CAMELOT FANTASIES

Super posts general. 

I confess I was a little surprised Paes and Nadal didn't do better. 42 year old Paes is and has been one of the best doubles players in the world.  He and Martina Hingis teamed up for 3 mixed doubles slams this year on the hard courts of Australian Open and US Open and the grass at Wimbledon, and if I recall correctly, he won the US Open doubles in 2013 with Stepanek.  I guess he and Nadal just didn't mesh as they were hustled out 3 & 4 in an hour by Inglot and Lindstedt



But as you say, it's probably for the best.  I'm not sure he gets much out of doubles anyway General.

Tomorrow,  Rosol again plays Nadal, and Seppi again plays Federer and Coric plays Murray. NoDjok got through today against Bellucci.

Respectfully,
masterclass

rafa just wasted his time with this foolish doubles activity. he wasted a whole day basically.


he could have used this day to get in about 3 hours of practice with some concentrated work on the serve, the return of serve, and the topspin backhand.


and that could have served him well tomorrow.

last time these 2 met, rosol took the first set in 23 minutes and lost just one point on his first serve.


again I can only arrive at one conclusion: failing to plan is planning to fail. and that is what he is doing. he is failing.

he is not only not working hard enough, he is also not working smart enough.


he can win if he wants to. he just has to go get on clay and work out his ground game issues.


and he has to go and start doing serious work on the fitness front. and that is how he can turn things around.