2014 Miami Quarterfinal: Nadal vs. Raonic

[Murat Baslamisli]

What's happening? I'm not watching, in fact I'm too lazy to get outta bed and go downstairs and get the laptop. So before I sleep, gimme some reassurance: how's this throw down shaping up?

Looks like Rafa is getting into Milos's service game more and more, but the Canuck is holdinghis own...but how long? If it gets to a breaker , it can get tricky.

Thanks Murat. My own prediction was kinda like that, the obvious one, to be honest. A tight first set, then a more routine second. But Rafa has to continue to hold. How's he serving?

Milos had a BP on the first Rafa service game, gifted it...Rafa is not serving too bad.

 

[Front242]

Some monkey, Golum :nono Should've run around that, avoided the backhand and annihilated a forehand.

 

[nehmeth]

How can you be close to seven feet tall and repeatedly chunk shoulder high backhands into the net??

 

[Front242]

How can you be close to seven feet tall and repeatedly chunk shoulder high backhands into the net??

Baffling alright. His backhand has mostly been disastrous today.

 

[Front242]

Body serves, Raonic.

 

[Andrew William]

That awesome buggy-whip forehand dtl! I never get tired of watching that. Though my elbow hurts watching the replay.

 

[Riotbeard]

How many sitter forehands will he miss?

 

[Front242]

:nono

 

[Front242]

He dodged a bullet there.

 

[nehmeth]

Rafa doesn't have his rhythm and misses (what for him is) routine backhand pass.

 

[Front242]

Very nice deep inside out forehand.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Nice inside out forehand again from Milos...he gets really good angles on that one. The problem is, when Roger or Rafa hit the inside out, they have a lot of top spin so they have more margin for error. Milos just flattens it out like mad...

 

[Riotbeard]

How can you be close to seven feet tall and repeatedly chunk shoulder high backhands into the net??

The real question is how he hits his better shot into the net...

 

[Moxie]

Rafa doesn't have his rhythm and misses (what for him is) routine backhand pass.

He has missed a few passes, but, as you said before…hard to get the rhythm with this guy.

 

[nehmeth]

How can you be close to seven feet tall and repeatedly chunk shoulder high backhands into the net??

The real question is how he hits his better shot into the net...

:snigger Just glad Nole isn't facing another big server in a semi.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Milos is trying to make things happen, win or lose. I like that.

 

[Front242]

Nice! Very Fed like motion on that forehand.

 

[Front242]

Sadly, that forehand was very Fed like too The OTHER Fed

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

75mph on that DF...Not going to cut it Rafa.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Amazing dig Milos!