Rafa Nadal

[thirteen]

would somebody please give the same drugs to Murray?

i live with a Scotsman and watching tennis has become painful

 

[Zoncolan]

At least Djokovic is out of breath. Rafa, only sweating profusely. If not for that, you'd think he's within himself physically.
As for the shot making, pure class from the pair.
@thirteen: Murray is on the same kind of stuff as these two, don't worry.

 

[roundabout]

To be honest I am not seeing much difference between the two - out of breath or not.

 

[thirteen]

At least Djokovic is out of breath. Rafa, only sweating profusely. If not for that, you'd think he's within himself physically.
As for the shot making, pure class from the pair.
@thirteen: Murray is on the same kind of stuff as these two, don't worry.

can you recommend a good drug for the mental s**t then?

(might come in handy with the boyfriend as well )

 

[Zoncolan]

can you recommend a good drug for the mental s**t then?

(might come in handy with the boyfriend as well )

Start winning. Nothing gives you a high as a win.

 

[El Pistolero]

Whatever Nadal is on, Djokovic is taking tripple.

 

[El Pistolero]

I believe that some 10 years ago or so, Venus and Serena Williams (then ranked No. 1 and No. 2) played Karsten Braasch, at the time ranked outside the top 200 in the world. He was a notorious chain smoker. He even smoked at the change of ends.
The idea was, as they were dominating the ladies' game at the time, they were as good as some male players.
Braasch played a set against each sister, I believe the scorecard was 6-1 and 6-2. They were demolished by a nobody basically.

Haha, great story

Just read it on Wikipedia, it was at the 1998 Australian Open.

 

[Anonymous]

djokovic is playing incredible tennis, just awesome

 

[Jeriko]

This is just fantastic. There's been more action in many individual games than there was in the entire women's final.

 

[Gingerale]

i'm speechless....


20 - 35 shot rallies...which one wears out first

 

[roundabout]

Watching Nadal run down shot after shot is downright hilarious.

 

[Gingerale]

Watching Nadal run down shot after shot is downright hilarious.

lol...glad you think so too!

djoko is indeed the best returner in the game. i was lucky to have tickets and be court-side for 2 of his matches at indian wells last spring. he can do an amazing cartwheel and return a much faster serve than nadal is capable of serving.ha! but djoko has had trouble with his right shoulder and his own service game is a tad shaky, i see. nadal usually can win in the long rallies over time...if he can take this to 5 sets.

it;s a good match-up. i picked djoko in 4. but thinking he better close it out in 3.

djoko breaks. serving for the title!

 

[Gingerale]

okay i was exaggerating about the cartwheel

but he does have seem uh...talented.

 

[Parrot23]

Djokovic looks exhausted.

Eurosport commentator said a few games ago, "Nadal has looked fresh as a daisy the whole match. Remarkable [his word]."

I don't blame the Spanish authorities for sealing the names of all the other athletes involved in the Puerto affair

(At least most of this sport is skill, not endurance, power, what have you; a big redeeming fact compared with cycling).

 

[Ferminal]

Wow, just woke up and saw the tie breaker. 2nd last point was crazy.

 

[Jeriko]

I'm actually not heavily into the whole Rafa-is-a-doper talk, but this performance is taking the p*ss. It's just ridiculous. If Novak ends up losing this I'll be p*ssed.

 

[Anonymous]

djokovic looks troubled

 

[Gingerale]

nadal notoriously wears down his opponents over 5 sets. and he takes hours doing it.

djokovic is physically hurting already and nadal looks good to go for 2 more hours. doesn't look too good. novak needed to win in 3!

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Let's see how he goes.
It would be an absolute shame if this game turned out not be between machines but a machine and a human.

 

[El Pistolero]

You guys really hate Nadal if you think he dopes, but Djokovic doesn't. Djokovic used to tire out very quickly before 2011, but now he gets every single ball back. It's the equivalent of Brajkovic winning the Giro or something this year. Or why not, Cobo.

 

[roundabout]

I am surprised at how it went in the end.

 

[Jeriko]

Yeah, the end was a bit flat. A tie-break finish would have been epic.

It will forever bug me that Federer got in the way of what most likely would have been a Djokovic French Open victory, and a Grand Slam sweep, as he would have been the clear favourite against Nadal.

 

[El Pistolero]

You guys really hate Nadal if you think he dopes, but Djokovic doesn't. Djokovic used to tire out very quickly before 2011, but now he gets every single ball back. It's the equivalent of Brajkovic winning the Giro or something this year. Or why not, Cobo.

I was wrong, the equivalent of Mark Cavendish winning the Tour!

Definitely a machine.

 

[El Pistolero]

Yeah, the end was a bit flat. A tie-break finish would have been epic.

It will forever bug me that Federer got in the way of what most likely would have been a Djokovic French Open victory, and a Grand Slam sweep, as he would have been the clear favourite against Nadal.

Without his knee injury Nadal could have done it last year.

Has it ever been done by the way? Not really familiar with all these tennis records, there are so many. I know Djokovic is the youngest player ever to reach all the finals of Grand Slams though.

 

[Andynonomous]

Well, I was wrong. Nadal not only didn't serve his fastest in the final, at only 107 mph, he served the slowest of any match that he played at this year's USO.

Last year he was serving at 118 mph, and won easily. This year at 111 mph (for the tournament) he came up short against the guy he easily beat last year. (In the old days, you would expect an injury if a player's serve dropped by 7 mph for the whole tournament - not anymore)

Is he aware that the world was watching his serve statistics ?