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[scarlet]

I want an all swiss final, but yeah that's impossible.

 

[MIMIC]

No link, but this was reported to be the average net clearance of some of the players at the WTF:

Nadal 1.31 meters
Gasguet 0.91 meters
Wawrinka 0.79 meters
Djokovic 0.74 meters
Federer 0.61 meters
Berdych 0.59 meters

LOL.

 

[Peru]

Nadal truly the male Woz.

 

[Diamond]

Crazy thing is that Rafa doesn't hit with less power than the others on the list. With his topspin, the ball always rises at crazy heights after the rebound and "jumps" to the opponent. With any other player, a 1.30 meter over the net ball could probably be attacked, but not with Nadal. Shows how much his game is atypical and difficult to counter.

 

[clemenx]

I don't care about your age Roger. Losing to Nadal indoors would be unacceptable. Don't disappoint me.

 

[88random]

I believe! Go Roger!

 

[Sax Russel]

Federror will show up, it's only a matter of time. Tried to push in just now even.

 

[John Dunbar]

how do you not break from that? there goes the first set.

 

[Sax Russel]

how do you not break from that? there goes the first set.

Fed's just making sure he gets his break point conversion stats vs Nadal up to the usual level.

 

[John Dunbar]

at least federer is playing well so far, but you can't shake off the feeling he's just going to vanish at some point.

 

[John Dunbar]

why do i even hope

 

[Sax Russel]

why do i even hope

.

 

[MIMIC]

Fed moonballing and it's working. Giving Nadal a taste of his own medicine

 

[John Dunbar]

tennis is a very complex game where two players use rackets to hit yellow balls over a net for two to four hours, and in the end, nadal wins.

 

[szaromir]

Just tuned in. Roger

 

[MIMIC]

Fed abandoned his moonballing strategy and was promptly re-broken. lol

Oh well. I wouldn't want to keep playing like that either =p

 

[John Dunbar]

clay, hard, indoors, doesn't matter, it's all coming up nadal.

 

[LuuKyK]

Ffs Roger. -____-

More like Federror at the moment.

 

[szaromir]

This is so sad to see, the contrast in Roger's shotmaking between their match 2 years ago and today is staggering.

 

[John Dunbar]

nadal isn't even bothering on rogi's serve anymore. he knows federror can't break him again so no need to waste energy.

edit: just look at this game. look at it. disgusting.

 

[Niraj]

Seems like I made the right decision to stay in bed instead of getting up to watch

 

[Deadman]

Could have gone worse, at least hes still improving from 3-5 months ago when he was just dire.

It is a shame that they have slowed down the court though.

 

[Faith]

Could have gone worse, at least hes still improving from 3-5 months ago when he was just dire.

He will be back next year and start to win such matches.

 

[Xun]

Not at all surprised.

 

[Coldnoodle]

You guys are whack.

 

[zero_suit]

Poor Fed

Everybody saw this coming, though.

 

[88random]

He will be back next year and start to win such matches.

He can't keep coming back forever

 

[szaromir]

He can't keep coming back forever

Indeed. But I think he could sneak out a Wimbledon if he aims to peak at that tournament.

 

[ghstwrld]

Break-back king *.*

 

[Sax Russel]

Hey that time lapse of putting down the court was pretty cool.

 

[Sharp]

I'm just going to leave this here.

 

[Faith]

This match will be so awesome, can't wait

 

[perfectchaos007]

Bryan Brothers lost, now time for the main event. Maybe its an upset kind of day. First the Bryan Brothers go down, next is Nadal!

 

[Akito]

Wow Novak is beating right now.

 

[Faith]

Well, Djokovic is playing really good.

 

[Sax Russel]

Well I want Djokovic to win, but come on Nadal, at least get something going yeesh.

 

[keit4]

wtf Nadal

 

[Faith]

Wtf Nole?

 

[zero_suit]

Match finally getting interesting

 

[Bigfoot]

I haven't seen Djokovic look this nervous in a long time. I guess he really wants this.

 

[Faith]

I haven't seen Djokovic look this nervous in a long time. I guess he really wants this.

He had e breakball for a doublebreak (4:0). He didn't get that and then he lost his mind xD

Never saw him playing that bad in these 3 games.

 

[zero_suit]

WOW

 

[Akito]

Holy fuck

 

[Sax Russel]

What a way to break

 

[keit4]

oh

my

god

 

[Bigfoot]

Awesome point

 

[perfectchaos007]

Nadal double faulted at deuce, then what happened?

 

[Faith]

Such magic can only Djokovic produce!!

 

[Xun]

This is impressive.

A good watch so far.

 

[Bigfoot]

Nadal double faulted at deuce, then what happened?

Point of the year (or at least the tournament).

I love the ATP Finals. It may rank below Grand Slams (but above Masters 1000's), but where else do you get to see a week worth of amazing matches with the best players in the world. Slams are boring the first week and very often you get lopsided semis and sometimes finals.