Is that premature ejection of the streamer cannons here in Madrid.
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My wife is convinced that her actually watching the tennis is making Carlos lose. 🫣
I reminded her we watched him in Barcelona last week and that didn’t seem to cause a problem. Unsurprisingly, this is going to a decider. Struff played some brave tennis that set. #Tennis #MutuaMadridOpen2023 #VamosCarlos

Struff dropping some bombs to consolidate a break to start the 2nd set. This is not going to be easy for Carlitos.
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Carlos feeling like he needs to go for too much makes three errors, then serves really smart and hits a great lob winner to save the breaks. His kicker especially on the ad side is starting to do some damage - must feel like a security blanket for him on clay. Also using the body serve well to keep Struff off balance on return. That was a tough first set.
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Carlos with a determination to make every return a Forehand, as if to say to Struff “ You think you’ve got a big FH, check this out.” Result = break of serve.
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Struff is really returning Carlos’ serve well. Doesn’t seem to matter which serve he sees, he’s sending it back with heat. I had just looked at their H2H, this should be a really tight match. #Tennis #MutuaMadridOpen2023 #ATP