You must be joking..
After late 2010 and 2012 clay court season,Nadal form in 2013 was his best.
Now he playing nice tennis,but i want to see how he can handle Novak and Stan on caly.
Zeballos beat Nadal in 2013 in one of the worst matches Nadal ever played on clay and still coming back from injury.
This time Zeba should be happy with 5 games.
The match wasn't that bad. Nadal played worse matches and won. Sure, Ruffi was mediocre, but not outright poor, except Zeballos played at 200% in the clutch to win. Gulbis could have beaten Nadal in Rome later that year had he shown the same mental strength. Hell, wasn't Brands or whoever a tiebreak away from going 2-0 up vs Nadal at RG? Yeah, the Zeballos loss is nowhere near the worst match for Nadal on clay.
Re: WWW Barcelona SF: RAFA Nadal - Horacio Zeballos
When was the last time a player doesn't have to play one single seeded player en route to his final to a 500 tournament, right after he only had to beat one top20 player to win a Master1000? Laughable. What is the highest ranking of the player Nadal beat this week anyway? 100?
When was the last time a player doesn't have to play one single seeded player en route to his final to a 500 tournament, right after he only had to beat one top20 player to win a Master1000?
Yes Zeballos has a 1 hand BH, but is also lefty, and can really play well on clay. He had some good wins this week so we gonna see
He has already beaten Nadal in that epic final in 2013, I think like Nadal's only loss on clay that year or maybe he lost 1 more, something crazy, so Horacio will have chances here
Re: WWW Barcelona SF: RAFA Nadal - Horacio Zeballos
Zeballos is the only lefty Nadal has ever lost to on clay, apart from Verdasco.
There is a possibility that Zeballos won't have chances here, considering how rusty Nadal was in early 2013....
And while Nadal did well after that loss, he didn't even look great in the 1st week of Roland Garros 2013.
People pretend that 2013 was a great claycourt level, but the only peak form was the 5th set of Nadal's RG semi-final.
I think Zeballos is the only lefty Nadal has ever lost to on clay.
There is a possibility that Zeballos won't have chances here, considering how rusty Nadal was in early 2013....
And while Nadal did well after that loss, he didn't even look great in the 1st week of Roland Garros 2013.
People pretend that 2013 was a great claycourt level, but the only peak form was the 5th set of Nadal's RG semi-final.
Re: WWW Barcelona SF: RAFA Nadal - Horacio Zeballos
How pathetic and predictable that the Nadal fanboys don't give Zeballos any credit for playing the match of his life in that final 4 years ago, crafty tennis and full of courage. Nadal has played plenty worse matches on clay than that since 2014.
Obviously, unfortunately it's highly unlikely for Zeballos to step it up like that again.
How pathetic and predictable that the Nadal fanboys don't give Zeballos any credit for playing the match of his life in that final 4 years ago, crafty tennis and full of courage. Nadal has played plenty worse matches on clay than that since 2014.
Obviously, unfortunately it's highly unlikely for Zeballos to step it up like that again.
There was no result thread for Zeballos' match yesterday so I'm guessing not many people watched it? Zeballos played amazingly, 80% first serve, taking the ball early to hit winners in all directions, really intelligent court craft to dismantle Khachanov's one-dimensional power game.
Nadal is a different beast, but I think Zeballos could take a set here at least.
There are only four Top 10 players in the draw and Nadal is one of them. (Not that Top 10 means much anyway, Goffin was playing far better tennis last week when he wasn't inside the Top 10; this week #84 Zeballos is a bigger threat than #10 Goffin would've been).
Dammit even Nadal must be getting embarrassed by this scale of vulturing.
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