First of all, I had to watch the game from the laptop (thank God for tennistv.com) because the truth is that the Portuguese commentators leave me totally WTF?.
Second, when the game ended, all I could think about was FUCK YEAH ROGER MADE IT!
Everyone was dead, and everyone thought the age of 29 would not do anything else, took away his parental encouragement to keep fighting ...
This week beat all the top 5 and just gave a set against Nadal has a 22-2 record since the U.S. Open and from Wimbledon SF has made at least in every tournament he has played.
This final goes to show once more that the rest of the tour are Fedala viewers of the show, those two are the ones with tennis and eggs to win the big tournaments, the rest can beat them once in a while but when they are playing at their best no one can match them.
H2H Nadal has a positive about Roger because the right has a huge topspin, usually Swiss pulled backwards (which is a hand) and then a ball is very uncomfortable for him, besides being a lefty makes the throw open to the back of the right is also an important weapon.
This is one of the slower-covered surfaces of the circuit, but has low bounce (something like the ball does not bounce much, which is a feature of the faster surfaces) so that the topspin Nadal failed to penetrate the defense of Roger, who played pretty well, winning 92% of the points with his first serve and defend in a phenomenal way.
Nadal had a grueling match with Murray on Saturday, but that's no excuse as all players have to play consecutive days and is their fault not be finished before the games.
This game (like Madrid 09) is an example of how one can beat Nadal tactically:
1. Serving open and slice very high percentage of first serves, this is achieved to get the court to rival that if he will answer with the court being fully discovered.
2. Shortening points: Nadal is a guy who fights all the balls in a rally of 20 rallies will most likely to win because his style of play is percentage: play it safe with a lot of topspin to annoy the opponent and force the error or secure winner , if it is possible to shorten the points to win the rally with a winner very aggressive (for example, Roger hit a right of 154 km / h on the corner of the stadium, but that's because it built the two previous rallies and was able to in a comfortable situation to define the point)
3. The upside: usually that's the weak point of Roger, because if the ball is above her shoulders will usually hit missed out on this game worked like a charm, the slice was a tremendous thing and even managed to hit winners with that.
4. Mind: Roger devolved in the second set and lost, he suddenly remembered what he did in the first set, recovered and won the match with relative ease, Nadal can not give anything away because you do pay for everything but Roger reecontró with his best and managed to get a very hard game ahead.
5. Taking advantage of the break points: Roger was 100% (3 / 3), as I said before, Nadal can be given an opportunity because Roger will eat you alive and when he had attacked and killed approximately PRs.
Roger is not dead and is even better than 99% of the tour, so do not give up, because he always proves otherwise, with this victory reaches Lendl and Sampras with 5 YEC and adds another title (66) to his illustrious career.
The King is Alive, Long Live the King!
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