Re: USO - beginning of Nadal's domination?




scottl44@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Nadal was serving at 5-4 in the second set. Nadal also took the second
set to a tie-break which Federer won.

I was watching, glued to my TV. Fed won the match in the second set,
IMO. If Nadal wins the second set the match goes five.

Maybe the second set was crucial more for Fed than for Nadal. The match
just showed what a good fighter Nadal is. Anyone else would have
probably lost the third set easily after having lost the first two
sets. Fed might have tried more in the third set if he had lost the
second. But then who knows, he might have lost his confidence and could
have played badly. I guess it cuts both ways. I thought it would be a
comfortable win for Fed. But it wasn't and credit to Nadal for that.

-Aravind


Jughead wrote:

How could he have easily gone to a fifth set?. Fed was in control of
the set and though he got broken once, didn't seem like he was going to
lose the set.

-Aravind

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