CAMELOT FANTASIES

Rafa desperately needs match practice. One set against Tomic and now who knows how many sets will Kokkinakkis be able to physically endure in the 108F heat forecast for Thursday.

Monfils was hitting the ball pretty well yesterday, Rafa will be in a world of hurt in R3 if he doesn't find his game until then.

But isn't Nadal coming off winning Abu Dhabi just the week before? That's a tournament that follows AO btw. And did he not beat Monfils there? Yes, he did. Anyway, I kind of agree though that he needs to play the full match, because the more he plays the more he'll get used to the surface, which might be slightly different than AD.