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[Smellycat]

What a choke.....

 

[perfectchaos007]

Fognini is playing out of his mind, but FINALLY we are watching some vintage Nadal. It's good to see again

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Fognini's angles are more entertaining than anything I've seen in Grand Slam tennis since like... 2008. Finally it's great to see some creativity against the big guys.

And I'm not usually an Italian sports fan so this points me to say

 

[Simply Sami]

Here we go again.

 

[Omzz]

Breaks till the end

 

[MIMIC]

lol 17 winners for the Fog in this set

 

[LuuKyK]

Holy shit at that last FH.

 

[jotun?]

this is bizarro tennis

 

[Niraj]

The same fucking spot!

 

[Hristi]

That forehands. Goddamn!

 

[Omzz]

Yo these FH winners

 

[MIMIC]

Make that 19 lol

 

[Smellycat]

What a shot for 0-40

 

[Diamond]

Spatial tennis.

 

[SSPssp]

Can anyone hold their serve?

 

[LuuKyK]

YES. Close it out now Fog FFS.

Watch he find a way to get broken somehow. lmao

 

[greenleaves]

Fognini's hitting half volleys as regular shots. He's playing amazing, but I don't trust him to serve out the set.

 

[perfectchaos007]

First one to hold serve WINS

 

[RedAssedApe]

lol...are they just gonna keep trading breaks

 

[MIMIC]

First one to hold serve WINS

Fog trying to go up a hold =p

 

[LuuKyK]

The thing is baldal is not even playing badly, he has freaking 2 UEs in this set. lol

 

[Smellycat]

Nadal is at the mercy of Fognini. It is a question of whether the latter can get his 1st serves in and hold his nerves.

 

[Simply Sami]

Sad for Nadal.

Fognini is either going to win this or win it for Nadal. Unless Nadal goes to back to his best, which I doubt.

 

[Grifter]

Yo this dude's playin' Virtua Tennis right now. The first one.

 

[LuuKyK]

70 Winners for Fabio. Jesus.

 

[Niraj]

Two points...

 

[scarlet]

7 straight breaks? LOL. Now you all WTA hater can shut up.

 

[LuuKyK]

He is getting broken isn't he? lol

 

[Omzz]

Tiebreak it is

 

[Simply Sami]

Match point....

 

[Niraj]

Do it Fabio!

 

[SSPssp]

Matchpoint!

That's it!

 

[Hristi]

What the hell was that backhand.

 

[MIMIC]

OH

MY

GOD

 

[RedAssedApe]

these guys and their garbage serving lol

 

[Omzz]

Wow fabio did it

 

[Dispatch]

Game... set... match!

 

[Fjordson]

Wow. Sucks for Nadal.

 

[Niraj]

Holy shit. He did it.

This fifth set was fucking crazy lol

 

[totoro'd]

dayum, amazing match at the end though holy crap

 

[LuuKyK]

Amazing, he did it. Thank you Fog. Great match.

 

[Smellycat]

Unreal from Fognini! Tried his best to choke the match, but was able to pull it off!

End of a streak for Nadal. No GSs for him for the first time since forever.

 

[greenleaves]

Well, Nadal played pretty well, but his shots don't have quite the sting on them anymore. Credit to Fognini for going for his shots and not relenting after going two sets down.

 

[Sax Russel]

Wow =O

 

[RedAssedApe]

bwahaha...so when's rafa dropping outta the top ten

 

[milanbaros]

Wow. Sucks for Nadal.

Isn't he still one of the best 10 players in the world? Tennis just highlights any decline so much compared to other sports.

 

[norm9]

*gif of Serena doing the cripwalk*

 

[scarlet]

Slamless Rafa. WOW

 

[perfectchaos007]

Nadal almost walked away with that guy's goodie bag. Poor guy is devastated

 

[Omzz]

151-1 for nadal when up 2 sets in slams