CAMELOT FANTASIES

agreed. Barcelona title is a must right now.

he has to focus. I thinks his fans are also to blame for some of this slump. they just cant get enough of his time and his attention.

he is forever trying to be helpful and forever trying to please him.

but the biggest reason for his slump right now is that he chose to screw around for 15 days after his early loss in indian wells.

those 15 days could have been spent at home on the red clay. clay is the wellspring from which he flows.

he needed to work on his ground game and his movement on the red clay and he was not willing to do that.

clay has saved him for 11 years. it was not going to save him forever. they are all gaining on him.

rafa has to work harder than ever before to keep his competitive advantage on the red clay. instead he is working as little as possible on the red clay this year.


bottom line: very little time left. he cant afford to let his key competitive advantage slip away. he has to win Barcelona and rome.

it would not hurt to win Madrid also.

I know, but sometimes things have to give. We don't know if he wasn't practicing enough because of the back. Like you, I think it's way worse than he's letting on.