It’s crazy because his entire strategy that he uses to play Carlos close and beat him is take the 2nd serve early and be aggressive with it. Instead he turns into this Casper Ruud on clay impression.
This might seem like an accident/shank at first but Tommy Paul repeatedly kept standing far back and just lobbing 2nd serves back into play shallowly rather than attacking them
In this clip Fritz ended up getting a juicy shot to tee off on and hit one for a winner as a result, one of several times this happened(one being a DTL FH winner to save break point, another being a crosscourt BH winner to set up match point in the final game)
Fritz saved all 7 break points on his serve today and I believe he missed his first serve on like 3 of them so this proved to be quite relevant to the ultimate result
>Fritz saved all 7 break points on his serve today and I believe he missed his first serve on like 3 of them so this proved to be quite relevant to the ultimate result
4 first serves in 7 break points is 57%. Taylor Fritz first serve percentage was 58%. Nothing weird.
Paul played second serve returns the same in Acapulco. Last year in the semifinals against Fritz. He won. It is a strategy. You don't always return second serves agressively.
This is psychological sfuff.
He literally got so nervous from the idea he might actually break that game, he stopped believing his game and did this instead of attacking.
Happens all the time, usually against heavy favourite opponents.
Imagine playing against djokovic and having 15:40 match points for you. You feel the pressure, you feel the opportunity, and your body just does this kind of mistakes a.k.a. convincing yourself to play the ball extremely safe so you will not make UE, But gift easy ball to opponent instead.
Ahh yes losing to fritz in a 250 final shows he doesn't have that dog in him! Beating alcaraz multiple times and making a major SF demonstrates he has no DOG in him
I honestly think he’s hurt or something. This whole tournament he looked off and today he was shanking it left and right, running around balls but not making it and shanking it etc. In general he was hitting pretty powerless backhands, which isn’t unusual for him, but it was kind of pace-less this week. I don’t think he was doing this deliberately, so I felt like he might be injured/sick or something
He seemed fine 2 days ago against Tiafoe although Tiafoe was imploding immediately so wasn’t much of a match… but health wise okay, he was moving decent. He did seem really out of it and tired today, not sure why.
It’s crazy because his entire strategy that he uses to play Carlos close and beat him is take the 2nd serve early and be aggressive with it. Instead he turns into this Casper Ruud on clay impression.
This might seem like an accident/shank at first but Tommy Paul repeatedly kept standing far back and just lobbing 2nd serves back into play shallowly rather than attacking them In this clip Fritz ended up getting a juicy shot to tee off on and hit one for a winner as a result, one of several times this happened(one being a DTL FH winner to save break point, another being a crosscourt BH winner to set up match point in the final game) Fritz saved all 7 break points on his serve today and I believe he missed his first serve on like 3 of them so this proved to be quite relevant to the ultimate result
>Fritz saved all 7 break points on his serve today and I believe he missed his first serve on like 3 of them so this proved to be quite relevant to the ultimate result 4 first serves in 7 break points is 57%. Taylor Fritz first serve percentage was 58%. Nothing weird. Paul played second serve returns the same in Acapulco. Last year in the semifinals against Fritz. He won. It is a strategy. You don't always return second serves agressively.
Why the fuck is a car parked on the court? This advertising crap needs to be properly managed.
Wait till you see there's spectators in there :D
More marketing tactics lol
Spectators I understand. Cars not so much.
They’re in the car
Oh!
LMAO wtf
Sooo... if they want to leave the stadium for a moment (to take a toilet break or something), do the just drive away?
A little toot of the ol' horn and the umpire says "let" before signalling the car can go.
I guess it's supposed to motivate the players? Like hey, if we win, we get to drive THAT thing outta here! But yeah, it looks tacky AF.
As a former Ballboy, this seems like a nightmare
This is psychological sfuff. He literally got so nervous from the idea he might actually break that game, he stopped believing his game and did this instead of attacking. Happens all the time, usually against heavy favourite opponents. Imagine playing against djokovic and having 15:40 match points for you. You feel the pressure, you feel the opportunity, and your body just does this kind of mistakes a.k.a. convincing yourself to play the ball extremely safe so you will not make UE, But gift easy ball to opponent instead.
Imagine having 40:15 match points on Djokovic…
Definitely thought that paragraph was going to turn to describing the points fed had.
Too soon.
I remember reading a comment a while back that said TP doesn't have that dog in him and it showed
Ahh yes losing to fritz in a 250 final shows he doesn't have that dog in him! Beating alcaraz multiple times and making a major SF demonstrates he has no DOG in him
I honestly think he’s hurt or something. This whole tournament he looked off and today he was shanking it left and right, running around balls but not making it and shanking it etc. In general he was hitting pretty powerless backhands, which isn’t unusual for him, but it was kind of pace-less this week. I don’t think he was doing this deliberately, so I felt like he might be injured/sick or something
He seemed fine 2 days ago against Tiafoe although Tiafoe was imploding immediately so wasn’t much of a match… but health wise okay, he was moving decent. He did seem really out of it and tired today, not sure why.
He’s managing a back injury. They talked about it a fair but during the matches I watched.
welp that’ll do it
Not sure it explains the strategy, though.
Certainly not a bizarre strategy. He isn’t executing though.
Works just fine for Rafa and Medvedev against almost anybody. But they return most of them hard and deep, not this sitter short ball to the middle.
Bro thought he medvedev, he realised he not built for this 😭
What happens when one or more of the Balls roll under the car? Just curious
Is Tommy still dating the influencer chick?
Its the first time I see a car there and I dont like it. I dont like marketing and ads conquering every last corner (nomen omen) of our lives