolgo boy, among the up and coming 21-22 year olds. I hope to see them in the top twenty soon and compete well against the top ten guys. Both Davy and Delpo are really affected by their wrist injuries. Well after seeing how Rafa suffered after his injury last year, I guess we shouldn't expect too much from these two guys. They are very good players, so like Nalby, they'll move up the rankings soon even though they may suffer now.

luckystar, the only difference being that Rafa's losses during the time he was recovering from injury are constantly being used as a stick to beat him with, because I'm sure that Delpo's loss to O. Rochus is not going to be held against him, or Davy's loss to Andreev.

Filler

@ Nadline: I think people are more likely to be sympathetic owards DelPotro due to the fact that he's been off the tour for several months., e.g., 9 months to be exact, as opposed to Nadal being on and off on several occasions. It's similar to employee (a) being out with the flu for two weeks, when employee ()0 is out of work for only 3 days with the same flu. That said, a wrist injury is extremely serious and a player is very handicapped trying to serve and returning.

watching rafa's semi right now and oh my...the guy is playing AWESOME hard court tennis. I have NEVER seen him play this type fo hard court tennis, not even at the Us open, and he is the best volleyer in the game now (johhny mac was right!! ) .

what about all those stupid theories regarding the court speed doing this to rafa, doing that bla bla bla !! LOL....the court speed of this indoor surface is doing NOTHING against nadal and he is just using the speed to hsi own adv and enjoying out there.vamos rafa !! conquer the indoor season

argghh the poor break point conversion rate continues for rafa though..the only thing that is frustrating me right now abt his game is this one...

2/21 break points so far

22 bp...lets see...sigh

22nd vanished...23rd now..lol

has any1 earnt and then lost so many bp's in a best of three EVER?????

INSANE!!!

I have no idea vrael, what I know is that, Nadal is susceptible to LOPEZes lolz. You know Feliciano at Queens early this year right?

Now the score is 3-3 of 2nd set, time to finish the show Rafa, VAMOS !!!

hehe he lost the 2nd set 6-7. This is interesting!

5-2 Lopez at 3rd Set.

Rafa, good luck, let's see if you can pull this off !!!

Vamos !!!

what the hell was that??!! LOL ...those missed chances just frustrated rafa sooo much and he just couldntn concentrate..very strange match... never mind, tokyo next..still rafa playing GREAT , those missed chances against lopez were just miraculous! nothing to worry about. good match from lopez though.

Lopez BP was just one of one. Lol.

I am sad that Rafa lost today, but a good thing is that he got one more day to rest before the next tournament, which begins in Tokyo on Monday. He will start to play there from the 1st round.

loss is a loss, STOMACH PUNCH to all Rafans haha. Where is the improved serves? He is still struggling at H/C deal with it.