Week 47 - ATP World Tour Finals 1500

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: Week 47 - ATP World Tour Finals 1500

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Where the heck is his post telling us all about it then!!!!!

steven · Tennis legend

I've got one spare ticket to the Murray match tomorrow (and the Fed match, in case anyone happens to be interested in that too) because the person who was going to use it is ill.

Block 106 (front section, court end - see http://www.webtickets.com/gifs/O2ArenaTennis_all.GIF ) row U, which by O2 standards is pretty good (the Fed match ticket is row K, i.e. even closer), face value £ 61.00 for each session (so that or nearest offer accepted) and I'll be there anyway so we can sort it out on the spot.

If you're interested, please pm me, preferably with your mobile number, and I'll get in touch asap, though it may be after 6 since I'm going to be out for a couple of hours.

Edit: both tickets now gone, one to a big Murray fan, the other to a big Fed fan, so that worked out well!

-- Edited by steven on Saturday 20th of November 2010 04:17:00 PM

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy d. Sod 6-2 6-4

Now 180 points ahead of him, for a few days at least biggrin

British_is_Best · County player

Murray has beaten Soderling 6-2, 6-4 for anyone who happens to be interested

good performance judging by the scoreline, hopefully somone will have been to the O2 today and can let us know how he played as unfortunately I couldn't watch the match today

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Well I wasn't there, but I watched it on BBC2. Andy played well, I thought. Maybe a few too many drop-shots but it was obviously a predetermined tactic as Soderling is not comfortable at the net, and it also upset his rhythm as he never knew when Andy was going to come up with one. There were some fabulous passing shots as well. Andy's level dropped a bit in the second set - his first serve % dropped and the general level with it - but he still managed to frustrate Sod to death

by getting nearly everything back in court and exposing Robin's none-too-good movement.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Andy served well in the first set, enabling the rest of his game to flow. The second set was more of a struggle, giving Sod too many mid court balls, but he was rescued by completely unhinging the Swede's belief in his volleys and half-volleys.

Shhh · Challenger level

Can somebody remind me of the ranking points to be won here?

SMC1809 · All-time great

200 points for a RR win, 400 for a SF win and 500 for a final win, so an undefeated champion can gain 1500 points.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Barclays ATP World Tour Finals: 200 for round robin win, +400 for semifinal win, +500 for final win
(1500 points for undefeated winner).

So 200 points for Andy today - he certainly got aROUND ROBIN

You can always check up on ranking points via the link in Steven's men's top 25 table - right hand side just above 'NEW POINTS CALCULATION'. This is a link to the stevegtennis site, though, so not sure how that will work in the future given that steveg is giving up.

-- Edited by goldfish on Sunday 21st of November 2010 04:32:02 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

The surface is tailor made for Murray. Slow with low bounce.

Also, Soderling's volleys were AWFUL, but credit to Andy for a near-perfect performance.

indiana · Tennis legend

Good to see Andy getting a pretty convincing win and from accounts playing well.

Two RR wins is not necessarily enough to go through to the semis as we know only too well from last year ( and one theoretically could be enough ! ) so it could turn out helpful that it was a pretty convincing scoreline.

indiana · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:

The surface is tailor made for Murray. Slow with low bounce.

Also, Soderling's volleys were AWFUL, but credit to Andy for a near-perfect performance.

Interesting. I've always tended to think that hard fast surfaces were more Andy's thing than hard slow, but someone else thought the very fast Paris Masters courts were not to Andy's advantage.

wolf · Tennis legend

The slower surface brings Andy's defensive skills into play more as he has more time to retrieve the ball. He wouldn't have been able to make Soderling play those tricky low volleys if the ball had been zipping through the court more.

The low bounce helps his slices, particulary playing someone as tall as Soderling. It won't help Nadal with his heavy topspin as his shots won't bounce up high enough and could well just sit up at a nice height for his opponent. Nadal will have to move up inside the court and take the ball early if he is to suceed here, like we have seen him do at Wimbledon.

Despite the extremley one-sided H2H, if Federer is not on his game tonight he could be in trouble because Ferrer will make him play a lot of balls.

indiana · Tennis legend

Neil Harman of The Times has tweeted :

"Big decisions at ATP Tour, the year shortened by 2 weeks from 2012, no time between Paris and WTF. Contentious but something done at last"

Agree something probably needed done.

Disagree no time between Paris Masters and WTF. That's pretty crazy !