CAMELOT FANTASIES

You just can't win in this sport if you can't break serve.

It also puts your own serve under too much pressure.


Unless Rafa works hard on his fitness, his return of serve, and his backhand he won't be making any finals, let alone trying to win them.


Lack of enough hunger and desire to work on those 3 things is killing him on tennis courts.


Rafa can stop djokovic. He is the only one who can.

I don't think he did as bad as I thought he would. This is the first tournament where he's played decently, actually. He got over some tough spots, he regrouped well, but he still wasn't up to Nole standards, not this soon.

I am encouraged because he made Novak work a bit. I expected a worse score than it turned out to be, and Rafa had some chances. Five double faults for Rafa is a lot, but I think he should be proud to have gotten that far. At the beginning of the week I was thinking a quarterfinal, with m fingers crossed, but he went a round further, so I'm OK with the result.

As far as three setters, Federer still has Novak's number IMO.