Saturday, July 2, 2011

B-R-U-T-A-L

Brutal. There's no other way to describe Rafa last night but BRUTAL.

There's nothing wrong with Andy's game, he's been great since French Open; the problem lies when Rafa waits for him on the other side of the court. There was nothing Andy can do, he just couldn't put away the ball, it keeps coming back to him - topspin and all. Rafa was cold and clinical. He was determined, focused, he was brutal. Really. Rafa pulverized Andy in front of his homecrowd and yet I felt like he was also being gentle with him.

Rafa wasn't fist pumping as much as he would normally when hitting winners, he probably felt sorry for Andy but Rafa had to do what he had to. Not celebrating each point won is just the best he could do to buffer his punch to Andy.

How could Andy win when he committed 35+ unforced errors against Rafa's 7 on the whole match. Now that was precision.

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