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[danispadi]

Haha i will restart my career now , after Maxou patch . It will be the same ,but i will start pro 10 from the beggining and i will play my whole career as pro 10. I dont know what ill do when the other patch comes out though

You know, I decided to use Miharu just for the fact that it's a patch from 2003 to 2014, and I love the first 2000's years

[Jacko]

Hey guys!
Great posts, loved reading all of them!
Sorry I have been away for a while but I am back!
So in the season I was talking about I was doing ok until the ATP500 in Beijing, which I won! (d. Coric 6/4, 6/3) so after languishing at around the 40 ranking I flew up to an end of season high of 26!
This made me a seed for the first time in the slams which meant I made the 3rd round (d by Djokovic 6/4, 6/1, 6/3) for only the second time! Which also meant after a few more tournaments i crept into the top 20!
Anyway, my best ever tournament is the one I am currently playing, ranked 21 in the world (I dropped a few places) and 19th seed, with tipsarevic in the 1st round, dolgopolov in the 2nd round, Montanes (14 seed) in the 3rd and potentially if I can win those 3 matched Nishikori (2 seed) in the 4th round
First two matches were comfortable straight set victories which set me up for Montanes in round 3, who has beaten me in all our previous 3 meetings. I also noticed Nishikori had given 57 ranked Golubev a walkover in round 3 so I had potential to make the quarters if I won this match! First set was tight, and he managed to break me at 5/4 to take the first set. I was playing well so wasnt too concerned, I felt I could still win. Second serve was very tight, ended up taking the tie break after an early mini break 7-4, third set was again very tight, but managed to get a break to win 6/4, then he dropped his level and I managed to finish him off in the 4th 6/3!
Then I got really lucky, Golubev who I often struggle against got beaten by Qureshi (ranked 19 in the world) who I have beaten before, and I beat him comfortably in straight sets
So I was in the Quarter finals for the first time, against Del Potro

[Jacko]

Del Potro match started as I thought it would, he was crashing forehands into the corners and really causing me problems. First game of the match he brought up two break points which I saved with some good serving.
I knew his forehand was the big weapon so targeted the backhand, trying to get as much depth as possible, once I got into a rhythm he really struggled to match me. And I raced into a 6/3, 6/4, 2/0 lead. Then the match turned on his head, my forever reliable ground strokes started missing the lines, he started hitting more winners, i started making more errors, which lead to him levelling the match at 6/3, 6/4, 4/6, 3/6.
I was growing frustrated, I knew at 2-0 this was a huge chance to move my career to the next level, but I was struggling to halt his momentum to get over the line.
I knew my serving was crucial, I couldnt get broken first in this final set, only problem was his serving was at its peak now, 50% of service points were unreturnable serves, and it went to 4/4 all on serve. We were both tense, we knew a break at this late stage would probably settle it, I had the advantage of serving first. He brought up another couple of break points and again my serving and determination brought me through to save them. After 6 deuces I won the game to make it 5/4. Now game 10 was the first time in the set Del Potro started to struggle on serve, he even double faulted! I had half a chance at 30/30, and I managed to hit a beauty of a cross court forehand winner to bring up match point, he then served an ace to go to deuce next point I sent it out wide on his forehand (very risky) but he hit into the tramlines! Match point number 2! He served towards the body but I managed to move and send the return deep, he could only hit long! I collapsed to my knees in joy! Total points at the end was 162-160 in my favour, that close! Two of the sets we had won exactly the same number of points! (we won one of those each) insane match that could of gone either way!
More fortune in the French Open draw was that due to his drop in the rankings Nadal was in the same half of the draw as Djokovic! So the Semi Finals are Nadal v Djokovic, Me v Tomic (never beaten him, but I am in the form of my life!) hoping that 5 set epic hasnt taken too much out of me, hoping to make my first grand slam final, will play tonight and post tomorrow!

[Krish4791]

Great posts, Jacko - well done for winning the thrilling match against Del Potro!

