Fed vs Baby Fed

[Hs0022]

Fault first serve.

Challenge. Lost the challenge.

Fault again, 15-40 two BPS. hooray!

 

[Hs0022]

Break Fed. 5-5. Lets get our fangs in the match now.

 

[Hs0022]

Crowd wants more blood.

Fed hold here would set things up nice.

Dimi has opened his faucet of errors.
this one off his BH

15-0

The two have a mirror image game.

Fed handing out bad medicine in the form of FH

30-0

fault.

Bad volley off BH. sails wide.

30-15

WHOOOOOO!!! Blazer of a winner from Fed FH.

40-15

Fault.

BH slice exchanges and then a topspin BH from Fed lands on the net.
still game point,

40-30

Let first serve.

Fault.

Beautiful!!!!

FED CLOSES IT OFF WITH A fh WINNER.

6-5 Fed now

 

[Hs0022]

OK. 5-6 Dimi serving. Need I say pressure??

 

[Hs0022]

Keep your eyes on the ball Fed and blast away.

Fed back to playing with his old Shtick.

Mexican wave witessed.

Fault.

Wooops!! bad error off Dimi overconfident FH put away attempt.

0-15,
followed by 0-30 after a pass that lands near Dimi feet near the net. 0-30

15-30

30-30. Some good serving by Dimi.

Fed still two points away.

Fault.

Federror lands 15 feet behind the baseline.

40-30

SAME shot as the first point. Lands out by Dimi after body serve.

Deuce.

Now Fed's BH return lands wide.

Ad Dimi.

Fault serving wide.

federror takes us to tiebreak.

6-6

 

[Hs0022]

Fed serving first.

Net first serve that was an ace. Crowd booing and whistling,

Error from Dimi. 1-0 Fed.

Come on Attack !

Fault.

Chip by Fed BH slice but no charge. Dimi shot sails long, 2-0 Fed.

2-1 Fed. Dimi stops the bleeding.

Come on just hold now Fed.

Whacked the wide serve. Dimi challenges but to no avail. Ball on the line where it should have landed.

3-1.

Dimi side to side and Fed approaches and forces the error from Dimi BH

4-1 Fed.

Let first serve

Fails to put away the short ball. Catches the tape. 5-1 Fed.

Go Fed chants.

two points away.

Service winner by Dimi.
5-2

Fed serves coming. Fault

Wow. Risky tenis by Fed. Dimi misses off his BH wing.

6-2 Fed. fouur MPs

Wins the match.

7-2

First meeting won by the Master not the pupil.

 

[Smart]

Nice to see that Fed won. It's his biggest win in a while, and it has to be satisfying to beat an up-and-comer on a day where he was serving in the low 50s for most of the day. The serve will have to improve, but he's tough to beat when he is winning 80%+ of those first-serve points.

 

[Hs0022]

6-3, 7-6 (2)

Feel bad for Dimi. He can still rise to the top if he keeps fighting.

 

[Hs0022]

Fed still has the game to win the big titles but the game is just not consistent day in day out.

Too many errors piling up all of a sudden out of nowhere these days and puts him out of a match in a blink of an eye.

 

[Hs0022]

Just got a headache from following that match. Whew!!

Fed vs Popsicle.

Del Po vs Roger Vasselin.

 

[Hs0022]

Looks like repeat of last year. Del Po might walk away with the title again.

 

[Smart]

Fed still has the game to win the big titles but the game is just not consistent day in day out.

Too many errors piling up all of a sudden out of nowhere these days and puts him out of a match in a blink of an eye.

His problem is that he doesn't get enough breaks. When Djokovic or Murray or Nadal have a bad service game, they can always shrug it off because they know they can get the break with ease. Fed has never broken at the same percentage of them. In his prime, he was winning an obscene amount of service games (86 to 88%). That requires near perfection to pull off, and that perfection is obviously gone now.

If he wants to be a dominating force, he either needs to find a way to get the serve back into the mid 60s percent range so he can work his way out of jams, or he needs to find a way to take enough risks on the return that he is guaranteed to get a break every set. With his back problems, the latter is much more realistic.

 

[Hs0022]

The sad thing is that the opponents know he has back issues. Then they are not afraid serving and have less pressure. I know as a player that when you have back issues you can't put the weight squarely on your foot which is essential for the explosive movements like retrning a serve that stretches you wide or pulls you to a side. Back issues can also affect the serve.

Fed needs to put off negative thoughts aside and just play out the rallies in a Nadal/Ferrer like manner aganst lesser opponents. Keep UEs down and plug away the shots. Dont think about finals but just the next point. Its all gravy from here on anyways, so why worry about trivial things. Enjoy your game. Play your game that you still got and let the chips fall where they may.

 

[bksballer89]

Missed the match but thanks for the play by play analyst

 

[Texas Fan]

he looked sharp against Pospisl. . his foot work was super and he was moving great.

 

[nuraman00]

His problem is that he doesn't get enough breaks. When Djokovic or Murray or Nadal have a bad service game, they can always shrug it off because they know they can get the break with ease. Fed has never broken at the same percentage of them. In his prime, he was winning an obscene amount of service games (86 to 88%). That requires near perfection to pull off, and that perfection is obviously gone now.

If he wants to be a dominating force, he either needs to find a way to get the serve back into the mid 60s percent range so he can work his way out of jams, or he needs to find a way to take enough risks on the return that he is guaranteed to get a break every set. With his back problems, the latter is much more realistic.

I agree. I've felt this was a problem for him on grass especially the past few years, which is why he was in a tough one with Falla a few years ago, and then Tsonga.

 

[nuraman00]

Missed the match but thanks for the play by play analyst

Agree, good thread.

 

[nuraman00]

My thoughts on the Finals:

1st set:

FED was broken at 4-3 to do down 5-3. He then broke back, and held, to tie it at 5-5.

This eventually went to a tiebreaker.

FED had two points with unlucky bounces early in the tiebreaker, and could never recover. He lost the tiebreaker, 7-3.

FED wins the 2nd set 6-2.

Del Potro got up a break at the beginning of the 3rd, and FED never threatened Del Potro on Del Potro's serves.

Del Potro won the 3rd set 6-4.

Overall, some inconsistency from FED, but some good moments too. This wasn't a total beat down. They both won 96 points, for example.

He loses to Del Potro in the Finals two years in a row, in the 3rd set each time.