Watch: Nadal's Breathtaking Tweener Lob

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Watch: Nadal's Breathtaking Tweener Lob

Rafael Nadal played over Alex de Minaur's head with a jaw-dropping tweener lob.

Showing prescience sprinting with his back to net, Nadal anticipated the Aussie teenager closing net and answered with this magical tweener lob.

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The shot left de Minaur wearing the bemused smile of a man who had seen it all.

"I felt he was coming very close to the net so I thought it was a good idea to try it," Nadal told ESPN's Brad Gilbert afterward. "I had the wind with me so I thought maybe this is my chance, my only chance, to make the lob."

The second-seeded Spaniard rolled into the fourth round, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

It's the second circus shot Nadal has made this tournament after this astounding sky hook.

So which shot was tougher to pull off?

"For me, personally, probably the [tweener lob] was tougher," Nadal said. "I feel that with the other one I have better chances to repeat it."

Photo credit: Rob Newell/CameraSport

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