French Open 2021

mzungu

Nadal right out of the blocks this evening.

Hector Savage

The other players should just refuse to compete in RG, just practice early on grass for Wimbledon.

Itssoeasy

Nadal seems to not be messing around. 4-0

Hector Savage

He must have taken an extra large dose of EPO the cheat...

MisterAnarchy

mzungu wrote: »

Nadal right out of the blocks this evening.

Djokovic is playing rubbish, cant get a first serve in.

Its very hard to watch him, the amount of ball hops when serving is ludicrous.

Slashermcguirk

What an anti climax already.

Slashermcguirk

Nadal takes even longer to be fair

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Djokovic is playing rubbish, cant get a first serve in.

Its very hard to watch him, the amount of ball hops when serving is ludicrous.

MisterAnarchy

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Nadal takes even longer to be fair

Yes, its hard to watch them.

Eurosport had a stat there

Nadal's record over 5 sets on clay is 130 - 2

That's a 98.5% win rate

Puts it into perspective what sort of challenge this is.

sxt

Djkovic looked shook from the very moment he walked on court. Similar to the way Frank Bruno looked when he was walking to the ring to face Mike Tyson

MisterAnarchy

Djokovic is at 14% Win % on 2nd serve in the first set.

NoviGlitzko

Watching Nadal stand the length of a full tennis court behind the baseline just shows the issues there is with the French Open now. Why don't they quicken up the courts there? It's slower than other clay events. The last decade plus has been an utter snoozefest there with Nadal the human wall of tennis. Utterly **** to watch.

Rob2D

glasso wrote: »

Eurosport had a stat there

Nadal's record over 5 sets on clay is 130 - 2

That's a 98.5% win rate

Puts it into perspective what sort of challenge this is.

It's unplayable. He is a dust devil. A demon made flesh.

Hector Savage

NoviGlitzko wrote: »

Watching Nadal stand the length of a full tennis court behind the baseline just shows the issues there is with the French Open now. Why don't they quicken up the courts there? It's slower than other clay events. The last decade plus has been an utter snoozefest there with Nadal the human wall of tennis. Utterly **** to watch.

The whole slowing down of the surfaces of other slams and softening of the balls has played into Nadals game, suits clay courters baseliners really well.

Nadal has a lot of power at RG too, there is no way he would allow any changes to the surfaces.

some quality all the same.

it's not as if Djokovic has been shyte, Nadal has been monstrous.

Itssoeasy

5-2 to nadal 1st set.

NoviGlitzko

glasso wrote: »

some quality all the same.

it's not as if Djokovic has been shyte, Nadal has been monstrous.

He has to be fair.

Fair balls to Djokovic for not just writing that set off and fighting for it.

yerwanthere123

NoviGlitzko wrote: »

Watching Nadal stand the length of a full tennis court behind the baseline just shows the issues there is with the French Open now. Why don't they quicken up the courts there? It's slower than other clay events. The last decade plus has been an utter snoozefest there with Nadal the human wall of tennis. Utterly **** to watch.

It's the rest of the tour that needs to be sped up imo. The homogenisation of the court surfaces was a big debate for years, it seems people have just.. accepted it now?

MisterAnarchy

glasso wrote: »

some quality all the same.

it's not as if Djokovic has been shyte, Nadal has been monstrous.

He has been shyte.
Serving badly and pushing the ball back.

Slashermcguirk

Novak has been very poor

quote="glasso;117399745"]some quality all the same.

it's not as if Djokovic has been shyte, Nadal has been monstrous.[/quote]

His (Djokovic) serve needs to improve but the first 5 games were more about Nadal being an absolute possessed animal than anything else.

well left by Djokovic!

seligehgit

Rafa made hard with of that.

great set in the end.

dominatinMC

A lot of mileage in this one yet I think. Djokovic woke up in those last few games

seligehgit

dominatinMC wrote: »

A lot of mileage in this one yet I think. Djokovic woke up in those last few games

Yip I think it's going to be a long night.

ND 59% FSI in first set.

That needs to be 70% plus.

Girly Gal

Think this will go to 5, Djokovic really starting to get on top of Rafa's serve

Slashermcguirk

Novak breaks and gets broken straight after, criminal. Has to capitalise on those leads