2015 ATP WTF RR: Wawrinka (4) vs. Nadal (5)

Who wins?

  • Wawa in 2

    Votes: 16 19.8%
  • Wawa in 3

    Votes: 26 32.1%
  • Nadal in 3

    Votes: 24 29.6%
  • Nadal in 2

    Votes: 15 18.5%

  • Total voters
    81
  • Poll closed .

Chanwan

G.O.A.T.
congrats to Rafa, solid match. Wawa didn't put up too much of an effort. Almost hope he's feeling a bit ill with this effort
 

Doctor/Lawyer Red Devil

Talk Tennis Guru
Thank you Stan for a wonderful match.
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tennis_pro

Bionic Poster
The first 2 days were total bores. Only today it was interesting for 20 minutes when Wawrinka bothered to give a F.
 

3fees

G.O.A.T.
Dont understand that match at all, wawrinka didnt even play.

Ne way

Congrats to Nadul and blnt Wawa.

Cheers
3Fees :)
 

Steve0904

Talk Tennis Guru
he just hasn't had a bad loss in a slam except for 1 in the last 10 slams or so. so whether consciously or not, he does turn it on in a different way. and to some extent, he's been doing it at the WTF as well (two semis, a point or two away from the final last year)

Slams are different though. They can allow Wawrinka time to get in a groove because they're BO5 and there's basically no danger of losing in the early rounds (however since the 2013 AO he has lost in the 1st round to Hewitt at Wimbledon 2013 and GGL at RG 2014). That's washed up Hewitt, don't forget. Right off the bat here, he's playing Nadal. It's a lot different.
 

bilboa

Rookie
Well.. that was somewhat unexpected.... a poor showing by Stan. The UEs were just insane - he was spraying all over the court with little to no point construction.
 
This is part of the reason why I hate the Sky Sports commentators - every single one of them; they just love to talk out of their asses. Peter Fleming just said had Wawrinka played 80-90% he would have definitely beaten Rafa. He actually said that. And he sounded so sure; so cocksure in fact. The disrespectful dick. Hey, Fleming, what did you ever win in your sorry career?
 
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Meles

Bionic Poster
Haha - and who is supposed to be who in this exactly? :)
That is one of the all time great original star trek episodes with the Zorn (and Captain Kirk, Shatner). NatF avatar bears a striking resemblence so this expresses disagreement with NatF having Murray winning group and Nadal 2nd. Nadal 1st!
 

tennis_commentator

Hall of Fame
Some of you mistake Wawrinka's shanks with a lack of effort.
Don't forget, Djokovic won the 5th set of their AO battle this year, 6-0.
His shanks are a result of his game-style.
He redlines no matter what, and if his timing is off then he's going to make errors.
100% effort, but poor timing.
 

marc45

G.O.A.T.
No way, Federer would prefer to play them in this order IMO: Ferrer, Wawrinka, Murray, Nadal. Federer completely owns Wawrinka on hard courts, he has only ever been able to beat fed on clay. Nadal gives him more problems than any of them even on hard courts.

kind of tough to praise Stan after that, but let's not forget he had four match points on Roger here last year
 

NoleFam

Bionic Poster
Some of you mistake Wawrinka's shanks with a lack of effort.
Don't forget, Djokovic won the 5th set of their AO battle this year, 6-0.
His shanks are a result of his game-style.
He redlines no matter what, and if his timing is off then he's going to make errors.
100% effort, but poor timing.

He was missing by miles...20 feet out. Why are you of all people trying to rationalize his poor effort? The better question is why do you always appear on here and MTF when Rafa wins but go MIA the moment he loses? Not much of a tennis fan are ya?
 

Slice'n'dice

Hall of Fame
The lady commentator said "You would never see Murray with such a negative body language like Wawrinka". LMAO i was like LMAO.

Different sorts of negative body language. Wawrinka's in terms of not giving a ****. Murray's in terms of being really angry with himself. Very rarely, if ever is Murray going to tank a match.
 

Towser83

G.O.A.T.
wow Stan gave up! That's Stan for you I guess. Nadal was fairly impressive though. Real test will be Murray, hopefully that's a it more of a genuine match with both players on form. I think it will be, both players are usually consistant performers
 

Meles

Bionic Poster
kind of tough to praise Stan after that, but let's not forget he had four match points on Roger here last year
If he loses to Ferrer very done, but he's won their last three meetings. Very good against the Muzziah, so he's not done at all.
 

Oakel

Semi-Pro
Rafa has almost the same group as he had in 2013! Any way Wawrinka should be spoken to about this effort today?
 
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