Gulbis VS de Bakker

by **fedfan** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:53

Federer serving less than 50% 1st serves in final set, he has handed plenty of chances to Gulbis to break, and he does so again.

Fed deserves to lose after throwing in a game like that after Gulbis was on the ropes.

by **djarvik** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:55

fedfan wrote:Federer serving less than 50% 1st serves in final set, he has handed plenty of chances to Gulbis to break, and he does so again.

Fed deserves to lose after throwing in a game like that after Gulbis was on the ropes.

A lot of it has to do with Gulbis's retrun of second serve. He does what we call in TS3 double trigger risk :lol:

and makes them with Norberto like consistency. That makes Fed try too much on first serve - and overdo it.

by **Moralspain** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:56

Score?

by **fedfan** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:57

Horrendous finish by the World Number 1.

All credit to Gulbis, a very complete performance, hopefully he can keep this going after nearly blowing it.

The stats were very similar except for Feds 52% first serve percentage against Gulbis with about 70%.

Agreed though it was down to the quality of the Gulbis return.

by **Moralspain** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:59

Honestly i saw a great Gulbis on clay in Barcelona, but i didn´t expect he could do that, congrats. Talented guy

by **fedfan** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:00

Gulbis admitted he was very scared to win and was literally shaking.

He sounds a lot like Marat when he talks.

Fed better hope for some matches in Estoril next week.

by **maximo** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:02

Every time it is more evident that federer only has interest in the GS, is a shame.

by **djarvik** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:04

Someone in this thread mentioned de Bakker being better on Clay. :roll:

I'll say this again, don't know why, but clay works for Gulbis way better then hard. Especially movement. He moves great on Clay.

As I predicted, if Fed will not put lots of first serves in - he is toast.

by **picachu211** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:06

Federer should retire, it's disgusting.

by **djarvik** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:06

maximo wrote:Every time it is more evident that federer only has interest in the GS, is a shame.

Oh please

You want to tell me he traveled to Rome to lose to Gulbis in his first match?

Excuses.

He got outplayed.

He got pressured on his second serves a lot and that made his first serve (over 70% first set) go down. He had to go for a bit more because of the way Gulbis returned.

Can we ever give credit to Feds opponents? :lol:

by **Otlichno** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:08

Gulbis is the male Hantuchova. He chokes, overuses the dropshot and is one of my favourite players. 7 match points for fcks sake!!

by **SlicerITST** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:09

De Bakker has picked up a minor injury in this match. Hence his retirement and poor quality movement in this game.

Well done by Gulbis. Seeing his history he could well eat a double-bagel in the next round though

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by **djarvik** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:10

Let me ask you something: Gulbis is 21 right? ....did Federer never choked at 21?

by **fedfan** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:13

maximo wrote:Every time it is more evident that federer only has interest in the GS, is a shame.

It's not a conscious thing. When he was scambling as though his life depended on it at 5-4 I don't think you could say he wasn't interested.

He couldn't step it up at 5-5 but Gulbis played in sets 2 and 3 and thoroughly deserved it.

by **djarvik** » Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:14

SlicerITST wrote:
Well done by Gulbis. Seeing his history he could well eat a double-bagel in the next round though .

When did he ever got double bageled? ....altho you have a point, a big party for Gulbis tonight will result in lackluster performance....for sure. :lol:

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