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sholay2011: Navratilova herself said Serena is the greatest female tennis player.

Is Navratilova the god of tennis?

Serena isn't

shes 6 slams away from graf

8 slams away from Margaret court who holds the record at 24 singles slams

so chillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

and wait

A-40:
French Open 2011! You don't get it! Nadal owns Federer! Ever since Nadal beat Federer at Wimbledon the writing was on the wall the final straw was at the Aussie Open when Federer was in tears! Nadal has broken his spirit more than Djokovic or Murray can! Don't assume because he beat Djokovic n Murray the same theory can hold for Nadal! There's a reason why Nadal holds 5 more grand slams than both of them combined! Because he is vastly better

gbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

your head dey there

dammybravo: Venus Williams has withdrawn from the wimbledon 2013, ending 16-year long streak of playing in consecutive tournaments

she had absolutely no chance of reaching the QFs, talk less of winning

Venus HAS to retire now. poor shadow of the star she once was

Injury & Illness na bastard o

Anvaller: U are not telling the truth. The way u narrated ur story looks very much like u learnt ur own side of the story via rumours but not fact. Osaze started the drama all by himself. When Keshi was appointed coach, he was reaching out to all players he intends to include in his team and reached out to Osaze. Osaze told him that he was not interested in eagles anymore and he explains his reasons... The main reasons he gave was the NFF's corruption and poor management of the players plus politics with football. We all know that he was on point and he was telling the truth. Keshi implored him but he refused. At that point he was playing hard to get not knowing that it would back fire.

Keshi gathered new boys and the eagles started looking like they don't need Osaze. They started playing qualifiers without him and he later after realizing that he seems that he was looking unneeded, he reached out to keshi and said he wanted to play on one condition that he should be made the captain. Keshi told him that he wasn't going to accept him based on preconditions as he did not accept any player in camp based on any. ( Remember that it was Osaze himself who told Keshi that he wasn't interested in Eagles anymore in the 1st place ) Nations cup was close and for moral reasons, Keshi could not even bring him in anymore because u don't bring him to camp and give him jersey at the expense of guys that fought tooth and nail for Eagles, if he wanted to be part of the team, he should have worked his way in from the beginning otherwise the other players will feel shortchanged and it will affect their commitment. If he had any issues with former coaches, he shouldn't have carried it over to Keshi cos Keshi was then a new coach, he should have started a new affair with Keshi and see how Keshi will relate with him 1st before complaining about anything. So its all Osaze's fault.

God bless you baba

femzybiz: You are on point! Everyone wants to be associated with Success. He is probably trying his chance to appear at the world cup. however, in my candid opinion, I still believe we need his service.

He will have to make an unreserved PUBLIC apology before Keshi will even consider him.

We actually DONT need him. If needing him will re-introduce the following

1. Gross insorbudination
2. Verbal diarrhoea
3. Venting on twitter every time things don't go his way
4. Forming a cabal and wrecking the dressing room

Hey..............we were never going to win the world cup anyway, with or without Osaze, not like he's a Maradona.

Conclusion.....he should concentrate on Championship football and manage the rest of his career and millions. Big time footie is over.

My man looks like an ex-prize winning boxer.

Just saying.............

dammybravo: Congratulations to Andy Murray for winning Queen's Title, and Roger Federer for winning Halle, a perfect father's day, its been 43 weeks since federer's last title, in cincinnati 2012...This was his 2nd longest joint title-less streak after winning his first title at Milan in February, 2001. (Jointly tied with the 43 weeks win-less streak from Qatar in January, 2011 to Basel in November, 2011 & with the longest being the Milan, February 2001 to Sydney, January, 2002 that lasted 49 weeks)...Next Championship is wimbledon
Starting on june 24th

He wont win at wimbledon

dammybravo: Wimbledon 2013 will be the first Grand Slam to feature Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal since last year’s Wimbledon tournament. Nadal pulled out of the 2012 US Open and 2013 Australian Open with an injury, as did Andy Murray at Roland Garros 2013.