I had 2 final tournaments to play in 2007. I started off by heading to Paris Masters where I won my opening match 6-3, 6-3 against Andre Sa (who pushed me to 5 sets at Wimbledon), but lost in R3 against Radek Stepanek 4-6, 5-7.

Then I played the World Tour Finals/Masters Cup (2007):

RR: Zeiner def. Blake: 7-6, 7-6 - a very close match. No-one lost a point on their serve until the tiebreak! I won the 1st set 7-5 in the tie-break, then was 1-4 down in 2nd set but recoverd and won in another tie-break

RR: Nadal def. Zeiner 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 - Nadal played much better now and broke very late in the set to win it 7-5. His level dropped and I broke immediately to move into a 3-0 lead, then broke again with a huge FH DTL winner for 5-0, then served out the set 6-1. In the 3rd set, I had 3 break points at 3-3, but missed all of them, then Nadal had match point at 5-6, 30-40 and I served a double fault :angry: Nadal gets his 2nd win over me at last (and is getting better heading into 2008)

RR: Davydenko def. Zeiner 6-3, 6-4 - routine win for Davydenko. My form drops off towards the end of the season, and I lost points here, but still finish the year ranked No. 1 (300 or so points ahead of Federer)!

Then the beginning of my 2008 Season!

I had chance to train my skills more and comeback refreshed with my new all-black outfit!

2008 Sydney International: (I won in 2005, 2006, 2007)

R2: Zeiner def. Haas - 6-1, 6-1
QF: Zeiner def. Korolev - 6-0, 6-0
SF: Zeiner def. Hewitt - 6-2, 6-1
F: Zeiner def. Blake - 6-4, 6-1 - All in all, a fantastic tournament for me as I dropped only 10 games and won my 4th consecutive Sydney title! I now once again head into the Australian Open as the heavy favourite, looking for my 4th AO title and 6th Slam

2008 Australian Open:

R1: Zeiner def. Vanek - 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 - Comfortable opening as I hit 10 aces and 30 winners

R2: Zeiner def. Darcis - 6-0, 6-0, 6-1 - Darcis was not playing well, too many errors and I won easily

R3: Zeiner def. Gasquet - 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 - Gasquet gave me very tough match in China last year, but I played a great match. Very confident start to get to 5-0 (double break lead). In 2nd set, at 1-1, I played a great return game and broke to love then raced through the set. At 2-5, 15-40 on Gasquet serve in 3rd set, I had 2 match points and converted the 1st one with a nice dropshot

R4: Zeiner def. Almagro - 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 - Definitely the best match of the tournament for me, probably best match ever. I broke Almagro 8 times (3 in set 1, 2 in set 2, 3 in set 3), served at 75% 1st serves in, hit 36 winners and just 5 unforced errors! I marched into the Quarter Finals for the loss of only 11 games (did not drop a set)

QF: Zeiner def. Tsonga - 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 - I think this was my first ever meeting with Tsonga, and I played very well. He actually led 1-3 in the first set, but I broke him back and broke again after he served 3 double faults in 1 game. He never recovered and I ran away with the win again.

SF: Zeiner def. Djokovic - 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 - I thought this would be a very tough match. Djokovic broke me in the very first game (I played a loose game) for 1-0, but I broke back immediately. Djoko then had 6 break points in the 7th game at 3-3, but I managed to save all of them, then I broke in the 10th game to take the first set 6-4. I raced through set 2 and then found myself serving for the match at 5-4 in set 3 after breaking Djokovic again! I won with an ace and reached another AO final against Federer.

