ATP weeks 25-26 - Wimbledon

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

ATP weeks 25-26 - Wimbledon

philwrig · Hall of fame

Overall though I think its a better than average draw.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

The only thing I worry about is the number of players who have previously beaten him in slams - Cilic, Wawrinka, Roddick, Nadal - and Gasquet who keeps taking him to 5 sets! Also Monfils who is not mentioned by Indie.

Yes, I do know he can't play all of them, but still. . .

indiana · Tennis legend

Madeline wrote:
Also Monfils who is not mentioned by Indie.

Specsavers ? smile

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Ooooops!

S&V · Club Coach

Once more we go down a very nerve-ridden road

Drew · Jun 20, 2011

S&V wrote:
Once more we go down a very nerve-ridden road

Keep your nerves in check until the later rounds....straight sets win with the loss of 10 games IMO.

RJA · Hall of fame

Drew wrote:
S&V wrote:
Once more we go down a very nerve-ridden road
Keep your nerves in check until the later rounds....straight sets win with the loss of 10 games IMO.

You really, really should have known better

4-6

S&V · Club Coach

Starting to get really scared here, this is looking bleak right now

Armchair · County player

If someone asked you which player was seeded four.............

philwrig · Hall of fame

Painful but at least he won the second set.
Nothing on his groundies at all.

S&V · Club Coach

So work reared its ugly head and I returned to quite a different score.

JM1138 · Lower Club Player

RJA wrote:
Drew wrote:
S&V wrote:
Once more we go down a very nerve-ridden road
Keep your nerves in check until the later rounds....straight sets win with the loss of 10 games IMO.

You really, really should have known better
4-6

4-6 6-3 6-0 6-0 smile .

Maybe you should have, RJA! 9 games lost in the end, although definitely not distributed how we would have expected.

indiana · Tennis legend

Only saw the last set and a half so missed the fun smile

From what I was hearing on TV , and more particularly the radio Andy played OK the first couple of sets, and more that Gimeno- Traver was playing exceptionally above what one would expect. But seems you guys not so sure about that and I still would have have thought Andy shouldn't be losing a set to G-T howevee well he was playing and having to dig in so much in the second.

Anyway, from what i saw and stats overall, re my favourite bugbear, looks as if he served well with very good first serve % and to me he also seemed to have quite a bit on his second serve compared to not too long in the past.

Whne he gets in a zone, like today often near the end of a match, and goes chasing a serve he can be absolutely destructive. I sometimes think he is such a good returner that he shoiuld be capable of chasing a serve better during the thick of a match than he is often willing to try. Was muttering some strange stuff in interview at the end that early on he was going after the first serve and just more trying to get the second serve in, and he later switched that about.

Anyway, good workout and however he started, he clearly found better form and may be no bad thing to have got a taste of playing under the roof again with certainly the short-term forecast not that great.

seagull · Hall of fame

DGT was playing out of his skin in first set and a half IMO...just a question if he could keep it up, and more importantly if Murray could raise him game which to give him his credit he did