Talk:Marcos Baghdatis

In my opinion, phrases like "one of the greatest ever" and "epic" smacks too much of POV and journalese. I am an admirer of Baghdatis game myself, but let's not get carried away. We are writing an encyclopedia and we would probably like to maintain an encyclopedic tone in an article. - 210.4.69.4 14:29, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Email address?

Should someone's email address really be in an encyclopedia? Trevor Andersen 07:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

This is ridicolous, there is no place for contact addresses in an article. As said, some people are getting too carried away with the excitement. This is not a "fan club" webpage. --Momolee 09:33, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Removed. There's already links to several fan pages. The email provided can't even be verified anyway. --Madchester 18:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Anticipation

In about an hour or three from now, this won't matter anymore, but someone has already said he lost to Federer before it may or may not happen. I think that's just stupid, you never try to predict the future like that. I've removed that edit, but I'm just voicing that I think that's ridiculous.

• Not really! I put $50 on Federer to win!

Somebody does not want people to know that Baghdatis is a racist.

Baghdatis is a racist and the proof is here on youtube.

Why Baghdatis?

Since his name in greek is written with a 'Π', it should be transcribed with a P, shouldn't it?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.205.225.170 (talk • contribs)

Παγδατής may be simplified for Μπαγδατής, to make it look less foreign... AnonMoos 19:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes if the name is Lebanese I doubt it starts with the letter P--Steven X 01:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Mpaghdatis?!--Steven X 00:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Μπ = b sound in greek. --41.245.47.149 18:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

HIS FAMILY NAME ORIGINALLY WAS BAGHDADY " MENTIONED IN A LEBANESE NEWSPAPER", AS MOST OF ARABIC FAMILY NAMES END WITH Y, BUT MAY BE THE FATHER CHANGED HIS NAME BY ADDING THE SUFFIX "IS" TO HARMONIZE WITH CYPRIOT NAMES.

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I deleted "unfortunately" from the sentence that talked about his injury. I agree that it was unfortunate, but you would never see opinionated words like that in a real encyclopedia.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Stanley011 (talk • contribs)

Playing style

"Also, before every serve he quickly bounces the ball between his legs with his Fischer Pro-Speed racquet, which is often emulated by aspiring junior tennis players."

This is an awkward, unrelated comment about a quirky mennerism of Baghdatis and has nothing to do with his tennis. Plus Baghdatis actually picked it up from watching early Federer. Anyway, how "Fischer Pro-speed racquet" and "emulation by juniors" got tied up with this trivia is beyond comprehension. I am deleting the sentence. --- 202.59.136.82 21:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Makes unforced errors too much

If there is a weakness structurally with his game, that is it. He simply GAVE nadal the second set, but nadal is a doper anyway so who cares?

Foleys

Is it true he went to foley's graamer school in cy. There are alot of roumors going round that he did but i dnt want 2 add it coz its roumor--Slogankid 20:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Defeat

18th of January 2007

He was defeated by a French Tennis player in the Australian Open . —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.163.145.69 (talk) 13:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC).

whoever keeps changing the score in the final of the A open in 2006, just to let you know he was defeated in the A open by Roger Federer. He did not win