CAMELOT FANTASIES

In what should have been the best battle of the day, Fognini demolished himself, which has been known to happen too often.  He had a 1 set lead playing pretty well, and Tsonga was so-so, and at 3-3 in the second Fabio had 6 break points, including a 15-40 advantage, but then made a few errors, along with Tsonga hanging in there with some good play, and finally Tsonga took the nearly 10 minute game. 

So now at 3-4, Fognini serving, at game point, served what looked like a winning serve, but it was called out by the line judge.  The umpire corrected the call, but said to replay the point.  Fognini was not happy to have to serve again, but did so, and Tsonga took the point, and broke an upset Fognini for 5-3 and served out the set at love.  Fognini called for the supervisor and asked that the line judge who called the out serve be removed.  The supervisor did not want to at first, and Fognini was obviously incensed. Eventually,  the line judge was removed, though I don't know exactly when, it was sometime into the 3rd set.

At any rate, in the 3rd and final set, Fognini had evidently decided his match was done and lost about 20 of the next 21 points, in full tank mode, he was barely moving to any shot away from him.  Fognini won 0 games, and a total of 4 of the 28 points in the final set. Fans booed him off the court, and some announcer though he should be fined for not trying.

Fognini has a lot of talent, but sometimes his mind goes AWOL and his coach is left with a big headache after face slapping himself repeatedly.

GGL, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez played very well, great defense, getting a lot of balls back, and just wore down and out-steadied Berdych who by the end looked quite frustrated.  This was undoubtedly the upset of the day based on their seeding, but after GGL beat the in-form Dolgopolov, it was not that surprising.

The other top players played well, including Ferrer, who was too good for Dimitrov, who played way too defensively, similar to Gasquet.

Respectfully,
masterclass