Bandera se bori, spasio 0:40 i sada će 13. igra. Suparnik u u međuvrrmenu bacio reket nakon jedne od Banderinih bombi.

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Očajno odigrao 13. igru Kirjos. Ivo poveo sa 6:3, suparnik smanjio na 6:4 i onda pacerski promašio zicer sa sredine terena. Jasno, reket je ponovno poljubio beton.

Kyrgios izivciran, a na 1:1 ivo dosao do prve break prilike, gdje mi je, naravno, krepao stream. Ipak nista od toga, ali Nick standardno u svom elementu, ako banderas pogodi jos koji lijep volej mozda pukne skroz!

Ne znam što wonka očekuje. Na ovom blatu u Miamu imati 29 winera i 15 ue protiv jednog Del potra uz 58% ubačenog prvog i 7 as servisa uz sijaset briljantnih poteza. Mislim čovjek igra u 36oj godini van svake pameti. Igra u polju ne može biti puno bolja. Neki detalji poput servisa ili reternera nešto malo, ali zato nisam rekao da je bio perfektan nego blizu toga.

Ma igra odlicno non stop. Ne znam sta ocekuje, ali znam da se nada da Novak nece poceti da jede meso, kao i da se Rafa nece vratiti PRP terapiji......u svakom slučaju, kapa do poda za velikog sampiona...

Ma meni je ovo svakako van pameti; igrati ovako u 36. godini života je čudo, ali recimo da imam visoke kriterije za čovjeka. Meni osobno je bolje igrao protiv Tiafoea u prvom setu, ali je i Tiafoe igrao bolje i održavao meč kompetitivnim. Del Potro ima danas, nažalost, rupu na backhandu i to se može iskorištavati kroz cijeli meč.

Čista perfekcija bi mi bila igra Kohlija protiv Nadala gdje ga je počistio s terena u prvom setu.

Sinoć gledao kombinirano meč Ćorić-Mannarino,Federer-Delpo i kao da sam gledao dva različita sporta.Ono što su igrali prva dva bilo je tako negledljivo ,pimplaju kao rekreativci,a onaj drugi meč čista poezija

 Neznam kakav je bio ovaj prvi meč koji si spomenuo (mogu pretpostaviti), ali nekim slučajem sam pogledao 3 gema u meču Čorić-Granollers, to je tek trebalo vidjeti... Mannarino ipak nije toliki pimpler iako ni on nema oružja.
Tenisu treba raznovrsnosti, ali problem je što su danas uvjeti takvi da je sve "antitenisača", a sve manje onih čistih agresivaca. Prožvakana tema, ali činjenice stoje. Ove godine čini se ipak stvari idu malo na bolje, za AO se zna, navnodno je i Miami nešto brži nego prethodnih godina, dok su IW još usporili.

Evo što GOAT kaže o tome:

Q. Can you walk us through how the conditions have changed over the years when you first came on tour, surfaces slowed down, balls get heavy, and now do you sense another change around the corner with quicker conditions in Australia?
ROGER FEDERER: Well, I mean, look, depends on when exactly we're talking about. There was definitely a time where things were definitely slowing down. After the millennium really I thought you could see and feel a proper change, how things were leaning towards the slower side. More and more matches were played in the night sessions, particularly at the Australian Open.

In 2004 I played the finals there it was in the daytime. That's always going to play fast, regardless of what kind of balls you're going t play with. If you're playing in 40 degree heat, the ball is always going to fly.

So then the way they set it up, basically you're going to play quarters, semis, and finals in the night. If you add a slow ball and you slow down the courts too much, you're going to be in some epic rallies. There is just no way around them. Especially the way the guys started to move back when Lleyton came around and all those guys.

Wimbledon, definitely also there was something that happened there. I don't know if it's the balls or the grass, but that's definitely slowed down.

I feel like the US Open and French probably played pretty much the same throughout, in my opinion.

Then you had, the indoor season. By making a court more even throughout, because we used to change from Teraflex to sort of the Greenset. You had like sort of the wooden boards that were painted. We made it more unified so it was the same surface, wooden boards throughout. Then what happened is they wanted have the same surface for the entire swing, and that became slow as well. The word Tour Finals were played on the slower side.

So next thing you know, basically everything played somewhat similar, which think is a bit of a pity. I like it when there is extremes. Then you have to play different ways. It was nice to see Ivan Lendl serve and volley at Wimbledon, even though he didn't want to do it.

It was nice to see Edberg or Becker play from the baseline on clay courts. It was nice to see them out of their element. Then you all of a sudden become a different kind of player and you improve throughout your career, like this.

You can just be happy hitting hard from the baseline on any surface. Just play the same way. Just adjust your movement a little bit. But to me, that's not so exciting. I think it's important we have change. Really slow and really fast.