All the latest from the final at Roland Garros from 2pm BSTNadal to turn French Open up to 11 despite Thiem’s threatEmail Jacob | or tweet @Jacob Steinberg 2.53pm BST First set: Nadal 3-3 Thiem* (*denotes server): Thiem’s spanking the ball hard but the accuracy isn’t always there. This game goes to 30-all. But Thiem is brave enough to keep going for it with his forehand and he eventually makes space for a missile down the line. That one’s not coming back. 40-30. Then comes a moment of controversy, though. Thiem sees a Nadal shot drop wide and leaves it. Yet the umpire runs down to check the mark, decides that it was in and awards the point to Nadal because Thiem left it. Hawkeye suggests the umpire’s wrong. Thiem gets on with it. What else can he do? The problem, though, is that Nadal’s not going to let him off easily and he has a break point when Thiem overcooks a forehand. These are nervy times for Thiem but he stays cool, duking it out with Nadal from the baseline and drawing the error from the Spaniard by moving him around a bit. Yet his second serve’s under pressure and Thiem gifts Nadal a second break point when he sends a backhand long. This game is taking for ever. Nadal prolongs it when he misses a forehand down the line. Deuce again. Thiem’s going to have to be magnificent. He chops a drop shot over the net and clenches his fist after outwitting Nadal at the net. Nadal misses a backhand return and, after an eternity, Thiem holds. 2.38pm BST First set: Nadal* 3-2 Thiem (*denotes server): At 15-all, Nadal produces a gorgeous lob to leave Thiem stranded. Soon it’s 40-15. The game’s got away from Thiem pretty quickly. Nadal holds to 30 when Thiem nets a forehand return. “Come on!” Nadal cries, geeing himself up. Continue reading…
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