Wimbledon 2012

[Sooda]

^Yeah thought as much, darent take on rafa in a rally and just go hell for leather with shots. Only way a result like that could have come about. This guy is 26 so no spring chicken, hope its the start of something good but unlikely as you say Btw I looked him up in Wiki Lukáš Rosol (born July 24, 1985 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional tennis player who floored Nadal - what a lad. Rosol competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. Rosol was coached by former Czech player, 1999 US Open quarterfinalist Ctislav Doseděl.[1][2] On 28 June 2012, after finding a cure for cancer, Rosol played world number 2 Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon. Rosol set the record for the lowest ranking player to beat Nadal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luk%C3%A1%C5%A1_Rosol lol...

[Yoda-esque]

Its not an earth shattering results by any means..If it were RG yes, but Nadals had problems against such players from the beginning in the first week. And when the roof was closed, it was going to be really difficult for Nadal to win Petzchner,Haase,Soderling,Muller,Gulbis were all unknowns and yet took him to 5 sets..

[vamos_rafa]

Rafa was clearly unsettled by this player. Also, one strking feature was the firt serves of him. He rarely served a fault specialy in the final set. Great match and sad loss for Rafa :((

[Raghav_12]

Sad Loss... Pretty disappointed :-(

[Sidhoni]

Nadal out... :yikes:

[adi B]

saw the whole match yesterday, it gave me goosebumps, the crowd was sporting, gave cheers to rosol as well... this guy is a beast, his 1st serve was murderous...the problem rafa had was, in melbourne or paris he standed way behind the baseline,almost close to the line umpires when he was playing against big hitters and servers, but here there`s not much space to go way beyond the baseline+ i think he didnt stand that back ,so rosol kept on serving big nd nadal couldnt return well...he literally couldnt workout his serve, and add to that rosol was going for his shot, he was madly hitting the balls and i have not seen rafa hitting so many errors.... but u cant do much when a juggernaut is in front of ya

[vamos_rafa]

saw the whole match yesterday, it gave me goosebumps, the crowd was sporting, gave cheers to rosol as well... this guy is a beast, his 1st serve was murderous...the problem rafa had was, in melbourne or paris he standed way behind the baseline,almost close to the line umpires when he was playing against big hitters and servers, but here there`s not much space to go way beyond the baseline+ i think he didnt stand that back ,so rosol kept on serving big nd nadal couldnt return well...he literally couldnt workout his serve, and add to that rosol was going for his shot, he was madly hitting the balls and i have not seen rafa hitting so many errors.... but u cant do much when a juggernaut is in front of ya

Yeah man. That guy was at his absoulte best. And,on their day, players like him can beat the crap out of anybody.

[Sidhoni]

Rosol has got a unique style of play. He takes his racquet long way back before striking the ball.

[adi B]

is he the next ljubicic :giggle:

[adi B]

dafuq? stepanek wins the 1st set vs djokovic

[yoda]

looks like another one for federrer.

[veer]

yikes.. was hoping to see another rafa and joko final.. .

[Cricketics]

An inform Stepanek is always good news for Leander Paes. It will help in their doubles game when they come together in 2nd round. Hopefully they go all the way

[adi B]

federer is playing soo poorly, his 1st serve is crap 2day, very slim chance of winning this game

[akshayxyz]

Federer is being stretched, or he is below par?

[akshayxyz]

Federer heading for 2 down and perhaps early exit?

[Sooda]

well he IS two down now. no way man...very erratic he is being

[adi B]

wtf is wrong with fedex, its okay to lose in a tight match against someone like raonic,del potro, tsonga, but benneteau? he is an old french *****, even older than fedex

[adi B]

fedex finally wins the 4th set in the tie break, phew!!...have to give this old french prik some credit, has got some balls to stretch fedex to the 5th

[adi B]

what a great game, fedex winning in the end, i guess the 5th set took a toll on the body of an old benneteau, nevertheless nice effort from the french oldie