The Final Thread-Time for a good ol Rogering? Novaks Roger... Im OK (its mine!)

by temporary21 Sun 13 Sep 2015, 3:51 pm

First topic message reminder :

lets get ready to rumblllllleeeeee!!!!

dododododododo
dododoDODODODO!....

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:47 am

Novak needs to be solid here.

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:49 am

Just cant get an easy service game at all

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:50 am

For the second time, Novaks gonna throw a break away

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:53 am

Im sweating with tension... This is great!

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:53 am

Tell you what guys, this is NOT over, Novaks barely holding serve here.

by kemet Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:54 am

To put things in perspective, all of these shots that Roger has been missing now, would have landed in more often than not ten years ago....

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:55 am

I almost started to believe there..

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:55 am

You know youre acting up, when Annabel Croft is slagging the crowd off.

by summerblues Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:55 am

Well done to Nole here. I felt this third set went against the flow of play. Fed was creating more chances but could not capitalize.

by kemet Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:55 am

temporary21 wrote:Tell you what guys, this is NOT over, Novaks barely holding serve here.

Now it is over

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 2:56 am

I agree, Fed's peak level is as good if not better than his glory years. However, he has poor games that cost him sets that he never used to do

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:00 am

And that's that now I think

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:00 am

Hmm thats not good. but theres breaks to be had on this Novak serve

by summerblues Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:01 am

Unlikely Fed can come back now.

by kemet Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:01 am

CAS wrote:I agree, Fed's peak level is as good if not better than his glory years. However, he has poor games that cost him sets that he never used to do

The stress of having every serve returned with interest has worn Roger down.

The chance he would have had is if he had won that third set

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:04 am

Could run away with this set now

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:05 am

Hes is looking a bit weary now though...

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:05 am

63% First serve percentage, but its been varying around that average a lot.

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:07 am

I still think Rafa at his best was he best defender I ever saw, he gets more shots back in play. However I think Novak hit better shots on the defensive

by summerblues Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:08 am

temporary21 wrote:Hes is looking a bit weary now though...

That is what I was thinking. He is starting to look a little tired.

by It Must Be Love Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:09 am

CAS wrote:I still think Rafa at his best was he best defender I ever saw, he gets more shots back in play. However I think Novak hit better shots on the defensive

Prime Nadal could make it quite awkward though when he got balls back; not necessarily deep but still uncomfortable to play.

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:09 am

CAS wrote:I still think Rafa at his best was he best defender I ever saw, he gets more shots back in play. However I think Novak hit better shots on the defensive

Rafa has a better defensive forehand, but I dont think ive seen anyone with a better defensive bh

by It Must Be Love Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:09 am

I thought Federer was the better player in set 3, but his problem was break point conversions.

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:10 am

The footwork is going

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:11 am

yeah that shanked mid court fh, thats a tired one

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:12 am

I think with Rafa his passing shots were so supreme a short reply from him sometimes worked well as it brought the player into net

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:14 am

After the intensity and drama of set 2 and 3 it's all gone a bit flat

by summerblues Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:15 am

This has been quite a bit better from Fed than Wimbledon final, but it looks like the result is likely to be very similar.

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:17 am

yet ANOTHER dodgy Novak service game

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:19 am

Fed's BP conversion rate is the story of so many matches in his career

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:19 am

that I think, is 0/9 on bp's with a second serve. Thats really not good.

Thats HALF all his break points

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:24 am

Thats almost certainly it!

by LuvSports! Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:24 am

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:25 am

Deadly

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:26 am

Now maybe the crowd wil show some class for the first time in the whole match and show Novak the respect hes earned.

by summerblues Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:26 am

The final scoreline might not even look any better than at Wimbledon.

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:30 am

Not yet... but thats why 2 breaks down is such a blow

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:33 am

Valiant effort, won't lie down

by LuvSports! Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:36 am

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:37 am

Well once again... and yet hes still only even in the set if he does!

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:38 am

0/10 second serve bp's one more.

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:38 am

thats guts. Hats off there.

by kemet Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:39 am

temporary21 wrote:0/10 second serve bp's one more.

Roger finds new ways to mess things up (I really, really want to use a stronger word, but respect the rules of this forum)

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:40 am

form both of them. People shuldnt be able to play like this under the kosh

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:42 am

I wish sometimes he would just hit the backhand, runs around and vets a jammed up

by LuvSports! Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:43 am

4/23 on bp's Sad

by temporary21 Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:43 am

Great match from both. Amazing guts from Novak I think he saved 19/23 bp's. Made of steel

Crowd still give him , frankly sweet FA. I thought the French crowd were poor... some of these guys should have been ejected

by summerblues Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:43 am

Well done Nole, congrats.

Fed played better than in Wimbledon but in some sense that makes this feel worse for me - he had chances today but he failed to take them. At Wimbledon, he just did not have those chances.

by LuvSports! Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:43 am

10th slam, kudos djoko!

by CAS Mon 14 Sep 2015, 3:44 am

The slam defeats hurt a lot less to Novak than to Rafa I have to say

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