CAMELOT FANTASIES

but the problem this time is very profound and it wont go away. you cant fix fitness and that massive drop in the ground game so quickly. it will take 6-9 months to fix this. and that is if you have single minded focus to dominate once again.



there is a huge drop in fitness and hardly any wins anywhere.



he did well on clay in 2013. that gave him a lot of confidence. he also had some youth on his side.

he worked hard in practice and looked forward to making something happen on the north American hard court circuit. it paid off. he had his focus and his drive going.


still 10 tournaments and that success on the hard courts after a long layoff was an outlier at best.

andy, Federer, and djokovic were not quite at their best. there was a small dip in their play.


and rafa would produce a masterpiece at the u.s. open in the final.



so I say it is predictable now. we know he has significantly diminished fitness and his ground game is considerably weakened with little or no consistency.




did you see the last point against dolgopolov. that was a relatively weak forehand which he hit from his backhand corner. weak forehand that lacked the depth and the pace.

dolgopolov knew where it was going and there was all that free space generously provided by Rafa.


rafa should have taken that ball as a backhand and buried it down the line.



better yet he should never have put himself in that position after leading 4-2 on grass.


rafa is just gifting them wins. so something has to give.


either he will do something about it and fix it or we are looking at 2017 without Rafa.


and finally I can assure you that next injury ends the career. and you just know where it is going to happen if it does.

it will be on the damn hard courts chasing points for WTF.


so he better watch himself. he had no business being in Miami knowing that he was so badly prepared for the most important part of his season.

he nearly injured himself there.



I would let WTF go and just work on clay to return very strong in 2016.