Xuxa Kuerten
Rookie
Hello, there. For those that didn't watch today's match between Nadal and Daniel, this is a spoiler.
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I'm writing this thread to congratulate Marcos Daniel. We all know Rafa was quite far of playing his best tennis, but the brazilian played beautifully, that's for sure. Marcos is like the king of challenger tournaments on clay in South America (he did win 5 or 6 challengers in a row in Colombia). The thing is that he has been historically underrated and even disrespected by brazilian fans and commentators. He never had the respect the deserved. In fact, in brazilian foruns yesterday it was quite common to read that it would be hard for him to take a game from Nadal. Marcos certainly doesn't have the game to be among the best, but I've always thought that he could play in a good level against anyone. He's quite closing of retiring, so I hope he'll get the respect that he desearves after this performance today.
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I'm writing this thread to congratulate Marcos Daniel. We all know Rafa was quite far of playing his best tennis, but the brazilian played beautifully, that's for sure. Marcos is like the king of challenger tournaments on clay in South America (he did win 5 or 6 challengers in a row in Colombia). The thing is that he has been historically underrated and even disrespected by brazilian fans and commentators. He never had the respect the deserved. In fact, in brazilian foruns yesterday it was quite common to read that it would be hard for him to take a game from Nadal. Marcos certainly doesn't have the game to be among the best, but I've always thought that he could play in a good level against anyone. He's quite closing of retiring, so I hope he'll get the respect that he desearves after this performance today.