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As mentioned earlier, Rafa’s young opponents would all hit as hard as possible, and serve big, ie playing very aggressive attacking tennis, to try to beat Rafa on clay. So far, only Rublev and Zverev managed t […]

vmk, I liked the way you put it, it’s a bit humorous to me, to lighten the mood a bit, esp in this situation that Rafa is in. Thankfully, Rafa won the TB and so the match this time!

After Rome, there’s two weeks before the FO, don’t know whether Rafa could improve his serve during that two weeks. His BH is not up to par too, needs lots of work.

Rafa is standing so far back and is made to run so often, it’s just exhausting even just watching him play. Without a good enough serve, he has to struggle even on clay; all these youngsters come with big s […]

All the youngsters seem to be playing this way, ie hitting as hard as possible, these days – Zverev, Rublev, Sinner, Popyrin, Alcaraz, etc. Even the all rounder Tsitsipas can hit hard with depth too, Medvedev […]

Congrats to Rafa! Winning here in Barcelona will be a confidence booster for our Rafa! Hope he continues this winning streak during the clay season (and even beyond!).

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I thought Rafa started well in the final. He was hitting with depth compared to his matches earlier on. Tsitsipas played well all his matches (hadn’t lost a set before this final since the start of clay s […]

Rafa really can kill us his fans! Almost!

Thanks God he wins in the end! He really refuses to lose; I thought after losing the second set, he’s going to lose to the younger and fitter Tsitsipas. […]

Yes! Tsitsipas wins his first Masters title! So happy for him, finally, in his third attempt in the final.

He serves well, covers the court well and hits with depth; that’s how to beat Rublev at his own game!

Not only fine tuning his schedule but also fine tuning his game. I know it’s on clay, but Rafa is still playing from way behind the baseline and doing lots of running.

I know his serve was the problem; w […]

At the beginning of the second set, I thought Rafa would lose it in straight sets when his first service game was broken. I thought the score would be worse than in 2019 when he played his worst match on clay, […]

Rafa wins quickly and easily, losing only two games! Well done Rafa! Vamos!

So now Djoko has the most HC slams – 12 (9 AOs and 3 USOs), one more than Fed’s 11. Djoko is best on HCs with 12, Fed best on grass with 8, and Rafa best on clay with 13.

Djoko 12 HCs; 5 Grass; 1 C […]

Seems like to want these current batch of youngsters to beat a big three in a slam final is too much to ask for. Thiem couldn’t beat Djoko at AO and Rafa at FO finals and now Medvedev couldn’t do it either ( […]

Wow, this AO final almost as uncompetitive as the FO final last year!

Djoko as expected brought his best to the final, despite the struggles in the early rounds. I would expect Medvedev to be as competitive […]

Yeah Meddy vs Djoko should be more competitive than Tsitsipas vs Djoko imo. Meddy is playing his best tennis at the moment.

Excuse me, this is 2021, not 2020!

Thiem was not playing well hence he was sent packing in straight sets by Dimi, whom himself had to retire against Karatsev in the next match!

You want to think highly of […]

Quite a boring match; no problem at all for Djoko! This qualifier is too good for the others in the draw but not for Djoko, especially when it’s the first time he’s playing against Djoko. Djoko is not the kin […]

At least Tsitsipas is humble enough about this win and has shown Rafa his due respect. After losing a few five setters narrowly to the big guns, a win like this one is something to be treasured.

I hope […]

Medvedev in four sets. He’s in the form of his life now, and he’s a bad match up for Tsitsipas, so Medvedev will win this match.