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RG is Rafa’s Kingdom, Djokovic has never beaten an all singing all dansing Rafa at RG. In 2015, Rafa was in his worst form and last year he was injured.

The seeding system in not full-proof if the only 2 players to have won the title meet in the Quarter Finals. No other player in the draw has even made the final.

Tournament Predictions –

Quarterfinals
Djokovic over Nadal in 5
Alcaraz over Davidovich Fokina in 3

Tsitsipas over Ruud in 4
Sinner over Kecmanovic in 4

Semifinals
Alcaraz over Djokovic in […]

I’m beginning to enjoy The Grandstand experts always picking against Rafa. It works well for him.

Big Al, PC is his palace but he plays one match on SL every year to give access to more of his fans.

It’s almost as if Rafa knew he couldn’t lose. I was hoping Djokovic would win the 4th set on his serve so that Rafa could start the 5th set on his serve to get scoreboard advantage but Rafa had other ideas. He […]

Mona, it’s nerves and the opponent goes for broke with nothing to lose.

The 1st GS dream is over for Carlitos for now.

The only reason I’m happy Sasha won is because I was dreading the hyperbolic comparison of Carlitos with Rafa had he magically won RG at the age of 19. I was […]

I just hope Rafa can play pain free for the whole match. Last year he played with pain.

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……This has been the mantra ever since Djokovic took his first set at RG against Rafa in 2012……..

I don’t even know why everyone assumes that unless it’s hot and sunny, Djokovic has the advantage on clay. Rafa hasn’t won all 91 matches towards his 13 titles in hot and sunny weather. This has been the mantra […]

Christian P, I totally agree with you.

A night session this year is nothing compared to the conditions in the RG 2020 when it was cold, windy, with hard balls. Everyone wrote Rafa off before round 1 was even played and made Djokovic the overwhelming […]

This is the point I made. Rather than focus on just the results we need to consider the opposition as well.

Van De ZANDSCHULP is seeded #26, with a huge serve and great ground strokes. Bedene is unseeded at […]

If they’d swapped 4th round opponents and Rafa had played Bedene and Djokovic had played Felix, Rafa would have won in straight sets and Djokovic would not have beaten Felix in straight sets.

That’s my perspective.

Rafa’s post match press conference

Tony gets very nervous watching Rafa. He said he couldn’t watch the 5th set of the AO final against Medvedev, he was that nervous.

If Djoker played Felix and Rafa played Bedene I wonder how things would have played out.

After today’s match, I feel more relaxed about Rafa level, his foot holding up, of course.