[the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, inc.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs john: doesn't look to be moving, at least so far, and i'm shocked, as well as he did against federer, that spring not quite there. that's going to cause major problems for him. if that continues a whole lot longer. conditions are ideal for this match. finally, not a lot of wind. john: don't like that play at all, it's a tentative looking shot. he can be aggressive. he can hit this with authority. mary: look how quickly nadal was responding. john: there's no sun out there. this is a good thing for the players. the cloud cover you hope the rain doesn't come back. mid 70's. dick: so nadal answers djokovic love hold with one of his own. john: that other point bothered him on that return. his head wasn't where it needs to be. he's fighting -- he's finding the quality of nadal's play, which has been good but not incredible for him and he's fighting himself. dick: it's 5-3. john: you should do some of those karnak the magnificent skits. dick: in the fifth set, he grabbed for it again. today on the first point of this match, he came up indicating he's still bothered by that left ankle. john: some of that has to be the wear and tear of what he's had two five-setters, one in the first round. he's obviously take an beating, more so than nadal. right now, he's lost his concentration. what he's giving out is quite negative. dick: he broke back, and then he was broke on the sixth chance by nadal the next game. that's where he stand at 6 -- at 3-5. 5 freshening breeze that would make one a bit nervous at the moment. john: it's cooled you have, you can feel it cooling off. dick: hopefully it's not bringing precipitation with it. mary: supposed to be a sharp, quick thunderstorm. which is always something djokovic would like to see djokovic would like to see right around now. >> out! dick: you can see that large cloud moving in from the west. john: this is frustrating for djokovic because he's actually serving well, really well, but he's lost the serve twice. parts of his game he can bank on normally, the ground game, has let him down. more so than that, his concentration hasn't been what it needs to be if he's going to win this. dick: 5-4, nadal will serve for the set when we come back. instrumental music ] [ instrumental music ] ♪ are you? yeah, in about 15 years. i just want to commend you for sitting in coach. why? well, you're saving, but you still need some financial advice. we need a plan to help protect and grow our money throughout our life. retirement isn't the finish line. where are you going? back to first class, we can afford it now. 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[ male announcer ] a world you can't predict... demands a car you can trust. the e-class. the best or nothing. that is what drives us. dick: welcome back. nadal serving for the first set, 5-4. mary: and it's just starting to rain. john: that ball really skidded off, maybe it was that line. it's going to get slick quick if it's actually raining out there. love to get -- he'd love to get this first set under his belt. djokovic with -- i have to believe would love to get a little break and gather little break and gather himself. dick: since he was broken at 2-1, he's allowed djokovic only one point on his serve. that's interesting, the last 22 years, only twice, two men, lost the first set of the championship final and still won the championship. that's recent history. john: that's why djokovic can hang with nadal on hard court, he can go from what appeared to be a defensive position and put enough on that backhand to go cross court. the lights on now, it's getting dark at 10 after 5:00 eastern time. he's got to do that more often and pull the trigger sooner, not let him get pushed around in long, extended rallies. he's got to deal with this serve that's going to be sliced serve out wide. dick: and two set points for nadal. john: nice little change of pace there, that puts a lot of strain on those ankles, that's for sure. not to mention your mind when you're about to go a set down to nadal. in a best of five set match. >> fault. dick: again, nadal in major events, has lost the match only once in 107 times when he wins the first set. and he has the first set, 6-4. and he has the first set, 6-4. nadal has the lead. since our beginning, we've been there for clients through good times and bad, when our clients' needs changed we changed to meet them. through the years, when some lost their way, we led the way with new ideas for the financial challenges we knew would lie ahead. this rock has never stood still. and there's one thing that will never change. we are, the rock you can rely on. prudential. we are, the rock you can rely on. announcer: this is a baby. a baby generating data in a neo-natal ward. every heart beat, every breath, every anomaly... from over a thousand pieces of unique information per second. helping doctors find new ways to detect life threatening infections up to 24 hours sooner. on a smarter planet... analyze the data and you can predict what will happen faster. so you can do what they're doing in toronto... and build a smarter hospital. let's build a smarter planet. in 2008 i quit venture capital to follow my passion for food. i saw a gap in the market for a fresh culinary brand and launched behindtheburner.com. we create and broadcast content and then distribute it across tv, the web, and via mobile. i even use the web to get paid. with acceptpay from american express open, we now invoice advertisers and receive payments digitally. and i get paid on average three weeks faster. booming is never looking for a check in the mail. because it's already in my email. dick: novak djokovic, just as in the semifinals against federer, he has to rally from a set down. ernie: rain, by the way, has not yet come. it sure feels imminent. dick: djokovic's mother, father, and on the left, his younger brother. dad proudly wearing, again a lucky t-shirt with a likeness of his son. john: he's taken it this far, let's hope he has more than one. >> out. dick: good start for djokovic to open the second set as the we look at the emmy award winning flomotion sponsored by t.d. ameritrade. mary: nadal does this so well, keeping his opponents off the center of the court. there's so much shape to his shots that you've really got to do