Week 45 - ATP Paris Masters 1000 - R3 Andy v Radek Stepanek

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Week 45 - ATP Paris Masters 1000 - R3 Andy v Radek Stepanek

timmoore46 · Admin:moderator + Club Coach

goldfish wrote:

Pushed off centre court because of the GEMS

4th match on court 1 nb 5.45pm

Will this be live streamed anywhere ?

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Will it even be on the pay-stream from tennistv, I wonder? Anybody know if there are cameras on court 1? I *think* I have seen a match from there on the schedule but I may be imagining it.

If there are cameras at all I expect there will be free livestreams.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy has a 3-0 record against Steps, starting from Wimbledon 2005 via Madrid 2007 and finishing at Cinci this year. It should normally be no problem for him, but I wonder how much he will be affected by the ridiculous scheduling and the injuries he seemed to accumulate. I missed most of the last match but there was mention of a hip injury, and then he took a bad fall in last night's match which may be causing problems now the adrenaline has worn off!

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Definately cameras on court 1 as I have spent most of the week watching the matches from that court rather than the main court given how close some of those matches have been, so there defo will be streams out there, including on tennistv.

Murray, if he has recovered from last night, should have enough to get past Steps given how their games match up, but the question is how well has he recovered. Thinking Murray may need three sets to get this done, but he will do enough to reach the last eight.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

The match scheduled before Andy has just finished (Cilic d. Verdasco) so Andy's match should start on time today.

Armchair · County player

Just watching the warm up

http://www.atdhe.net/7637/watch-atp-masters-paris-court-1

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Murray takes 1st set 6-1, Murray is such a bad match up for stepanek. This must be torture for him

Yet to take a set in their previous encounters

-- Edited by The Magician Santoro on Thursday 12th of November 2009 05:33:50 PM

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Anyone else having trouble with SKY? Keeps freezing every few seconds

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

goldfish wrote:

Anyone else having trouble with SKY? Keeps freezing every few seconds

No, but I was having trouble with my computer which crashed twice! And you know how long Windows takes to start up again.

Good first set but then went right off the boil. Hardly surprising if he didn't get to bed until about 4am, I'm not sure how easy it is to catch up on sleep in a hotel with other guests clattering about in the morning, not to mention cleaners etc. He did seem to be having trouble with the hip or groin injury, whichever it was, his movement was, after the first set, very poor by his standards.

Get it sorted, and get rested for London, Andy.

Edit - he lost 6-1 3-6 4-6 - I thought it would have been posted while I was writing this post!

-- Edited by Madeline on Thursday 12th of November 2009 06:42:20 PM

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Very disappointing loss 6-1 3-6 4-6

Amazingly, apart from winning one less break point than Stepanek, the only statistic that Stepanek was better than Andy was in return points won.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

the last two sets were awful.

helki · Futures qualifying

And, service points won, plus one less double fault. wink

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Oops, yes. Didn't spot the double faults and was looking at the numbers not percentages

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

Andy tanked the match, against blake he was getting annoyed when he made bad shots, today nothing, not a word