So.

Who wants to bet that Roger felt sorry for Guille, realised this match doesn't matter, and promptly decided to lose the second set as badly as possible in order to give the crowd a better match? I've never seen Roger play quite so many bad points in a row and yet, somehow, he doesn't seem to be getting annoyed at himself. In fact I caught a little quirk at one point that looked kinda like he was trying not to smile as he looked at his racquet. My commentators agree; they keep repeating the words 'manufactured himself a target', though they're a little dubious about him doing it all on purpose. (I've also never heard them say 'bizarre' as often as they have in the last half an hour.)

For me, Roger winning that one game on his last serve proved it. Commentators just said that he'd never been bagelled and what does he do? Win *one* game. How... convenient. ;)

If he loses, then I might change my mind. If he comes back to miraculously win this at the last possible second?

Well. How... convenient that would be. ;-)

If he is doing this for Guille and to make it a better match, he's even more of a sweetheart than I thought. :)

edit: It's amazing. When he's good, he's very very good. When he's being bad, he's *still* good at it. Even though to me it looked obvious that he was blatently losing on purpose, the commentators are still skating around actually *saying* it. And now he's going to sail through and win and no one will ever sit him down and actually ask flat out "Did you lose that second set on purpose?" Because he managed to make playing badly look natural.

I love this match. ^__^