Rafa definitely wobbled when he should have pulled away today, but nerves are understandable - but Murray is #2 in the world. He took Rafa to three sets on clay before, in 2011 and 2014, and both years Rafa won in Paris.
We need to get a bit of perspective here, it seems the Fedfans are becoming anxious. Rafa won a big tournament, but there's a long way to go before RG. And even when he was thumping everybody everywhere on the dirt, he didn't always play "remotely great" because he didn't need to.
We'll see what this means when the clay season starts to get really dirty, arounf the time Rome begins...
Forehand DTL still needs work though and serving was very poor from both of them. I still don't think he's playing well enough to beat Novak even in best of 3 though. Monfils would make anyone look good when he's losing 6-0 3rd sets. I missed set 3 anyway (thankfully) so hence why no comments. Any time violations from his buddy Carlos earlier? Can't really see any bitter posts btw...I merely pointed out the obvious, ie Monfils' cardio is terrible.
