[Buckery]

Originally Posted by Buckery

Noobdy can take Roger on the grass, he's got every shot and he shows that year after year at this event.

I agree with your assesment as Nadal certainly didn't steamroll Roger. Roger was down a set and yet the points were still at 107 to 107 (at that time in the 4th set). When aggressive Roger can beat anybody, he showed that against Nadal early in the 2nd set. When he's attacking and hitting the ball with his pace he hits balls that not even Rafael can get to. Roger appeared intimidated at times by the young Spainard. You can tell Roger isn't as comfortable on the surface as Nadal is at this point. Even though Roger was groomed on the surface, nobody plays defense as well as Nadal, especially on that slow surface. He's not going to win rallies on the baseline on this surface against this kid.

Marat was playing sensational at the Aussie and Nadal was playing sensational this week... tough to be running into hot players with as much talent as these guys and still be winning every match.

Odds don't matter, Roger Federer will win wimbledon.

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