The tennis was phenomenal!
some of the tennis was phenominal, in that both players are excellent at the types of shots they play, but they still don’t have the allround brilliant shotmakng of someone like Federer, who is now past his prime with a family and not the required commitment to keep at this level.
I think it was the era of Samprass and Courier that introduced this relentless shot trading across the angles of the court, I don’t seem to remember it before then. They used to show the same accuracy with respect to the lines.
But over time the power that these guys hit with keeps going up – look at how fit and strong Andy is. They can hit blisteringly and very heavy (spinning a lot) shots from the back of the court to get winners from positions that Conners and Mcenroe could only dream about. Nadal gets something like 6.5k revs on the balls, whereas Federer and normally good players get 4kish.
So I was a bit surprised that Andy got away with that 2nd service, I would have thought Djoc would have been shoving each one of those down Andy’s throat, but maybe he was just jaded by the end of match – the commentators certainly questioned some of his decisions.