maruzo
Semi-Pro
Sorry i'm sure whatever i have to say is already being said. But I worked late and had no time to review this entire thread.
If you've watched the entire match, you've found that towards the end, the game was evenly matched.
The game really could have gone either way.
But the one defining moment is that during crucial points, Djokovic took the offensive and dictated play. While Nadal was content to stay back and put the ball back in play. Chasing down every shot and wait for Djokovic's barrage of massive forehands to hopefully error out.
It's the one strategy that he kept going back to during crucial moments of the game.
He will not fight with you directly. He will only tire you out, wait for you to make the error, or go in for the attack when you've had a brief relapse of energy.
It's a sound strategy, but I must insist, it's boring as hell and disrepectful as hell.
I rather watch two players go at each other and let the better player with the better shot/ better technique win the game.
Every time I watch Nadal play a very close match that he barely wins, I always felt the other player got cheated out of his victory.
Sure Nadal can turn defense to offensive in a hurry. But most of the time he just weathers the storm with slices or barely runs down the shot, while the other player makes the UE with an out of position overhead or FH/ BH.
It's sad really.
Djokovic gave it his all and he was actually the better player at the end. Dictating play, making all the right moves.
His emotion at the better of him, at that last game. Those 2 missed forehands were hit with much anger and frustration. Not because he felt he was beaten by the better player. But because the worst player kept putting his killer shots back in play.
If Djokovic could just hold on to his feelings a little longer, kept them in check, he could've easily finished the game. Because again, he was just dictating the rally and dominating the play.
Nadal was very calm and focused, however. That's why he was able to put all those incredible shots back into the courts.
Djokovic almost seemed incredulous when Nadal put back that lob with a tweener. That was a bad miss. He gave quite a few of those toward the end of the 5th set. That's why he lost, IMHO.
If being better means I have to utilize Nadal's strategy during crucial points in every single match?
I rather not.
I rather play like Federer or Djokovic.
They have the game and at the very least, the courtesy and guts to play their opponents head on. Instead of these shrewd tactics that Nadal employs time and again.
If you've watched the entire match, you've found that towards the end, the game was evenly matched.
The game really could have gone either way.
But the one defining moment is that during crucial points, Djokovic took the offensive and dictated play. While Nadal was content to stay back and put the ball back in play. Chasing down every shot and wait for Djokovic's barrage of massive forehands to hopefully error out.
It's the one strategy that he kept going back to during crucial moments of the game.
He will not fight with you directly. He will only tire you out, wait for you to make the error, or go in for the attack when you've had a brief relapse of energy.
It's a sound strategy, but I must insist, it's boring as hell and disrepectful as hell.
I rather watch two players go at each other and let the better player with the better shot/ better technique win the game.
Every time I watch Nadal play a very close match that he barely wins, I always felt the other player got cheated out of his victory.
Sure Nadal can turn defense to offensive in a hurry. But most of the time he just weathers the storm with slices or barely runs down the shot, while the other player makes the UE with an out of position overhead or FH/ BH.
It's sad really.
Djokovic gave it his all and he was actually the better player at the end. Dictating play, making all the right moves.
His emotion at the better of him, at that last game. Those 2 missed forehands were hit with much anger and frustration. Not because he felt he was beaten by the better player. But because the worst player kept putting his killer shots back in play.
If Djokovic could just hold on to his feelings a little longer, kept them in check, he could've easily finished the game. Because again, he was just dictating the rally and dominating the play.
Nadal was very calm and focused, however. That's why he was able to put all those incredible shots back into the courts.
Djokovic almost seemed incredulous when Nadal put back that lob with a tweener. That was a bad miss. He gave quite a few of those toward the end of the 5th set. That's why he lost, IMHO.
If being better means I have to utilize Nadal's strategy during crucial points in every single match?
I rather not.
I rather play like Federer or Djokovic.
They have the game and at the very least, the courtesy and guts to play their opponents head on. Instead of these shrewd tactics that Nadal employs time and again.
