2017 Rolex Paris Masters...ATP 1000...Paris, France

[don_budge]

http://www.skysports.com/tennis/news/12110/11111330/rafael-nadal-withdraws-from-paris-masters-with-a-knee-injury

Poor Guy Forget...he must be livid. Juan Martin Del Potro in the third now with John Isner and he looks to be pulling up lame as well. Or maybe it's a fake. You never know these days. Fake...fake...fake. Everything seems to be fake.

[don_budge]

Men's Semifinals...2017 Rolex Paris Masters

The semifinals are set. Filip Krajinovic (#77) versus John Isner (#14) and Julien Benneteau (#83) versus Jack Sock (#22). What a DISASTER for the Rolex Paris Masters. No wonder Guy Forget is flummoxed. This is his worst nightmare. But the possibility exists for an All-American final. I wonder when that last time that has happened.

Perhaps some of the play has been entertaining. I, myself, cannot see sitting through any of these matches in their entirety. Imagine the whole Paris crowd collectively yawning at the prospects of these semifinals. Ok...let it rip stotty and stroke. The depth in men's tennis is up to snuff? I beg to differ. Houston...we have a problem!

[klacr]

Men's Semifinals...2017 Rolex Paris Masters

The semifinals are set. Filip Krajinovic (#77) versus John Isner (#14) and Julien Benneteau (#83) versus Jack Sock (#22). What a DISASTER for the Rolex Paris Masters. No wonder Guy Forget is flummoxed. This is his worst nightmare. But the possibility exists for an All-American final. I wonder when that last time that has happened.

Perhaps some of the play has been entertaining. I, myself, cannot see sitting through any of these matches in their entirety. Imagine the whole Paris crowd collectively yawning at the prospects of these semifinals. Ok...let it rip stotty and stroke. The depth in men's tennis is up to snuff? I beg to differ. Houston...we have a problem!

Last time two Americans made the final was 1987. Tim Mayotte defeated Brad Gilbert.

One word to describe this year's masters series in Paris. BORING.
Although Benneteau shows some flashes of all court tennis and fundamentals, Sock, Isner and Krajinovic don't really get my blood pumping. How much longer until e see Federer in London?

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

[don_budge]

Last time two Americans made the final was 1987. Tim Mayotte defeated Brad Gilbert.

One word to describe this year's masters series in Paris. BORING.
Although Benneteau shows some flashes of all court tennis and fundamentals, Sock, Isner and Krajinovic don't really get my blood pumping. How much longer until e see Federer in London?

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

Krajinovic through to the finals. I was hoping Isner would be in the finals. That would have to be an ugly match whoever played him. Isner was up 3-0 in the third set tie-break and managed to lose it. Watched a bit of the match here and there. It went on forever. I couldn't imagine being one in that crowd. Snoozing. Drinking coffee. Trying to stay awake.

Now for Bennteau and Sock. Sure this has to be better. Don't count on it. Jack Sock is horrible to watch. Question? Why do both Americans wear a baseball cap backwards. Ugly.

[bottle]

Krajinovic through to the finals. I was hoping Isner would be in the finals. That would have to be an ugly match whoever played him. Isner was up 3-0 in the third set tie-break and managed to lose it. Watched a bit of the match here and there. It went on forever. I couldn't imagine being one in that crowd. Snoozing. Drinking coffee. Trying to stay awake.

Now for Bennteau and Sock. Sure this has to be better. Don't count on it. Jack Sock is horrible to watch. Question? Why do both Americans wear a baseball cap backwards. Ugly.

Wouldn't it be awful if somebody agreed with a man who has a deep antipathy to the word "agree?" I detest baseball caps worn backward but realize that in the olden days some long-necked players followed through directly over their head and hit their back.

[don_budge]

2017 Rolex Paris Masters? Busted...

Guy Forget saw the handwriting on the wall when Roger Federer pulled out of the 2017 Rolex Paris Masters. He was extremely disappointed as he is well aware who butters his bread. Roger Federer is the biggest draw in tennis and some would say (like don_budge for instance) he is the only draw. The only matches that are of any interest now are Roger versus Anybody.

Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka are off licking their wounds. No where to be seen for months and months. Who knows they could be off and recycling their PED's. It seems all of the top players are taking extended breaks from the tour and I wonder if there has been some new breakthrough in PED technology...or is it all just a coincidence. Rafael Nadal is joining the party. He and Federer seem to be playing a little game of hide and seek from each other. Each assessing their chances or maybe even their PED status before daring to climb in the ring with each other.

Something very strange is going on these days as we transition into the next big tennis culmination point as the Federer Era gradually comes to a close. Guy Forget had nothing but headaches and the end result was a bust of final of Jack Sock and Somebody Krajinovic. I watched bits and pieces of at least a dozen matches from the 2017 Rolex Paris Masters last week. I had the week off last week so I had the time. If only Roger Federer had been playing. There might have been some tennis worth watching.

What will happen in London? Nadal is playing the shell game. Will he be there...or will he skate?

What's that sound I hear...that giant sucking sound like the air going out of the balloon. It is the vacuum that is soon to be without Roger Federer in the house. Tennis is in big trouble. They are desperately looking to reinvent the game. To "modernize" it.