federberg said:
What an extraordinary result. What happened?
Andy was wiping the floor w/ David in the 1st set. Doing everything well, the serve was firing, groundies were on point and the movement was spectacular. In 2nd set David was tired of the run-around and picked us level. Murray's serve numbers came down and David was abusing the 2nd serve. Once Ferrer got the break in the decider at 2-1, it was more of the same from set 2.
The biggest thing I see is the confidence. When a player raises his level (like Ferrer did today), Andy is not countering it by raising his own. He just doesn't have it against the top players anymore and one can understand why.
The weak 2nd serve is still an issue, especially against good returners (Ferrer) and he doesn't have the killer instinct of the other big 4. That may have something to do w/ his coach, I'm not sure, but pusher Andy is not winning any matches against top players at this stage of his comeback. He needs to be aggressive from start to finish just to get some confidence and sustain a consistent level of play for at least 2 sets.