Thirty-two of the previous 33 Majors (men’s singles) have been won by one of the four aforementioned, the lone exception being the 2009 US Open, which was won by Juan Martín Del Potro.

There have been 25 Grand Slam tournaments in which all four of these players have appeared. In 24 of those, one of them won. In 16 of those 25, including the last eight, the Big 4 provided both finalists. In four of the 25, all four reached the semifinals.

They are not the top 4 according to the ATP world ranking. Nadal, who is 43-2 and has won seven tournaments since returning to action in February, is ranked fifth in the world and unless he receives a preferential treatment in the seeding procedure, he will possibly run into Federer, Djokovic, Murray or world number four David Ferrer in the quarterfinals. Ferrer has made it past the fourth round only once in 10 previous appearances and has never won a Grand Slam in 42 attempts.

cheers for this.

dominique: By bestest Grand Slam of them all . So Nadal is still ranked fifth after clinching a major trophy? Common ATP!!!

remember by winning FO, he didn't gain a single point, while ferrer gained massive points by reaching his first slam final

also he was out for 7 months

sounds about right to me

kingsle66: Again!! :-/ you guys should forget about june 12..let's just move on :-)

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

1willywilly: Good, Abiola was a Thief, let all Nigerians thank America for helping them kill that Notorious Thief called Moshood I.T.T Kolaw-OLE Abiola

thank another sovereign country for murdering a Nigerian citizen?

no wonder you are called willywilly

montelik: Abeg please include WTA in the thread title. No need to neglect the fine tennis babes.

which fine babes? how many dem dey sef for tennis? no be beach volleyball o

dominique: Dying from what

Dying from death......insert type of death.

Lord_Reed: I think the Chinese market doesn't. Search alibaba.com for Tecno see how many mobile phone results you'd get. Even in a google search the top results for Tecno are from Nairaland.

Tecno's strategy isn't for china bros

its for Africa

#getitright

dammybravo: When you want to define greatness, longetivity counts a lot and how well you stood up to the competition around you, even when you are off of your peak, that greatness never leaves you...
When one have to compare two teams, players or any entity in sports, the very first thing that is gonna put them ahead is how they/he have been on top notch, surpassing records in any circumstances, not against one/few teams/players but against almost everyone in that sport..
Rafael Nadal is a great player but not the greatest, he is still under the shadows of sampras and Federer

For me Federer is the greatest player of all time

BUT

Nadal is the greatest player of his generation (in which Federer played)

WHY

Cos he owned Federer as well as all other top 8 players in his time. also remember hes not done yet while fed is close to retirement. who knows what rafa can achieve with healthy knees. hes def up for it.

coolguyz: my worry is that due to the number of matches he's played to enable him catch up with fitness, he has opted out of the Queens tournament to get a deserved rest which means he would be heading into the Wimbledon Slam without any competitive match on grass. But as it is, it is Nadal, anythin is possible.

record number of ATP 1000 masters (tourney of the big boys) and still counting. . . .
record number of ATP 500 masters and still counting. . .
12 Grand Slam and still counting. . .
accomplished his career slam in 2010 at age 24

you cannot write tennis history without his name mentioned in the golden columns of the GREATS!

bros nice write up

you also have to add that there is no grass season. you're either good on grass or not. everyone has a week to prepare (queens or halle).in other words hes a natural on grass as 5 Wimbledon finals and 2 wins testify.hes already in the top 5 of all time and will threaten fed's records, no question. all about the knees

coolguyz: Thats a wrong conclusion. Nadal has played in the wimbledon final (grass) - 5 times, winning 2ce and losing 2ce to Federer and 1ce to Novak. If he isnt good he wont be playing in the finals and has beaten federer in one of the epic matches of this open era on that court.

On the hard court, he's played at the US and Aussie Opens twice each winning one and losing one. Only a good player gets to a Slam final.

Apart from Grand Slams, the ATP masters, he's won st Miami, Indian Wells, Montreal, Toronto. . . all hard courts playing 12 and winning 6 of them. Only great players play in finals.

