2018 French Open Men's SF: Nadal v Del Potro

[Moxie]

Shall we start the Thiem v Nadal thread?

Should be Nadal v Thiem, based on the draw.

 

[britbox]

Shall we start the Thiem v Nadal thread?

If Nadal gets the break here, I'll sticky it.

 

[atttomole]

Third set hiding.

 

[DarthFed]

What a joke, wasn't expecting this kind of meltdown from Del Po. Congrats to Ralphy on #11. Time for Fed to get back to work.

 

[atttomole]

Nadal is in the zone now.

 

[Moxie]

I have to think that he did do something to his back or hip. This set is completely different from last, though Rafa is swinging pretty freely now.

 

[Denis]

Serious question: do you think its actually feasible to do what Nadal is doing on purpose? Struggle the first few games, give the opponent hope, then when its crunch time, you step on the gas. I've seen it many times before with this guy.

 

[Denis]

Should be Nadal v Thiem, based on the draw.

Ok, got it.

 

[britbox]

Serious question: do you think its actually feasible to do what Nadal is doing on purpose? Struggle the first few games, give the opponent hope, then when its crunch time, you step on the gas. I've seen it many times before with this guy.

No, he just raises the level of intensity when it matters. It's been his signature note throughout his career. There were a couple of years where I felt he lost that edge but seems to have recovered it.

This match has become a procession now.

 

[Denis]

Pretty crazy the way the match has turned out after that 9th game on Rafa's serve at 4-4. DP just completely fell off a cliff.

 

[monfed]

What a total abomination. I couldn't have imagined this rotten mess. It'll be a great day when this moonballing cancer of tennis retires and leaves this beautiful game alone. Horrible chap.

 

[kskate2]

Sorry. Dealing w/ a needy person at work. But this looks over anyway. Guess I didn't miss much

 

[kskate2]

Why is DP bent over?

 

[Moxie]

¡VAMOS!

 

[Denis]

Why is DP bent over?

Because nobody beats the king of clay.

Except Novak and RS.

 

[Moxie]

Why is DP bent over?

It was a long hard-fought point and his was winded, but he was smiling.

 

[atttomole]

The clay court genius has done it again.

 

[Denis]

So how much of a chance does Domi have?

We decided to open a thread about it about a set ago

 

[kskate2]

We decided to open a thread about it about a set ago

Say no more. On my way there.

 

[mrzz]

That was a pretty straight forward 4 set match. Nothing too special.

JMdP wont the first 6x1 (but, even with that score line, it was a battle). Than he lead by a break in the second. Then in the fourth he was two breaks behind, I guess, and fought back to even it, and then finally lost it. It was nearly five hours or more. For sure not straight forward. Maybe we are talking about different matches, this one is in 2011, if I am not mistaken.