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Caught the highlights of the Fed-Monfils match. Very entertaining. Fed's netgame this year is close to its absolute best. Maybe in 2001 up to 2003 it might have been that good. He was always good at the net but this year he is also being aggressive, going for really sharp volleys and smashes and not doing anything unduly cute. The moments he has chosen to get in have also been more high risk. Often I thought he wouldn't make it and then he pulled out an unbelievable volley. Monfils himself is incredible at the net so the very fact that on a few net exchanges Fed got the better of him speaks volumes. Irrespective of whether he wins titles, he is entertaining old school tennis fans with his approach this year.
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Wawrinka lost to Benneteau ...
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Fed, in his own words, stole the second set from under Murray's nose. Whattaplayer! With Stan also knocked out, suddenly the first ATP 1000 title since, incidentally, Cincinnati 2012 is looking like a distinct possibility. I hope he doesn't blow it. He may not get a better chance in a long time.
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That was awful from Murray to be honest. Federer's ground strokes were pretty good today and his BH was also holding up pretty fine. Murray tried his best to rattle that side of Federers much to no avail. His net play however looks dicey with the number of unforced errors he's committting on that front, but it is good to see him get to position early.
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ATP hasn't put up the detailed statistical analysis yet. As long as the percentage on net approach points works out in his favour, a few errors are fine.
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His net play has been exceptional the past couple of weeks. Problem is, while making some real difficult ones he is missing out on easy put aways.
May be thats were Nadal scores to get "The greatest volleyer" title from JMac's mouth... Offcourse to JMac 3/3 looks better than 24/30 right....What a bandwagoner!!
CK, Roger was 17/27 @ net yesterday.
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17/27 is a good percentage, around 63%. At that percentage, it's worth taking the risk of coming in. But yeah, agree that he should put away the put aways too if he can convert tough volleys.
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Yamma, Sharapova, serving for the match, makes double double faults to hand the break back to Ivanovic. What a disgrace!
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Federer to meet Ferrer in the finals!