F: Zeiner def. Federer - 7-5, 7-6, 7-5 - Fantastic match from me: I broke at 6-5 to win the first set 7-5. Federer then broke me immediately in the 2nd set and served for the set at 5-3. He had set point at 40-30, but I managed to save it with a passing shot, then I broke back and levelled up at 5-5. The set went into a tie-break, where I found myself 0-4 down, but once again recovered to take the tie-break 9-7, saving 1 more set point! I then led 5-2 in set 3 before being pegged back to 5-5, but then held serve for 6-5. I hit 2 return winners for 0-30, then Federer mishit a forehand to bring up 3 Championship Points. I only needed one, which I sealed with a memorable BH passing shot!
I won my 4th consecutive Australian Open Title, and did not drop a set! Definitely my most dominant performance in a Grand Slam Because of this win, I hold on to my No. 1 ranking for now, but have more Masters titles to defend later in the season. I have still not lost a set in 2008 matches so far, we'll see how much longer this good form continues!

[iopzzza]

Guys , the new maxou patch have a bug. In Indian wells first year there were Bye in the third rounds ???? And no match played it was funny. Nadal - Sock at 2n round then no one advances.... and its bye vs querrey. It was like that in more than 5 sections , so i've decied to switch back to my sam megapatch career and I WILL UPLOAD IN A MINUTE my achievemnts . Just for the record , wait for the next patch , MAxou patch its not good for offline play .

[iopzzza]

LETS REVIVE THIS THREAD !!! Well my last post was Monte Carlo's one - yeah my second Masters Title . Do u know what i like more abotu sam megapatch. Some of the courts arent with the best view when you play at it. And makes it even more challenging , so no maxou patch for now. As i've said after monte carlos i played Barcelona (on pro 10 now , after my second Masters title in monte carlo , you can check the post in the early pages.) In barcelona i was 5th seeded and also 5th in the world . Got Bye in the first round and played tough match against Tomic in the second. Lost the first set 4/6 with an early break but managed to beat him 7-5 7-5 in the next two sets to win with 4/6 7/5 7/5. In the 3rd round i got easyer opponent.- Robin Haase. The first was one sided i've destroyed him 6-2 , but in the second he started to fight and we went 5-5 , but i broke in the next game and won 7-5. After haase i played against the clay king Verdasco . Lost 6-7 in the first and i was super concentrated in the two sets two break him one time each set and win 6/7 6-4 6-4. And the semifinals were - Federer - Nadal and Me - Djokovic , Fed beat nadal (yes on clay) 6/3 6/4 and i fought brave , but lost to djokovic 3/6 1/6. He was outstanding (pro 10 , just reminding ). That was all for barcelona not a bad run in my amazing clay court season.

I played madrid afterwards (i'm starting to love clay , more and more on sam megapatch its amazing.) Again 5th seeded, bye in the first round , beat easily kochlyshreiber with stable hitting 6/3 6/4 , absolutely the same in the next round against another German - Haas 6/4 6/3. And there we met again , this time QF . Djokovic - Me. I was very confident because of my first two matches and i was thinking about the win. I've started really good with 3/0 lead , but he equal it 3-3.Then we got 1 game each and i've broke him in my only break point in his last game to win the first set 6-4. Amazing , beating djokovi pro 10 on clay,. The second set started bad for , as i was broken in my first game of serve. I dont know what happened aftewards but he aced me arround 10 times to win the set 6-4 , didnt gave me a chance to break back. I didnt wanted to miss this chance... if i had beaten djokovic i would play NADAL (the king of clay). I reorganised and broke him twice to get up a lead 4-0. Yeah , i've tryed to baggel , but he didnt gave up easily. Finally i've finished the match 6-2 in the third part. (6-4 4-6 6-2 fin score). And that was it , The Clay KING NADAL vs ME (the new clay king?). I was more than ready and i thought i have a chance.... until we started the match. Well 1-6 1-6 says enough i dont want to discuss it. He won the tournament . I will post more in 15 minutes to avoid big post I am happy to be back and PLEASE REVIVE THIS THREAD !

