ATP San Jose 2007 SF - Murray v Roddick

steven · Tennis legend

RE: ATP San Jose 2007 SF - Murray v Roddick

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Roddick to serve at 1-2

0-15, Rod gets impatient and goes for the bh cross-court winner, finds the net.
15-15 Andy nets return, couldn't help it really. good serve.
30-15, s&v, Andy lobs but Rod puts the overhead away in the open court.
30-30, s&v whipped fh dtl passing shot from ANdy
40-30, s&v Andy running bh dtl hits the tape and bounces. Rod puts away.
game. s&v again andy lobs, but Rod there and puts away the overhead.

2-2

aria81 · Club Coach

And he pulls out an ace on another BP. And another to take it to advantage. If he could get some consistancy on that serve he'd be so hard to beat.

Andy holds to go 3-2 up.

It's kinda like at Wimbledon where he saved all the BP's in the first set maybe - fingers crossed anyway.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Andy serving:

second serve. 15-0, Rod hits net on fh dtl.
second serve. 15-15, Andy comes in off the short ball, Rod hits the passing cross-court winner, good shot.
30-15, short return, again ANdy comes to net off it. Rod ups the power on the passing shot and goes for too much, wide.
second serve. 30-30, ue from Andy, goes wide on a bh cross-court.
let. second serve. 30-40, bh into net from Andy. Yell at himself in frustration. It was a silly shot.

deuce. super serve, 134mph. Roddick cross-court return just wide 9luckily)
ad ANdy. ace down the T. 136mph Andy showing he can do fast serves too.
second serve. game. Roddick approach shot goes long.

3-2

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Roddick serving at 2-3 on serve 1st set.

15-0, s&v very wide serve, ANdy did well to get it back but Rod had plenty of time and put it away into the open court.
second serve. 30-0, Andy couldn't get to the bh dtl in time and nets.
30-15, return winner from Andy, serve out wide passed Rod at the net.
40-15, ue from ANdy who nets one of the groundstrokes, pulls head back in annoyance
game. Andy taken out wide with serve, races to opposite corner but Rod at the net and puts away volley winner.

3-3

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Andy serving:

0-15, great rally from both. Andy comes into net off good approach but Rod lobs him (excellent lob has to be said.)
15-15, good serve and return wild and out.
30-15, ace down T 134mph.
second serve. 40-15, Rod comes into net, hits a couple of good volleys but Andy gets the cross-court passing winner. Rod's volleys are greatly improved. ANdy's passings are as suplime as ever!
second serve. game. Rod's return long.

4-3 to Andy on serve.

aria81 · Club Coach

At least the fans are getting a decent match in this semi with some actual *shock* rallies in it. I'm glad both of them seem to have brought their good stuff out with them. Roddick is maybe falling in love with the serve/volley a little which is good for Andy but maybe not the wisest of decision from Roddick because Andy's going to find his range on the passing shots eventually. But hey, he's volleying well at the moment so who knows.

BP here for Andy (Murray) - and Roddick fires down an unreturnable. Ah well, at least he got a racket on it. Gorgeous pass there from Andy to set up the next BP and he takes it. :) *5-3

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Roddick to serve at 34. new balls.

0-15, Rod comes into net off return. Misses the volley.
15-15, Andy goes into the net on the passing shot. 'OH why?' he cries.
second serve. 30-15, return long. good second serve.
second serve. ANdy does seem to be able to read Rod's serve, he's always moving to the right place fro it, hasn't been aced for a while. long rally. Rod goes for too much to finish it off and goes long. 30-30.
30-40, Rod just wide as he curls the fh dtl.
deuce. 137mph first serve, Andy gets a racket on it but can't get it over the net.
ad ANdy s&v, super passing cross-court winner. he passing shots are soo good, it never fails to impress me!
game!!!!!!!!!!!! another passing winner, this time the trademark DTL. we have a small fist pump from ANdy.

5-3!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Andy serving for set at 53

0-15, ue from Andy, goes wide.
second serve, did a djokovic there bouncing about 300 times to compose himself. then netting serve. 0-30. Oh dear, Andy goes into the net. ANdy couldn't entice Rod into net that point, he tried.
second serve. almost an ace.

let. 0-40. ANdy, Andy, Andy. lucky net cord for ANdy really great approacj, just netted the volley. Do the Brits have a special 'make the match a rollercoaster' lesson that we don't know about?
15-40, ace.
second serve. game. Andy gets to the drop shot and goes very wide. That drop shot had a lot fo slice on it.

54 back on serve. But hopefully Andy can break fro the set.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

aria, whilst you have no commentary I'm stuck with a very biased American. not too sure which I'd prefer at this point! Although he is impressed by Andy, just more impressed by Roddick.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Roddick serving:

15-0, good shot dtl from Roddick, Andy nets the response. scream of frustration that we know soo well.
30-0, Rod ready the net that time and hits the volley winner right into the corner. that was good from Roddick. shame.
40-0, s&v. ball hits tape, Roddick drop volleys it, Andy gets there but is now off court. Rod winner volley.
game. ace 141mph.

5-5.

aria81 · Club Coach

I mute the commentary a lot anyway - I don't like to hear bad shots described. I like positive commentary because mostly the hypocrisy of these guys who never made anything in tennis criticising guys annoys me.

Now Andy finds an easy service game. How annoying is that? Admittedly he was helped out by a pretty poor linecall which looked wrong but you'd take it.

Break here, Andy. Don't take it to a TB.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Andy serving at 5-5

15-0, great serve. Rod reply hits the top of the net and falls back.
second serve. As aria said, sort that out and Andy will be nigh unbeatable. some good defence here from ANdy, 30-0, Rod misses the shot out wide. Rod wants to challenge but no hawkeye here Mr. Rod, tv guy shows a replay for him on the screen and he gives a thumbs up in thanks. crowd chuckle.
40-0 ace down T.
second serve. 40-15, Andy nets a tame fh.
game. good first serve and Rod can't get the return more than half way up his side of court.

6-5.

aria81 · Club Coach

Roddick is looking a bit annoyed now because he didn't get another call. (The ball this time did look in though and was called correctly.)

TB isn't good for Andy and he double faults right away. Dammit.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Roddick serving to force a tiebreak (

get broken!)

15-0, s&v good volley behind a running ANdy.
30-0, return into net. good serve right on the line.
looks like it will be a tiebreak. second serve. 30-15, passing winner fh dtl. Rod not sure about the call but it looked just on the line to me. Rod shaking his head as he comes to serve.
40-15, wide serve, Murray lobs, Rod 'slice overhead from teh baseline' according to commentator! winner.
game. ace down T. very fast.

6-6 breaker.