buffalobillsrul2002 wrote:It's been a hell of match. But Federer's in big trouble now..... Nadal's playing awesome. Nadal up a break, 3-2 in the 4th...
Did you get to see all of the 4th? How did it go? I was at church.
wow you'd think after fed ended nadal's 81 clay win streak in hamburg, he was the favorite this time... but no nadal proved why he owns roland garros again. heh, won me a $20 bet.
it did seem like fed's problems vs nadal at french open is more mental. he was making too many errors and couldn't take advantage of chances like he usually does. probably all in his mind.
BitterDodgerFan wrote:it did seem like fed's problems vs nadal at french open is more mental. he was making too many errors and couldn't take advantage of chances like he usually does. probably all in his mind.
That's what McEnroe kept talking about during the first three sets. How he was being "stubborn" and wouldn't change things up by bringing Nadal up to the net where he won something like 14/17 points, but just kept letting Nadal work him from anywhere and everywhere on the baseline.
And what exactly is the deal with the different surfaces? I've never really gotten into tennis before this Federer/Nadal rivalry, but I don't understand why Federer can be so good everywhere else yet at the same time Nadal hasn't parlayed his success in Paris to one of the others. Why hasn't there really been a lot of great "all surface" players? Are they really so incredibly different that only one guy can win the career slam in the Open Era? I guess it's the same reason there haven't been a lot of golfers win the career slam either.
i think clay is more different than the other surfaces in it that it slows down the ball a lot. from what i hear, grass is super fast and clay is super slow and clay favors persistent baseliners who are physically fit. usually those players are endurance players who can tire out the opponent with long rallies, and run down everything that they normally couldn't on fast surfaces. consistent defensive play is a rewarded here against power and aggressiveness. now i have only played on hard court, thats all we have in US it seems, so i can't say from experience. but the results speak for themselves as great players like sampras, mcenroe, connors, edberg, and becker never won it. a lot of the past winners though have been 1 dimensional clay court specialists that doesn't win other surfaces like gustavo kuerton, who won the thing 3 times!
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by JTWood » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:09 am 
