Nice to have the write-up before the match as a change of pace. I too noticed Nadal's high second serve speed (and for him high first too) and he even mentioned it in his post-game interview that he went aggressive on second serve in 5th set due to his fatigue/illness. I suspect this was a strategy going into the tournament due to his uncertainty about playing long points with the foot injury still not fully healed.
You have a typo in thrid to last last sentence:
Small sample sizes and matchup differences can skew this numbers a bit, and Medvedev has inarguably played bigger servers to get to this stage than Medvedev.
I assume you meant Nadal as playing the lesser servers.
Very rushed writing today so excuse multiple typos and a mistake with the first GIF (it was 198mb's so will not load). Fixed now, so you can tap the title to load the updated web version or tap here: https://theracquet.substack.com/p/semi-finals
Nice to have the write-up before the match as a change of pace. I too noticed Nadal's high second serve speed (and for him high first too) and he even mentioned it in his post-game interview that he went aggressive on second serve in 5th set due to his fatigue/illness. I suspect this was a strategy going into the tournament due to his uncertainty about playing long points with the foot injury still not fully healed.
You have a typo in thrid to last last sentence:
Small sample sizes and matchup differences can skew this numbers a bit, and Medvedev has inarguably played bigger servers to get to this stage than Medvedev.
I assume you meant Nadal as playing the lesser servers.
Very rushed writing today so excuse multiple typos and a mistake with the first GIF (it was 198mb's so will not load). Fixed now, so you can tap the title to load the updated web version or tap here: https://theracquet.substack.com/p/semi-finals