Week 33 - ITF - Olympics

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 33 - ITF - Olympics

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

The Murray Bros doubles match is scheduled on Court 4 tomorrow, second match after a match starting not before 5pm local (9am BST I think?)

Does anybody know if there are livescores anywhere?

Link for the OOP if you don't already know it, http://www.itftennis.com/olympics/event/scheduleday1.asp

Edit - just checked - 5pm Beijing is 10am BST.

-- Edited by Madeline at 12:24, 2008-08-09

Drew · Aug 9, 2008

BBC will have livescore / updates im sure. Not sure bout atp ?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

I'm certain there will be live scores available somewhere... I can't imagine that there won't be, even though the ATP don't run the event.

Hopefully the BBC will show the match live anyway to stop us worrying about it.

talp · Junior player

it will be on the tv - multiscreen

Eurosport aswell

James · Satellite level

Anyone else staying up, until 3.30am, to watch the first tennis of the Olympics?

Salmon · Tennis legend

Different time zone for me, but I got 6 hours of sleep and woke up fresh half an hour ago. Will watch the tennis if they show it.

James · Satellite level

All the tennis has been rained off so far... bleh

The volleyball has been pretty entertaining though!

steven · Tennis legend

Tennis has been going for about an hour now. Live scoring is rubbish gioven what a big event it is - you can only view one match at a time via http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/Schedule/TE.shtml and only game by game scores.

Sites like http://www.livescore.com/tennis.dll?page=home only have games by game scores too, but you do at least get all the matches on one page.

James · Satellite level

At least the BBC is streaming the matches live on their Sports page.. But yes, it's quite strange that the livescore-ing is so poor considering the size of the event.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Bloomin' rain.

I have just seen that Niemeyer has retired from his singles match; I wonder if he will be fit to play doubles?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Apparantly Niemeyer felt a slight twinge in his elbow and so retired from the singles to make sure he was fit to play the doubles match (obviously feeling that with Nestor as his partner he's got a much better chance of a medal)

And there's no chance that they'll be playing today anyway with the weather, especially as they were due to be 4th on court, so he'll have time to rest it up before tomorrow it seems.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

The Murray's doubles match is no longer on the Order of Play for today, so it's been officially postponed until at least tomorrow (but with the order of play for that not out yet, we don't know)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

what are the results/score so far?

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Gonzalez def. Sun - 6-4, 6-4
Davydenko def. Gulbis - 6-4, 6-2
Blake def. Guccione - 6-3, 7-6(3)
Berdych def. Lu - 6-1, 6-2
Canas def. Niemeyer - 3-6, 4-2 ret

Monaco leads Cilic - 4-6, 7-6, 1-0
Simon leds Soderling - 3-2
Kiefer leads Mirnyi - 6-3
Seppi leads Robredo - 5-2

Aspelin/Johnansson vs. Hanley/Kerr - 2-2

Not a full order of play out for tomorrow yet (it appears to just contain the reschudeled matches, but something full will probably be out later), but Murray/Murray vs. Nestor/Niemeyer has been moved to show court 2, at 2100 local time, so around 1400 UK time...

And show court 2 is televised, so I'd expect this to be on the BBC stream somewhere (and yes... it's stream 5 is tennis at that time, while it could also be on BBC1, as there's nothing else that's live and appears more important (or seems to involve British interest)

-- Edited by ForeverDelayed at 14:47, 2008-08-10