2010 US Open Tennis: Rafael Nadal Looks wobbly in First Round
Sports Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Rafael Nadal barely survived his game in US open at Arthur Ashe Stadium. He was matched up with unranked Teymuraz Gabashvili. TV commentators, fans and even the US open officials thought that Nadal will lose this match but in the end he made it, barely! Afterwards Nadal started giving excuses that the ball of US Open was hard for him and he underestimated his opponent.
His opponent was Teymuraz Gabashvili who is at 98th rank in the US Open and at 93rd ranks in the ATP rankings and he deserves the credit. He gave a good match to Nadal and was a worthy opponent.
But whatever the conditions are, no one expected from an experienced and bright player to play such a game against a man whose highest ever rank was 59th. And this is his zenith in the Grand Slam in the fourth round at Roland Garros. And besides 2006 and 2007, he has never been able to make it to the second round at the US Open.
According to some writers Nadal is only trying to save himself from the rounds to come as his performance was not likely to be expected. But the truth is that he has been struggling with the ball and so far he is unable to give a spectacular performance.
Unfortunately the first game anticipates that Nadal will hardly reach the US Open Finals, a little bit of a sad anticipation for Nadal’s fans.
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Posted by fahad majidi
on Sep 2 2010. Filed under Sports.
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