ATP Memphis 2007 : R1 : Murray v Dancevic

aria81 · Club Coach

ATP Memphis 2007 : R1 : Murray v Dancevic

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

aria81 wrote:

Andy wins. Phew...that was tough.

Hmmm, yes. Sounds it. But weren't we saying beforehand that Dancevic was the type of player who could take a set off good players?

Andy came through, that is the main thing. Last week's Marseille winner, Gilles Simon, lost in the first round this week. Dancevic had to be fresher, he didn't play and win 5 matches last week.

Well done Andy

-- Edited by Madeline at 08:39, 2007-02-22

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Thanks for the scores and comments. Thank goodness Andy came through!! Hopefully that's the only blip in a perfect week!

I hadn't expected Andy to make such hard work of it but it sounds like he had a mental lapse for a set and a half, and presumably Dancevic took advantage of it (as you'd expect). To my mind, these mid-match moments are what Andy really needs to work on, the serve is much better now, even if the percentage could be higher but these lapses are the main problem I think - certainly from a spectators point of view anyways!!

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Sounds like he had a difficult day at the office - I'm glad he found a way to get through in the end but I hope it's all a bit better in the next round

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Yeah! Go Andy!

andyjmr · Intermediate Club Player

Wow, following this thread was like the good old days of 12-18 months ago when Andy regularly gave us 3-set rollercoaster rides. I bet Federer fans wish they could have as much excitement following their man.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Er - I am a fan of both of them, and I must admit it is nice to be able to follow a match without so much stress!

Sheddie · administrator

Speaking afterwards, Murray told his official website "It was a tough match, I struggled a lot in the second and third sets. The courts are completely different to last week, higher bouncing, slower, harder and there's a low roof. We're also using women's balls ! I'm not sure why but they're much lighter and so harder to control. I'd only hit for 25 minutes on centre court beforehand and it takes time getting used to the surface."

“Obviously I’m glad to come through but I’ve got to give him some credit. I think he missed like two first serves in the whole second set. When I lost my serve to the start of the second set I lost my rhythm a little bit and he started playing some really good tennis. But it’s all about playing and coming through those matches.”

“I didn’t change my tactics in the second set, I just stopped serving as well. He got into a lot of the rallies because I missed my first serve and I probably did make a few too many mistakes.”

“He served really well and hardly missed the first serve. I lost a lot of service games to love and return games to love and I don’t normally do that. He was putting a lot of pressure on me because that’s what I normally do well, get myself into those return games and put pressure on them and maybe make a few errors on my service games. But today was the complete opposite. He was the one forcing me on returns and that was what he did really well today. He was aggressive at the right times and came to the net and had some good volleys and just played a really good set and a half. I just had to weather the storm and I managed to do that.”

Sheddie · administrator

john wrote:

Hmmm shedman you know any easy way of getting all the stats onto here?

Apart from just copying them down the only other way is to take a screencap...

Open the stats page on the scoreboard then click the "Print screen sys Rg" button on your keyboard, on the top right hand side - on the left of scroll lock

This will have saved an image of your computer screen in MS Paint. Open that and save the file to your computer. The image will be massive so use a program like IrfanView to resize it. Then host it in photobucket (a lot, lot, lot better than imageshack will is pretty unreliable and not good at all for hosting large images) and post it in here

RobC · All-time great

ultimateshedman wrote:

Open the stats page on the scoreboard then click the "Print screen sys Rg" button on your keyboard, on the top right hand side - on the left of scroll lock

Tip: Press the ALT key when you do this, and it will just capture the window you're in rather than the whole screen

Sheddie · administrator

Thanks for that

john · Top national player

Cheers guys..