RG SF - Nadal/Djokovic

[don_fabio]

Ok folks. I will come back for the last rites at the end.

just kidding

 

[kskate2]

He already seems rattled too.

He's quite rattled. Expect another Conan roar as soon as something good happens to him.

 

[Front242]

Lose the drop shot or lose the match or just lose anyway.

 

[kskate2]

I'm going to start counting them now. Dropper #6

 

[Front242]

Doesn't help him that the match started a lot later than expected as the court is playing slower and slower now.

 

[Front242]

Avoids the bagel at least but score is still fugly.

 

[Front242]

Corrected it for you

HARSH!

 

[don_fabio]

time to break and end this set on positive note with 6:3 and regroup for 2nd set

 

[kskate2]

2 BP's again

 

[kskate2]

Dropper #7

 

[don_fabio]

Novak BP conversion will be like 2/23

 

[don_fabio]

Dropper #7

So he is sacrificing a BP opportunity for some lousy dropper. He is better than this bullshit.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

I don’t think Djokovic is going to be settled until he breaks Rafa.

 

[kskate2]

Dropper #8

 

[Moxie]

You want to take away my hope? Never!

Seriously, I just have a different feel about this year, despite the odds. I probably sound like Fed fan a decade ago. I haven't seen Novak this motivated on clay since forever and that caveman roar against the italian tells me how much it meant to him, how much he wants this battle today. Unfortunately I can't watch, but I hope you guys throw in a lot of live comments, I will be reading those.

LOL, Don Fabio. Anyway, like you, I can't watch the match, so reading comments and watching scores is all I got. Thanks all of you for the eyes on it!

 

[don_fabio]

Dropper #7

can you also count if a dropper gave him a point eventually or not? that would be interesting too

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

I really want to punch Djokovic for all of his damn droppers. Who comes up with that type of strategy?

 

[kskate2]

can you also count if a dropper gave him a point eventually or not? that would be interesting too

Yes I can. Dropper #7 won him the point, but #8 didn't. My stream is a little behind so bear with me

 

[MikeOne]

Almost impossible for Novak to beat Nadal when Nadal is playing this well.

Its amazing how one shot has turned this rivalry on it's head. Rafa's down the line fh has completely changed the dynamics of this matchup. During the years when novak was hanging with Nadal on clay, it being pretty even, the patterns favored Novak. Novak would go deep and hard to Rafa's fh, Rafa tended to counter with cross court fhs, which got shorter and shorter and then Novak would get the setups to hit winning shots. Rafa now goes hard and powerfully down the line and almost EVERY TIME, disrupts Novak and either hits winners or wrong foots Novak.

Novak needs an answer to this... i believe the answer is drive his bh down the line more often.... not continue to go cross court so regularly... When Novak keeps going cross court, Nadal eventually goes down the line and amazing how almost every time, Novak isn't ready. it's a horrible pattern which Novak's hasn't solved in years, on clay.

 

[Fiero425]

I don’t think Djokovic is going to be settled until he breaks Rafa.

Done; ugly on a DF, but he got it! BREAK!