Federer d. Nadal Hamburg 2007 - 3rd set

[Moxie]

You asked for it, you got it. This comes in 3 parts:

[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQhvXwmBOpc[/video]

 

[Moxie]

[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvltufL6d98[/video]

 

[Moxie]

[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esD_-ngFSts[/video]

 

[tented]

The match was on Rafa's racquet ...

 

[Kieran]

Strange how defeats against Roger never affected Rafa. He never got under the younger man's skin the way Nole did. So they met a few weeks later in Paris and it was as if this hadn't happened...

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

it did happen though. rafa is allowed to lose on clay even to Federer.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

It is not just about losing. It is about eating Bagel and that too in a deciding set.

 

[tented]

Strange how defeats against Roger never affected Rafa. He never got under the younger man's skin the way Nole did. So they met a few weeks later in Paris and it was as if this hadn't happened...

After the match, Rafa said: "If I have to lose against anyone, then he is the man. I am not sad to lose to the best in the world."

 

[brokenshoelace]

It is not just about losing. It is about eating Bagel and that too in a deciding set.

...What about it?

 

[Moxie]

It is not just about losing. It is about eating Bagel and that too in a deciding set.

...What about it?

No response. I also wonder what GSM thought that bagel meant. I'd call it cold comfort. Maybe he wasn't watching tennis then. That streak had taken on a life of its own. It had to end sometime, and if it was in a final, against Federer, well…if you were Nadal, you might just sink into that one, as well. Just be tired, and let it go.