Indian Wells 2010 Thursday Nadal Highlights

[Jaishankar100]

Berdych's shots hardly affect Nadal......

[skykun875]

What a pity Berdych, although he plays well, he never win a final game over nadal or federer.

[BrotherTree1]

from this match here, this is why nadal will win wimbledon 2010 over fellow finalist berdych on sunday.

[BuddyAcesRussia]

lol they dont like each other i think

[tannoy123]

Man, Nadal's game is ugly. Good job it is effective! ;)

[BrotherTree1]

@tannoy123 kinda rash comment to put forth regarding rafas game. it looks fine to me.

[funfor1life]

Well done! What a shame for the unexpected loss against Ljubicic but anyways we can feel he's slowly getting back to the top! Great thing for tennis(even, and maybe more for a Roger fan like me!)

[AbdiU]

Looks like nadal is back at his best and its sad to see him loose in the semi final i really tought he would defend his title but i think he could bounce back and he really must do that because he must defend so many titles on the european clay counrt season if he does he might even win Roland Garros cant wait for that

[terminator8338]

Ahh how did you lose to ljubicic?!

[BrotherTree1]

@terminator8338 i kno wtf? thats what i was thinking too.

[SoulisAll]

vamos rafa!!!

[Xiscanadal]

OMG he's so HOT!

[waelcito]

amazing !!

welcome back rafa ..

[marijeslg]

Venga Rafa, sigue asi y te llevarás este torneo y otros. Es un gustazo verte jugar asi.

[marijeslg]

Bien Rafa!!, hiciste un gran partido, jugando con mucha confianza y agresivo. Mereció la pena levantarme a las 3:30 h. de la madrugada. VAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOS RAFA!!!

[gmccauley08]

some of the shots from nadal, playing with such confidence now!! :D

[wulfuchiha]

he's movement is also less labored now. not saying he hasn't always been fast but its smoother now and he's ending points a lot quicker with a hybrid flat spin forehand lol. Its good to see. Its great to see him back. It'll be nice to have another rog v rafa match. I'd like to see this improved rafa against the uber confident fed. It'll be nice.

[wulfuchiha]

Die hard nadal fans might take this as the ultimate insult and I would like to apologize before hand... so I apologize... Ok now that THAT is outta the way, I noticed from watching this match -and this is the first match of nadal's that I have watched since the aussie that his game while still retaining the same grit and intensity it has always had, seems to have a federer type of finesse and quality to it now. 0:26 volley was amazing and a nadal of a year ago would probably not have made that.

[shirgen6]

Federer-like? Having finesse, and being able to volley amazingly isn't unique to Federer's style of game. He's always been able to volley amazingly - watch the highlights for the Rafa-Roger AO final 09. But you're entitled to an opinion, just as I am.

[wulfuchiha]

@shirgen6 You are right. Finesse and

breathtaking stab volleys are not

unique to Federer. Just the same that

sky slams and booming serves are not

unique to Sampras. Even the unique

whipping motion of Nadal's forehand is not

so unique to him. But these are the guys

that made all of the above mentioned

plays famous.

[wulfuchiha]

@shirgen6 Who would have thought Finesse versus power would win 16 GS. Federer raised the bar and like it or not any beauty point will almost always be associated with him just like sky slams are associated with Sampras. But that's besides the point. What i'm saying is Nadal's all court game seems more mature and confident now than before when he'd rather have stuck to his baseline bullying tactics. Oh and finally yeah he's always been a good volleyer but he's great at it now.

[shelleyslater]

I haven't seen Rafa move this well since IW last year...........here's to a belatedly brilliant 2010!!

[YoSoyZuri]

All my respect to Thomas Berdych who was amassing against Rafa. It was such a high quality match (and Berdych was part of it)!

[YoSoyZuri]

In deed "chock off stuff" from Nadal!! That was a very good term the commentator used (2:13)!! :D Because it certainly was ... and there was so much of it from Rafael on this tournament!

[jamesbeareater96]

go to my channel for the highlights of tomas berdych and nadal match

[dkrakovski]

I like how they play "Where the Streets Have no Name" before most matches

[tennis1412]

i think nadal needs to calm down a bit lol hes like jumping of exitement after each point and then even after the match lol

[Temoorcoresystem]

he is back, to take the throne,

[Lilrocker5150]

i think its safe to say...RAFA IS BACK!!!!!!

[salemyou]

finally ... he's back ..

[alelazarogarcia]

este tio es tremendo, aun las declaraciones de algunos medicos cuando tuvo la lesion asegurando que tendría que retirarse del tenis profesional......ya ves

[DiscourseDumpling]

Bravo Rafa, you're playing amazingly!

[ruaridh2k7]

2:28 I love that move!:D

Rafa is the man and he totally deserves this title. He hasn't had one since last May.

Vamos Rafa!!!

[XxEDGExXRulezXx]

Vamoss Rafaaa :(

[amazinglyace]

It's so fantastic to see Rafa playing like this again.  :) Ecstatic.

[MIRMOOT]

wow ive never seen him that happy winning a qf!! im so happy for him! the real n1

[MissSLYTV]

@MIRMOOT Absoluetly true!! He worked so hard to be back on top, and that's just the beginning, VAMOS RAFA!!!

[cbtweety77]

thanks for the highlights. is it just me or was the umpire happy as well that Nadal won? :))

[SoulisAll]

thank you so much for this highlights!

[RafaeINadal]

Tomas who?....shhhhhh!

[HellRaiser51]

Yes, you inilialated Tomas (i forgot his last name) VAMOS NADAL

[elaine1116]

rafa is back!!!!

[quest8899]

nice highlights, picture quality isnt very good though