GoatNo1
Professional
usually players fall after a big choke and string together bad results, keep losing to the same opponent and fall into a certain crisis. the most famous example is fed's trilogy against nole. and his losses in consecutive USO or Ws. but I think Nole has reacted completely differently so far.
the last choke that nole had was the W finals.
a bad reaction at the end of the second set that probably cost him that set and consequently the match. after that he won both matches against raz and swept cinci, USO, paris and WTF.
choke against medvedev in USO21 F when he played for CYGS.
nole won the next 4 matches and 5 of the following matches including the Paris finals of the same year and the USO finals this year. therefore, he won Paris against the same opponent, and in 2022, a lott of things happened that had nothing to do with sports. whatever his response to those events we saw this year.
missed MP against cilic in queens 2018.
MP solved cilic with an ace but nole and 4-1** in the TB. anyway, nole swept the next 6 victories against cilic and won the first W (the very next tournament) and then the USO and won vs cinci in cinci, paris and WTF the same year, which he finishes as #1 after the crisis of 2017 and the first half of 2018. all he won that year come after that match: W, cinci, USO and shanghai.
I don't know if the defeat against Rafa at RG 2013 can be called a choke
and if he would have won even if it wasn't for the accident with the net, but that year he didn't win W or USO, but he did string Beijing, Paris, Shanghai and WTF in the same year. he lost to Rafa in the USO final but that was the last time Rafa won vs nole off clay and the last time he lost a set on HC to Rafa (9-0, 19-0 after that).
we also remember the choke in the first 2 sets in his first USO but also his first GS final
against Fed in 2007. However, Nole beat him already in the next match at AO the following year, and after that he won his first GS.
the last choke that nole had was the W finals.
a bad reaction at the end of the second set that probably cost him that set and consequently the match. after that he won both matches against raz and swept cinci, USO, paris and WTF.
choke against medvedev in USO21 F when he played for CYGS.
nole won the next 4 matches and 5 of the following matches including the Paris finals of the same year and the USO finals this year. therefore, he won Paris against the same opponent, and in 2022, a lott of things happened that had nothing to do with sports. whatever his response to those events we saw this year.
missed MP against cilic in queens 2018.
MP solved cilic with an ace but nole and 4-1** in the TB. anyway, nole swept the next 6 victories against cilic and won the first W (the very next tournament) and then the USO and won vs cinci in cinci, paris and WTF the same year, which he finishes as #1 after the crisis of 2017 and the first half of 2018. all he won that year come after that match: W, cinci, USO and shanghai.
I don't know if the defeat against Rafa at RG 2013 can be called a choke
and if he would have won even if it wasn't for the accident with the net, but that year he didn't win W or USO, but he did string Beijing, Paris, Shanghai and WTF in the same year. he lost to Rafa in the USO final but that was the last time Rafa won vs nole off clay and the last time he lost a set on HC to Rafa (9-0, 19-0 after that).
we also remember the choke in the first 2 sets in his first USO but also his first GS final
against Fed in 2007. However, Nole beat him already in the next match at AO the following year, and after that he won his first GS.
