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LEADERSHIP! Nichols has it, Durant has it, Kevin Glenn does not and never has had it. Glenn can put up all the numbers he wants to, but he's still not a leader. Nichols is showing himself to be a winner for the Bombers, Durant showed he was a winner with the Riders, keep your stats Glenn is a loser.

Yeah Mannarino really seemed to have trouble dealing with the obviously biased crowd and his game totally went away as Shapovalov started to get more into the game. I don't know much about Zverev, but he's really established himself as the top young gun so I like the fact that we got a semi final in a masters tournament which features some youth. Next question since I believe Shapovalov will now be well withing the top 100 rankings is does the US Open give him a wild card entry, cause he probably deserves it after this.

I noticed that too, lots of balls the redblacks receivers pulled off the turf that I thought should have been no catch.

and Nadal has a muffin serve, really takes something to have trouble with that.

I think Jennings still has to prove himself a bit too. Yeah he's had early success but what happens if he is in a situation without the best group of receivers in the league (in my opinion) coming down with all those bombs he tosses up.

Oh I am absolutely rooting for the kid, the tennis world needs some young blood because the generation with Raonic and Nishikori and Dimitrov were abysmal and failed to even push the previous generation, but seen lots of young guys beat Nadal over the years and then never do much else. He needs to improve his service return and net game to get to the consistent level.

but Kevin Glenn!!!!!

I really do think people need to temper their expectations based on an upset over Nadal. Guy gets upset by young players swinging for the fences quite a bit, having success in one match where Nadal plays passively like that is entirely different from having sustained success against players who actually have a brain and can adjust tactics when things aren't working.

He didn't exactly come out of nowhere, he did win the wimbledon jrs. a couple years ago and I believe he's won a few challenger tournaments already this year.

get this **** out of here until the game this week is over with. MOS gonna go balistic on you.

The most important thing Nichols has done is get his team mates to seemingly be willing to run through a wall for him. That means more than anything at the position if you ask me.

That's unfair to Raonic Noeller, He is a solid player but he is very passive and lacks the killer instinct to beat the top players. He's been top 10 for a long time now, just doesn't have the mentality to consistently beat the other top players on tour. Bouchard well she's just not as interested in improving her game as she needs to be simple as that. Caught people by surprise early, they figured her out and she hasn't adapted to that. Shapovalov who knows how good he can be, there have been other teenagers come in and make noise like that and then never progress as much as expected, but I think this kid does have a bright future if he can improve his atrocious net play. Make no mistake if you're going to upset a top seed by blasting the ball as hard as you can it'll be Nadal, especially when he plays so far behind the baseline like he was doing last night. Guy will sit a mile back and run down balls and wait for his opponent to make a mistake. That never happened last night but guys like Federer or Murray or Djokovic would never give you that much room. That's why I ******* hate Nadal as a player. Such a boring as **** player. ******* clay court players, speed up the courts again and players like him disappear.

when opportunity knocks you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phoney baloney church or synaGOGUE

This seems surprising...

hookers and blow?

Well to be fair there were probably a hell of a lot of people took a look at Roberts size and decided he was a waste of time. Like it or not teams always want size size and more size and big guys who suck get way more chances than little guys ever get.

If Nichols gets a bit more consistent with his accuracy on some of the deep passes look out.

I don't think they ever would have taken a receiver at #1. Kyle Walters is very adamant that his top picks get used on linemen. If he feels they are the backbone of a teams NI depth then he's not exactly wrong to stock the cupboards there.

given the similarities between Richards and Etienne how do we know that Etienne wasn't Kyle Walters influence?

The only good thing Mike Kelly did was trash the media in this city and put them in their place with the handled internally presser. Literally the only good thing.

shocking thought, but maybe Tait is less critical now because with a team winning games there is just less to be critical of?