[Ace Pounder]

Excellent first set by both, mediocre 2nd set.

RBA had a SP in the TB of the first set but was terribly unclutch and gifted the next 2 points and Berdych just had to make an ace to close it out. Otherwise, a great, great set of tennis. Beautiful!
Then both players deflated substantially, for different reasons: Berdych, because he is a mental midget and was a bit too calm after the win of the 1st set; and RBA because he was probably a bit down mentally and physically after the loss of the 1st set and the exhausting match against Kohli yesterday.


Well done, Berdych! As for RBA, there were some good signs for the rest of the clay season. His forehand was a lot better than in the previous weeks, most notably.

 

[DjokerLife94]

Well done, T-Berd. :yeah: :yeah:

:hug: to RBA and Ace Pounder.

 

[Sapeod]

Yet another quarter-final appearance for the Berdman. Easy enough victory.

 

[Ace Pounder]

Yet another quarter-final appearance for the Berdman. Easy enough victory.

You haven't watched the match. Both sets were very tight.

 

[InfoKenway]

Very good match.
RBA played the best match in 2015,but Berdych was good too.

 

[MaratandMilos]

RBA should have won the first set, he was playing well enough to. Berdych tried to gift it to him on that DF. Would have been very interesting if he had not choked that.

 

[MarkChan]

If I were the opponent of RBA, I'd punch him for his grunting

 

[TheBigFourFTW]

Never a bad day when RBA loses.

 

[Berd Lover]

Berdy still yet to lose before the quarter final stage this year :sport: :cheerleader:
Tricky QF against Milos though they haven't played together on clay before. Hopefully ClayBerd will make an appearance

 

[Haneul]

Berdy still yet to lose before the quarter final stage this year :sport: :cheerleader:
Tricky QF against Milos though they haven't played together on clay before. Hopefully ClayBerd will make an appearance

Raonic is injured so i doubt it will matter :sad::sad:

 

[FlameOn]

Mr. Consistency continues :yeah:.

 

[Mark Lenders]

27 consecutive wins vs non-top 10 opponents. Hasn't missed QF of any Slam/Masters since USO (USO - QF Shanghai - QF Paris - SF AO - SF IW - QF Miami - SF MC - QF for now). This is consistency on a top 3 level, but it is relatively meaningless without any really big results, here's another chance to change that by getting to the final at least...

Speaking of consistency, this is the 44th consecutive Masters event Berdych plays, I wonder if this is an all-time record...

 

[oranges]

Berdych has become so consistent it's difficult to believe he's the same player as Berdych 5+ years ago :worship: