Week 19 - ATP 1000 - Rome (Clay)

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

RE: Week 19 - ATP 1000 - Rome (Clay)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Murray at his best.
Played exceptionally well in patches last round, today just about faultless.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

He did go off slightly ( and was broken wasn't he?) near the beginning of second set, but instead of mentally 'going off on one' & allowing that to ruin his play for the rest of that set he reigned his mind in, focussed, and got back to playing brilliantly. (IMO)

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Oh dear. It's grumpy Andy today - and he has been broken twice in the first set. 1-4*

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Oh dear again. Lost the first set 1-6. Just doesn't seem to know how to deal with Funky Flo.

indiana · Tennis legend

Oh dear oh dear. I had forgotten Andy was on so early. That's not good cry

Was slightly worried last night when he was saying for some reasons it was easier to move on the courts later in the day after earlier matches and wouldn't be as good first off. And he also did indicate Mayer's style might prove a bit awkward. Seemingly so . He better work it out quickly or impose his own game !

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Lol this is a strange match. Andy takes the second set 6-1, winning 17 of the last 20 points. . . maybe he has woken up now.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy wins 1-6 6-1 6-1 biggrin

Took him a set to wake up and work Funky Flo out, but then it was pretty much a steam-rollering. Grumpy and chuntery in the first set, but he managed to rein himself in and concentrate well after that.

Florian played lights-out tennis in the first set but couldn't keep it up.

indiana · Tennis legend

Soderling vs Djokovic on not before 9.15 pm local. Have a good battle, guys smile

So can't imagine Andy's SF will be on early tomorrow, and whatever he's going to have much more recovery time considering it's still 7 hours earliest before these guys even get started.

Mikeduke · County player

Nice work!

I think that means Andy has reached the semi-finals in all of the Masters events except for Paris!

RJA · Hall of fame

Very strange match today but good to see Andy take adavatage of a soft draw for once. He must ve in with a decent shout if it is Nole in the semis. Going deep in back to back clay court masters is brutal, even Rafa has struggled tp do so in the past.

Mikeduke · County player

The write up on the live comentary for the atp says this:

Andy Murray defeats Florian Mayer 1-6, 6-1, 6-1 and becomes the first male Brit to make it into the final four at Rome. If you ignore the fact that Muzz thought the match started at 1 pm and everything before that was just a hit-out with some guy he'd never seen before, he was brilliant. It took him a while (a set, in fact) to work out how Mayer was hitting and also to defrost his own service (which still looked a bit burnt on the outside, frozen in the middle, like a good British sausage on a barbecue), but overall, Murray got the job done. He's in the Soderling/Djokovic part of the draw.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Yes, that sounds about right!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Madeline wrote:
, but he managed to rein himself in and concentrate well after that.

Ah, that's how to spell it - knew it didn't look right biggrin But then perhaps 'reigning' over the 'monkey' mind amounts to the the same thing ?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

So, "The Joker" it is (he beat Söderling by 3 & 0!). Let's hope the brilliant, fully-focused Andy shows up to wipe that self-satisfied smirk off his face!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 13th of May 2011 09:12:35 PM