Pablo is making it difficult for rafa today.
leads 2-1 in the decider.
Rafa gets his break of serve:
leads 4-3.
Rafa threw away his chance. he failed to hold serve.
Rafa gets it done but what a battle it turned out to be.
andujar played well.
Clay Warrior dodged the bullet. It's as simple as that. He was outplayed and overpowered for much of the match and still snatched it in the end. Andujar played Rafa the correct way, but he just got a bit overanxious at times when he had some sitters. It was unfortunate for him that one of those times was right at the end. Nadal was moving horribly in the opening set and Andujar was jumping on Rafa's second serve (almost the whole match). Nadal was better in the second set, but only fair the rest of the way, and was fortunate that he was able to escape so many Andujar break point and the two match point opportunities. It was an overall excellent effort by Andujar, and a scrappy effort from Nadal to pull it out.
Commiserations to Mr. Andujar and his fans. Congrats to Mr. Nadal and his supporters.
Respectfully,
masterclass
that is well put general masterclass.
andujar must have had around 13 return winners which is a lot on clay.
Rafa definitely dodged a bullet today.