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In studio, seven minutes after this match has finished.

And kind of like our post-Rolongeros breakdown, it's just me kind of going through my running stream of thought that I have written down on my notes that I was taking during the match.

I said yesterday on our preview show, two things that I got right was that if Carlos served somewhere around 60% first serves,

that I liked his chances in this match, almost on the button, serve 59%.

The bigger stat, first serve points won against someone who is probably the best returner ever.

When you win 84% of those, you're going to do yourselves a lot of favors

and anything over 50% defending a second serve against Novak, who is the master at putting a second

serve on your shoe tops. Carlos was above 50% there as well. I mentioned yesterday and I think J.W. was a little

bit surprised by it. I said I think Novak is going to serve in volley a little bit more often.

So I wasn't surprised by that. I actually liked the tactic. Carlos was just on first serve

returns from the first game picked off a couple

clean winners. What I was a little bit surprised about with Novak and you don't know if he just,

listen, he's smarter than I will ever be in this game. So you're not questioning it. You're just

wondering what the factors are with the decision to play a certain way.

Novak for his entire career has been the master of kind of extending points, playing within himself, forcing you to attack from tough positions.

And today I felt like whether it was the Serboli, whether it was going line

very early in these rallies, not sticking Carlos in that back-into-back-end rally, it seemed like

Novak was in a hurry to get out of that. I don't fully understand that maybe his read on the first

couple of points, getting bullied. You know, obviously the knee issue uh you know the he's not it's is he must

know something that we we we don't um if he kind of went to that early i was surprised how quickly

he went to kind of that all out aggressive uh play uh you know i didn't mind the coming in i didn't

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