[meganie]

Poor performance from Tsonga, his footwork is awful, leading to a ton of errors. Keeps charging the net too, despite being unable to make low volleys (which is exactly what Nadal fires at him). My guess is he's tired after the late match last night.

Think he's generally tired from his tourny in Johannesburg. He didn't play very well yesterday too.

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Nadal hasn't offered one break chance. Pretty hard to lose that way.

Yeah - Tsonga has no chance of getting there, he can't keep the ball in court. Particularly in that first set he had a real chance, with Nadal serving at 50% (80% in 2nd set).

Still, 23 aces for Tsonga now, which is flat out scary.

[LT Profits]

Tsonga 6-5, Nadal serving

[EaglesPhan36]

Tie break. Now or never.

[EaglesPhan36]

Never as he loses the first point on-serve. Doh. Oh well, nice try I suppose, but a loss nonetheless.

[LT Profits]

one more point!

[LT Profits]

Tsonga trying to choke away 6-2 lead. Now 6-4.

[EaglesPhan36]

Ali bumaye!

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Hello hello, it's Tsonga from Aus Open & Paris last year. Where'd he come from?

Interesting situation now though. Tsonga got really angry at 6-5 in the tiebreak, and then hits a second serve ace to win it :-)

Will this motivate Tsonga some? If he gets just some groundgame going, he will surely win. On the other hand, if he errors like he has so far, he's going to need a similar insane serving performance to win it in another breaker.

[LT Profits]

Tsonga does it! On to third set.

[fiveteamer]

HeeeHAWWWWW you made it pal

[EaglesPhan36]

Any break in the 3rd set is probably the KO blow. Don't see them trading breaks.

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Gonna call a % middle for this set: if Tsonga is above 65% first serve, and 70% first serve points won, he wins the match.

[EaglesPhan36]

Game over man, game over.

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Game over man, game over.

Yeah, you'd think so now, Tsonga's returns have been atrocious. Still, if he's swinging for the big risky winners, he might just make a few in a row......

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Woah, Nadal mental breakdown. What was the chance of that?

[LT Profits]

Tsonga breaks back on Nadal double fault!

[EaglesPhan36]

Surprised & pleased that Tsonga got back to even. Seems like this could be destined for a 3rd set tie break now that they are back on serve or Rafa could help again with a double somewhere.

[Fischnasty]

LT, you seem like a decent guy so i hope you win. But I also hope Dac loses. I guess you cant have your cake and eat it too.

[yisman]

What a crazy match today.

[EaglesPhan36]

Tsonga's double fault chokes it late. Boo. Good try though. Still don't think Nadal is gonna win this tournament.

[LT Profits]

Oh well, I tried.

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Very poor from Tsonga.

However, Nadal's weaknesses clearly exposed - even with Tsonga gifting points left, right and centre, he almost won.

[yisman]

Oh well, I tried.

Viet buried you. There's not much you can do.

Ask diogee what he does when Viet posts a pick he's on.

[LT Profits]

Viet buried you. There's not much you can do.

Ask diogee what he does when Viet posts a pick he's on.

That's OK, I am still spending the money from my last three tennis plays!

[EaglesPhan36]

What does CrazyLou always say when he loses at plus money - it was the right play?


I liked it, but Tsonga just didn't have it in his returns today to get to Nadal. He needed Rafa's help just to get as far as he did.