Well, it was quite a good match-up - and the sunshine and the crowd and the home-boy youngster doing well - I'm happy to let the Italians have their day
Itd be interesting to look back at all the break points in that match to see what the difference was. Jack lost all 8 bps he created and 3 of the 4 he faced so 11/12 of the bps in the match! You could argue that if hed won even half of those hed have won comfortably! Works out conveniently if his first Madrid masters match is Saturday though - travel today practice tomorrow, play the next day- so you argue its better he lost and that other than playing big poorly this is still an encouraging performance.
I've not looked back and haven't seen a point by point recap. But it does to an extent depend on how these BPs were spread out. Taken to the extreme, if all 8 of Jack's BP opportunities were in one return game then that was the only game in which he had any BP opportunity.
I guess more interesting would be the second set which was the much closer one in games.
I've not looked back and haven't seen a point by point recap. But it does to an extent depend on how these BPs were spread out. Taken to the extreme, if all 8 of Jack's BP opportunities were in one return game then that was the only game in which he had any BP opportunity.
I guess more interesting would be the second set which was the much closer one in games.
He was in a lot of his service games in the first set and could easily have gone 3or 4-0 up. The bps were well spread