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Montana Doug


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Seems to be a delay at 40-15....anyone have any clue what is going on? Hopefully when it comes back it will be ad-out....lol

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Yeah, mine hasn't updated for a while either. I fear the match is over my friend

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Montana Doug


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Tch....hopefully it will come back with Jamie thrashing him in a tie break again....lol

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Or has Baker Boy taken a leaf out of Koellerer's book and taken a injury time out on MP?

-- Edited by XCW4EVA at 03:51, 2008-01-14

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Montana Doug


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Heck....really wondering what is going on right now.....


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Yep, GSM Karlo

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gsm Karlovic according to ESPN2

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Montana Doug


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Too bad....but a great effort.

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ah nuts, 4 sets is not so bad, really made Karlo work

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Baker loses 6-4, 6-4, 6-7(1), 6-4

-- Edited by wolf at 03:54, 2008-01-14

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Well, he certainly wasn't blown off the court. Jamie has certainly been the GB star of this year's AO!

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Thannks for the scores guys, seems like you were up rather latewink.gif.

Jamie did incredibly well to push world number 20 Karlovic to four tight sets. And to take a tiebreak, 7-1 Karlovic has like the best tiebreak record in tennis and he wins something stupid like 93% of service games. Plus last year he showed that he's not just a serve anymore. so I'm very impressed and think Baker fully deserves the DC spot ahead of Boggo (sorry Boggo).I just hope that this form is here to stay smile.gifclap.gif

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I don't know what you can read into any match against Karlovic. He has the best serve on the tour, but the rest of his game is barely adequate. I'd rather watch paint dry than watch him play, but each to his own.

Most top 750 players would hold serve regularly against him, so any match is going to seem close from the score. It's a shame that the match stats are not available, but Karlovic would have served 21 times, and if JB won more than 20 points in those games I would be surprised.

But anyway, well done to JB for qualifying. Now the hard work of getting ranking points from Challengers starts again, playing in front of 2 men and a dog. A different cup of tea entirely.


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Well he obviously won more then 20 coz quite a lot of the games Jamie scored 2 points on Karlo's serve, one of his breaks was a Deuce game, and he broke him on another occasion as well

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Ratty, a year ago I would've agreed with you completely. But last year Karlovic learnt how to play tennis. He's not just a big serve and his ranking and results show that*. To say most top 750 players would hold serve against him is being unfair to both Karlovic and more importantly Jamie in my opinion.

*career high ranking; three titles, a final and numerous semis during the year; one of those titles was on clay, which you cannot win on serve alone. His groundstrokes have much more depth and weight and his net game is remarkably good for such a tall person

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