Wow, and I thought the loss Nadal had to Murray last year was bad. This was the worst loss that I've seen for Nadal since the Australian Open semi-finals last year. Nadal, was far too defensive against Del Potro and he paid for it. Del Potro, had him on the run through out most of the match. I never felt like Rafa had a good chance of winning the match after he lost a break early in the first set and was then broken again for Del Potro to win the first set 6-2. Del Potro then repeated that pattern twice and had Rafa beat in 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Even though Nadal, lost pretty badly this was still a good result for him, to make the semi-finals at the US Open. He didn't lose any points from last year and he actually regained his number 2 ranking thanks to Murray losing in the fourth round. I hope that next year he plays with some more aggression though. It's the only thing that will get him past these powerful flat hitting baseliners.
Federer played a good match against Djokovic. He had an acceptable first serve percentage, and had 49 winners to 33 unforced errors. Djokovic, played well too but he didn't have enough winners to make up for the 31 errors. As for the match, it was a lot like their US Open Final in 2007. Djokovic managed to stay competitive with Roger in all 3 sets but in the moments when he needed it most, Roger was able to come up with the answer he needed to take the set. This was a pretty enjoyable match though.
By the way, did any of you guys see Shaq VS last night when he took on Phelps? I would love to see Shaq, take on Andy Roddick or John Isner, in tennis. I think that would be awesome.
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