Having already reinforced his dismantling process of Nadal - on clay - @ Monte Carlo - in straight sets, Djokovic HAS to be past the 'winning' jitters. What he may be looking forward to could be whether he can sustain the 'statement' with even greater authority to COMPLETELY snuff out the candle - once and for all. Breadsticks and bagels can get him there (He was up 5-0 and advantage on Nadal's serve before Nadal escaped total embarrassment).
If Djokovic is able to sustain his run, Nadal WILL consider himself lucky to have escaped the demolition last season. Why? Because if Djokovic succeeds, his grandfather's death and the embarrassing mishandling of it, would rise high enough to FULLY explain Djokovic's inability to squish Nadal and win Roland Garros and everything else - on clay - last year. For rock people, Djokovic lost to Nadal @ Monte Carlo, Rome and Roland Garros - first two in straight sets - after overpowering Nadal @ the AO in five sets. Most considered the AO result as the tipping point with an irrevocable valve.
Granted Nadal is coming off the 7-month break but when you are starting with being dominated in the first place, you lose entitlement to that crutch. However, it does offer a bigger bang if you can NOW reverse the slide - with Monte Carlo as an added impetus-providing trigger.
But it's hard to imagine that Nadal can reverse ANYTHING as he is EXACTLY where he had (has) Federer. Nadal has nothing MORE to offer and without that one-shot advantage he enjoyed over Federer, he is TOTALLY at the mercy of Djokovic - with the last barely floating straw of endurance robbed at last year's AO final. Djokovic now has to deflate like he did after his grandfather's death to allow Nadal ANY opening. Without that, there's NOTHING changing. So why should the scoreline?
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