2020 ATP Finals SF: Rafael Nadal vs. Daniil Medvedev

[Deleted member 771911]

Nadal being way too slow serving here. Makes him look like he's nervous.

 

[abmk]

med 4/4 2nd serves in that game. bad rallying coupled with nadal doing his usual stuff.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

Rafaelito’s serve will have to be a lot better.

 

[MeatTornado]

Leads in most stats. Is down 3-5.

wut

Fedr

 

[Yugram]

GOAT VOLLEYING

 

[weakera]

Wtf is wrong with this generation.

Soy milk, lead in the tap water, social media

 

[Daniel Andrade]

Nadal is over 25 seconds on average, but it's ok.

Punish him

 

[The Guru]

Nadal's volleys are so damn good

 

[aman92]

Epic Rafa is epic

 

[BeatlesFan]

Rafa hitting 75% slice BH's today. Can't remember seeing this before.

 

[Deleted member 771911]

Nadal can't play indoors?

 

[SkySoushi]

Rafa has a higher % of both 1st and 2nd serve pts won

 

[mike danny]

Medvedev is getting jittery and missing serves. This is why I picked Nadal in 3. He is in Medvedev's head and he should have broken a long time ago and instead he is going down a break to a Nadal serving under 40%.

Med is overrated.

 

[The Blond Blur]

Made that half volley look rountine.

 

[UnderratedSlam]

So after all of Meds so-called 'GOATing', Nadal still leads, lol. You guys are hilarious.

It's bestof3 not bestof1.

 

[StrongRule]

Nadal just can't serve for sets/matches these days.

 

[Red Rick]

Almost 40 seconds on Meddy's BP a couple of games ago, when he had 3.

Instead of warnings, he steals the set.

Stealing Nadal best Nadal.

 

[James P]

Calm down r*****s, the match isn't over yet.

 

[Third Serve]

Ned with some good tactical play today.

 

[ibbi]

Medvedev has played some gorgeous stuff off the ground, so just because the first serve perfection deserted him I wouldn't expect him to completely go away once he... Accepts normality.

 

[TheNachoMan]

Soy milk, lead in the tap water, social media

 

[Sabrina]

Lol Nadal don't choke now.

 

[abmk]

nice pickup from nadal at the net there. 15 all.

 

[Terenigma]

Almost 40 seconds on Meddy's BP a couple of games ago, when he had 3.

Instead of warnings, he steals the set.

I know, it's a joke. He's a cheater but cheaters only get away with it because noone calls them out and noone is calling him out. Where is the shot-clock? Why is nothing being done? It makes me so fustrated when you see other players get called out because they go slightly over meanwhilst Nadal goes on holiday between points and they say NOTHING.

 

[UnderratedSlam]

Talk about recency bias.

Some posters decide who is overrated or underrated based on ONE SET.

 

[Deleted member 771911]

Not much Meddy can do here.
But I'm not confident in Nadal. He's being very...twitchy.

 

[Red Rick]

Nadal playing that 90's grass tennis style.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

Nadal’s serve has been junk. Get your first serves in.

 

[mike danny]

Leads in most stats. Is down 3-5.

wut

Gilles Simon was right. Players are trained in the Federer way.

 

[Red Rick]

Talk about recency bias.

Some posters decide who is overrated or underrated based on ONE SET.

How dare you.

I can decide based on 2 points.

 

[Sysyphus]

damn, nedfeld really coming for the Christmas Exo at long last

 

[Nadal_Django]

Medvedev besides his serving, have been pretty subpar so far.

 

[RS]

Nadal can't play indoors?

Struggles on indoor HC but if he wins WTF it is big.

 

[Deleted member 771911]

This is not an impressive closing out of the first set.
This is going to three.

 

[TennisFan3]

Seriously NOT a single first serve from Nadal that goes in. That's JUNK serving.

 

[The Guru]

Med playing big points really poorly

 

[mike danny]

Meddy is just as good of a returner as Tsitsipas.

 

[MeatTornado]

Flukedal with all these lets

 

[The Blond Blur]

First missed BH return by the Mad Lad all tournament

 

[aorgwimbus]

Medvedev is useless trash against Nadal just like Tsitsipas is.

 

[abmk]

that's horrible from med. dumps 2nd serve return into net at 15-30.

 

[MeatTornado]

Med playing big points really poorly

pretends to be shocked

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

First missed BH return by the Mad Lad all tournament

That had to be purely mental.

 

[Sabrina]

Yeah 1st set loss for Mad in this tournament

 

[Deleted member 771911]

Struggles on indoor HC but if he wins WTF it is big.

Would be huge.
Would be another case of Nadal 'sucking' on a surface but winning its biggest titles.

 

[Leandro2045]

This first set can be resumed exactly as i described yesterday.

Extremely surprised by the 44% voting for Medvedev.

Rafa is a nightmare matchup for him. For Daniil it's like playing a better version of him on every single department but first serve.

Medvedev was in fact in better form last year when he was trashing every single top player left and right yet he faced Rafa three times all in hard-courts and end up losing all three.

 

[junior74]

I know, it's a joke. He's a cheater but cheaters only get away with it because noone calls them out and noone is calling him out. Where is the shot-clock? Why is nothing being done? It makes me so fustrated when you see other players get called out because they go slightly over meanwhilst Nadal goes on holiday between points and they say NOTHING.

Perhaps ATP consider Rafa's time wasting a cosy tradition?

 

[Nadal15thslam]

Vamoos

 

[TheNachoMan]

For all the comparisons to Novak, Med is nowhere NEAR as mentally strong as Novak.

 

[UnderratedSlam]

And the MOST ABSURD OUTCOME OF 1ST SET goes to...

Nadal.