"He played very well, he's very powerful, has a great a service, a great forehand and backhand, " he conceded.
The 38-year-old Bhupathi from India in particular exhibited a beautiful array of forehand and backhand winners to trouble his opponents and he can count himself unlucky not to have grabbed the first set.
Nadal had two chances of his own in game eight but Murray seemed to relish the pressure, playing a magnificent forehand and a vicious sliced backhand to get out of trouble.
Nadal looks slimmer than before, and his powerful forehand appeared to be recovering faster than his serve and backhand.
After dominating the first set, two stunning winners - a backhand down the line and crosscourt forehand winner - saw the two-time semi-finalist, whose only Grand Slam title came at the 2005 US Open, break to love to seal it and she opened the second with a confident hold.
She has a great slice from the backhand side and great spin from the forehand.
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But Falla shone on tennis's biggest stage, mixing slice with power off the backhand and hitting a string of crunching forehand winners.
That one point never arrived as Nadal played his most brilliant tennis of the evening: forehand winner, service winner, backhand winner, ace and a strong serve to finish off the game.
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So instead of going to his backhand, Nielsen kept the puck on his forehand side and flicked a soft wrist shot toward the net.
Ferrer brings up deuce number EIGHT with a stunning forehand and it's a second break point when Rafa puts a defensive backhand long and wide.
But Jankovic had just too much power as a huge cross-court backhand set up a fourth chance, and an equally heavy forehand winner put the former world number one into a seemingly decisive 5-3 lead.
It's a rivalry defined by strength (Nadal's left-handed forehand) versus relative weakness (Federer's one-handed backhand), and Federer knows there's little point in hanging back and rallying with Nadal for hours.
In the end, it was Davydenko who brought the world number three back into the match with a poor game at 4-4, making a backhand error before going for too much on a cross-court forehand and dragging it into the tramlines on break point.
Nadal misjudges a low forehand at the net to make it 30-30 and Murray then races in to thread a backhand winner up the line for 30-40 and break point .
At the moment, the racket's technology can identify the type of shot a player hits (forehand, backhand, serve), the kind of spin a player imparts on the ball and the power of a swing.
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