Doha 2014

[Front242]

Great hold by Kamke.

 

[kskate2]

Have to give Tobias a lot of credit. He is hanging tough on his serve and keeping the pressure on Nadal 2-2 in the decider

 

[brokenshoelace]

I've only started watching in this set. Has Kamke threatened Nadal's serve?

 

[Front242]

Another great lucky ace by Nadal.

 

[Front242]

I've only started watching in this set. Has Kamke threatened Nadal's serve?

He broke in set 2 and was up 4-1 but Nadal got it back to a TB.

 

[Front242]

Kamke's on fire. Great shot.

 

[kskate2]

Thank goodness you two are here to keep things lively just when it was getting dull.

Livescorehunter wasn't actually showing any tennis streams for me at all but clicked on the streamhunter link there and thankfully this showed up. Entertaining match. Will probably watch Brands and Ferrer next too if it's a good match.

I'm watching it on TV through a channel called BEIN. Must be new because I've never watched tennis on this channel before. TTC isn't covering this right now.

 

[brokenshoelace]

That missed backhand down the line by Kamke is interesting because when you're playing so clean you might as well go for it, but at the same time, he has to believe that he's able to rally with Nadal so there's no need for go for broke shots. I guess he doesn't think he can reverse rallies around once he's on the back-foot.

 

[kskate2]

Kamke's been in a few of Nadal's serve games since the 2nd set. It really will come down to can Kamke make enough winners to offset the errors. If not, it'll look like a routine win for Nadal something like 6-3

 

[Front242]

Have Eurosport here but it's on Eurosport 2 over here so have to stream it. Looking forward to the AO as that should by on Eurosport 1 as well and still haven't properly watched tennis since we got a new 55" tv here. Watched one or two streams and for some reason most of them had no sound. Only a challenger match played with sound. No idea why, has all the latest codecs.

 

[Front242]

Huge game coming up for Kamke now.

 

[kskate2]

So Ernie comes through in the decider over Kubot to setup a showdown w/ the winner of this match

 

[Front242]

Kamke's footwork and overall game is very good. Shame he hasn't been more consistent. Definitely looks capable of top 20.

 

[brokenshoelace]

Another floaty slice by Nadal but Kamke misses... Break point.

 

[kskate2]

Kamke's footwork and overall game is very good. Shame he hasn't been more consistent. Definitely looks capable of top 20.

That's the trick isn't it? Maintaining that level for an entire match let alone a whole tournament.

 

[brokenshoelace]

Oh boy... Awful double fault to essentially gift Nadal the match. Shame.

 

[Front242]

My stream screwed up and all I had was sound but what a shame to have served a DF there to lose serve.

 

[kskate2]

Yikes another DF on BP and Rafa will serve for the match

 

[kskate2]

2 MP'

 

[brokenshoelace]

Nice little work-out for Nadal, who's still far away from his usual form. It's the start of the season so it's all good.