I also had money on Rafa today given their cumulative court time and his motivation to tailor a game plan to stop the streak. but Rafa's forehand was just DOA today for no particular reason, other than he's just lost 13 years worth of built up confidence after the Aussie final.
Fed has 1260 points to defend for the remainder of the year, only 270 of which is on clay so that could be more than made up with a QF appearance in Paris. he will still probably need a fairly busy summer/fall hard court schedule to rack up enough for the year end #1, unless he captures another slam.
the biggest question mark is when/if the other half of the Big 4 will resurface. someone needs to print up some missing/lost posters for those guys because there's just been no news lately.
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