All finalists this week are in Nole's half with 3 of them in Tsonga's quarter
Although Murray is in Fed's half, but big hitters like Tsonga, Raonic and Berdych are in Nole's half. The good news is Raonic and Berdych are in Tsonga's quarter so Nole will only need to face one
Again it took him less than an hour!
W/UE: Nole 18-18, Grigor 4(?)-23(?), only lost five points on serve!
Judging from the numbers, while he was very dominant on serve, it probably wasn't the cleanest match, which is somewhat expected from Nole anyway. Good job.
Again it took him less than an hour!
W/UE: Nole 18-18, Grigor 4(?)-23(?), only lost five points on serve!
Judging from the numbers, while he was very dominant on serve, it probably wasn't the cleanest match, which is somewhat expected from Nole anyway. Good job.
18 UEs? he statistian is a bit stingy. Anyway, Nole broke early in each set and since he had no problem with his own serve, he's been pretty aggressive in his return games and had no patience in setting up points and tried to hit a winner in a not so perfect position. That's probably the reason for the UE counts.
Re: Keeping the streak going- Shanghai Masters, R3: Lopez
I looked at the scores and see that R.Federer is playing. I thought he was skipping this tournament.
Anyway, I'm glad he's playing. Hopefully, Nole will triumph and hold up the trophy.
I also hope that they won't force Nole to dance. I guess the organizers don't understand that it's kind of treating him like some sort of trained monkey.
Fed is desperately trying to hold onto the #1 ranking to have 6 years ending as #1 even not consecutively. This is the only tournament he can gain points in ranking.
It's interesting to me that Nole has around 1500 more points while having played 3 fewer tournaments. Usually Federer gets kudos because of his scheduling, but he's evidently felt pressed this year to keep up with Nole. Or maybe he felt that since Nole had so many points to defend, he should play everything he could in order to claim the number one spot.
Race results are fairly telling at this stage of the season.
It's interesting to me that Nole has around 1500 more points while having played 3 fewer tournaments. Usually Federer gets kudos because of his scheduling, but he's evidently felt pressed this year to keep up with Nole. Or maybe he felt that since Nole had so many points to defend, he should play everything he could in order to claim the number one spot.
Nole has 560 points to defend for the rest of the season while Fed has 3000 points so getting some points and prevent Nole from gaining more in Shanghai definitely helps. Especially Nole does not sign up for Basel where he will lose 180 points. Nobody knows what will happen for the last few weeks and whether Nole will gain more points on Fed. :shrug:
Of the 4 finalists last week, only Nole played decent tennis this week. Kei and Milos are out and Tsonga survived thanks mainly from the "momentary brainless sydrome" suffered by Paire most of the time :lol:
Re: Keeping the streak going- Shanghai Masters, QF
Glad Nole's getting through okay. Plays tomorrow N.B. 6 p.m., which is 6 a.m. here so actually doable! :yippee: Excited to watch him live for the first time in a while.
Glad Nole's getting through okay. Plays tomorrow N.B. 6 p.m., which is 6 a.m. here so actually doable! :yippee: Excited to watch him live for the first time in a while.
Re: Keeping the streak going- Shanghai Masters, QF
I'm a little worried about Haas.
Haas has been on fire recently and he took a set off Nole in Canada... I hope Nole brings his A-game... He doesn't want to be tired for his semifinal match.
Re: Keeping the streak going- Shanghai Masters, QF Haas
Why was I thinking he was serving for the set? :silly: High quality match so far.
I feel Nole isn't too comfortable to play Haas but hope he'd calm down a bit.
Re: Keeping the streak going- Shanghai Masters, QF Haas
Novak wins
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