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Medical timout ???


I am not sure how many got a chance to watch the first semi final between Pierce and Dementieva.
Brutal abuse of rules and questionable ethics. Thats all I have to say about that. Pierce played a good match and beat Dementieva and in my opinion, unfairly.
Back injury and thigh injury and ten minutes of therapy and not even a hint of pain in the next hour of play.
in word of McEnroe, therapist must have had magical hands.

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Login to find out (September 11, 2005 at 8:55am)
clijsters a desrving champ,no one can touch her at the moment
 
Login to find out (September 10, 2005 at 1:59pm)
clijsters is gonna win so who cares
 
Login to find out (September 10, 2005 at 12:06pm)
the argument is not about the rules...it is about the abuse of rules.
If you have an injury you take the time out. but there have to be signs of injury. Davenport vs williams, you could see the effect of back injury but where was this effect in Pierce's game. You dont even show a sign of ache not even a single limp throughout the match, especially with baseline player like Dementieva. Running the ball down point after point without even a hint of discomfort. Lets hire this therapist, may be she will cure our fast bowlers.
 
Login to find out (September 10, 2005 at 11:55am)
With regards to medical time out theres nothing in the rules saying she wasn't allowed to do that,at the end of the day you cant blame her, maybe its time for the rules to be changed,
What if it was a final and after 5 minutes a player gets injured and the player isnt allowed to take 10 minute injury time out and so looses the final,what will the crowd think payiung good mone for only 5 minutes of tennis?
 
Login to find out (September 10, 2005 at 11:51am)
humm,its a tuff one,Pierce has been on the pro circuit for 16 years,after the match she said she would do nothing unfairly to win a match,only she knows in her heart if she was injured or not,before the match i expected her to breeze thru as she was playing great tennis beating Mauresmo and Henin-Hardenne two of the top players in the world,with regards to the final i hope clijsters wins,having had an awesome us hardcourt season and having beaten williams and sharapova she deserves to win the final,but in the past she has bottled it in the big matches.
 
Login to find out (September 10, 2005 at 1:10am)
it was just a shame. would have been good final....
 
Login to find out (September 9, 2005 at 10:23pm)
i was at the game and thought that was completely bull...i think she knew wat she was doing and what she put up was a cheap shot!...

Dementieva deserved to win!