Week 32- ATP 1000 - Montreal (Canada) - Hard

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RE: Week 32- ATP 1000 - Montreal (Canada) - Hard

S&V · Club Coach

Interesting to watch this today and see bith Fed and Djok overcome bad starts to win, something Andy is not doing yet

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

To be fair, Anderson is #35 and is a darn sight harder to beat than Pospisil. Davydenko is right out of form. Anderson is very likely to cause an upset when his serve is on - I remember he put Djokovic out of an early round a year or possibly two ago.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Up until last year Andy was very good at winning matches when he wasn't playing his best.

indiana · Tennis legend

Trouble is there is a distinction between not playing his best and playing pish cry

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

I can't help but notice that yesterday was an extraordinarily good day for Serbia and Croatia!

Odd about Andy's loss, but he has always always thrown in the occasional rubbish performance. I think that is just the way he is. Disappointing none the less

steven · Tennis legend

So Dodig beat Rafa from 1-6 1-3 down ... what's going on?! confuse biggrin

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
So Dodig beat Rafa from 1-6 1-3 down ... what's going on?!

Blimey! He did: 1-6 7-6(5) 7-6(5)!

indiana · Tennis legend

stevemcqueen wrote:
I can't help but notice that yesterday was an extraordinarily good day for Serbia and Croatia!

Odd about Andy's loss, but he has always always thrown in the occasional rubbish performance. I think that is just the way he is. Disappointing none the less

Trouble these days is Andy throws in rather more than the occasional rubbish performance and some are really rubbish for a player of his ability.

In times past, Andy was comparatively a real model of consistency.

Yes, that was quite a day for Croatia and Serbia. I'm sure they are mutually happy for each other smile Why is Dodig not Dodic ?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Why is Dodig not Dodic ?

I presume, Indy, because that is just how the surname (pronounced dodik) evolved. It is apparently a pretty common Croat surname: see here for further info. No sign of "Dodic" there... wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Andy Murray, to borrow from Churchill (talking about Russia in, I think, 1939), "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma", at least as far as his thought processes go. It's just a pity that there appears to be no one on the scene at the moment who, like old Winny, thinks he (or she) may have a key (in the case of Russia, Russian national interest)! cry Clearly, merely working harder in training after a bad defeat is not in Andy's career interest, though sorting out his head may be.

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Friday 12th of August 2011 01:10:59 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
indiana wrote:
Why is Dodig not Dodic ?
I presume, Indy, because that is just how the surname (pronounced dodik) evolved. It is apparently a pretty common Croat surname: see here for further info. No sign of "Dodic" there...

Much like not everyone in the UK has a name ending in -son or starting Mc- or Fitz-, for example, not everyone in Croatia has a name that ends -ic, though the majority of them do. There isn't a Croatian christian name anything like "Dod" I don't think, hence no Dodic, though Dodic is a surname in Serbia.