Quote Originally Posted by Waldo View Post
About time it got stomped on, like so many other issues, not least for a 3rd year having the Croatian/Bosnian playing off against each other - you can't tell me it's randomly picked out of a hat, not with this being the 3rd time it's happened.
There has never been a Croat/Bosnian matchup at the open. This year it was a Serbian / Bosnian matchup and the Bosnian was a qualifier so it could hardly be expected for the Bosnian to go as far as he did.

What you are referring to is the Croatian/Serbian clashes in the last couple of years. The chances are that it will continue to occur due to the fact that there are about 7 or 8 of them in the top 32 of the men's game. As they progress they will meet at some stage. It was possible for another Croat/Serb matchup this year but they lost before that happened. Is it random? To an extent it is, but it has more to do with the players ranking which is in turn based on his annual performances.

The problem is certainly not with the players (as most of them are good friends off the court) but with a select number of morons who do not follow the tennis but go there specifically to clash with the so called enemy. I've seen this first hand.

To call them morons is quite polite. They are no different to their English counterparts that were once so prevalent in the English Premier League. They want to fight, end of story. It's just that these ones do it under national flags rather than team colours.

PS- I think I would prefer Sharapova to be grunting.....