Nadal Vs Roddick Indian Well, California SF2 -2009

Nadal Vs Roddick 2009-10 SF2 Indian Wells tournament.

Being a nadal fan i wanted to witness nothing but an outright win for Nadal. First set went without any casualty Nadal making most of the early break that he had earned and Roddick not able to break the first seed.

After watching the Murray Vs Fedex matach i was slightly cautious that Roddick might be clawing his way back into the match in the second set, but Nadal broke him to go up 2-1. I was hoping that Nadal would keep this break and go on to win the match but that was not to be. He immediately got broke and the score was levelled once again.

At this point andy was picking his game up and playing superbly. he was really proving that he would keep his serve. But 2 games later Nadal breaks Roddick again to go up 5-4 and this time it was a real see-saw match. Too many dueces, long rally (surprisingly roddick was playing rally well too), and net points.

It was a real classic encounter showing why Nadal is No.1 now. He runs from one end of the court to another without any worries for each point and in every rally. Finally serving for the match Nadal loses the point and scores get levelled again.

Andy displays one of the marvelous serve game he ever produced, even producing his fastest serve of the tournament so far to go up 6-5. Nadal not known for his serve game still keeps his serve with relative ease. He really played a good serve game this time around to ensure the match was going to the tie-breaker.

I was skeptical that Nadal might not win this tie-breaker and the match may go to the third set as Andy has a great serve and Rafa's serve is something that every tennis follower would know. Serving the first point in the tie-breaker Andy keeps it. Nadal wins his first point but loses his next. At this point it really looked that the game might go to third set, but Andy misses his serve next but keeps his other serve. Score now reads 4-3 to Roddick. Nadal keeps his serve and scores read 5-4. Nadal keeps his serve next to win the match with 6-4, 7-6(4).

Nadal really displayed some great serves and nice rallies and made Roddick eat his words who before the begining of the match was confident of owning the No.1 with his serve game.

In the middle of the match there were some moments where Andy looked like he had no answers for the questions asked by Nadal with his play. It was really Nadal all through. To this tremendous, never say die warrior, I bow and wish him good luck against Murray who seems to have a slight edge over him for the finals.