CAMELOT FANTASIES

if nole destroys him in the quarterfinals at least we will all know why:

he simply says no to practice.


he hit barely 1.5 hours yesterday when he should have spent that much time just hitting backhands alone.

that is just ridiculous. now he will again hit for barely 1.5 hours tomorrow.



he beat a guy that is outside top 100.

the one before the Russian was almagro. almagro cant do anything anymore. he is ranked outside 150.

and the one before him was ranked 296.


rafa also says no to backhands. you know damn well you cant give novak that much court to work with.

he had absolutely no business running around so many backhands against his horribly weak opponents.


rafa is also running around his backhand to hit forehands when returning serve.

nole now has one of the best serves on the planet. he has placement and he has monster pace on his serve.

he then backs that up with his ground game.


there is a reason why rafa keeps getting crunched by him he has lost 17 of last 25 matches against nole.


there was no reason for that. I can make some allowance for injuries but the biggest reason is for all those losses is that nole is far more motivated.

he has been simply outworking rafa.



rafa can still take this but it will take a horrible match from nole.



he has just got to get out and practice a little harder and longer. the key areas is court coverage, return of serve, and the backhand.

all 3 areas need a lot of work and it is not getting done.


I don't know why he is not taking this seriously. 1.5 hours of practice where 1/2 hour is wasted just standing around or water breaks  and chit chatting is plain ridiculous.


he should have practiced twice yesterday and he should practice twice tomorrow.


but clearly it is not happening.



guys like vilas, borg, lendl, muster were known to even practice right after their matches.


rafa can rewrite history. he is close.


he should take this a little more seriously.


and I don't care if he has 9 RG crowns. the fact of the matter is that he is in battle now.


he is in battle. nothing but the best preparation will do in order to win this war.