Rain Delay...Time out Roger.
After leading 5-2 in the first set Federer showed a rare sign of weakness and failed to serve out the set. Now he finds himself staring at Nadal serving for the second set and it's a rain delay. What to do?
He's in the locker room with his coach Annacone...what is the discussion about?
Looking at the match it is much like I mentioned in my previous post...Roger's ordinary backhand is to hit cross court into the teeth of Nadal's topspin forehand and after two or three balls generally Nadal turns the advantage in the point to him with his massive overspin.
It appears to me that whenever Roger can turn the points into a backhand to backhand game it is to his advantage more often that not. When he slices low to Nadal's backhand, Nadal is left with the option to hit up and crosscourt into Roger's forehand or try to match Federer backhand for backhand. I would like to see Roger work on that backhand side a lot more, changing speeds, spin, depth and height over the net. Too much pounding into the strength of Nadal's game...and so far it looks like a losing game.
If he can pin Nadal over on the backhand side he will open up the forehand side in the process.
Never change a winning game...and always change a losing game.
After leading 5-2 in the first set Federer showed a rare sign of weakness and failed to serve out the set. Now he finds himself staring at Nadal serving for the second set and it's a rain delay. What to do?
He's in the locker room with his coach Annacone...what is the discussion about?
Looking at the match it is much like I mentioned in my previous post...Roger's ordinary backhand is to hit cross court into the teeth of Nadal's topspin forehand and after two or three balls generally Nadal turns the advantage in the point to him with his massive overspin.
It appears to me that whenever Roger can turn the points into a backhand to backhand game it is to his advantage more often that not. When he slices low to Nadal's backhand, Nadal is left with the option to hit up and crosscourt into Roger's forehand or try to match Federer backhand for backhand. I would like to see Roger work on that backhand side a lot more, changing speeds, spin, depth and height over the net. Too much pounding into the strength of Nadal's game...and so far it looks like a losing game.
If he can pin Nadal over on the backhand side he will open up the forehand side in the process.
Never change a winning game...and always change a losing game.
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