Uuge couple of service games for Federer. This is where he usually stumbles.
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This is bad for my heart
I hate it, I want Roger to win with ease but I also want to see a classic back and forth clash.
Vamos Rafa!
Think Fed will take this in 4. Been brilliant
Usually in this situation where he has just taken a promising lead in sets, federer gets broken right about now or the next game by Nadal.
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Ridiculous isn't it?
Is that rafa's gf sitting behind Carlos Moya?
Federer serving second will put more pressure on him. Break in the next couple of games, I reckon.
The cute girl in green
Roger just needs to concentrate on his serve and if an opportunity comes then he takes it. Easier said than done..
Sigh. First serve gone.
This is the slip
Yes,Xisca Perelló.The first time that goes to Australia open
Oh feck me... 0:40 out of nowhere.
feck feck feck
There it is 3-1 Nadal
So hasty on the points.
Yes! Get in Rafa.
As inevitable as the day is long.
Did false hope strike again? Why, oh why...
Broken. Just had to get broken early.
What sort of service game was that? You can't do that against Nadal.
Yep.
This has a big chance of going into a 5th set
What a cheap game to give away. 5th set here we come
It will go the 5 and I can't Fed taking it in a 5th
Really poor one. FFS the errors are back
Fed will have only himself to blame if he loses the final, or rather even if it goes to 5 sets
Called it. Nadal to win in five. Easy fourth set for him.
Yas 5 setter would be fitting
So elegant and so frustrating.
This is like a matchday thread in so many ways, right down to the excessive pessimism.
Looking that way. Momentum has swung again. Hard to see Federer winning in 5. Just about got over the line vs Wawrinka. But against Nadal he isn't winning in 5 I don't think.
You also called an hour ago:
"It has begun. Federer wins first set and Nadal gets into his groove and feels the game from federer again and wins comprehensibly in four."
You called nothing. Right at the time you harped on about the same thing a few pages back, Federer won the set playing as good as he can. I do hope you are right though as I want Rafa to win.
Bracing ourselves for the inevitable heartbreak
My mate is basically crying at the moment, soft cnut.
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