Make it 7-5. Richard is not making a lot of first serves in this breaker.. make it more difficult. Richard is far more serious and wants to win more it seems.
Richard wins it 10-6. Played well when needed it. Monfils fooled around a bit more.
Richard got pissed in second set, after being loose and then unable to break back because of strong service by Monfils.
Overall, decent from Richard for first grass court match... especially given that Monfils reached semis at Halle last week, but Richard overall looked more comfortable on the surface.
I would like to see Richard get to play Novak in this exhibition. I feel like Richard's game will match up well with Novak on grass and he should be able to take him down.
Thanks all for your posts about the match. I am glad he's back on grass. Looking forward to watching him play. (I'll be overwhelmed with work in the next two weeks though )
Yes Richie is Nalby's pigeon big time. It will be interesting to see if Richie can clear this mental hurdle before Wimbly. Even if it is just an exho, any win over Nalby would be a + for him.
And the pigeon continues... Richard wins the second set 6-0 and then remembers he's playing Nalbandian and falls apart in the TB.
I saw last 3 games of second set and the super TB. NOthing great, even if the set was 6-0 and then the pigeon factor took over for RIchie in the TB. In what I saw Richie didn't look very aggressive, except on a few service returns, his serve was really off and don't think he came into net once, except when pulled in by drop shot from Nalby. Hope he doesn't play like that next week.
didn't see it but if it was anything like the second match yesterday which I did see where Verdasco blatantly tanked at the end to get off court because of the rain then I wouldn't worry too much.
It's just an exo lets see what he does on the real thing.
1st set, Richard made errors and Nalbandian hit some good shots. Didn't see the 2nd or the MTB.
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