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Moya Masters Fish
For once the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas failed to throw up a surprise as
Carlos Moya gave Spain a 1-0 lead in the Final, defeating Mardy Fish 64 62 63
in 1 hour 57 minutes
“I'm very happy the way I played, very solid,” said Moya. “I didn't do
anything really spectacular, but I played a solid match. That's what I needed
today to beat him.”
It’s rare that a player who has lost can say that they had fun on court,
but such is the magic of Davis Cup, and of this final in particular in front
of 27,200 fans, that a disappointed Fish could still say afterwards that he
had enjoyed the occasion.
“It was awesome. Everybody, before we went out there, and just now with Andy
[Roddick] too, just said, ‘Have fun.’
“And I tried as well as I could to have fun, and I did.”
It was just the start that Spain had wanted, a win on the board to ease the
pressure on youngster Rafael Nadal, who was to follow on court against
Andy Roddick.
But if the result was what all but the most die-hard American fan had
expected, the first three games were not as Moya underlined his laid-back
character with a sleepy start that saw Fish leap to a 3-0 lead. Moya’s
groundstrokes were simply not finding their mark, and he seemed burdened by
the expectation of the capacity crowd and his status as Spain’s No. 1.
Fish on the other hand was lively from the start, imposing his attacking game
and looking like he believed he could add another victory to his 2-1 head to
head win-loss record against Moya. It was Moya who was looking like the
player who had only played one match on clay all year, and not Fish, as it
really was.
Getting on the scoreboard at 1-3 settled the Spaniard, who from then on
started to play the kind of tennis that was simply too consistent for Fish.
Moya broke back in the sixth game and then again in the ninth game before
serving out the set 64.
The momentum had shifted completely and it was now Fish who was struggling to
find a way to break down the Moya game. The American varied his tactics,
sometimes rushing the net, sometimes trying to outrally his opponent for the
baseline, but ultimately Moya’s clay-court expertise was too much.
Fish was broken in the first game of the second set and never looked like
getting it back, slumping to 62 loss in 34 minutes. The third set was more of
a contest, at least to begin with, but Moya was again in control as soon as
he broke for 3-2.
The final game provided a fitting end to the rubber as Fish began with a
double fault, his sixth of a match in which his first serve percentage was a
lowly 48%. Moya won the point for Spain on his second matchpoint as a
forehand from Fish sailed long.
“I started great. I would have liked to have kept it up, you know, that kind
of play the entire match,” said a philosophical Fish afterwards.
“He started playing better and better as the match progressed.
I tried everything. I tried serving and volleying. You know, I tried coming
in on a lot of balls. I tried to stay back a lot. You know, he had answers.”
Andy Roddick must now try to ensure USA goes into day two level overnight as
he takes on Rafael Nadal, the second youngest man ever to play a singles
rubber in a Davis Cup Final.
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