Indian Wells, BNP Paribas Open, CA, USA, ATP Masters 2017

[Carol]

This is ridiculous, Rafa was playing and serving much better than this but today he seems to be completely off. Roger serving great

 

[mightyjeditribble]

Fed is not on fire, Rafa is on ice which is very diferent :cry

:hug

Could also be both.

I won't count Rafa out; he's more than capable of coming back into this match. And even if he doesn't here, clay-court season isn't too far away, and that has a habit of rejuvenating him ...

He was playing much better than this, this is ridiculous, he seems to be completely off

The opponent usually has something to do with this ...

(Applies equally to Roger's losses against Rafa in the past.)

Roger now up 6-2 4-2. Only one break though in the second set. (Fed had a chance for the double break.)

 

[Moxie]

Much needed hold at love for Rafa.

 

[Carol]

:hug

Could also be both.

I won't count Rafa out; he's more than capable of coming back into this match. And even if he doesn't here, clay-court season isn't too far away, and that has a habit of rejuvenating him ...

He was playing much better than this, this is ridiculous, he seems to be completely off

The opponent usually has something to do with this ...

(Applies equally to Roger's losses against Rafa in the past.)

Roger now up 6-2 4-2. Only one break though in the second set. (Fed had a chance for the double break.)

But when the opponent is off and serving so bad then has something to do with that too, isn't?
Wake up Rafa!!!!

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Funny stat. At this time Roger is +3 in Backhand W - UFE and Rafa is -5 in the same category.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

TMF one game away.

 

[Carol]

Ok Rafa, come to Miami and try to get the title
Anyway not doubts that Roger and his new racket is helping him a lot, serving and playing

 

[Moxie]

Bloody hell.

 

[mightyjeditribble]

Fed wins the match with a backhand winner. 6-2 6-3. Fantastic.

Commiserations to the Nadal fans. This was certainly a lot more one-sided than I expected.

Fed makes it back to the top 8, beats Nadal three times in a row for the first time ever, and also levels their H2H on hard courts. All in a day's work!

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Ten more matches; No Nadalite will talk about H2H.

 

[Carol]

Ok Rafa, come to Miami with better mentality and serve, hope you will do much better than this

 

[El Dude]

LOL, GS&M. Ain't gonna happen. We've been lucky with those two matches this year so far, but chances are they don't play more than once or twice the rest of the year, and maybe a few more times after.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Ok Rafa, come to Miami and try to get the title
Anyway not doubts that Roger and his new racket is helping him a lot, serving and playing

Passive is As passive does!

 

[El Dude]

Kyrgios is going to be tough.

 

[Fiero425]

Fed wins the match with a backhand winner. 6-2 6-3. Fantastic.

Commiserations to the Nadal fans. This was certainly a lot more one-sided than I expected.

Fed makes it back to the top 8, beats Nadal three times in a row for the first time ever, and also levels their H2H on hard courts. All in a day's work!

It took a couple years, but he finally did it; shocking! Rafa's got to be done now to look this bad against his regular pigeon! Roger played well, but Nadal didn't try to do anything but hit to the BH side thinking it would be enough! What a goofball; total antiquated thinking since Roger's BH was flowing! What's wrong with some players? :nono :cover

- - http://fiero4251.blogspot.com/2016/08/fan-page-novak-nole-djokovic.html - -

 

[Carol]

Ten more matches; No Nadalite will talk about H2H.

Oh yeah, be sure we will talk about it

 

[DarthFed]

Insane display from Roger. First time he's beaten Rafa 3 times in a row, incredible what he's doing. Sucks that he had to play Rafa in the 4th round, he still needs to go through Kyrgios and Kinky Kei just to make the final, very tough ask. But if he plays like that...

 

[Busted]

I have no idea what Ivan Ljubicic put in Roger's water bottles when he plays Nadal :lolz:- but I'm loving it. It was, dare I say, a routine win. What's going to be the Nadal apologizers' excuse this time - cuz he sure as heck wasn't tired from a 5-hour match the day before...

 

[GameSetAndMath]

All important stat.

Roger: Backhand W = 8 UFE = 1, for a differential of +7

Rafa: Backhand W = 9, UFE = 9, for a differential of 0.

The fundamental strategy of repeatedly attacking Roger's backhand is not going to work any more.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Only one member of Big Four is alive at IW.

In IW, winner of Fedal match had always won the tourney historically.