[iopzzza]

Actually i want to ask something ... does anyone play on sam megapatch ?. I was wondering what will happen if i set the 3d courts on ? Does the court speed and bounce reamin the same and only the view changes? Cause for example in Toronto Master on Sam Megapatch the view is awful . The players are like giants and i cant see the full court , smthing like this (i cant change the camera either when its set to 3d courts off) - http://s2.postimg.org/8mbim2tqh/TE2013_007.png

[iopzzza]

Here we go again with the next post !
After Madrid , i played in the next Clay Masters (the last for the clay season) Rome. My clay season so far was AMAZING. Winning Casablanca (for second year) , Monte Carlo , Reaching SF of Barcelona and Madrid. I couldnt wish for more. Unfortunatley Rome wasnt my best tournament - in my first year i've reached 3rd round , now i 've reached again third round , winnnig one match against Granollers 4/6 6/1 6/4. (lost against almagro 4/6 4/6). Well i must say i was already thinking about Roland Garros and didnt played my best at Rome.
I was seeded 5th again at Roland Garros. Had easy first two matches . 1R against M.Leong 6/0 6/0 6/2 , 2R against Giraldo 6/0 6/2 6/4. Then i've lost the first set in the third round against Kochly , but got back on track winning 4/6 6/2 6/2 6/2. In the 4th round i've played Berdych . I couldnt dreamed of an easyer opponent. I dont know why , but i ALWAYS BEAT BERDYCH. ON maxou patch , on sam megapatch , even on UNmodded game , i remember every of my careers and i beat him always . Well after all it wasnt an easy 6/4 6/7 7/5 7/6 , but yet again , he just paniced in the key moments and made stupid errors . So after this match i've already deffended my QF from the first year. QFinals were -
Youzhny - Haas ( Youzhny beat federer in 5 sets)
Me - Djokovic
Nadal - NIshikori
Wawrinka - Verdasco (Verdasco beat del potro in 4th round).
Everything from now on was a bonus , but i managed to make the biggest win of my career so far !! I've beat djokovic on clay , on pro 10 , 3-0 sets. 7/6 7/5 6/4. Youzhny destroyed Haas and in the low part the semifnal was Nadal - Wawrinka. You can guess what i dreamt of. Playing against Nadal on clay , at ROland Garros FINAL. The King of Clay vs The New King of clay. Well , Wawrinka and Youzhny had other things to say. Youzhyn just teached me how to play on clay. I've lost 3/6 7/6 4/6 4/6. AND WAWRINKA beat nadal 4/6 6/4 7/6 6/3. So the final was Youzhny- Wawrinka and wawrinka won 7/6 3/6 4/6 6/3 6/2 in an epic encounter. Anyway i was very happy about my SF and GARROS (MY FIRST SF AT GS). More to come soon

[iopzzza]

