Rafa, looking like a block of Coconut Ice - tasty, and very very sweet - barely turned up at the start of his quarter final match against Philip Kohlschreiber yesterday. Koli broke early and raced into a 3-0 lead. Rafa was woeful, and all over the place, and its not like Koli is the sort of player that hasn't taken a set of him before, which did in the first, 6-3.
But the second set pattern repeated as in the first - except this time it was Rafa who finally started to race ahead with it. It was much, much better in the second and he prevailed 6-3. Rafa was knocking on the door in the third and then finally broke to take out the match 6-4.
No way is Rafa at the top of is game, yet there was an air of inevitabiity about yesterday's match. Not quite so with today's ... Andy Murray. He is trumpeted as this great hard court player yet has failed to set the world on fire at all this season. Rafa can beat this version of Murray, so come on our little Coconut ... DO it!!
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