Nadal powers his way to Grand Slam double-century
Facundo Bagnis was living the dream. Two games up in the opening set against Rafa Nadal in the nine-time champ’s own kingdom, Philippe-Chatrier Court, and smacking winners for fun, looking like a world-beater and presumably feeling like one.
It was as if Nadal had forgotten to get out of bed. He could have been playing in sky-blue pyjamas, so completely askew was his timing and so many errors of the unforced variety was he handing out like sweeties. And now he was finding himself 30-0 down on serve too.
And then, alas for Bagnis, he woke up from his daydream….and so did Nadal.
The rest was as predictable as it was painful to behold, with Nadal recovering to win that game and then sending the 26-year-old Argentine to the sort of dark place on Chatrier that so any of the Spaniard’s victims must have felt in the past as Bagnis got pummelled 6-3 6-0 6-3 in one hour 44 minutes.
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