I don't get how this is biased at all. Thiem is the 4th seed, Djokovic is the 1st seed. The seedings are based solely on the current ATP ranking. It's not Nadal's fault that Thiem happened to be fourth and happened to be much better in clay than the 3rd seed (Federer). It only makes sense that...
Gotta give Nadal credit though. In Thiem's mad assault of the first set he was hanging right in there and Thiem never got ahead of him. The only reason Thiem is even that aggressive is that it's Nadal he's playing. Nadal's at his weakest during the first set.
Now that Thiem's lost the first...
Makes sense, and yes I've checked a couple dozen times already to compare. Shame the store doesn't have the original green one so it makes it harder to compare. Guess if it all checks out I'm off to buy a new racket lol. Shame that the og green ones look better imo though. Nothing beats the sexy...
Aside from surprise what benefit would one really get? The following situations could happen:
1. Returner outright kills the ball because it's short and slow.
2. Returner hits a strong return on the short ball almost anywhere they want and they're close to the net for the finishing volley since...
do you know why there's such a huge difference in price though? My theory is because Nadal didn't use the racket or because there's the 2018 La Decima RG one. All these different color schemes for Aero are confusing lol
So I recently visited Europe and I got quite confused at the pricing of the Pure Aero rackets here. I found that the Pure Aero RG2017 racket was 120 Euros, while the normal Pure Aero (green) went for 200 Euros! Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't they essentially the same rackets, but with a...
In tennis there's pretty much no one else more dominant than Nadal on FO, and to a lesser extent on Clay. Do you think that, that kind of dominance can somehow add in a factor of intimidation or pressure against Nadal's opponent. It took an arguably peak Djokovic and definitely slump Nadal for...