Nadal vs Gulbis thread

[invisiblecoolers]

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A Champion vs extreme underdog, but we all know when Gulbis turns up he could turn up big, the big Lativian for some years considered as the next big hope [he is still not that old 24] has never fulfilled the GOD given talent. He played a great match against Rafa in 2010 at the very same venue and could have easily won had Rafa been slightly out of his best.

With threads raising questions which version of Rafa is better, I guess tomorrow's match holds a key to those answers, if the Lativian takes down Rafa tomorrow I guess the question is answered by itself.

To add more, I don't see this Rafa as intimidating as he used to be in 2008-2010, if the same Gulbis who turned up against Victor [or the Gulbis of 2010 Rome] I won't be surprised if Rafa goes down tomorrow. Rafa's return is very deceiving, yes his stats for the year is stunning but he has lost so many sets which on normal years would have been very shocking, could have easily lost IW to Del Potro.

Who thinks this match could be close affair?

I looked at the odds at Bet365 and here you go Nadal is marked as a stern favorite with 7 times the money on Gulbis to win the match and 5.50 to win the 1st set. Bet365 bookies expecting a straight set thrashing on Gulbis.

I see this as another case of Rafa's stats be so deceiving and I expect Gulbis to take the match much closer than expected, if some how he pulls the 1st set off he might even go on to pull the biggest upset of his career.

I am going for Gulbis to win 6-4 6-4.

[Henman Bill]

These extended highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXO9xilnngM are worth 20 minutes of your time.

[invisiblecoolers]

Nadal didn't like him asking the umpire to check the mark, it wasn't about "wasting time" do you have a quote for that or are you twisting his words?

OMG what am I twisting here? Nadal on his interview really didn't like Gulbis wasting time in checking so many times with the umpire regarding marks, he clearly mentioned in his interview he didn't like this attitude, whats twisting here?

[invisiblecoolers]

These extended highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXO9xilnngM are worth 20 minutes of your time.

Thx for the share

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