Verdasco’s Delray Beach Adventure

Cory, looks like Verdasco is finished, he lost to Albot 76 76, a guy he previously owned. That’s another nail in the psyche. But he won’t go down without a fight, he will keep grinding and asking for wildcards. For Sock, this is beyond devastating. To lose to a guy in his first atp main draw match at 33 years old has to be embarrassing and humiliating for an elite player of Sock’s stature. But Sock also has to blame himself, after losing in Dallas to Fritz on Thursday, Sock went to Arizona for the Super Bowl and some golf event. He made the choice of leisure activities over dedicating to career. Surely he didn’t train out there and arrived in Delray from AZ on Monday and got what he deserved, the worst loss of his life. And all this after asking Delray for a wildcard. He disrespected Delray and the wildcard, other players like Sandgren, Svajda, Escobedo, etc surely would have respected that wildcard more and got to Delray early and prepared better than partying at the super bowl.

Cory, obviously a counterfeit Hamlin, the whole scam smells of fraud and deception. Fake tattoos. They can pull off anything now. Sock has to go Rocky Rambo and leave the wife home, the ATP tour is a fierce vicious jungle not an endless vacation. Sock has to treat every match like Life and Death. Verdasco is fading fast. I remember he was shaky about six years ago at US Open he was playing his buddy F Lopez and F Lopez said to his box during the match, “He’s the worst player in the draw.” He said it in Spanish and the guy next to me translated and told me what he said. So Verdasco is lucky to still be hanging on by a thread. F Lo won that day too.

Cory. I think Istomin, Cuevas, Lopez, Young, Harrison, Sock, Gulbis, Nishikori, Verdasco, are all done but they don’t realize it yet. Too many tough strong young guns coming up fast.