CAMELOT FANTASIES

Well the doubles is out of the way.  Fognini-Bolelli just too strong for Nadal and very young Munar. 6-4, 6-2.

Nadal and Munar were up against it from the start as they were down two breaks and 4-1. But they showed some fight, got one break back and got to 4-5 before the Italians snatched it.  The second set was not much of a battle. The Italians went up to 5-0, got broken serving for it the first time, then got it done their next serve.  18 year old Munar did not do badly at first, but then hung his head a bit after opening the second set with a poor service game. 

Rafa was inconsistent.  Again, the forehand was not entirely there either on groundstrokes or volleys.  He needs that forehand singing to be effective.  I think he needs lots of work on it to work it out.  He can't seem to control it, or he is just late on it.

When he served to Fognini, he was very tense, as Fognini on the backhand kept bashing his second serve right to Nadal's forehand and Rafa was left wanting.  Rafa did much better in the Bolelli exchanges when he was on his backhand side hitting forehands cross court to Bolelli's forehand.

But all in all, I think it was enjoyable for Nadal.  He was smiling and laughing on several points regardless of the score.  So I don't think he really treated the doubles as anything more than a warm-up for tomorrow.

Here is the Order of Play for Tuesday:

CENTER COURT Starts at 11:30 am
1st Rd          
Borna Coric VS    (3)    Roberto Bautista Agut

Not Before 1:30 pm
1st Rd    

Benoit Paire VS    Philipp Kohlschreiber

Followed By
1st Rd    
(1) WC Rafael Nadal VS Fernando Verdasco

Followed By
1st Rd    

(WC) Alexander Zverev VS    (2) Tommy Robredo

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ARRIBA COURT Starts at 11:00 am
1st Rd    

(6) Juan Monaco VS Ernests Gulbis

Followed By
1st Rd    
      
Lukas Rosol VS Simone Bolelli

Followed By
1st Rd          

Diego Schwartzman VS (5)    Pablo Cuevas

Followed By / After Suitable Rest
1st Rd    

(3) Jamie Murray/John Peers VS    (PR) Florian Mayer/Jiri Vesely
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COURT M2 Starts at 11:00 am
1st Rd    

(4) Andreas Seppi VS    Martin Klizan

Followed By
1st Rd    

( 8 ) Fabio Fognini VS Jeremy Chardy

Followed By
1st Rd    

(Q) Frank Moser/Jan-Lennard Struff  VS Albert Ramos-Vinolas/Andreas Seppi
    
Followed By
1st Rd    
   
Jeremy Chardy/Lukasz Kubot VS    (2) Alexander Peya/Bruno Soares
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COURT M3 Starts at 11:00 am
1st Rd          

Aljaz Bedene VS Daniel Gimeno-Traver

Followed By
1st Rd    

(WC) Jaume Munar VS (7) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez

Followed By
1st Rd          

Jiri Vesely    VS Andreas Haider-Maurer


Respectfully,
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