Nice job   A good day at the office so far (hastily crosses fingers)

Pretty comfortable set for Andy....not that many first serves in but Koubek never came close to breaking apart from that one game where he had 30-30

Andy only had 1 chance one the Koubek serve, which he took in game 2. After that Koubek held pretty comfortably. However, he's such an erratic player I'm sure that as long as Andy remains solid, Koubek will throw in a dodgy service game in this set which he can take advantage of

1st set stats:

1 ace apiece

Andy got 57% 1st serves in, won 76% of 1st serve pts and 54% of 2nd serve pts.

Koubek got 63% 1st serves in, won 75% of 1st serve pts and 50% of 2nd serve pts.

Andy had 1 bp and took it

held to love SK 1-0 and 0-15

Drew wrote:

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..only 23% 1st ret pts won ?

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Not particularly surprising. Koubek has a fairly big 1st serve which is very effective on good days due to the leftie swing he gets

 

Koubek serving:

0-15 :smile

2nd serve.....0-30

Big chance for Andy here

3bps for Murray - come on!