a lot of work to get behind the ball. he's certainly testing if djokovic is having an ankle problem, it will be tested by this man who plays every single point like that. a couple of years ago, a friend of mine a sports writer, asked jimmy conners what he thought of nadal and he gave him the greatest compliment i've ever heard -- he plays like he's broke. that's conners' kind of a guy. john: cut from the same mold, no doubt about it. i don't think you could make another guy -- maybe michael chang. mary: conners liked him. john: those are guys that try harder than anyone i've ever seen. lleyton hewitt in the early stages of his career. dick: if you wanted to give nadal the ultimate insult, go up and say, i wish you'd try harder. bear down, you could really be something. he gives you all he has in the tank. mary: and he keeps getting better, looking for ways to improve. john: he's three or four inches bigger than those guys, look at bigger than those guys, look at his physique. dick: match statistics, pretty even, aren't they? john: djokovic out served nadal in the sirs set and still lost it 6-4. that has to be depressing. it's the baseline game, he needs to pick up. measure anything else, it's his mental, his intensity and energy out there. dick: the first nadal ace. fresh in djokovic's mind is the fact that he lost the contentious first set to federer, and then 6-1 grabbed the second set a rare 6-1 against federer. back-to-back. john: it's extremely difficult to bounce back from a match like this and -- like that and then perform the same way a guy that wants it even more than you do. it would be highly surprising to see him win two easy sets. what he had going for him against federer, it was clear out there he was moving better, able to push roger around, which is not the case at the moment. obviously, throughout this tounchment, nadal has looked healthier than he's ever been here. dick: who does push nadal around? john: big, big hitters. he could push him around if he amps it up energy wise and starts to, you know, dig in find some more will here. dick: juan martin dell fmbing otro the champion d del fotro, the champion a year ago, untable defend his crown with a wrist injury. he should be back. mary: i watched juan martin take out nadal last year just by standing up to him, hitting huge forehands and two-handed backhands. afterwards, nadal was asked about the loss and he said, it was an amazing disaster. john: if he thought that was bad, it was even worse at the open last year. it's impressive to see him in this position right now, able to complete the career slam, despite those setbacks. shows his heart. john: djokovic has got to make him play pais when he gives him the offspeed look and that's what he did early in this point. right there. he stepped in, a couple of shots before it, got him in trouble. that makes the drop shot more effective at that point, you see, nadal was pushed way back beyond the baseline. dick: djokovic dictating that point. he is out of 40-0 to deuce. one hour into this match. this is the final major of this 2010 season, roger federer won the australian open, the server, rafael nadal, conveniently on the french open, his fifth french championship, repeted in london a couple of weeks later, winning wimbledon, trying to make it three in a row, a rare triple in tennis. he does hold. 1-1. coming up this fall to cbs, get ready to catch the wave again, "hawaii 5-0" premieres monday, september 20, next monday, only on cbs. the last man to win stree three straight majors, you have to go back to rod laver, when he won all four in a calendar year, in 1969. this is a rare feat that nadal is trying to grasp. john: he had two shots he could have taken and aloud nadal to move. in this is one thing if nadal is back beyond the baseline. it's another thing when he allows him to take over the point. he had no business allowing that to happen. that's what he needs to do. at least he learned quick there. john: among the many things going well for nadal, he's won 20 straight major matches. mary: he really cut off the angle when he saw he was getting something short from nadal. dick: mary, did you do the match in beijing in the olympics between these two? mary: i did not. dick: nadal besting djokovic, went on for the gold medal, djokovic took the bronze, defeating james blake. mary: that was, i'm glad you brought that up. by the time nadal came to the u.s. open, he was so tired from having won in beijing, it was right before the open. he didn't have enough left to go after this title. he's done a very good job of managing his schedule this year. didn't even play the whole clay court season, took time off, tried very hard not to play two tournaments in a row. he's had some injuries. he's had abdominal tears and knee injuries. he's learned to really take better charge of his body , so he could win. he's still got the goods at the end of the majors. john: ironically, when he injured his knee at the australian that gave him time to recover, then he only played two hard court events, then he went through the scenario where he played one event, then a week off, then goes to rome a week off, madrid, week off. that is asking too much, there. unlucky for nadal, the mis-hit by djokovic. you see nadal, he literally just pushed this back in the court, not a good move. total frame shot. sometimes those work out better than the shot you planned. he could use a little luck right now, djokovic. dick: on serve in the second. nadal took the opener, six games to four. >> hi, i'm ernst lieb, president and c.e.o. of mercedes benz, usa. this is an exciting time for us. as the proceedings wind up, the men's single championship, it's important we recognize the level of excellence the players have brought to this year's u.s. open and i congratulate tonight's finalist. on behalf of everyone at mercedes bens, i want to thank the fans and athletes around the world who have made this such a success. luckily though, ya know, i conceal this bad boy underneath my blanket just so i can get on e-trade and check my investment portfolio, research stocks, and set conditional orders. wait, why are you taking... oh, i see. hey max, would it kill you to throw a guy a warning bark? 