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Fed came with a clear game plan and stuck by it; Rafa OTOH, looked confused, unsure of himself.

When Rafa was unsure of himself, he would play his default game ie, his defensive game. Rafa should just play the […]

PK, as I mentioned, Rafa played the wrong strategy, I’d said enough so not going to say it again.

Fed vs Djoko, you mentioned about Cincy, but Djoko won their latest encounter there. They’ve played each other […]

Elizabeth, I’m one who think Djoko will win his no. 16 on Sunday.

Djoko is different from Rafa, he has a game that can win on any surface, not unlike Fed, so Djoko normally doesn’t have much problem […]

Good points Happy.

Djoko can handle Fed’s serves and long rallies; so effectively what he won against Rafa today would not work against Djoko. I actually think that these days, Djoko is a bad match up for F […]

Eugene, I’d already listened to that and had posted something about it in one of my posts above.

I repeat that here, Rafa said Fed returned better than him, and he wasn’t hitting his BH well today so una […]

Kevin, I have doubts that Fed could produce something like today, in consecutive matches. Djoko is no Rafa on grass, he has a better game on grass.

He’s playing from close to the baseline, hitting with d […]

PK, why Rafa didn’t bring them, that’s the question! It’s a slam SF, not any other match, so why he’s not bringing his weapons to the match??

It wasn’t some technical issues, more tactical and psycholog […]

Kevin, I doubt Rafa is going to win Wimbledon again. I feel he has missed the boat, this and last year. He’ll be 34 next year, who knows how his knees are going to cope?

He’s playing well this year, and imo […]

Rafa said in his presser, that Fed returned well but he himself didn’t. His own BH not hitting well hence couldn’t open up the court. He also said he played a bit better late in the fourth set but that’s too l […]

Yes timid is the word. When you’re afraid to lose, you then end up losing! So, why be so timid? In fact I do feel for a long time now, that Rafa is timid. When he faces someone who has beaten him before, he t […]

PK, I don’t think it’s just a mental block that Fed has against Djoko.

Djoko could play well on grass, with his flatter shots, better court position thus hitting his shots with depth, making them more dif […]

The problem with Rafa is that he’s still playing a clay court game on grass. His shots lacked depth and penetration thus Fed could just easily feast on them. If it’s on clay, I doubt Fed could get back all tho […]

If Rafa can’t overcome his nervy self, then I think he can only win on clay. I’m sorry to say that, but with Fed and Djoko around, and both make him nervy seeing them across the net, he’s not going to win non c […]

I mean if Djoko is the real goat then so be it! Anyway I won’t consider Rafa as a goat candidate when he just couldn’t win on grass while the other two could.

The other two goat candidates could win so muc […]

PK, to me Rafa had all those misses because of how Fed played, putting pressure on Rafa.

I really feel that Rafa played with the wrong strategy; he’s counterpunching instead of playing a more aggressive g […]

So a third channel slam is really that difficult to achieve; take a bow, Mr Bjorn Borg! As great as Djoko is, he still couldn’t win the channel slam. For Rafa, the chance to win B2B FO/Wimbledon perhaps has p […]

Congrats to Fed, he plays very well to win. Rafa has no answer! Rafa, go home and think what went wrong in the match! You let the third set slipped away so quickly it’s unforgivable!

Also, the serve is in s […]

I really think that the current arrangement on gras doesn’t work well for Rafa, that he can go deep but can’t reach the final time and again.

Rafa perhaps needs to play competitive matches in warm up tou […]

He can win on grass by playing the grass court game, not the clay court game!

Rafa is reverting back to his 2008 self, playing counterpunching role once he sees Fed across the net, but forget that he’s now 3 […]

To me Rafa is having the wrong strategy; if counterpunching won’t work, then he should step forward and takes risk and plays with more aggression!

Fed no doubt is playing and serving well but Rafa simply g […]