Feel bad for the poster with Nadal first set bet. He has broken twice in this set and blew it both times
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Not that it's gonna happen .. but could you imagine a Murray/Gasquet, Kiefer/Simon semis? How about a zillion to one odds on that at the start of this tourny. Might have to ride that bastard Simon until he loses.Comment -
Nadal's best service game of the match there, good timing.Comment -
lol, lucky lucky lucky Nadal, got a horrendous service cord in the tiebreak to minibreak.Comment -
unbelievable play by gasquet
serving for the tiebreak nowComment -
That was one nuclear backhand, breathtaking.Comment -
and he blows itComment -
rofl, followed by utter crap the next point.Comment -
No one wants it. Who's gonna give away the most?Comment -
...and another netcord for Nadal, the lucky git is going to take this :-)Comment -
another chance to serve for the setComment -
gasquet is useless.He has had so many opportunities to take this setComment -
Don't worry. Gasquet will blow it.Comment -
Stupid gasquet. Now Nadal will serve for the set and then win the second set. That was Gas's chanceComment -
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Jesus! Can Gasquet & Murray actually show some balls in the same tourny?Comment -
I bet he chokes right here. Hehe. Good old Gasquet.Comment -
great match
11-10 gasquet nadal servingComment -
will he blow the set point again?Comment -
and he blew it again.Unbelievable Gasquet.Misses when it matters all the timeComment -
3rd time is a charm? PLEASE!Comment -
Awesome match.Comment -
If Nadal wins this tie break & he will sooner or later - Gasquet will go into collapse mode in the 2nd set me thinks. Typical of my +425 bet. Hehe.Comment -
finally got the set haha
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Yowza! Reverse psychology worked!
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Wow! What a tiebreak!
Oh my. Anyone think there's any chance Gasquet won't blow it?Comment -
What a match.
Having a debate whether to lay off my Gasquet bet now. He's a confidence player, and he has the strokes here to break Nadal almost any service game if he gets on a run.
Problem is, nobody on betfair believes Gasquet will win :-) Nadal still -150....Comment -
I think there's a fair chance. Normally he cracks under pressure, but there he came back from a break down, came back in the tiebreak.Originally posted by crazyl
What he needs to do is raise his serve %. On a hard court it should be a real weapon, he can hit 130mph+ now. However he was at 50% first set, which isn't good enough. Raise that to 60%, and he probably wins.
Edit: first service game very encouraging, all 5 first serves in and two aces.Comment -
Nice stat there on the commentary: Nadal has won 27 matches in a row.
He won Wimbledon, Queens (amazing he could win on such fast grass), Roland Garros, Hamburg. He only lost a match in Rome due to injury, and before that he won Barcelona, the Monte Carlo masters. Last real loss not down to injury was in march, the final of Miami to an on-fire Davydenko.Comment -
**Taking***
Petrova +200 for *1u risked*Comment -
Nadal with the break. up 3-1Comment -
10 points in a row for Nadal. Same thing happened midway through the last set, but to my surprise Gasquet turned it round.Comment -
Not that I'm going out on a limb, but honestly, it's hard to imagine Gasquet maintaining that level of focus and intensity from the 1st set if this goes to a third set. Nadal isn't wavering at all and we know he'll be clutch, so it's all on the Frenchmans resolve (once again).Comment -
Nadal takes 2nd set 6-2.
Lights getting dimmer on Gasquet. No momentum or any positives to expand on for him. He needs to flush it all out and start over.Comment -
Yeah. My 2-1 still on, and this was the only way it was going to happen, but not too optimistic now.Comment