* 5  -  6

First serve percentage in :    Andy  47%   Ferrer  89%  

Not watching, but I am presuming Andy is really going for his 1st serve since of the 20 he has actually got in, 6 have gone for aces, and he's overall won 17 of these 20 points.

Anyway, other than that, seems like its another pretty good perfoprmance from him, and plenty time to turn this round. 

Hey strarting now maybe,  long game,  had 2 BPs....

Come on Andy, give yourself a birthday treat.

Andy breaks back

But whoever wins this exhausting battle will have nowt left against Fed tomorrow.

Pity to see Andy lose but great match to watch, a real battle. Andy looked pretty tired at the end. Will be very surprised if Ferrer gets past Federer after such a tough late match. Very unfair, as always, to make one player play so late when the matches are on consecutive days.

Good effort.

Pity      But seems another good effort by Andy, certainly much fight in saving so many BPs.  Anyway, got plenty clay court competitition in before RG  

Wouldn't myself say the scheduling was very unfair.  They did have the other match in that half ( Fed v Gulbis ) on immediately before the Andy v Ferrer match. And that semi is not being played till night at 8 pm ( 7 pm BST ).  In fact, really couldn't be fairer if playing all these matches on the main court ( and having night matches which can be great occasions ).  Yes, it's a bit more difficult for the player that played later and / or longer when matches are on consecutive days, but c'est la vie for just about any tournament outside the Grand Slams.

Re Mad's point, 7 - 5  6 - 3  is a pretty competitive scoreline and I don't really think the stats suggest it any closer.  97 to 83 points to Ferrer.  100 points played on Andy's serve, 80 points on Ferrer's with one more service game.  4 / 15 BPs won against  2 / 8.  So pretty well played it seems by Andy, but does certainly look the better man won.

Sorry for being a bit contrary with folk here, but just saying.... 

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 14th of May 2010 11:58:50 PM

Andy's 23rd birthday today.

So... AO Final was his last good showing of form and good run in a tourney, that was at the very end of Jan, and now it's May 15th, four and a half months later... hate to say it but that's just over a third of the season (more, if you discount December because of the season ending in November ad not restarting till January) down the pan. If he keeps this up for the rest of the year, either losing in his first match or second match of a tournament, can anyone actually estimate how big a hit he'll take down the rankings?