Well it seems i am the only active player ... so lets continue. After my SF at RG i started the grass season with hope to do better than last year. Yes last year i've won atp 250 , but ivé won Hertogenbosch , where my toughest opponent was MAHUT and he won a set . I've played bad on wimbledon also , losing to Gulbis 2-3 sets. I've decided to go a level higher this year and started in Halle. Believe me , after playing so much on different clay courts it was so hard to adapt to this grass... I was first seeded and played Kukushkin in the first round. Match started terrible he got the lead 4-0 and won the set 6-2 , second set was closer but he won it with one break of serve 6-3. So this is it 1R loss at Halle. Ivé skipped hertogenbosch and went straight to Wimby. 3RD seeded for the first time at GRAND SLAM . Got an easy first round against someone named Crow ? Won 6-1 6-2 6-2 and when tought i was playing well i had to play Chris Garner ! What a wonderkid. He will be the next slam winner. I've started good with 6-3 lead braking him one time, before losing 1-6 the second set , yes he leveled up in that set . Third set was all about the UE. We made it to 6/6 and when i led 5-3 in the tiebreak with 1 server remaining i thought the set was won. But it wasnt to be i've lost the next 4 points and lost the second set 5-7 in tiebreak. There was no room for more mistakes. I couldnt allow to lose in 2nd round and started playing better , made 4/0 lead in the 4-th set and closed it with 2 aces 6/2. The 5th set was equal to the third , but you know ... there is no tiebreaker. We made it to 7/7 , where i FINALLY broke him (i dont know how) and then after missing 2 match points , closed the match 9-7 games in the 5th set.
My next opponent was a clay specialist - J.MOnaco. I was thinking for 3 or 4 sets (max) win. And my thoughts became real when i broke him in his last gmae of server for 6-4 . WE boht made some errors in the second part. I've tryed everything but lastly he won it 6-3. I've always knew - THE THIRD SET IS CRUCIAL and that's why i concentrated and completely blasted him off the court , almost baggeling him. He won 5 points in the whole set i think (or smthing like that) 6/1. so 6/4 3/6 6/1 and just when i tought i will win easily in 4 sets he made 2 return winners after my DF and broke me for 5-3 , closing the 4th set 6/3. Again a 5th set decider. We both started great hitting good , serving good until 4/4 and his serve. I made it to 30-0 on his serve, eventually he equaled it. With a good smash i had a BREAK POINT , but missed it and he won the game 5-4. In my last game of serve (unfortunately) i dont know what happened , my serve was very weak , but that happens , the problem is in me , the thing on grass is getting worse. He won 6-4 the 5th part. Yes í've lost to Blood damned MONACO on grass , but that's life , i am early in my career so its not a big deal (for 2 weeks i was number 3 in the world , but i've dropped to 5th now). That will be for now , more to come soon

[Jacko]

I'm back! Nice posts everyone!
So I played the semi final against Tomic thinking I could potentially make my 1st ever Grand Slam final! But played awful and got hammered 6/4, 6/2, 6/4. I struggled to hold serve throughout the whole match and got broken about 7 times.
But I shot up to a career high 11 in the rankings. Moving onto grass which I consider my best surface I played at Queens, London - a nice ATP250 warm up for Wimbledon
I was seeded 4 in a fairly strong field and made it to the SF losing to Djokovic in a farily close match (6/4, 7/6 (5)) - I almost matched him but he was slightly better, so I had hopes of a QF at Wimbledon (last year lost 3R to Raonic)
I had two qualifiers in my first two rounds who I dispatched in 3 sets quite comfortably, then I played an old foe WR 24 Rufin from France. Started poorly and he won the first set 6/3, then I upped my level and won the next 3 sets 6/3, 6/3, 6/3 (seem to love that scoreline )
Meant to meet no2 seed Daniel but he lost to Kuznetsov in the 3rd Round! So I face the 32 seed, Nishikori also lost early so my path to the SF is even clearer! Will play tonight and let you guys know how I do, I am the last Brit left in the tournament as for some reason Murray is rubbish!

[iopzzza]

Well finaly someone has spoken . Its time to post more of my career. After the disgrace at wimbledon i returned on the clay in the at the last clay tournament of the year - Atp 500 in Hamburg. I was first seeded and djokovic was second. 1R - B. Mitchell , really without a problem for the new king of clay and won 6-2 6-0. 2R- F.Mayer , very close and tight game , mayer beat me 2 times earlyer , but i managd to win 6/4 6/4 with two very tight breaks. QF- Agaist a clay specialist , Berlocq, he broke me in the first set but i managed to rebroke instantly and we both served well until 6/5 for me and his serve, he missed 1 shot , made DF and after that it was easy to brek him for 7-5. He gave up in the second set and i've won 6-1. At the semi's i've played Haas, who had beaten me 3 times i think or 2... but the age began to show. He was weaker than before (or i was just better?). I've won easily 6/4 6/3 with 2 breaks. IN the final i met Djokovic , battling for my first ATP 500 TITLE. We both started great with some aces. No BP until 5-5 and my serve where he made it to 40-15 on my serve and with the second point he broke me and won the set afterwars 7-5. Second set was simillar but the roles were swapped , this time i've broke him at the very end and won 7-5 the second set, so 5-7 7-5. In the third set i started awful giving him 3-0 lead and after that i couldnt turn back into the match and eventually lost 3-6. Still searching for my first atp 500 title .
In the next weeks ivé played the US SWING Masters , but lost in 2R at the both , having bye in the 1R. At MOntreal i played F.mayer and won the first set 6-4 but after that he disgraced me 6-3 6-2. At Cincinati where i was deffending a final i've lost to Kochly 4-6 3-6. After that i've decided to paly one additional atp 250 - (Winston Salem) before US OPEN. Really i was second seeded (after Isner , who lost in 1R) and here was no really competition. Won 6-1 6-3 vs Cilic , then 6-1 6-4 vs Chardy, 6-3 6-2 vs Fognini, 7-6 7-6 vs Bagdatis and 6-2 6-3 vs MONACO in the final. I was broken only once throughout the whole torunament . I will post my US open later.

