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Just a few days before AO Fed lost to Hewitt. Now he has beaten Tsonga who apparently wasn't playing that great and the back-from-a-back-surgery Murray (who broke him when he was serving for the match, then saved 2 MPs to take the set... and whose serve Fed seemed to have some trouble breaking (4/17).

Rafa was struggling with his serve, but his QF serve stats for most part look better or about equal to me:
1st srvs in % - Rafa: 73, Roger 64
1st srv points won % - Rafa: 73, Roger: 78
2nd srv points won % - Rafa: 67, Roger: 64

So was Roger really serving superbly somehow? I know he hit 10 aces and 0 DF, but still... the stats don't look that scary to me. He did come to the net a lot 49/66 (74%), but Rafa was great himself at 32/36 (89%), and we know why Roger has rarely come to the net a hell of a lot against Rafa, and what so often happens when he does.

The media, commentators and Fed fans are now suddenly saying Roger is back to his best, blah blah... really? I haven't watched his matches, just seen little bits, so I can't really comment, but really? (...)

Basically, I'm not really worried. Should I be? *dontknow*

I do know chickens need to hatch and all, and I wouldn't bet my cd collection on the result (it's a pretty big collection, and very dear to me :oops: ), but I can't manage to be pessimistic about that match.

http://vamosbrigade.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7998&start=645

Same.

There are things that worry me in an superficial level, like the fact that imo Rafa's ROS is currently crap and Roger's... isn't. But I'm having a hard time making this worry blossom into anxiety. It probably will within the first few games of the match if Roger holds his service games to love/15 in two minutes or less while Rafa's go to deuce and take 10+ minutes.