I wrote a few tweets yesterday with the hashtag #whereisrafa which was rather the opposite to my previous post “Nadal back in biz“. Why? Well, he shockingly lost his clay court encounter with Andy Murray 6-3 6-2. I will write that again. Andy Murray beat Rafael Nadal, also known as the King of Clay, on clay, 6-3 6-2. Crazy stuff. But not really. Murray looks confident as f#%”! on the red stuff after a win in Hamburg and a wedding in Scotland while Nadal has seemed out of sorts throughout 2015. And it’s not like Murray doesn’t know how to …
Someone must have wound up Federer’s Rolex so he thought he had little time on court before an important appointment, because he raced to 5-0 in the style of someone fashionably in a hurry to win. Stepanek didn’t have time to do any of his usual funky moves before he found himself down a set and a break in yesterday’s second round of Monte Carlo Masters. In the end he managed to get the look of a break point, but Federer saved it and soon scribbled his signature on the camera in a flashy 6-1 6-2 affair. His countryman Wavrinka, …
