Memphis 07 QF - Murray v Koubek

Sheddie · administrator

Memphis 07 QF - Murray v Koubek

Sheddie · administrator

2nd serve....40-15

scoobsuk · Club Coach

63 62

Nice.

Very nice.

Sheddie · administrator

2nd serve....GSM Murray

Koubek is ruthlessly dispatched 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour

Drew · Feb 23, 2007

GSM Murray....6-3, 6-2

Andy has now won 14 of his last 16 matches....

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Winner: A. MURRAY

I never get tired of seeing that

timmoore46 · Admin:moderator + Club Coach

OK 6 3 6 2 will do !!!!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Job well done. And only a very slight attack of palpitations from me

Sheddie · administrator

scoobsuk wrote:
That 8 is still a little too high for my liking

Lol, I think it'll be a lot lower this year. He's a much better player than the likes of Wawrinka and Clement now. The others were: Soderling, Robredo, Dayvdenko (twice), Gasquet and Roddick. I think those 6 can still give him problems though. Even so, apart from Dayvdenko, I'd make him fav against all those guys

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Hey, I'm going to go on predicting a win in 3 sets, every time I do he wins in straights!

scoobsuk · Club Coach

Such a pessimist, Madeline

I had a feeling that'd be fairly comfortable, but not quite that easy - after all Koubek did make finals in Chennai with some great wins. Murray just brushed him aside.

Drew · Feb 23, 2007

what a run he is on...14/16 matches in 07 so far....

....hope it doesnt end soon.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

scoobsuk wrote:

Such a pessimist, Madeline

I had a feeling that'd be fairly comfortable, but not quite that easy - after all Koubek did make finals in Chennai with some great wins. Murray just brushed him aside.

Yup. "Mrs Pessimism", that's me.

Sheddie · administrator

scoobsuk wrote:

I can't wait for the clay season - I think he's going to surprise a lot of people who think he's no good on the dirt.

Same here, it's going to be very interesting to see how he does. Last year, he was really struggling confidence-wise and tactically on the clay. He'd just split with Petchey and he was still having problems with how to play, whether to be more aggressive or just stay how he had been and that indecision gave him a lot of problems until Brad came along.

This time round...he uses the drop shot a lot more sparingly (and so more effectively). Last year he was using it almost every couple of points on the clay and it became so predictable. His second serve has more bite and is placed better, last year Volandri and Blake in particular, were really able to take advantage of it. He's also one heck of a lot fitter which is so important for clay as it's baking hot in Europe at that time plus he's coming into the net more to finish off points.

Sheddie · administrator

Drew wrote:

what a run he is on...14/16 matches in 07 so far.... ....hope it doesnt end soon.

Yeah first 4 tournaments: Final, AO rd4, champion, semis at least. Not bad when you consider that Ljubicic and Nadal are the only guys who've beaten him !

Miryni, Ljubicic, Nadal, Lee, Karlovic and Dancevic are the only players to have won sets