That's the only small thing that keeps bothering me. If it was CP's on the opponents serve, it wouldn't bother me as much.
In any case, Fed almost stole the match. Folks need to think about that a lot before getting worked up about the CP's.
If anything, it’s Djokovic who stole this match as a soon to be 38 year old Federer was better or at worst equal to him for 5 hours and that’s what makes the loss so galling, especially since Federer also defeated Nadal while Djokovic waltzed to the finals. If Federer had been outplayed and lost, well, that was expected my most people. But to both outplay Djokovic and Nadal, hold championship points on your racket...
—Federer at nearly 38 years old played 665 points, 103 games, and 9 sets vs. the dominant #1 and #2 players who are 5 and 6 years younger, respectively.
—He won 344/665 points (51.7%)
—He won 55/103 games (53.4%)
—He won 5/9 sets (55.5%)
People who watch the sport understand “winning” in the context of the AD scoring system.
What transpired on Sunday with Federer not winning is nothing short of comical.
A 1.15 Dominance ratio over 400+ points played can’t be a fluke and/or luck and is almost impossible to get to against someone as good as Djokovic who basically has no weaknesses.
1.15 dominance ratio AND +14 in points won...its almost impossible to lose, but it happened.
For comparison, Djokovic won the dominance ratio at 1.15 or 1.16 against:
—Santiago Geraldo at the 2007 RG. 6-3, 7-6, 6-4 (+16 in Points)
—Andy Murray at the 2015 AO: 7-6, 6-7, 6-3, 6-0 (+18 in Points)
—Kei Nishikori at 2010 RG: 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 (+16 in Points)
Look at thet last score. It looks like a blowout, but Kei actually won 49 return points to 48 for Djokovic, but only won 2 out of 9 break points. Djokovic won 16 more points overall. Would anyone say that Kei or Murray or Giraldo outplayed Djokovic in those matches?
In any case, I didn’t think he could play like this against these two back to back at this point in his career but he did and was one point away from putting the final touches on the work he’s put in to win these two matches against these two on this surface.