Feels so **** to be a Federer fan at the moment. Has squandered two-set leads in consecutive tournaments and squandered two match points in consecutive US Opens. Why does he do it to himself? Just serve the game out for **** sake!
I'm not even a big Federer fan but I still find it heartbreaking
He just needs a bit of luck, he's still going strong enough to get to these positions. He's STILL the only player to reach match points against Djokovic this year*, and managed to convert one of them at the French.
*Murray probably would have the way he was playing in Cincinatti, but Novak retired before he could get there.
The final is played on monday, Novak has enough time to recover. Besides we don't know how the Nadal/Murray match will pan out, this could be an epic 5-setter for all we know and considering their match is being played after Novaks, exhaustion would be a bigger problem for them.
I highly doubt Nadal could go two sets up against djokovic when he's playing like this, and also he's unbeated against Nadal in all their 5 meetings this year.
I'm not talking about tiredness after one long match; neither of them should be tired going into Monday's final. We're talking about physical and mental fatigue and exhaustion. Novak's had a long year with constant pressure to maintain his run and he's looked a bit undercooked in a number of his recent matches. He was let off the hook by Tipsy and now Fed. Nadal is playing the best tennis he's played since the US open last year and when he's in that sort of form, he's seriously hard to beat. He's peaking just at the right time and he was blistering against Roddick who was barely able to win a point, other than directly off his serve.