The scores before the quarter-finals of the 2015 Indian Wells Masters :


Nelson met tweenerschaez, the leader.

LLTL, Nelson : Hi tweenerschaez, and congratulations for your performance. You're getting better and better ! An awful start at the Australian Open (11th), and two average scores at Rotterdam (7th) and Dubai (6th). And now you are 6 pts ahead at IW.

tweenerschaez : Yes indeed, I had a very bad start. My favourites were not as good as I thought. But now, it looks like they're arrived at their best level. I knew the can do better and I sure hope, they can hold that level to the end of the season.

LLTL, Nelson : It seems that you really trust players like Tomic (which cost you lot of points at AO, but is really good at IW), Gulbis or Dimitrov. Do you wish or think that these guys could replace the big 4 ?

tweenerschaez : Tomic, Gulbis and of course Nishikori are the Future. I don't think that they are able to replace the Big 4 (who actually are just 3, I don't count Murray as a Big Player) in this or the next season. But the Time is on their Side. In 2 or 3 years, if Federer and Nole will stop playing, it's their turn. Now they are good for some surprises, but Federer, Djokovic and Nadal are special players who play in their own League. Their too strong mentally, they've got so much more experience in Big Games.

LLTL, Nelson : What do you think about the controversy with the best of 5 sets matches at the Davis Cup. Mayer (who just won the longest match of the Davis Cup history), Federer and Nadal clearly denounced the Davis Cup organization.

tweenerschaez : Well, the Davis Cup has to be reorganised if they still want the best players to join this tournament. There are a lot of important tournaments, the calender of the top-players is overfilled. I don't think a change to 3-set-matches would be a big difference. But maybe they should make the davis cup more valuable for the ATP-Ranking. But now, as the Swiss Davis-Cup Team has won the trophy, I really don't care anymore ;)

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