So, I'm on the couch with the Rogers Cup on the tele and Garcia's Heart in hand (novel by Liam Durcan, who's an acquaintance of mine now living Montreal) for the commercials. Guillermo Canas is playing Paul-Henri Mathieu, and Canas - seeded 17th while Mathieu is unseeded - is doing well.
Canas looks strong. He gets up a break in the first set and wins it. Then he breaks Mathieu in game one of set two, and then does so again in game three. It's 4-0 in the second and looks like it'll be a short night.
And then Mathieu holds serve. And then he breaks Canas. Holds serve again, and breaks again. All of a sudden it's 4-4, and game on - as the Brits would say.
Back and forth they go for a couple more games until Canas is serving to stay in the set at 5-6. Mathieu breaks Canas's serve for the third time that game to win the set: 7-5 - a set he had no business winning, and forces a tie-breaking third set.
It only gets weirder from there. The wheels fall off completely for Canas, as Mathieu continues to roll, who wins set three 6-0 to take the match. Mathieu won 13 of the last 14 games! It was an unbelieveable come back. The kind that would be unbelieveable in a movie.
And this is what makes sport so compelling.
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