ATP Masters Miami - R2: Murray vs Ancic

murrayfan99 · Lower Club Player

RE: ATP Masters Miami - R2: Murray vs Ancic

Armchair · County player

You can work hard at overcoming a physical weakness (the knee), injury (the wrist) and a fragile temperament (the temper).
Trouble is that doesn't seem to leave Andy a lot left for dealing with his opponents.
I won't even mention the dropshots......... ashamed

Drew · Mar 30, 2008

Listened to R5's Jonathan Overand this afternoon and bascially he says that the first set was the worst set of tennis he has seen Murray play. Secondly the imature antics that Andy has publically aired as something that he has to get a grip with...well it was the same old story in the 2nd set according to Overand. He really thinks Murray is rudderless at the mo...with no mentor or guiding hand he think he will continue to struggle.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

This comment from The Telegraph" amused me (the bit about Arvind, I mean) -

".............The young Scot's body language is apathetic at the best of times - he makes Arvind Parmar look positively hyper. Spectators on the Grandstand court must have wondered whether the poor young man had gone into the match with personal problems. ............"

Full story HERE

murrayman650 · ATP level

i had predicted a murray v djovoic final

-- Edited by murrayman650 at 19:52, 2008-03-30

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Didn't see a lot of the match but in the small amount I did see I couldn't believe how poor both players were.

Ancic is not the threat he used to be (either that or he was seriously overated beforehand) as he hasn't got any consistancy from the baseline at all and relies a lot on his serve to keep him in the match.

Murray should have known that getting enough balls back with depth would win the match like Ferrero did last week, but somehow managed to lose the match.

Very poor loss really as with a lot of seeds dropping out this was a great chance to pick up a ton of ranking points (QFs would have been the minimum I'd have expected out of him if he'd won)

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

Certainly looking like Andy needs a first class coach. Oh yes he had one didn't he in Brad Gilbert. He never should of parted company with him. Wonder what Gilbert makes of Murray now. We know Andy is a decent player who on his own can be a solid top 20 player and win tournaments of the level he has done this year but when it comes to the biggies like slams and masters you have to wonder if he can go far to the latter stages. He needs someone to help him make that extra step or two that win you slams and get you a high ranking (top 3).
When you look at Djokovic and then Murray there seems to be a big gap between them now compared to this time last year. I don't think british tennis fans should get over excited about Andy at Wimbledon this year as there's every chance he could be out in the first week. Then again i could be totally wrong and Andy may end up no1 and a grand slam winner in the future but this jury's out at the moment.

RobC · All-time great

DUSTY DICK wrote:

Wonder what Gilbert makes of Murray now.

From Brad's Blog: "Props to Ancic for saving two match points in the third set tiebrake against Murray. If ever theres been a guy to root for its the big Croat who missed most of last year with glandular fever"

and at Indian Wells: "Tommy Haas built on his big win over Roddick and added Murray to his list of upsets in the desert. Too bad we wont be seeing a desert re-match of Murray/Fed in the quarterfinals"

and from Dubai: "The big news of the day was Murray taking out Federer in the fist round of Dubai. "

While from the Besancon Challenger:"Alex lost in the first round of the Besancon challenger to the 2006 junior Wimbledon champion Jerome Chardy who was serving rockets, man the French seem to have players coming from everywhere"