Well I actually watched Rafa's match tonight as I'd recorded it ... well, sort of, inbetween making dinner and faffing about. Cos to be honest, faffing about was a tad more interesting.
It wasn't the greatest match you'll ever see, but then Shanghai is such a dreadful tournament for player support because there's hardly anyone there in the crowd - even for Rafa - and when there's no atmosphere and the match is a bit flat anyway. Well sorry, but I found it hard work.
Rafa wasn't anything spectacular by a long shot, but Garcia-Lopez just couldn't make any inroads into his serve. Coupled with that in that he was serving loads of double faults himself and yet Rafa still couldn't break him! Eventually though, with poor serving and a load of unforced errors, Rafa made the breakthrough and won the first set 6-3.
In the second set, Garcia-Lopez finally managed a break and led 2-1, but then Rafa broke back to level it off. It got a little tight at this point but the awful service games and errors continued from his opponent and Rafa got a double break and took the match.
Not one for the memory bank though.
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