He gets a date with Wawrinka who is relatively fresh this time around.
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this is not an easy test at this stage. Let's see how it goes.
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Camelot: Dawn of Justice
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britbox
Multiple Major Winner
10725 said:
He still is a "top gun" if you look at the rest of the tour... just not the "top gun" he once was...
The same process happened when Federer stopped winning the big events. Â But right now, there is Djokovic and the rest. Â Nadal is in the bunch behind with Murray, Federer... The danger is comparing Nadal with himself at his best, not Nadal and the rest of the tour.
All valid points of course but my bottom line remains:
Rafa is not going to win anything of any significance unless the burning inner fire returns. And he proceeds to go put in the very long hard yards on the clay courts and on the fitness front.
the youth and the natural, God given VO2max has declined. He is also not the physical animal he used to be.
a while back when Ferru worked him over and ran all over him, his answer was this:
"well Ferru has been working hard for over a month and training hard". Not those exact words of course.
translation: I have been farting around while others are working hard.
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this has to change and I have seen very little indication of it. He had some time to prepare near the end of last year also but did not.
you saw what Andy did to him in Abu Dhabi. It was 6-2, 6-0.
and then he showed  up even less prepared for the Australian Open. Berdych demolished him. when has berdych ever been able to do that to Rafa.
i can go on but you get the idea. Talk is just talk. I am not seeing enough improvement in his ground game and his fitness. He is already on record for saying that he won't be prepared for Melbourne.
translation: don't expect much from me because I don't feel like working like a dog.
he has to show me something on the red clay in Europe.
More on this later.
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Rafa is not going to win anything of any significance unless the burning inner fire returns. And he proceeds to go put in the very long hard yards on the clay courts and on the fitness front.
the youth and the natural, God given VO2max has declined. He is also not the physical animal he used to be.
a while back when Ferru worked him over and ran all over him, his answer was this:
"well Ferru has been working hard for over a month and training hard". Not those exact words of course.
translation: I have been farting around while others are working hard.
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this has to change and I have seen very little indication of it. He had some time to prepare near the end of last year also but did not.
you saw what Andy did to him in Abu Dhabi. It was 6-2, 6-0.
and then he showed  up even less prepared for the Australian Open. Berdych demolished him. when has berdych ever been able to do that to Rafa.
i can go on but you get the idea. Talk is just talk. I am not seeing enough improvement in his ground game and his fitness. He is already on record for saying that he won't be prepared for Melbourne.
translation: don't expect much from me because I don't feel like working like a dog.
he has to show me something on the red clay in Europe.
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Djokovic hit the practice courts after his match yesterday. He said he wants to improve.
vilas once practiced for nearly 3 hours after one of his matches.
vilas once practiced for nearly 3 hours after one of his matches.
This is not a match Rafa can win.
there is just no quality and consistency to his play.
i am not surprised at all.
there is just a lot of work involved and he knows it.
now it is just a question of going out there on the practice courts and earning that quality and consistency.
he would have gotten killed by berdych today. He has owned these guys for nearly a decade.
Rafa is a bright guy. He has said countless times that he has to work hard. Now he has to go out there and do it.
there is just no quality and consistency to his play.
i am not surprised at all.
there is just a lot of work involved and he knows it.
now it is just a question of going out there on the practice courts and earning that quality and consistency.
he would have gotten killed by berdych today. He has owned these guys for nearly a decade.
Rafa is a bright guy. He has said countless times that he has to work hard. Now he has to go out there and do it.
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britbox
Multiple Major Winner
my dad is a surgeon. his specialty is larger animals.
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I grew up watching him doing surgery on horses.
horses hold s special spot in my heart for a number of other reasons. mankind wrote history on his back.
horse is one of the strongest animals. graceful, strong, and intelligent.
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I grew up watching him doing surgery on horses.
horses hold s special spot in my heart for a number of other reasons. mankind wrote history on his back.
horse is one of the strongest animals. graceful, strong, and intelligent.
