Cincinnati Masters - R2: Andy vs Sam Querrey

S&V · Club Coach

RE: Cincinnati Masters - R2: Andy vs Sam Querrey

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Decent performance from Murray, and he did what he needed to do to get the win. Querrey was fire to start with, but once he lost the break he just had a disaster and made error after error, and gifted Murray the match, even though Murray was playing well enough to beat him anyway.

1st serve was excellent today, but the 2nd serve is still far to hittable, and Gasquet/Tursunov will attack that a lot more.

He won though, and won easily, despite the braincramp in the 2nd set.

S&V · Club Coach

Gasquet looked horrible yesterday, not sure how he will do against Tursanov.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy, job done.

He seemed to struggle with the conditions at first - the commentators said the balls fly a lot here - but once he got that sorted I didn't need to hide behind the sofa at all. Just the usual Andy-blip in the second set but with a double break in hand that was no problem.

mike55 · Lower Club Player

I think that will be just enough to get Andy in front of Roddick. Roddick is defending 200 points this week putting him on 1865, and AM will get 35 taking him up to 1870, so short of someone out of the blue sneaking up he should be up to at least WR of 8.

indiana · Tennis legend

Unfortunately Andy is defending 200 points as well this week, which is his 18th score after the Indianapolis episode. This week's Cincinnati Masters will replace his 18th score.

Andy is now on 1710 ( 1635 + 75 ). Even a semi score of 225 will still leave him 5 short of Roddick. However, if he doesn't overtake Roddick this week, there's a very good chance he will get him in the following couple of weeks.

There's possibly more danger from behind as if Gasquet reaches the semis ( which would include beating Andy in the next round ) he'd move to 1715, 5 more than Andy.

-- Edited by indiana at 19:52, 2008-07-30

indiana · Tennis legend

Anyway, decent win for Andy at the start of a new week after Toronto.

I only saw the second set, when he looked well in control. Sounds though that he took a little time to get going. Looked to be serving better ( let's ignore one game ! ).

Was also looking reasonably agressive, since I was worried he might have gone for one of his real passive moods, which would probably have still worked against Querrey. Burt I'm not convinced that he can keep shifting from really passive to really agressive just like that, so a sort of in-between ( controlled but going for shots at times ) was probably the best way.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

It's Tursunov in round 3 for Murray, who beat Gasquet 7-6(8), 6-0!!!

First set was excellent from both players, and a very enjoyable match to watch, but Gasquet just fell apart in the second set.

Tursunov is playing well though, and scarily enough it wasn't just ballbashing he was using today!

Murray should still win though...

steven · Tennis legend

Clearly Boggo's been using the break created by his Lexington withdrawal to make some money by running masterclasses in the Alex Bogdanovic (old-style) School of Choking - i.e. win the 1st set, lose a tight 2nd then crash and burn in the 3rd. First there was Ginepri, then a couple of others I'm desperate to forget because of the effect they had on my pick 'em score, and now Dammit, who found a nifty shortcut by cutting out the "win the 1st set" part ...

-- Edited by steven at 00:14, 2008-07-31