On Wednesday, Rafael Nadal will face No. 9 seed Roger Federer in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open. It will be their 36th meeting, the second of 2017 – just six weeks after their five-set battle in the Australian Open final.
Match time: Not before 5 PM local time / 8 PM EDT – New York, Montreal / midnight GMT – United Kingdom / Thursday 1 AM CET – Spain, France, Germany, Italy / Thursday 11 AM AEDT – Melbourne. To convert to your local time, use this website.
Rafa on Federer:
He has the talent to do very difficult things that look easy. He’s able to take the ball very early. Serve and first shot, he creates a lot of winners with that, the two first shots.
Rafa leads the overall head to head 23-12.
Federer has never defeated Rafa in three straight meetings. He won their last two meetings in 2015 Swiss Indoors and 2017 Australian Open finals.
Here are all the matches they have played against each other:
GOOD LUCK & VAMOS RAFA!
Source: ATP World Tour
Poor poor novak. Nick got him twice in 2 weeks.
Nick is just about to send Novak packing!
Oh I’m getting nervous for rafa’s match. I think Roger thinks he’s invincible cos he won in austrailia. I hope rafa shows him who is boss!
Vamossssssss Rafa this is your time to win .you are playing .xoxo🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
Indeed. Good point our Maria
I don’t know , one tantrum and one broken racket and they call Kyrgios immature. Who’s the adult now?
Oh and novak just smashed his racket when he lost the set and got a warning. Yes that will put him in a worse mood as he’s seething. Nick has been pretty restrained and well behaved – so far
Ye ha way to go Nick
Oh CRIKEY Susie don’t do that he really not worth it (haha) , but yes that’s what I was referring to , he needs to get himself a new coach quick so they can tell him how cringy it looks, I actually feel embarrassed for him. Novak keep the shots coming ,but Nick’s Australian you know and just like a boomerang those balls are just gonna keep coming back
And does heart shapes with his hands pulling it into his chest. Yuk yukky
You mean when he holds his arms out and bows and blows kisses to each side of the stadium – which makes me want to end it all. So artificial and trying too hard. Yuk is right.
Hi Susie , anyone who knocks Novak off his pedestal is in my good books ( for now anyway). I don’t think I can put up with Novak’s end of match ritual when he wins , I think he thinks he a king thanking his loyal subjects YUK. Not an ideal situation Nick going through but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it ..
Hi Maria. Hee hee – me too but only cos he’s playing novak! Mind you I don’t know why as I don’t really want nick playing rafa at the rate he’s serving. But we can’t have it all our way I suppose.
Good luck and vamos Rafa!
Come on Nicky boy , I’m slowly starting to warm to you.
I’m so nervous nowadays when Rafa plays – more so than ever. Very often can’t even watch! I also hope he has been ‘boosted’ mentally. His coaches still need to work on his self confidence and a positive mindset.
I hope and pray that he wins!!!!!
VAMOS!!!!!!
There won’t be a empty seat in the house tonight for the Rafa/Roger match as the commentator’s just said that John Lloyd couldn’t even get a couple of tickets for his billionaire friend at any price.
Cmon Nick – goodness I never ever thought I would be saying that. But it serves a purpose today I suppose.
Vy I agree with you entirely and I noticed too that rafa was very subdued in his congrats for Roger after the ao final. I’ve also noticed that when rafa has beaten Roger in finals past, he can’t really celebrate as he feels bad for Roger who sometimes cries. It kinda overshadowed rafa’s successes. But I still can’t call this match today but I yearn for a rafa win, I really do!
Nicely said Lorna