2014 Australian Open Campaign

[Apey]

Nadal losing that last game... unbelievable.

 

[Joely01]

Nadal is done, that serve is soo weak

 

[ek999]

Has to retire after this game

 

[Joely01]

Got to respect rafa, not sure why the crowd boo'd him

 

[ek999]

Nadal seemed slightly better that game

 

[Joely01]

This injury may be helping him here, making him play much more aggressively. He was missing that at the start

 

[ek999]

Go Rafa. Did not expect to go to a fourth set

 

[Apey]

The end of that 2nd set and the start of the 3rd is the worst professional tennis I have ever seen. Nadal was f**ked physically and Wawrinka had lost the plot mentally. Why the f**k would you keep hitting it straight back to Nadal when he clearly is struggling to move?

His first serve was down to 120km for a bit there :crazy:

 

[Joely01]

The first break is critical in this 4th set

 

[Snoochies]

Was that 3rd set an inspirational performance or a huge choke? Or bit of both?

 

[Joely01]

I think a bit of both.
Wawrinka looked like he was at a kids clinic and just hitting it back

 

[Apey]

Wawrinka will find his brain again and win this set imo.

 

[Frederick]

Atta boy Stan

 

[Snoochies]

How that even got to a 4th set I don't know.

Glad he won but that was the weirdest final I've ever seen.

 

[Apey]

Man that match was such a let-down after looking forward to it so much. I'm a Nadal fan but I'd rather see him get beaten at his best (physically) than like that, which was highly like considering the way Stan played in the first set. Like I said those games at the end of the 2nd set and beginning of the 3rd set was the worst tennis I have ever seen. Ugh.

 

[some11]

Well done Stan on his first Grand Slam, you can only play what's in front of you.

 

[Joely01]

Djokovic won't play that badly twice and I am not sure Wawrinka is playing that well this year. Last year he came into the AO in form. Just seems to be moving poorly. Could be wrong, but I have watched a lot of Wawrinka's matches as I love watching him. He was shocking at Kooyong. Everyone will say exhibition, blah, blah. However, movement shouldn't be something that is lacking.

He moved pretty well tonight. ;-)

 

[Joely01]

I'll be boring

Men : Djokovic
Women: Serena

Bolter (people whe never won a slam) : Definitely Wawrinka
Women: Bouchard (No chance in hell really, has some game though).

Well done with the bolter

 

[aqua_duck]

The new Swiss master

 

[Mr Angry]

Hard not to be happy for Stan.

Persistence the dude has it in spades.

Rafa a humble loser.