had to go for a walk after that 3rd set meltdown from fed.

Q: if you have match point and a ball comes over the net, your opponent is off the court and the other court is wide open what do you do?

A: don’t dump it into the net.

arrrgh.

but monfils and nadal should have a sleeveless shirt arm wrestle. damn those muscles!

November 13th, 2010 at 6:15 pm

didnt c match, but omg, roger had 5 match points and didn’t win. i am simply devastated. i know monfils is a really good player, but he does have a history of mentally tightening up & kudos 2him 4 taking the win. roger, roger, roger, i hope u have a really good year end tournament & a grt 2011

November 13th, 2010 at 6:26 pm

Andrea,

I saw the Sod/Llorda match earlier and Llorda missed an easy sitter forehand pass with nobody home for match point and dumped it. End result? Sod wound up winning, another ugh moment.

I have to agree with Skorocel that Fed has wasted a lot of MP’s this year, WTF?

November 13th, 2010 at 6:42 pm

a match point on your opponent’s serve is very different from a match point on your own serve something people always fail to realise.

November 13th, 2010 at 8:16 pm

how on earth does Roger find a way to keep losing like this? his serve has been untouchable on this lightning fast surface all week yet when he’s 4-2 up and with a game point.. he still finds a way to lose

just cannot believe how such a great player has such a woeful history of blowing so so many matches he had won.

November 13th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

Federer “finds a way to keep losing like this… cannot believe how such a great player has such a woeful history of blowing so so many matches “? Really?

Stuff happenes even to great players who are supposed to be mentally tough. In January, at Doha, Nadal thrashed Nikolay Davydenko 6-0 in the first set, then blew two matchpoints in the second set before blowing the match 6-0, 6-7, 4-6. That was more of a blown match than what happened to Federer today.

Federer looked like he would be having a bad day at the office from the very first game. Yes he should have won the first matchpoint and should not have even dumped the 4-2 game. But he was struggling all match and did not have his best stuff today.

Regardless, since Wimbledon, Federer has had the best record of all players. His win-loss match record (30-4) is the best (e.g., Nadal is 20-4). And Fed has played the most matches of the top players even though he is five years older (e.g., 10 more matches than Nadal). Fed won 3 tournaments from 5 finals since Wimbledon. In his remaining two tournaments he lost in the semifinals but had multiple matchpoints, yet in both those matches he was not playing his best. He may have lost today but he battled it out till the end. In Nadal’s six tournaments since Wimbledon, he failed to reach the finals four times (two of his losses were straight sets, all four losses were 6-3 or 6-4 in final set.

November 14th, 2010 at 12:01 am

Poor dave

November 14th, 2010 at 12:30 am

Dave, Federer is loosing for the fourth time this year having match points.In Indian wells,Miami,US open and Paris.This time in Paris with 5 match points.Can you believe?.This is chocking.

November 14th, 2010 at 5:49 am

Dave,
Are you that insecure about Federer that you have to keep comparing him to Nadal in your whole comment? This situation has nothing to do with Nadal; we all know even the greatest players can lose matches and blow match points. Federer just had a bad day and didn’t play his best tennis, end of story.

November 14th, 2010 at 7:36 am

bobby,

not only 4 loses from MP’s but remember Halle final v Hewitt, roger led 6-3 4-4 40-0 3 bps and blew it there also

November 14th, 2010 at 2:17 pm

Gael Monfils you need to adopt and change the way how you play, if you want to advance and improve your game, you just need to change, you are playing too far pass the baseline or serve line, because you play so far pass the baseline you have to cover too much ground, and that is what is burning out too much of your energy, and you are playing too defensive you need to attack and keep the game short, you need to serve and valley a lot more, also you need to come into the net more often you are doing too much running up and down you need to keep the game short and attack and go for winner.

January 21st, 2011 at 10:02 am