Doha:- A Murray v S Wawrinka

timmoore46 · Admin:moderator + Club Coach

Doha:- A Murray v S Wawrinka

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

The final is at 6:30pm local time tomorrow, that's 3:30pm UK time.

Andy and Wawrinka have a 0-2 h2h with Wawrinka's wins coming on clay in the DC 2005 and hard in the Miami Masters 2006.

Having said that Andy is a different player now and should have far too much for Stanislas...even though he's beaten Ljubicic amogst others this week.

Drew · Jan 4, 2008

Stan is no mug....will be tight I think....hoping for Andy in 2.

Sheddie · administrator

I think Andy will take this in two given the form he's been in....Stan has a huge leftie forehand but his previous two wins over Andy were back in the Petchey era when Andy was often too passive for the big hitters of the ATP tour and unsure of his game

I don't see Wawrinka having the variety to trouble Andy....great win over Ljubicic for him today but Ljubo's not the player he was back in 2005-2006.

stagger · Club Coach

Murray in straights for me. I can't see Wrawinka bothering him too much.

Sheddie · administrator

wow, stagger is back !!!! Where've you been ?

stagger · Club Coach

you know; fighting off the commie pinkos, spreading the lingua franca etc. Same old same old.

Not a bad start to the year for the gilbertless eh?

wolf · Tennis legend

They have just finished their warm-up.

wolf · Tennis legend

Wawrinka to serve

0-15 W bh dtl long
0-30 fh cc long, 2 ue so far
0-40 really long rally W comes to net but M chases down and passes cc
15-40 W comes to net again, smash poorly but M cant return
Game Murray fh dtl wide

Murray leads *1-0

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Is anybody else having trouble getting the livestream? All I have is a blank screen! furious

The SB says they have started playing

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

a few errors from Stan and an impossible reach by Murray gives him a break to 15...first blood

*1-0 Andy

Edit: ah, wolf I see you're doing point by point. I'll leave you to it, thanks

-- Edited by imoen at 15:52, 2008-01-05

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Mad, try pressing 'play' again. and/or changing your 'video quality' that's what I had to do, I had the same problem and it was because the livestream thought my connection was better than it is. Hope you can get it working.

wolf · Tennis legend

Murray to serve

0-15 M fh in the net
0-30 M fh long
0-40 terrible drop shot from M - too casual
15-40 missed that point stream went funny
HAHA Murray caps come off umpire calls a let with W winning the point
Game W Big fh return M wide

wolf · Tennis legend

Wawrinka to serve

15-0 Attacking play from W puts away volley
30-0 same as last point
30-15 W fh wide
Deja vu, ball comes out of W pocket and let called
30-30 another W fh wide
40-30 big serve down the T
Deuce big return cc, inside out fh down the line from M
Ad Murray fh long from W
Deuce, inside out fh cc from W
Ad Murray M moving W round and then fh dtl from W long
Deuce W ace out wide
Ad Wawrinka W moving M around
Deuce wild bh from W
Ad Wawrinka W moving M around again
Deuce bh cc return from M, W nets
Ad Murray return cc from M, W nets
Game Murray return trickles over net W nets

stagger · Club Coach

By the way, what happened to the options? That was always my favourite part of the live threads.