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steven


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L128: (4) Andy Murray WR 4 v Ryan Harrison (USA) WR 84 (CH 66 last Aug)

Harrison beat a "Ward GBR" in QR1 of both RG (James) and Wimbledon (Alex) last year but has never played Muzz before.

Looking further ahead, the winner plays Malisse or Roger-Vasselin in R2 and possible later opponents could be:

R3: Bogomolov Jr
R4: Monfils
QF: Tsonga
SF: Djokovic
FI: Rafa/Fed

It looks like he may need to do a fair bit of extending of his 36-1 record against GEMs since Tsonga beat him at the 2008 AO if he wants to go deep.

 



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Tough IMO. Harrison playing with no pressure could be tough, Malisse can be difficult, Monfils is easily one of the toughest R4 matches, Tsonga has been in awesome form and then the real work starts......

Murrays training pics look great thougb, very fit indeed. And his form has been looking very polished. Im excited for this campaign.



-- Edited by murray_2k9 on Friday 13th of January 2012 12:08:57 AM

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Full Quarter:

 

MURRAY, Andy GBR [4] v HARRISON, Ryan USA
MALISSE, Xavier BEL v ROGER-VASSELIN, Edouard FRA
LLODRA, Michael FRA v GULBIS, Ernests LAT
GIMENO-TRAVER, Daniel ESP v BOGOMOLOV JR., Alex RUS [32]


TROICKI, Viktor SRB [19] v FERRERO, Juan Carlos ESP
GARCIA-LOPEZ, Guillermo ESP v KUKUSHKIN, Mikhail KAZ
BELLUCCI, Thomaz BRA v SELA, Dudi ISR
MATOSEVIC, Marinko AUS (W) v MONFILS, Gael FRA [14]


SIMON, Gilles FRA [12] v QUALIFIER (Q)
BENNETEAU, Julien FRA v BECK, Karol SVK
SOUZA, Joao BRA v EBDEN, Matthew AUS
ROBERT, Stephane FRA v NISHIKORI, Kei JPN [24]


GRANOLLERS, Marcel ESP [26] v LEVINE, Jesse USA (W)
GIL, Frederico POR v DODIG, Ivan CRO
QUALIFIER (Q) v MELLO, Ricardo BRA
ISTOMIN, Denis UZB v TSONGA, Jo-Wilfried FRA [6]

Quite a change for Andy not to be in Rafa's half, isn't it?



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Comon the muzz!

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Don't think you can complain much at all about the first 3 rounds. Also, I'd be quite confident re Monfils anyway and I do hear that he looked a bit dodgy fitnesswise in exhibition ( not sure what the supposed issue was ).

Andy should be reaching the QF OK, but then so should Tsonga, looking at his draw, and that could be rather interesting if it comes to pass.



-- Edited by indiana on Friday 13th of January 2012 12:30:37 AM

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I thought it looked pretty easy to the QF.

Andy should have enough for Tsonga if he gets there.

From then on I guess it didnt matter who he got although he does have a good record against Rafa here.

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According to the AO twitter, the bottom half plays on Monday - so Andy can't be playing before Tuesday.

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I would think that the only significant concern that the Big 4 have about draws is that they don't meet a big hitter on a streak too early on.

Having skimmed through the draw, I'd say that there are maybe 4 potential banana-skins on the way to the semi-finals: Raonic (Djokovic in R16); Tsonga (Murray in Q/F); Del Potro (Federer in Q/F); and Isner (Nadal in R16).

So they're nicely shared around. But it looks like Djoko will barely need to break sweat to win his first 3 matches, so let's hope that Raonic - if he gets there - catches him slightly cold ...

Yes, of course I know that any top 100 ATP can beat any other on the day...

GO MILOS!!! (but not too far...)



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*Comes over to the solace of andy's section*

Oh Andy. How we take thou for granted.

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Sorry to go off topic, but has anyone else noticed that the - er - "hilarious" Boggo-joke thread has disappeared, and Jason Goodall appears to have been banned.

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Ratty wrote:

Sorry to go off topic, but has anyone else noticed that the - er - "hilarious" Boggo-joke thread has disappeared, and Jason Goodall appears to have been banned.

Hmm, it wasn't me, though I can understand why another mod might have thought that was the best course of action.

Personally, I was just hoping everyone would ignore him for long enough for him to get the message that he wasn't being the slightest bit funny.



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Haven't banned Jason but I deleted the thread. Reason being, a lot of players read this site and that sort of thread is likely to drive people away.

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Just in case Jason Goodall should come across the above and wonder what he's done while drunk or something, I think it is worth mentioning that our "funny guy" actually goes by the name Jason Rockall.



-- Edited by indiana on Monday 16th of January 2012 09:29:42 PM

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