It was a shame to see Nadal pull out of his match with Federer due to that knee injury which continues to give him issues. I think it was the right decision as he would want to be fit and ready for the French Open so I can understand why he pulled out of his match against Federer. Lets just hope that he is right for the French Open as it wouldn't be the same if Nadal wasn't playing. So it will be Federer and Thiem in the final which should be a good match to watch as its veteran V young talent.
Yeah, we didn't see a great match for those two legendary players. So as we have suspected, his knees are not fully heal or maybe it just recurred, we don't know. But the point is that he really needs to really rest that knees otherwise if will just give him problems that might causes him to retire because of it.
Thiem defeated Federer, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. Federer won the first set and I thought he will be going for his record 6th title. But Dominic came back, its a good win for this young guys. Federer fought hard but we can't deny that Thiem is really on the zone in this tournament. I think he just dropped 2 sets maybe one to Raonic and then to Federer, so mentally Thiem is very strong as well. Looks like we are also going to see lots of upsets, I reckon.
The Indian Wells Masters final for the Women's is live right now and we could be seeing an upset on the cards here with the young Bianca Andreescu winning the first set 4-6 and is fighting it out in the second set however Kerber is currently winning 4 games to 2 and looks like she could take out the second set. I'm waiting for the Federer/Thiem match which will be starting in around an hour from now.
And we have witnessed the final upset in the women's side as Bianca Andreescu winning 6-4 3-6 6-4 over Kerber. Remember I commented earlier wherein Serena at 17 years of age, 20 years ago defeated Graf in the finals. So it's like history repeating itself, is Andreescu the new face on womens side? Let's see if he can follow up with this win.
I agree my friend, Nadal now needs to rest and be ready for the French Open.
It was great to see Thiem win his first ever Masters title, I also thought that once Federer won the first set that he would go onto winning his 6th title but Thiem was able to fight back and win. Like I said in a previous post, he is coming into form at around the same time he did last year just before the French Open. So can he go one better this year and win the French Open? I think he has a big chance if Nadal isn't 100% fit and a lot depends on Djokovic as well if he is in good form as it seems it has dropped off a little since the AO win.
Bianca Andreescu played a great match and deserved the win, it looks like we have a couple of great Women's players in the making with Andreescu and Osaka on the Women's side. Now like you said can Andreescu go on with this win and challenge for Grand Slam titles, she looks the goods to do so.
