Madeline wrote:

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At the very least he has equalled last year's Beijing performance

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 True, however since he isn't playing Valencia he is effectively defending his points from both of those events. That means at least one more win is required.

OK, I think Andy has proved he's in better form that in February / March  

Actually winning 30 out of 33 matches since the start of Queens rather suggests it too.  Two Slam semi final defeats by Nadal and err thrashed by Kevin Anderson in Montreal.

Spectator wrote:

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Does anyone else recall an interview in which Murray effectively said that he serves one way when he's playing an "ordinary" player, and then has to serve a different way if he's playing Nadal or Djokovic? I'm trying to recall where I saw this. Just thinking about how it relates to the difference between the steamrolling of lower-ranked players and stats against the very top ones. (Not just for Murray)

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 After the match against Isner at the US Open, he was asked (I believe it was in a bbc interview posted on their website) about his 70% first serve percentage (due to slicing or kicking in most of his serves) and he gave an answer very similar to the one above. He said if he served like that against Nadal or Djokovic, virtually every return would be landing on the baseline near his feet, so it wouldn't work.

Maza1987 wrote:

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Pleased to see Andy has been sorting out the players against whom his h2h has been relatively weak. Young, Bogomolov, Simon, Baghdatis and now hopefully Nalbandian.

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Good point ... except that his H2H against Simon was 4-1 at the end of 2010 and 7-1 before Bangkok, so he probably doesn't belong on that list - unless you mean any H2H for Andy against a GEM that doesn't end "-0" is relatively weak.

Maza1987 wrote:

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Pleased to see Andy has been sorting out the players against whom his h2h has been relatively weak. Young, Bogomolov, Simon, Baghdatis and now hopefully Nalbandian.

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 With, if he beats Nalby, a chance to take his H2H of 3:3 with Ferrer into a positive situation.

Andy's match starting soon, at after 11am. The various guesses on other boards of a start time between 8.30 to 10 am a bit confounded by 3 long matches beforehand.