Thursday, June 28, 2012

THE NIGHT OF UNDERDOGS...NADAL & ROSOL, ITALY & GERMANY

World Number two Rafael Nadal breaks down to 100th ranked Lukas Rosol...  a night of the under dogs...Italy via Balotelli sweeps Germany off thier feet and now Nadal looses to Rosol!






Rafael Nadal crashed to his worst Grand Slam tennis defeat in seven years on Thursday night when Czech journeyman Lukas Rosol, the world No.100, pulled off one of the greatest upsets in Wimbledon history.
Rosol, whose previous visits to Wimbledon had ended in five successive first-round losses in qualifying, stunned the 2008 and 2010 champion, and 11-time Grand Slam title winner Nadal, 6-7 (9-11) 6-4 6-4 2-6 6-4.
He will face German 27th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber for a place in the last 16.
  • Rosol has a break in the fifth
  • Nadal wins fourth set 6-2 in 32 mins
  • Rosol wins third set 6-4 in 34 mins
  • Rosol wins second set 6-4 in 37 mins
  • Nadal wins first set 11-9 in tie-break
  • First meeting between Nadal and Rosol 

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