Team Rafole - The Match-up Is Still On

Will they both make it to the final on Sunday?

That horrible thing called work once again got in the way of watching either of the boys play today.  I was interested in how both would fair today, Novak obviously with other things on his mind and Rafa up against Stan who is not too a shabby player on his day.

Reading match reports/comments and watching the scoreboard it seems that Novak started very slowly but was gradually able to get himself the win against Robin.  It did seem that no one wanted to hold serve as there was 11 breaks in the match.  Thankfully Novak won 7 of those breaks for a 6-4 6-2 win.

One thing I have seen a few times now from Novak, he is starting games slow, taking time to get into them.  Not sure I am keen on this.  Of course I am sure it is not intentional but I always think it is better to be the front-runner in a match.  The way he can play and the fear he has put into some players means he will always have the momentum.  All that said, he got there and will play Tomas Berdych for a place in the final.

Rafa on the other hand had an more straight-forward match against Stan.  The scoreline looks tight, 7-5 6-4 but I don't think there was a point in the match when you thought "oh no".  I think we can put this match into the "efficent" category, nothing spectacular or brilliant because it did not need to be.  The all French affair is still on court right now so we don't know who Rafa will play.  I think of the two, Jo will give Rafa more of a game.  We shall see tomorrow.

Meanwhile Vamos & Ajde

:-)