Howdy folks! I'm late on parade in posting my thoughts on Rafa's quarter-final, but its just that I decided to join the 21st Century and took delivery of a brand new i-Phone yesterday. I've therefore spent the past 24 hours trying to get to grips with it and not indulging in the overwhelming temptation to chuck it right out of the window!!
I mean ... there's the phone, there's the SIM card ... ummmm ... how do you get it in there??? So I asked the question of Google and then watched something on You-Tube, and it showed you how to open the little casing ... with a paper clip!! I mean, a paper clip!! You spend hundreds of pounds on the latest technology and yet have to use a paper clip to get the SIM into it??!!?? So after 45 minutes of trying to search the house for a paper clip (and not finding one), then trying a needle (*roll* gave that up as a bad job in case I broke the end of it in there), then I tried the end of a panel pin, then I thought I'd pack the whole thing in when I tried another You-Tube lesson which showed someone opening all the packaging and then taking out a white envelope which contained a little tool that you shove into the tiniest hole on the side of the phone and Eureka!! the SIM card thingy comes out. So I hastily went looking for it amongst the cast aside packaging and *yahoo* there was the envelope and there was the tool! Doh! I was recounting this story to my work colleague Mandy today ... she used a paper clip. ;/
But I digress. Rafa. And his quarter-final against Nico Almagro. Well, the tale of his matches with Nico are usually ones of fairly tight affairs as whilst they are not going to win any prizes in the hugely entertaining category, Rafa has to be on full concentrate as Nico's big serving and heavy, flat hitting are always a challenge.
And so it proved in the first set, which was decided by a tie-breaker. Rafa went on to win it by 7-4, and the next couple of sets had a more routine air about them as Rafa took them, 6-2, 6-3, but they were still especially hard fought.
So ... he's through to the semi's for seventh time in his French Open career, with that win being his 50th victory there, and he's still yet to drop a set. Rafa's opponent will be the hard working and much deserving, David Ferrer. David has played a fantastic tournament himself thus far, and deposited of the 4th seed, Andy Murray, yesterday in 4 sets.
The boys are up first tomorrow on Philippe Chatrier at 1pm local time (12 pm in the UK ... and sorry, but I'm only capable of taking 1 hour off to work out GMT so I've no chance of advising you lot who live elsewhere. ;) ). No doubt this will be another hard fought affair, as David took Rafa all the way in the Barcelona final. But keep doing what you're doing, Rafa ... nice and gently does it. Vamos!!
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