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The Hoose


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At least that game exposed room for improvement for Andy. Unlike others, I wasn't so bothered about his serving performance - he was only broken twice in four sets. It was the number of long rallies that he lost that bothered me. Andy was a little too passive and it seemed that in virtually every rally Roddick worked his way on top and the point was decided by whether or not Andy could pull off an amazing cross-court winner on the run. The last two points of the match summed it up in this respect - the first Andy managed to find the amazing winner, the second he didn't. It shouldn't come down to this against Roddick - you need to win more than 50% of those rallies.Yes, A-Rod played really well but I'd have fancied Federer, for example, to not let it come down to a couple of hit and hope shots in the tie-break.

Still, good tournament from Andy - let's hope he can win the US Open.

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Amazingly after 6 matches Roddick is averaging 72% first serves across the tournament. Getting his first erve in 72% of thetime is always gonna mke it tough for any opponent. (Other than Federer I would have thought!)

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Well, I find myself in the queue for Wimbledon again today, despite saying on Wednesday I may not even watch the final...

I'm probably going to watch the match on the hawkeye screens in court 2, as I have doubts that waiting in the ticket resale queue will get me on Centre.

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Good luck - are there many there?

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I don't know why I'm putting myself through this, before going into Court 2, I checked out the resale queue as it wasn't too long I joined. So there's now a chance of seeing some of the men's final, and I think it's a certainty I'll get in for the double's final, although, I may not be able to stay until the end if the matches are long...

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steven wrote:

Good luck - are there many there?





I hadn't seen this when I posted, there are quite a lot of people inside the grounds, on the hill, etc, but there's only about 50 people in front of me in the queue.

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I think the tactical aspect is being as usual overplayed.

I reckon Andy would have snatched your hand off if you'd shown him the match and paused it when he lined up his passing shots and told him the % he'd have needed to make to win it.Unfortunately he was awful on the b/h pass and average on the f/h.Getting to the situation where a strength of his game decided the match is proof to me that poor execution was more important.A generally more aggressive approach would have been better,but switching tactics for a massive pressure filled game would have been IMO a mistake.

The progress in Andy's results in the last 5 slams with 4 career bests and a joint career best at the tournament make drastic changes a risk.

I really hope he uses the upcoming MS to play more expansively in the early rounds.The chances of dropping to 5th or getting to number one without a slam win are small enough to risk an early exit to try and improve.If he gets comfortable hitting an agressive shot off chipped returns he will be much more uncomfortable to play against.

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Duckboy seems to be playing even better today than he did on Friday. shocked.gif

Sampras is feeling smug wink

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 5th of July 2009 01:59:02 PM

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steven wrote:

Duckboy seems to be playing even better today than he did on Friday. shocked.gif

Sampras is feeling smug wink

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 5th of July 2009 01:59:02 PM



What a horrible volley to blow that set by Roddick.Shows how important not dumping passing shots into the net is against him.That was a nothing shot by Federer and it saved him the set and quite possibly the match.



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WOW. What a comeback in that tiebreak...

Roddick did throw away the set with that volley/smash/mi**** thing but Fed was pure class from 6-2 down...

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Roddick will not bow but Fed comes thrpugh another tight tie-break. Just one set away fom historynow!

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into a 5th. have to say to me Fed is playing quite passively and throwing it a lot of errors. giving a-rod a real chance to taking the match here.

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Roddick holds on to the 4th set. I hope his ankle holds on as well because that looked a little worrying and no one would want it to be decided by that...

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I'm on Centre Court!

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What a match - Well done Fed !

Shame there isn't such a thing as a draw.

Makes a mockery of the 'equal winnings' when compared with the Ladies final yesterday.


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