Sunday, 11 September 2011

Djoko - gets it again ! What went wrong for FedEX


A long time indeed in getting a post on this blog !
And what a surprise my last post involved djoko !
Yesterday we had a match between djokovic and federer in the US open 2011 semi-finals. It definitely looked a pretty exciting match towards the end. Federer getting the first 2 sets and djokovic coming back to get the next two
A final set that looked like federer should have taken it. PAUSE. djokovic makes a joke out of it. Slaps a federer serve for a forehand cross-court winner !
Federer is surprised (a good mind reader might interpret various emotions there. anger, surprise, frustration and more. me not a great midn reader to get all the emotions right ;-)
Im not going to talk abt novak after this but only abt what went wrong for fedEx. Because novak did it all right. Didnt lose focus after that slapshot. Did not try any such slapshots after that. So federer needs to note that. not just the slapshot !! Coming back to the point, federer was having 2 match points when he served at 40-15. With that slap it gets to 40-30 and a forehand from roger hits fails to get him the win he wanted. Instead it hits the net and gets the game to a deuce ! What happens next is irrelevant to federer because he has lost straightaway !

What went wrong for fedEx. Many people tend to forget the shot that brought the game to deuce ! But i think the focus should be on that. Roger thinks as would any damn player in this world at that stage (having 2 matchpoints) that he has closed in ( & his post-match interview would also tell you that) !
But thats when things go wrong at such a big stage. Dont have hopes because you have 2 match points or any for that matter. Play till the last point till you finish off the game. To me, its desperation and frustration after that "djoko slap" that finished the road for one hit at a grandslam win for fedEx.
Now the world is only waiting for a grandslam final. Although a federer/rafa final would have raised the viewer ratings of the tournament like no-other.

1 comment:

jik said...

bad luck, that day and the time now is good for Djokovic. anyway praise to the world no:1