I am sad and heart broken.
It did not have to end this way.
He really doesn't have the will to fight anymore. And the fact that he dropped his fitness and his physicality makes things that much harder.
Wawrinka has trouble winning matches and yet he runs Rafa off the courts in straights.
Wawrinka had not won back to back matches since Rotterdam.
Well it is what it is. Either he will wake up one day to find the fire once again to compete and fight to death or he will not.
Right now he can lose to anybody at RG.
Close match in finals at Rome would have given me some hope. But he could even get past wawrinka today.
But that terrible loss to Andy and this one to wawrinka of all the players gives me no hope.
I can't see Rafa even making the quarters at RG.
He is not suddenly going to turn into a world beater there in 8 days. He has near zero belief. and he knows why he does not have any belief.
Inactivity and lost dedication to his game and his fitness had a cost involved.
And that cost is missed opportunities to capture a few more titles. And certainly capture his 10th RG. And i of course the cost in terms of a very dramatic drop in rankings.
That is not going to be happening now this year. We will be lucky to win 3 matches at RG.