In 2010, @fiorebianca, @trublu and I conducted a totally scientific tennis season survey via Twitter. The results are listed below. A few things stand out: Roddick was highly entertaining in 2010; Ernest Gulbis needs to keep up with Marin Cilic and win his maiden slam and Tomas Berdych scoring an upset at a slam has to make a return. Originally posted on my Tumbler (http://agallivant.tumblr.com/) in 2010.
Best “I’ll listen to whatever you say” coach/player duo?
Roddick/Stefanki 33.9% Federer/Annacone 27.1%; Soderling/Norman 22.0%; Zvonareva/Sergey Demekhin 11.9% & Gulbis/Gumy 5.1%
Best “I’m out of my head” on-court rant
Andy Roddick at the US Open (vs Janko Tipsarević) 51.7%
Rafa Nadal at the World Tour Finals (vs Tomáš Berdych 31.0%; Dinara Safina at the French Open (vs Kimiko Date Krumm) 8.6%; Andy Murray at the French Open (vs Richard Gasquet) 5.2%
Best “I can’t believe I just choked away” this match.
Andy Roddick vs Rafa Nadal at the World Tour Finals 36.2%
Viktor Troicki vs Rafa Nadal at the Rakuten Japan Open 20.7% ; Victoria Azarenka vs Serena Williams at the Australian Open 17.2%; Gael Monfils vs Fabio Fognini at the French Open 15.5%; David Ferrer vs Fernando Verdasco at the US Open 10.3%
Best “I should not have even shown up” for this match
Rafa Nadal defeats Fernando Verdasco in the Monte Carlo Final (6-0, 6-1) 40.7%
Nadia Petrova beat Kim Clijsters at the Australian Open (6-0, 6-1) 27.1%; Roger Federer defeats Robin Soderling at the Shanghai Masters (6-1, 6-1) 16.9%; Kim Clijsters defeats Vera Zvonareva (6-2, 6-1) at the US Open Final 13.6%
Best “I would have paid money to see this live” match (a tie)
Andy Murray vs Rafa Nadal at World Tour Finals 27.1%
Michaël Llodra vs Robin Soderling at Paris Masters 27.1%
Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic at the US Open 23.7%; Venus Williams vs Victoria Azarenka in Dubai final 6.8%; Other (please specify) 15.3%
- Monfils vs Federer at the Paris Masters.
- Rafa Nadal vs Novak Djokovic, US Open final 2010
- Roger Federer vs. Rafa Nadal at World Tour Final 2010
- Kim Clijsters vs Justine Henin in Brisbane
- John Isner vs. Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon
- Federer….when he wins….against anyone
- Ferrer v Verdasco, USO Fri, Dec 10, 2010
- Roger Federer vs Tomas Berdych at Toronto Masters 2010
Best “annoying but clearly useful OCD” crutch
Rafa Nadal’s placement of his bottles 29.8%
Robin Soderling & Vera Zvonareva use of towel as face shields 28.1% ; Andy Roddick’s ball adjustments 10.5%; Justine Henin coaching box check 14.0% ; Novak Djokovic 20+ ball bounce 17.5%
Best “I coulda been a contender” player (a tie)
Marin Cilic 30.5%
Ernest Gulbis 30.5%
Andy Murray 20.3%; Tomas Berdych 13.6% ; Other (please specify) 5.1% : Marat Satin & Gael Monfils
Best “I am playing way above my pay grade” match
Tomáš Berdych taking out Roger Federer at Wimbledon 46.7%
Janko Tipsarević taking out Andy Roddick at the US Open 10.0%; Feliciano López taking out Rafa Nadal at Queens 18.3%; Stan Wawrinka taking out Andy Murray at the US Open 21.7%
Most likely to say “Fed & Rafa, I’m taking one of your slams in 2011!”
Novak Djokovic 66.7%
Andy Murray 25.0%; Robin Soderling 8.3%; Andy Roddick 0.0%; Nikolay Davydenko
“I’m starting the bandwagon” now for this ATP player
Dustin Brown 12.5%; Phillipp Petzschner 23.2%; Tobias Kamke 7.1%; Other (please specify) 32.1%
- Denis Istomin
- Ryan Harrison (4)
- Grigor Dimitrov
- Michael Llodra
- Marin Čilić
- Sergiy Stahkovsky
- Santiago Giraldo
- Bernard Tomic
- Alexand(ra)er Dolgopolev( 4)
- Andre Golubev
- Milo Raonic
Really funny. I especially liked, playing above pay grade and also wish I had shown up match. However, very interesting your list for bandwagon players. Of the 15 mentioned only 3 have shown any real promise of something well above average, Cilic, Grigor and Raonic. I don’t even know how anyone would consider Dustin Brown of anything. He’s not even smart enough to get himself some decent endorsement just off his charisma alone. He needs to have several seats.
I know. I was surprised to take a look at the list of bandwagon folks. Where did Petschner & Kamke go?