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TENNIS BLOG Tennis Articles The Saturday Roland Garros ticker!
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| Written by Sergio Cruz | |||
| May 30, 2010 at 10:21 AM | |||
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What happened in the French Open yesterday? Rafael Nadal vs. Lleyton Hewitt Game, set and Match Nadal 6-3 6-4 6-3 With a clay court record of 5-0 in Nadals favor Hewitt did well to stay close, but in the end same story game set and match Nadal. Interesting though is that Hewitt tried some of the things I wrotte in 'The BOOK ON NADAL for FEDERER' 7 years ago, yes Nov 22, 2003 and that still holds true today! Anyway Nadal on a bad I would even dare to say ominously bad, still destroyed Hewitt at will. Players have to understand that the run of the mill baseline tennis is just not enough to beat Nadal! Serving intelligently (serve and volley included), taking time away from Nadal by taking the ball early, vary the shots, use the slice, attacking or putting balls away and taking risks is the only way! To enforce such tactics one has to eat plenty of humble pie, be passed at the net many times, do not always look pretty, occasionally even look silly and ridiculous, but with that firm etude of propose that will not yield or bend no matter how bad things will look. That's the character of champions and even when they fail they raise above mere human beings and are the target of adulation because they gave it all! Who's next? Brazilian left-handed Thomaz Bellucci who demolished Ivan Ljubicic 7/6 6/2 6/4. Andy Roddick vs. Teimuraz Gabashvili Game, set and Match Gabashvili 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 When does Roddick understand that playing way behind the baseline and running around from side to side is not the game for an athlete of his size and with a serve like his? Never! Gabashvili took care of business in a clinical and painless way and Andy weary legs from his previous already habitual 4 and five set epic marathons, sucombed mentaly and physical and threw the towel 'No Más!" 6-2 in the third for Gabashvili. Pitty because Andy could have won a lot more on his career but I guess it is Karma or even a 'curse' may be in play. Against David Nalbandian in the US Open 2003 there was a line call on the Tie-breaker on the left tramline of Roddick that was in but, called out against Nalbandian. That shot would have virtually given Nalbandian the US Open title, instead because Roddick did not have the fairness to give the point to David, Andy went on to win beating a despondent Nalbandian 6/7(4) 3/6 7/6(7) 6/1 6/3. Many years before that Matts Wilander instead of taking a bad call against his opponent, overrulled the call himself and gave a very important point to José Luis Clerc. Wilander went on to win the tournament and several other grand slams. Was that act of fairness the turning point of his career? Who knows, but I still remember it. On the other hand Roddick never won another Grand Slam tournament again! Serena Williams vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Game set and Match Williams 6-1, 1-6, 6-2 Sure Serena was sick or was Serena sick? No one will ever know, the fact is in spite of her 'poor health' Serena was able to hit 34 winners to 22 from Pavluychenkova, not bad on clay and especially for someone who his sick! Next on the line of fire? Shahar Peer! Oh, yes there were many other great matches one of them Henin vs Sharapova that was left to be settled on Sunday! :-) Sergio Cruz
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