Am I the only one that though Fed had Sunday's match in the bag before they even took the court?
Or is Pete setting up a straw man:
Well, it looks like they didn't name that new stadium in Madrid "The
Magic Box" for nothing. It turns out the first event ever held in the
joint left the capacity crowd, as well as an enormous television
audience, scratching it's collective head and asking, "Hey, how did he do that?"
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Let's cut right to the nitty-gritty and bullet-point the main elements that enabled Federer to post the result that helped restore the sense that we're watching a rivalry rather than a runaway.
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And on Sunday, we once again saw how a high-quality rivalry works: in gloriously unpredictable fashion, leaving you hungry for the next episode.
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Let's cut right to the nitty-gritty and bullet-point the main elements that enabled Federer to post the result that helped restore the sense that we're watching a rivalry rather than a runaway.
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And on Sunday, we once again saw how a high-quality rivalry works: in gloriously unpredictable fashion, leaving you hungry for the next episode.
Granted, I haven't been over to TW in a while but was this result really *that* surprising and unpredictable? And did Fed's win really tilt the balance of their "rivalry" at all? I mean, I think it does some good for his confidence and says something about his form going into RG. But as between those two I don't think a darn thing's changed.
*shrug*
UPDATED: Jesus. This dude makes Pete look like Bertrand Russell. I mean, really? Fed made a baseball analogy because he said he played a "perfect game"? Not "pitched", "played". Ok, dude. Sure.
