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So true, nadline! That is where his egocentric celebration came from! Lack of taste! Something similar we witnessed in their AO match! So glad Rafa sent him packing!

Yessss! Vamoooossss! Brilliant and brave Rafa! Kept believing and employing variety of game with drop shots to trick already tired Cilic! So proud of Rafa beating imploding Cilic at his favorite surface!

GSM […]

The umpire is so incompetent!! Very bad line calls as well! Rafa should challenge more, he was robbed a couple of times…

Rafa regrouped and played way better in the second, hitting deeper and with more power and serving better! Good job!

Vamos Champ!

Gosh, Marin celebrates the first set like he has just won the GS title! That is how much this means to him. Rafa not playing well, 1st serve % as low as 49% isn’t going to work against Cilic. Cilic playing f […]

Wow! Tsitsipas wins again! This kid is a real deal! Good job! Zverev OTOH was inconsistent and made way too many UEs. He seems to be in real trouble ahead of USO!

Great post, NNY! Agreed on all counts!

Stan played really well amd has to be given a credit for it! I am also happy to see Stan playing his best tennis! Not good news for Djoko though, since Stan is hus […]

Stan becomes “the man” when seeing Rafa on the other side of the net! Stan is playing well and Rafa did great to save those break points. Very close match so far! Did not forsee this! I thought Stan would have som […]

All I can say is I would trade one USO or AO title for multiple Masters titlles from now on! I hope Rafa stays healthy and in form and saves himself for the big ones! He should treat these as preparation tourneys […]

@nny 4:41 am,
Great post! 👍

Yeah, but Andy took Rafa out in USO 2008 and made it easier for Fed to win the finals. Otherwise, after demolishing Fed in FO 2008 and Wimby 2008 Rafa would have had an upper hand over Fed in USO as well…😀

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No JS, your point is meaningless! Rafa in his best days had to face peak Nole, Andy, Wawa and those players would make the path difficult for him! How many GSs did Fed win during Nole’s peakntime in 2014-2015? S […]

Bestplayer,
Fed did play well enough to beat any of the remaining players! Also I knew he would beat Cilic with or without roof! Fef did not need extra help from AO management! But if Cilic was not informed and […]

So true!

Exactly! The same point I was making in my posts above! Healthy top players who are experienced and had beaten Fed before could have exploited Fed’s weakness in this AO… but the stars rather aligned for Fed…

@bestplayer,
Not true! Rafa defeated peak Nole at USO before so your argument is not valid! My point was that those players who coul beat Fed because they DID before were injured! Did not say they would sure […]

Yeah, Beny, it wasn’t funny when Andy took Fed out at the AO 2013! Or when Wawa defeated him at RG 2015! As for Novak Fed became his regular customer when Nole was healthy! It’s easy to dominate the crippled weak field!

@augusta 4:13 pm,
Then you should not respond to the posts which you miss understood and which you only partially considered! I was talking about the whole bunch of players as the field does not consist of Fed […]

No idea what you are talking about, augusta?? It’s not only Rafa who is injured and had been injured! Novak was able to beat Fed and was unfortunate to have career threatening injury right now. Andy would have b […]