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Mikeduke


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Andy reaches the semi-final of the first masters event of the year. Despite not playing at his best in most of the rounds he had enough to see off his opponents in a draw that was pretty kind to him.

He now faces Roger Federer, the number 2 seed and a player Andy has seemed to get the better of in recent matches. The current head to head is 5-2 in Andy's favour (all on hard) and that doesn't include the world tennis championships where Andy beat him again.

Andy has won the last 3 (4 including WTC) matches between the two (since the loss at the US open final) all in 3 sets. However he has been suffering the effects of a virus and doesn't seem to be on top of his game. Also Andy has never lost a semi final between the two.

Andy has yet to drop a set here, despite his illness. Federer lost a set to Gonzalez in the R16 and then saved set points against the other Fernando.

I would normally back Andy here, but I think his illness will cost him, so I hope i'm wrong, but I will go for Fed in 3.

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I think you are right. I'm pretty sure Andy will be up for this match - he nearly always is against Fed - but I think, like the USO final, he just doesn't have enough left in the tank. He looked to be struggling physically yesterday.

I would love to be wrong!

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i can see fed wanting some pay back here. but andy has a good game against fed, forcing him to make an error. could go either way. andy has played almost all of his matches in the heat i think, whereas Fed has had some night matches.

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I'm very suprised to see Andy make it this far in his post-viral state - he's done really well to battle this far.

Thus, Fed this time. AM was clearly not fully there vs. Lubo, and you can't do that with the Fed.

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Andy to win. I think he's got enough left in the tank to beat Roger on this surface.

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If Andy wins the tournament, I calculate that he'll be within 20 ranking points of ND.
The points system seems to have changed this year, you get proportionately more points for going deeper into a tournament. I think I prefer the old system....

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So Andy plays after the womens doubles final, not before 1pm I make that 8pm here, unless I've got the time difference wrong?

Poor ole Andy Roddick has to play Nadal and then the dubs final immediately after.

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stevemcqueen wrote:

If Andy wins the tournament, I calculate that he'll be within 20 ranking points of ND.
The points system seems to have changed this year, you get proportionately more points for going deeper into a tournament. I think I prefer the old system....


Yes, they have changed, there have been deep discussions on the subject: but I think you have your calculations wrong somewhere, if Andy were to win IW he would still be 170 points behind Novak.

Have a look at Steven's stats page on bt.net.

 



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its on tv here. hell yeah

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hes untouchable. great defensive

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good stuff from andy. hes forcing fed to hit shots he cant hit

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Oh - furious

 

Andy!!!



(The post before was when Andy broke for the second time to take the first set 6-3 - the one above when he promptly dropped his own serve)





-- Edited by Madeline on Saturday 21st of March 2009 08:52:16 PM

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Murray really has to lose this habit of dropping serve at the beginning of the second set. I thought he'd gotten rid of it but it seems to have returned this week, hopefully just a result of his illness and soon to be fixed, but still frustrating.

On the other hand, he's still a set up against Federer :)

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It's streamed Here

AM 6-3 3-2*   RF

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