Monaco or Nalbandian

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The Argentina's Davis Cup coach doesn't have an easy task on his hand, having to choose between Monaco and Nalbandian: one being the in-form player right now, the other a lot classier, but certainly past his peak.

Looks like Agentinians' hopes are all in the hands of Juan Martin Del Potro , who ,for tomorrow, may have what it takes to win his match against Ferrer, keeping this final alive.

Difficult instead to see Monaco succeed against Nadal, on the Spanish soil; for this kind of miracle matches, maybe, Nalby was the more appropriate man to pick.

Verdasco-Lopez have played doubles pretty regularly. They played and won against BEL (Darcis/Rochus) but lost to FRA (Llodra/Tsonga).

Nalby/Schwank are not as good a Tsonga/Llodra, but they might put up a stiff fight because it is ARG's only chance.

laverfan wrote:

invisiblecoolers wrote:Del Boy rules, yea its shame he lost, but Ferrer is on skyhigh form and on clay he is even more solid, Its difficult for Argentina to win DC with just one player.

... as is the case with Federer.

As is not the case with Djokovic

noleisthebest wrote:

laverfan wrote:

invisiblecoolers wrote:Del Boy rules, yea its shame he lost, but Ferrer is on skyhigh form and on clay he is even more solid, Its difficult for Argentina to win DC with just one player.

... as is the case with Federer.

As is not the case with Djokovic

Well said, NItB. (Tipsy, Troicki, Zimonjic) support Djokovic very well.

monaco leads the head to head with ferrer 4-3 and 3-2 on clay whereas ferrer holds a 7-5 head to head and a 4-0 on clay so if miraculously it does come down to the final rubber monaco may be the best bet even though i would still go for nalbo as he has that wow factor monaco lacks
c'mon del potro!

Lets leave it for Del Boy to produce the miracle we expect of him.

Nadal at home, on his favourite surface, with the chance to bring home the deciding point, against a Del Potro who must be tired after his match against Ferrer. Can't see Nadal missing out on his chance here...

DelPo 4-1 up in first set.

Coooooooooooooooooooooome oooooooooooon Delpo

You can beat The Nadull and save tennis

OMG DelPo just hitting winners for fun

Delpo going all out "flat" and its working...!

Wow atm, this is like attack versus defence. Nadal being bullied.

Just wnder how long he can keep it up.

wow, wow, wow. Come on Delpo you own the moon.....er.
Nadal hasnt held single serve !1

Yes.

I'd be surprised if Delpo doesn't gas. That set took over an hour

emancipator wrote:DelPo 4-1 up in first set.

Coooooooooooooooooooooome oooooooooooon Delpo

You can beat The Nadull and save tennis

My sentiments as well. I just hope that Delpo wins this and Argentina pulls it off. That will be really great for tennis.

Moar of the same plz Delponzy

Great play from Delpo but will the real Nadal stand up...

If only Delpo could find some first serves. Delpo breaks to love in 1st game of second set.

Is this for real? Rafa's beloved clay is deserting him. Not a single hold

What the ... that love game took six minutes.

THumping of the Mike Tyson kind ..

Delpo toying with The Nadull. Even a drop shot winner.

This crowd makes it look like the match is an Tandil and not in Seville on Nadal's patch.

C'mon Del Potro.

That first set was ridiculous from Delpo. He was hitting winners like he was playing on a fast indoor HC

Uh oh, Delpo getting a bit wild.

Only way the powerless Manacorian wins this is through Delpo being tired..

The Nadull is waking up

An ace from Nadal - undetected since 2010 USO.

Delpo needs to win this in 3, he'll be cooked if it goes beyond that.

27 minutes for four games! These guys are taking the ***s, the rallies aren't even long.

Huge hold there from Delpo from 30-40. 4-4

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It's all oveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

The end is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

crowd turning out to be a big factor here.

If only every court played like this one...

break_in_the_fifth wrote:If only every court played like this one...

Rather monotonous it would be.

Del Potro is cooked, that's how hard it is to play Rafa on clay.

Cooooooooome oooooooooooooon Delpo.

By the poweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer of the Toweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

of Tandil.

You have the poweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Man that FH is scary when he lines it up.

wow, three breaks in a row for Delpo

He'll be serving for the 4rth set.

C'mon Del Potro.

and The Nadull breaks back

20 breaks of serve so far

5-0 tiebreak :/

Congrats Spain.

DC champs 2011.

Great effort from Rafa to turn it around.



emancipator

it runied my weekend, disaster for tennis.

whatever you think about nadal you cannot deny his fantastic never say die attitude. So sorry for Delpo fantastic effort great match and wow how is this a disaster for tennis

Nadal is just too good on clay.

Congrats Spain. Nadal.

Del Potro and Nalbandian. :console: