Hi Nitb and Tenez again, I escaped from watching of the final in the second set after Nole was broken and went celebrate my friend girl´s name day. So only now I see that the match was ended due to rain. Tomorrow battle will be battle of nerves and important for Nole is to know that he can do it. And we all real Nole fans know that Nole can do everything if he wants to do it. To be honest I did not expect after the start of the second that he will revive in the 3rd. Nole, please save the mankind and tennis itself and win this match with epileptic bull (orig. by Chydremion)

"And we all real Nole fans know that Nole can do everything if he wants to do it."

Nole showed Nadull how to play tennis. It was priceless to see nadull whining to the ref.

I know, loved it

Hi Paul, wow - i did not see much of the first 2 sets (not much of the 3rd either). Was Nadal playing well or was it Djoko being nervous? or maybe both?

In the first two sets nadull basically got lucky as djoko was making high number of unforced errors and basically handed the breaks. In the second set it was same. Djoko was done and dusted in thrid set as he was losing 2-0 in the beginning but from thereon he took control and won eight points in a row. He was making nadull run like a rabbit. In the second set nadal managed to cover nole's backhand cross court and played few superhumanlike points but by the third set the power was gone and normal service resumed. nadal will get beneftted by this break but I am happy as Nole has shown everyone that Nadull is beatable even on Red clay.

Nole/Nole's dad complaining about coaching from Tony:

http://multimedia.quotidiano.net/ubitennis.shtml?tipo=media&media=26576

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nadal will get beneftted by this break but I am happy as Nole has shown everyone that Nadull is beatable even on Red clay.
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Well he has to beat him. He hasn't done it though.

The funny thing is that unlike most were thinking, Nole had more chance to beat him in 5 than best of 3!

Hi Tenez, Nole started the first set nervously, had some small outs by 5-10cm, but was Nadull leading along the court. But he did not do well on his 1st servise and failed some big opportunities by UEs. At the beginning of the 2nd Bull started playing more aggresively yet and looked very shaped and was not sweating, which made me nervous. Bull´s first UE came in the 4th game and Nole had 8 this time.

pualcz, what was your pseudo on 606?

ok. thanks. From what i saw the conds looked terribly slow and nadal's big arms could hit through it while nole had to take more risk and that was still good enough to hit through Nadal.

As rotla describes it, it was gladiator tennis from the little i saw. I was watching on those 16:9 big plasma screen and it flatten the courts making them look maybe slower than they are. But the sound added to the pace made it look reallylike a slugfest.

Wow, the same as I have here. I am conservative at everything When Nitb and Tenez came here I have stopped contributing in 606. I am not frequent poster. Only yesterday I wanted to irritate Nadull´s fans, who gradually were running away and hiding somewhere, so I rolled out some outrages with Bulls and cheered Nole

Nadull played some moonballing from the beginning. Not surprisingly he stood about 3,5 metres behind the basic line on returns, but he could catch and return everything. Czech comentator former player Pála said that Nadull became the wall which can return everything. Nole will need to improve the 1st servise and make Nadull run. To play floppy balls it will not bring the fruit with this bull. If the surface is little bit faster, then Bull is in vain. Of course returns make difference. Let us hope that Nole can hold high level of returns and a bit get improved the service.

As soon as nole started to hit those first serves rafa started to wilt.

Let us go sleep with a hope for Nole. The 4th set will be the key. Nole we are all with you

http://multimedia.quotidiano.net/ubitennis.shtml?tipo=media&media=26575

Djokos father complaining about Nadals coaching from the box

Nole's dad, me best pal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7CMB0w6Bfc

It's a disgrace they let him cheat at will.

They are turning a blind eye on
- Time abuse,
- On court coaching
- doping (ITF not allowing the French anti-doping agency to conduct its own tests like they do for all events happening in France).

Then they provide the slowest balls to make this the ultimate physical test and advantage Nadal.

Are his fans still proud of him? Blind fanatism at its best!

Good morning, everyone
Can't believe the miserable weather here in England...

Apparently continuing drizzle in Paris, too. I do hope the match finishes today, otherwise, this is going to be ridiculous.

Has a match ever been kind of played from the beginning due to longer weather interruption?

What do you mean? start again due to long rain delay?

I was actually wondering whether they start with new balls today or the same as yesterday.

Yes, I mean the entirely new match. If it doesn't start today it definitely loses the best of 5 credibility.

As for the balls, good question, and the answer - no idea!

I think they start with the balls that were in use yesterday and then the change as per it always happens.