I’m going to go out on a limb here. I think Nadal (who turns just 23 on Wednesday) has peaked. Why, why why do open my big mouth?
Why say this now and risk being proven wrong next weekend? Why expose myself to the vitriol and humiliation that’s coming to me from Nadalites?
Well, for one, I [...]
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Nadal Has Peaked
Posted in Federer, Tennis, djokovic, murray, nadal, roddick, sport, tagged nadal, peaked on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Federer versus Nadal Madrid Final: “Step 1 – Break the Spell”?
Posted in Federer, Tennis, djokovic, murray, nadal, tagged 2009, madrid, masters on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think a lot of Federer fans have seen yesterday for what it was – a good step that Fed’s made! Maybe that finger raised in the air didn’t mean “I will be number one” or “I’ve beaten him one more time”, but instead, “Step 1 achieved: break the spell”.
To steal a famous analogy I [...]
About this article on “How Nadal Humbled Federer”…
Posted in Federer, Tennis, live coverage, murray, nadal, sport, tagged del potro, madrid, verdasco, world tour masters on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About this article on “How Nadal Humbled Federer”…
There is a little voice at the back of the class asking a couple of questions: Sir, if Nadal’s so good – what about Del Potro – not exactly a vintage giant-killer – humbling Nadal recently? Or Murray humbling Nadal back in spring sometime? Or – as I [...]
Murray versus Nadal Monte Carlo live scores
Posted in Tennis, murray, nadal, sport, tagged live, masters, monte carlo, murray, nadal, scores, Tennis on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nadal Wins
Nadal-Murray
First set: 6-2
Second set: 7-6 Nadal (4)
First set: Nadal broke Murray three times Murray broke Nadal once.
Second set: One break each (I think).
Murray is pressuring and pushing Nadal to make him over hit a little bit. It’s working. But Nadal breaks a second time courtesy of a few mis hits from Murray, in the [...]
Del Potro beats Nadal in Miami
Posted in Federer, Tennis, live coverage, murray, nadal, tagged coverage, del, del potro, miami, nadal, potro, Tennis on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Against humongous odds, in a match full of countless crushing mini-defeats that would have finished off so many others, Del Potro took it to Nadal big-ogre style, winning 6-4 3-6 7-6.
Nadal’s reasoning for this loss?:
“I think I played really bad all the time.”
Ok then Rafa.
What total mental stamina Del Potro showed tonight – I don’t [...]
Who’s in Whose Head Now?
Posted in Federer, Tennis, murray, nadal, sport, tagged 2009, Federer, finals, indian, murray, nadal, Tennis on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure about a lot of things in tennis right now. But to me, one thing seemed for sure at Indian Wells. The single biggest goal of the final for each of Nadal and Murray was to get inside the other’s head and assert himself. This was a long-term investment.
Unfortunately for Murray, Nadal got [...]
Nadal is Boring
Posted in murray, nadal, tagged del potro, federer/nadal rivalry, indian wells, nadal on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
To be honest, the commentators seem blinded by the numeral “1″.
Nadal is a “by the numbers” winner through and through. Maximum percentage all the way.
Emotions don’t even need to come into it, when you do the maths and have an obsessive-compulsive’s approach to percentage tennis, what results is… well, boring. He doesn’t get excited, genuinely [...]