That he is better than most people around on Clay is a plus for him and while he has defeated the greats on their own preferred courts. . . none yet to dethrone him on the Garros arena!

correction. he beat Federer in the best tennis match of ALL TIME

A-40:
Don't mind them! Someone completed career slam at 24 and they say he is not good on other surfaces

God bless you. Hes won 4 non-clay grand slams. 4 not 1.babanla all court player. Also he won all 4 defeating Federer or djokovic, not mai mai players

tumababa: of course i am. thanks for the compliment. I care more about my finance dan technology.

gbaaaaaaaaaaa. today iphone, tomorrow w phone. the people wey waste pepper on minidisc, laserdisc, tape deck and all other defunct and moribund gadgets where is your investment

thise wey buy land, we know ourselves

technology is good, but affordability is key

no over do yourself. you go see guys with ipad, iphone,imac and ipod.....combined costs of half a mill.....on OKADA

warrahell

jedisco: You see the problem I have with most of you people who have used java phones all your life and for the first time just used a very low-end android phone and you are ejaculating all over yourself.
Those features that amaze you about the N3 are things people got tired of using several years ago and have moved on.
Thesame way you had an orga$m the first time you used the N3 is thesame way you would have orga$ms the first time you use an iPhone or a high-end android just that this time it would be multiple.


To compare the N3 to the i5 is like comparing a horse to a modern car. You should bookmark this post so that in sometime to come, you can look back in shame and understand how naive you were. I wouldn't bother explaining things to you cos right now, you lack the ability to understand.

Imagine me comparing iPhone 5 to Tecno.

Lastly, one thing you should not forget to ask yourself is that why is the iPhone the most successful smarphone to date?
Also hope you know that when iPhone 5 launched in China (a country where you would see cheap and higher quality androids than your Tecno), it sold over 2 million devices in just 3 days?
Do you really think those 2 million people didn't know of Tecno?

Just to chip in, when comparing you need to know what hes comparing and what he needs from a phone. could be

1. price
2. value for money
3. basic quality
4. functionality

in essence if the iphone 4 or 5 is not in his budget he may opt for an N3, doesn't mean an iphone 5 isn't better, just means in his opinion the n3 provides more bang for his buck

u get?

PS tecno is gaining considerable ground in price sensitive Nigeria

ask all those who buy 100 naira ice cream from kfc

jmslimx: iPhone cant be compared yet with android -

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

runzlord: what do u mean! Windows phone has a record of achiving more in its second year than ios and andriod in thier second year!

dude.....quick one.

was vista a success ?

what about windows 7 which tried to cramp an android style GUI and the traditional windows desktop, confusing the heck out of me ?

Vwandyboy: ndi ara so na this china fone wey cheap all of una dey use nw no BB again Poor tinz!!!! My BBQ10 all the Way!!

waka pass abeg

Looking forward to seeing how Nadal can translate his form to grass (afterall hes done it before). The knees look in fine form and hes beaten all his closest rivals recently, apart from Murray. vamos rafa.

naijababe: Which kain yeye research? You plagiarilised Seyi Oduyela's 'Owners of Nigeria' and you are forming king kong on nairaland


@ Naptu, is Zadok's account on youtube?

too funny

dominique: You're right (just googled it). But Nadal has been finding it difficult to defeat him recently.

difficult but he still won and got his revenge from Australian open. hes now beaten novak in back to back slams (last year FO as well). for a guy who just got back from injury

NOT BAD

Vickii Ro: Sowi Nadia,if only I ad anoda vote to give
#sad face#
Our own Zulu-igbo wife.....ever sexy
Obiageli ooooo

NADIA IS THE TRUTH

clemmonce: na lie jor no be say your boss like tecno he no get bar jor your boss na economiser him be.

economiser wey dey pay salary

bros how many salaries you dey pay?

chucky234: And who says am a madam?
I can see your Tecno is already making your sight blur and thats what you get when you choose chinko N7 over super power like my HTC One or the amazing S4

yawns......pass me the plantain chips please