GAME, SET AND MATCH
Nadal 7-6 4-6 4-6 6-2 4-6 Rosol
Lid on, and we could be about to see the biggest upset at Wimbledon since Peter Doohan beat defending champion Boris Becker in 1987. Strap yourselves in, here we go... ACE! FOREHAND WINNER, ROSOL! ACE! THREE MATCH-POINTS! ACE!
The big question is, how much did Nadal lose that match and how much did Rosol win it? Bit of both, probably, but more of the latter. Rafa got his head ripped off. Next up for our man Rosol is 27th seed Phiipp Kohlshreiber - the start of big things or a flash in the pan?
It was a freak performance. It's amazing we don't know more about Rosol. It's not as if Nadal lost the match. Rosol came out and hit winner after winner. I think he hit 20 aces.
Rosol hit every shot as hard as he could. He was hitting the ball very flat, so it was moving fast across the court, but the margin for error is small. But he didn't make any errors.
"How typical of Nadal. At one of his lowest moments, he is still signing autographs. It's a mark of the gentleman he is and the sportsman he is. But he wasn't good enough on the day. And for Lukas Rosol to be ranked 100 in the world is a joke."
Tremendous to see Rafa scribbling a few autographs before exiting Centre Court, the mark of the man. "It was my best match ever," says Lukas Rosol, which is rather like Bruce Forsyth saying he's done rather well ending up with a former Miss World.
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