Rafa came through against Marcel Granollers today, but it wasn't any pushover. Marcel hung with Rafa throughout the whole match, and wobbled at the point when the lesser players mostly do, the business end of the set, when he was serving to get 6 games under his belt first. That of course invited Rafa to break him on both occasions where he then came through serving for the first set and then the match.
Rafa was still a little match rusty today, I thought. His serving stats were OK, but he converted less than 50% of his break points and was pretty high with his unforced errors. That will need some improvement, but then it's not as if he won't know it.
Still ... it's ker-ching with points in the bag, so that's good.
He's facing Jerzy Janowicz tomorrow, who was one of the break-through players at this tournament last year - and a potential banana skin. *giggles* So yes, he will have to improve. The thing is, should he get past this match then his draw has opened up a little bit ... so fingers crossed. *unjinx*
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