Winston-Salem 250

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Did not see the match, but by looking at the stats, it seems that Rosol stole it. In almost every stat Jerzy had the better numbers (total points won, conversion on his service game and on ROS), each had 2 BP conversion. Lukas had 2 more aces and he defended better when he faced BP.
This came down to that TB actually in the second set, who was focused better won it.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/Scores/Scores-and-Stats.aspx?completed=1&from=topnav

 

[herios]

His form wasn't all that good. He had a lot of help from Querrey. Sam served for the match in the 2nd set at 5-4 and didn't win another game that set. He goes up a break again in the 3rd, had 40-0 to go up 5-3 and dumps serve. Sam is a mental midget. JJ just hung around. There's still a lot of inconsistency in his game and far too many dropshot attempts. If Querrey can anticipate the dropper and run it down, how much more ineffective a tactic that will be against a top player.

That was basically his story. When he first broke into the circuit, people did not know
that he hits a drop shot on every other attempt and so folks were fooled. He rose in
rankings and had good result.

After that, it became known to everybody that he can hit a drop shot from anywhere
in the court and actually does so on every other stroke. So, the novelty wore off and
he went down hill.

However, I must admit that apart from dropshot (which he is overusing and
thsu reducing its effectiveness), he has a good serve too.

Nobody makes a SF at Wimbledon, based on the drop shot alone.