Monday, July 07, 2008

A fine line

The most astonishing bit of the story about the Federer/Nadal match comes in the statistics

Total points won: Federer 204, Nadal 209

Barely 2% of all the points played made all that difference

The clue lies in the more impressive sounding 31% to Nadal versus only 8% to Federer. The difference between 4 & 1 out of the 13 break points each had to convert

Federer blinked first

A lot of us wanted him to be Gary Cooper in High Noon

Nadal is just the new Clint Eastwood