Re: What It All Means

On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:36:52 +0100, EFill4Zaggin
<EFill4Zaggin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

rn 21 May 2007 20:46:43 -0700, Voice of Reason <sasidharpv@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On May 21, 6:49 pm, Adam Thirnis <adam.thir...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 21, 9:31 pm, Voice of Reason <sasidha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On May 21, 12:10 pm, "arnab.z@gmail" <arnab.zah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

pedrod...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

-Nadal himself stated (well before the final) that he was tired from
too much play. He has since refined that to mean that he is "mentally
tired". To his credit, he has de-emphasized this fact. I think we
might want not to.

I wouldn't. He didn't look *that* physically tired to me. He practices
multiple hours a day on clay. He's a young horse, 20 years old. He
recovers much more quickly between matches. More so because he is a
unique physical specimen even in his age-group of tennis players.

But I do believe he was "mentally tired". Winning too many matches may
become mentally tiresome, even to the point that it may become a
burden in terms of committing less unforced errors and being inventive
in general, something that clearly happened to Nadal in the third set
of the Hamburg final. Nadal was running around the court with about
the same speed and retreiving well. He ran down a ball to his bh side
and passed Federer from behind the baseline even in the last game of
the match. But Federer was really at a much heightened aggressive
state in this match. Nadal simply didn't have it in him mentally to
match that level of aggression. I attribute that to this "mental
tiredness" he talked about in his post-match interview.

Good post.. I agree - winning takes a toll and streaks become too much
of a burden at some point.

streaks are a good thing. noone thinks ending one is good until
they're groping for positives when it happens...- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Streaks are a double edged sword -- sure it's nice to have a streak
but along with it is a ticking time bomb of the law of averages.
Sooner or later it is going to catch up to you -- and you know it,
both you and the rest of the field is waiting for it.

It's not the pressure that does you in -- it's the relentless winning,
it takes a toll on you mentally.

I am using you in the general sense here btw.

The benefit Nadal got from having the pressure taken off him by the
steak ending is not, imo, as much of a benefit as having the streak
intact ahead of FO, which would've made the rest of the field
seriously doubt that they could beat him. Instead some of them have
some more hope now.


I don't believe Fedrer beating Rafa once gives rest of the field much
hope.
.

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