DC 2014 Final - 21-23 Nov 2014

First topic message reminder :

SUI and FRA contest the final in a few days.

http://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie/details.aspx?tieId=100021090

SUI has two players coming out of WTF, while FRA has depth in numbers.

SUI may never be at this point in the near future and can make the best of the presented opportunity. Federer and Wawrinka would like to add this to their CV, if they can. They will rue the opportunity that Lady Luck has thrown their way.

FRA is the last hurdle, and have some good players, a home court advantage and a surface that may favor them more the the SUI. H2Hs may be meaningless in such a contest given that any of the players on one side can beat players on the other side of the net.

ARG v ESP turned out to be an excellent DC final, with DelPotro, Monaco, Nalbandian trying their best to get the better of the other side.

Will this final live up to its billing?

It's Gasket.

Surprising.

bogbrush wrote:It's Gasket.

Surprising.

Autocorrect alert

What a sh*t decision that is by France... dear me.

Roger isn't going to lose to Gasquet.

It Must Be Love wrote:

bogbrush wrote:It's Gasket.

Surprising.

Autocorrect alert

No, that's how I spell his name. It comes in handy when he blows it.

I see the French have brought out the white flag....ooopppppssss I mean Gasquet.

bogbrush wrote:

It Must Be Love wrote:

bogbrush wrote:It's Gasket.

Surprising.

Autocorrect alert

No, that's how I spell his name. It comes in handy when he blows it.

Yeah well autocorrect on iPhone seems to agree with your judgement.

OMG, so disappointed, nothing to look forward to now. Gasquet can never seem to stand up to Federer. This guy actually has the game to make it to the final 8 last WTF but looked so lost yesterday. 

On the other hand, given Federer is still not 100% for a BO5 SINGLEs battle, perhaps Gasquet will surprise us.....

GASQUET!!!!   GASQUET?!!!??

Blue Moon wrote:OMG, so disappointed, nothing to look forward to now. Gasquet can never seem to stand up to Federer. This guy actually has the game to make it to the final 8 last WTF but looked so lost yesterday. 

On the other hand, given Federer is still not 100% for a BO5 SINGLEs battle, perhaps Gasquet will surprise us.....

He couldn't beat Fed if Fed was on crutches

Not in a million years is gasquet beating Federer over five sets - broke back or not.

They should start the trophy presentation now.

If Tsonga's injured they should've picked Simon. No brainer really. Simon is tireless and frustrate Federer. Gasquet isn't even Federer lite.

Fed will give it all to win this.

Moët waiting in locker room.

Jahu wrote:Fed will give it all to win this.

Moët waiting in locker room.

When he knew he was playing Gasquet he had one before he went on court

swiss cardigan in full power, trashing this rusted Gasket.

emancipator wrote:If Tsonga's injured they should've picked Simon. No brainer really. Simon is tireless and frustrate Federer. Gasquet isn't even Federer lite.

Exactly, why, oh, why?

Gasquet has the pearls?

These commentators are dreadful!

Some good tennis from both players.

Ball is jumping so high, some quality moonballing going on.

Serving masterclass this.

This a strange court:

Pretty quick (just look at how many baseline winners Fed is hitting compared to London)

high bouncing

clay

and indoors

This like beating your 7 year old brother in an arm wrestling match. Just no contest really.

It would have been nice to see stan and Monfils battle it out. This just isn't close to interesting from a match standpoint sadly

First set Fed 6:4. Some great play from both.

emancipator wrote:If Tsonga's injured they should've picked Simon. No brainer really. Simon is tireless and frustrate Federer. Gasquet isn't even Federer lite.

They should have picked Simon as the second singles player from the start

Gasquet is better on clay then Simon.

Feel free to grow some cojones anytime you like Richard.

94% first serve Fed.

Fed to win FO next year

Nah, Wawrinka more likely, although I'm a big Fed fan.

Anyone but Chokovic

Gasket also being made to work harder.

They're not allowed to pick Simon.  You can only pick 4 players and they went with Tsonga, Monfils, Benne & Gasquet.  Surely Julien would have been a better bet.

(unless you mean for the tie overall)

Only Rafa could counter Fed today, thats EuroSport saying it, and I will not argue

Gasquet may as well handover his lunch money while he's at it!

Oh I see tsj fair dos I guess.  Julienne does have a much better dc mentality

Maybe, but Benny on clay? Also I guess they have to go with the higher ranked singles player.

Trouble is Gasket is utterly owned by Federer, at least Benny would be sparky. More to he point though, Federer has ZERO fear of Reechard, which is why he's switched into fully relaxed God mode. He is playing extremely well now.

@IMBL... can you find out what is going on with Tsonga?

Looks like the best Silver Platter to hand the DC Trophy to Federinka was by putting Gasquet up for slaughter.

Fed takes second set 6:2.

Federer is magic today. Winners galore. Beautiful all court tennis.

Fed playing like its W in 2005.

7 points lost on serve so far from Fed.

Tsonga picked a sort of elbow injury apparently. He said he was at 70-80% of his capacity yesterday. Doubt he, Simon or Benneteau would have made a difference against vintage Roger anyway.

Gasquet is a mess. Stuck in neutral his whole career, and is bottling the biggest clash of his career in front of a world record crowd.

Why on earth is Clement getting involved??

Just caps off the mess the French have made of this final!

French coach b1tching a little for no reason.

Holy swiss cheese, Fed like a wall.

Just pure poetry in motion. Even Gasquet's flat strokes are coming back. Nothing he can do.

Federer's serving has been out of this world.

Someone pinch me or kiss me

I must be dreaming, go swiss gooo

This is it.

Fed to serve for the Davis Cup.

Fed serving for the Title

Thanks to Monfils to make this tie a bit more exciting.