Week 9 - ATP 500 - Dubai (Hard)

Maza1987 · Challenger level

RE: Week 9 - ATP 500 - Dubai (Hard)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Had to beg some power off someone for my lap top, and saw the last 2 games. WOW

philwrig · Hall of fame

Enjoyable Friday lunchtime viewing. Great serving for the most part, and a few more errors than usual from Nole was the difference for me between here and the Oz open.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Another easy win for Andy !!

So who is this "Djokovic" character anyway ? Is he meant to be any good ? biggrin

Joking aside, I may not know who Djokovic is, but at least I now know he is human !!!

Great win for Andy.

Bob

helki · Futures qualifying

I'm just in from battling the weeds in the garden, I'm truly impressed by this result. Well done Andy. Now for the final.

RJA · Hall of fame

Andy will play some guy called Federer in the final.

steven · Tennis legend

H2H in the Middle East - 2-0 to Muzz

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Nice one, Steven!

The total H2H at 8-6 isn't too shabby, either. Admittedly it was better and Fed has whittled it down a bit: come on, Andy, get it moving in the right direction again

RJA · Hall of fame

Quite surprisingly they haven't played one another for 15 months.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Have to say I fancy his chances better agin Rog than I would have agin DelPo...

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

yeah, looks like Delpo's back on the up and up.

RJA · Hall of fame

Stircrazy wrote:
Have to say I fancy his chances better agin Rog than I would have agin DelPo...

Can't really agree with that. Andy has a great record against Del Potro (5-1) and all of those matches were before Del Potro's injury.

murrayman650 · ATP level

15-0

30-0

40-15

4-4

0-15

0-30

0-40

5-4 Federer

-- Edited by murrayman650 on Saturday 3rd of March 2012 04:44:03 PM

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Meh. Andy loses 5-7 4-6. His serving just wasn't up to scratch today, and Fed was having a good day.

Still a darn sight better than the last two years, and I am cautiously optimistic about IW and Miami.

Edit: first serve % only 48. Fed's was only 50, but won more points on his second serve. Andy's second serve has improved out of sight, though, it doesn't get clobbered very much these days.

-- Edited by Madeline on Saturday 3rd of March 2012 04:54:36 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Yep without really wanting to get into some of the love / hate discussions you get on certain other forums, to me Fed has been far too much up his own arse for quite a number of years and does seem to choose who he is gracious to. I think many of the tennis watching public are a little at odds with most commentators re this. I have heard Jonathan Overend comment a bit about it on Radio 5 Live. although he seemed to think it rather amusing more than anything else.

At the WTF he met up with the Arsenal manger and players and said words to the effect that he thought it had been a wonderful experience for Arsene and the players to have met him wink

He at times does though seem to say these things without any self awareness of how it can come across. Quite strange really.

Re the match I'm not too bothered about Andy losing as long as his game is in decent groove.

Re Andy's second serve that Mad referred to, having not seen any of his matches this week I can't really give it any stick wink Did notice that he only won 4/16 on it against Djokovic, which looked rather concerning. Today he wn 19/34 against Fed, though he's generally not such a good returner.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 3rd of March 2012 09:47:22 PM