No surprise for Rafael Nadal on the clay of Madrid on Thursday. No surprise except that the Spanish nearly does himself an unusual injury as he chases down a rifled forehand from Jarkko Nieminen in their Mutua Madrid Open third round.
Breaking one racquet might be called careless, but to break four... Marcos Baghdatis destroys four racquets en route to a four-set loss to Stanislas Wawrinka.
Nicolas Mahut missed that one. He served right in the head of his partner Pierre-Hugues Herbert during the double final of the Australian Open. All is fixed at the end with a little kiss.