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[ male announcer ] the refreshingly simple bankamericard cash rewards credit card. apply online or at a bank of america near you. dick: so nadal takes the opening set, but falls behind 1-4 to djokovic here in the second as djokovic breaking nadal and then holding easily. john: when is the last time you sauna dal waiting for his opponent to serve? dick: 10 straight points won by the 23-year-old serb. mary: they both take more time than any two guys, right? john: definitely one, two in the rankings and one, two in taking their time. djokovic held up federer on a number of occasions, which irked roger. he wants to play at the pace he prefers. wow that hit the base. john: this game has completely slipped in the last 10 minutes. he's gotten tentative, not putting a lot on the serve right now, he's allowed djokovic to dictate the points. this is exactly what novak wants. dick: 11 straight points against nadal. john: that's forcing the issue but a good idea by nadal to take the net just to give djokovic a different look. pretty clear he should have made that shot. that's why you see this that's why you see this reaction. john: i may sound like a broken record but he's become one of the best volleyers in the world. that's part of why he's gotten to the finals, not just the serve. many key points up there. dick: even djokovic applauding that volley. mary: the beauty is in the last couple of years, he has done so much to make himself better he can throw the whole game at djokovic. dick: it appears he's going to have to. john: he would have been very differented and somewhat shocking if we hadn't seen djokovic get into this but it's pretty much official he's playing at the top of his game. dick: forehand winner, it was that forehand that allowed him to beat federer in the semis. ian: what he doesn't want to do is get negative because the crowd is respecting what he's up to and sensing this will be a close match. dick: while the crowd on super saturday was rooting for federer, no doubt about that, djokovic won a lot of fans with his terrific play and a lot of folks came today ready to root for him. nadal does hold, it's 4-2 djokovic. here's a confident look to the future presented by lincoln financial group. yesterday, the junior girls championship, an all-russian matchup, and gavrilova peat putsineva to take the title. two americans met in the boys' champion, jack sock beat dennis kudla. that was the first american boys champion here since rod quick -- roddick in 2000. roddick born in lincoln, nebraska, so was mr. sock. mary: look how much better he's been serving since that racquet abuse call. also a couple of points on serb in his last five games. dick: first point at 4-2. john: an argument for showing emotion. love that, mary. mary: i retract my last statement. dick: call the bailiff. mary: strike it from the record. john: he looked up like, what did i just do there? dick: running around, set himself up for that wicked forehand. doesn't miss many of those. john: these are new balls, they're a little quicker than he thought but still should have done better than that. he make this is shot 98 times out of 100. but he's trying to make history here. win this for the first time. he can feel it now. he's under some pressure. he's not feeling comfortable out there right now. dick: this has been an awkward set for nadal. 4-2 djokovic. 30-15. john: he's got to be loving that, djokovic, a featherry touch there to end that point. he doesn't spend as much time at net but he's worked hard at improving that part of his game. dick: mom and dad and younger brother. his brother also a young player. he has two younger brothers following in his tracks. eight -- only one unforced error for djokovic. crisp and clean and showing crisp and clean and showing power as well. john: that rally was starting to get too long too extensive. take something out of him. he's 40-30, still in a winning position this game. he doesn't want that last point to cost him here. he can still come up with a big serve, even, if necessary, get in a longer rally. try to take this 5-2 lead. [applause] dick: another delicious rally and nadal able to fire the winner. john: this is a great give by novak, he couldn't put a whole lot on it. nadal didn't get much room to breathe there, he was on that fast. dick: from 40-15, to deuce. nadal has not lost a set in the championship, a champion hasn't gone through an entire tournament without dropping a set in 50 years here at the open. that goes back to the u.s. championship. mary: i think it's about to rain, thing -- i think that's why nadal has been thrown off this second set. now we hear thunder in the distance. remember, nadal canned you, is it windy out there. john: he forgot to ask if it was going to rain. dick: that dipping forehand creates the error. djokovic, and now break point nadal. take a look -- john: you can't see djokovic, you can see the effort from nadal but how can you be surprised the ball is going to come back. of course it's going to come back. and he wasn't where he needed to be there. mary: nobody can hit shots that big from that far off the court the way that spaniard can, nobody. dick: a point to break back for the 24-year-old from mallorca. mary: even more impressive when he's on clay and it's slippery, he can still pull off shots he can still pull off shots like that. john: you definitely get the idea this is a pivotal moment, plabe in the entire match, forget the set. djokovic trying to hang on to that break. the crowd is getting into it. dick: now the fans started the chant. break point. dick: chastising himself for missing that backhand. another break point. dick: it's nadal that shows some anger and slaps at his racquet. interesting, going to that floating slice backhand and -- john: floating is the keyword. he's not knifing through it. he's getting tentative. that's why he's so upset with himself. he's going down at it instead of slicing through it and he's of slicing through it and he's losing some pace. john: he did a better job of that return, got some depth, and that allowed him to take over that point pretty early with his fore mand. at the moment he doesn't seem as confident on the backhand side. he's trying to run around this whenever he can. dick: another break point. third of this game. dick: he's coming back. the fun, the fast, the solid glk. see your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial. but basically, i'm a runner. last year. 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