[danispadi]

I'm back too
sooooo, I was recovering from a terrible injury and I went in Bastad... hopefully I could reach my first ATP semifinal or something more.
R1 vs. Vinciguerra, I thought it would be an easy match, well it wasn't at all! He started well leading by 4 games to three. I went to serve and I went 0-40, but I managed to come back and win the game. Then his level dropped a lot, and I won easily the set 6-4, and dominate 6-2 the second. in R2 vs. Mathieu I've just played awful, making 39 UE and only 6 winners. didn't thought to win a single game, but at least I managed to do it.
Another 2 losses came from Toronto (4-6 3-6 against Blake) and Cincinnati (easy lost by Acasuso). My US open gave me a possibility in R1 and I took it very well beating a qualifier; in R2 I lost very easily from Hrbaty (n.28).
So I went to Metz, and well you have to know that I love Metz's court R1 very easy against a Paraguayan guy, defeated him 6-0 6-2. then n.31 Malisse... He won our previous meeting 7-6 6-1. He's a great server, but I managed to keep my servise until 6-6. In tie tiebreak I was up 4-0 and 5-1 before he came back to 5-6. I saved the set point and won the set 10.8 at the tiebreak. the same was in the second set: Went up 3-0, then 3-4 but I won the last 4 points to win 7-6(8) 7-6(4)! So 2nd ATPq quarterfinal for me. I met monfils - well I knew I had to be very aggressive. first set was very tough, and guess what? another tiebreak! 3 in a row... and for the 3rd time I went up 3-0, but he didn't came back and I win the 3rd straight tiebreak - 7-1 the score. Second set was pretty weird: he went up 2-1 40-15 on my serve, but I managed to go 4-2 and close the set with another break so 7-6(1) 6-3 for me. 1st semifinal! I faced Kevin Ullyett in the semifinal. tough match, I broke him on 5-5 in the 1st and on 4-4 in the 2nd... yeah, 7-5 6-4 and 1ST FINAL!! you talk about 1000s finals, and yeah I'm very happy for my first 250 final! XD but my happiness went into the trash when Robredo trashed me in the final 6-1 6-0, winning 12 games in a row D:
I went to tokyo, atp 500, and I played sooo well in the first round!! but unfortunatelly I faced n.4 Nalbandian, who beat me 6-2 6-4, but I played incredibly well in the whole match. (p.s. Nalbandian won the tournament )
Next tournament will be Shangai 1000. And... I have a lot of things to tell you

[iopzzza]

Iopzzza is back... tommorow i will post more of my career .. an epic us open and more .Danispadi what difficulty do u pplay, are u using sam megapatch ? Just wondering

[danispadi]

Iopzzza, yep I'm using Sam Megapatch and I play at master 1 difficulty, no ball prevision, slow auto-positioning and simulation controls

[iopzzza]

http://www.twitch.tv/iopzzza - live streaming my career , not always though but pretty often.