Personally, I doubt if most players will even attempt to TRY ridiculously hard considering they have to train for the US Open in a couple of weeks. Maybe Federer will to help him get out of his slump… but I am not correct in saying that every Olympics don’t we have some obscure player winning the gold?

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That headline, taking it at its face value, implies that Blake is a woman!

I don’t see why the top players wouldn’t try hard to win the Olympics. The Olympics are quite rare and only come along a few times during a players career. It may not be a major but it’s still nice to have a gold medal.

JoshDragon — I believe the players try VERY HARD at the Olympics. The Olympics get a bum rap because the medals are frequently won by “upset” players (non-Top 10 ranked). It is the same situation as Davis Cup — once you have a competition with extra pressure and a good deal of nationalism, just about anything can happen, and frequently does.

The 400 ranking points offered by the event pretty much speaks for its worth on the tour. A Masters Series event (of which there are nine per season) is worth 500, and a slam is worth 1000.

You tell me where the priorities are.

Yes, there definitely isn’t enough importance placed on the Olympics as far as the points are concerned.

Fed is gonna win the gold medal in beijing coz the draw is easy and he wants the whole world to see that he is the real lion in the jungle.

If the draw is “easy,” how is he the “real” lion? Just wondering how you’d reconcile those two seemingly contradictory claims Ryan.

No draw is “easy” as all of these players are professionals.

“The real lion in the jungle” reminds me of how those old Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies mininformed me when I was a kid. Lions don’t live in the jungle, do they? They live on the plains.
Regarding Federer, I’ll be surprised if he wins Gold in Beijing. Can the man who lost to Karlovic reconstruct his game and his mindset in so short a time?

Colin, playing Karlovic is a 50/50 proposition. It is no shame losing to him.

If Karlovic can win 7 coin flips in a row, then he deserves a grand slam title.

(CTD.)

Unfortunately, his odds always run out after 3 flips or so. Sometimes not even one. Being able to serve out of a tree is great, but you have to complement it with other weapons too.