Week 45 - ATP World Tour Finals - London (Indoor Hard)

murrayman650 · ATP level

RE: Week 45 - ATP World Tour Finals - London (Indoor Hard)

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Marray & Nielsen lost the first set 3-6, but have just broken for *2.1 in the second.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Hmm - back on serve at *3-4

indiana · Tennis legend

Two holds, * 4 - 5

indiana · Tennis legend

Two more holds, * 5 - 6

indiana · Tennis legend

Not to be, beaten 6 - 3 7 - 5. But at least the SF still awaits them.

indiana · Tennis legend

I was thinking they might steal it with a TB, MTB win, and it would have been a bit of a steal given they finished 65 - 50 points down with much more pressure on their serve and 4 /11 BPs won by L & T as against 1 / 1.

They do appear generally to be rather good clutch players, winning the points that matter, given they haven't won more points than their opponents in any of their group matches.

Spectator · All-time great

Well, given that they've played Linstedt/Tecau twice this year, I think they chose the right one to win. On to the semifinals.

indiana · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Come on Jonny, and Freddie, keep this wonderful year going.

PS: Am I alone in taking more pleasure in Jonny's Wimbledon win than in Andy's Olympics and US Open triumphs?

Possibly, indeed probably, not. But much as I really loved what Jonny and Freddie did at Winbledon, you won't get backup from me. That said, my long and close following of Andy's career, and what I have stated before that the US Open win more particularly did to my emotions, was never going to make me your best candidate smile

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 11th of November 2012 02:11:21 AM

wolf · Tennis legend

SF: (6) Marcel Granollers & Marc Lopez (ESP/ESP) v (8) Jonathan Marray & Frederik Nielsen (GBR/DEN)

Ratty · County player

Chance seems to play a very large part in doubles. I don't know why that is.

Yes, you get the odd unexpected result in singles - like Rosol beating Nadal at Wimbledon. But then reality was restored, and Rosol went out in straight sets in the next round.

Marray/Nielsen were almost a scratch pairing at Wimbledon, and yet they won the entire tournament. Since then they have played together 4 times, with 2 first round losses, 1 second round loss, and now 2/3 wins at the ATP Masters.

Strange stuff. And if I might get a bit cosmic, might I suggest that the unpredictability is one of the (many smile ) reasons why doubles is not very popular. People prefer established hierachies. Yes, we can live with the odd upset, but anything more smacks of anarchy.

-- Edited by Ratty on Sunday 11th of November 2012 07:27:27 AM

RJA · Hall of fame

Come on Jonny, and Freddie, keep this wonderful year going.

PS: Am I alone in taking more pleasure in Jonny's Wimbledon win than in Andy's Olympics and US Open triumphs?

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
RJA wrote:
Come on Jonny, and Freddie, keep this wonderful year going.

PS: Am I alone in taking more pleasure in Jonny's Wimbledon win than in Andy's Olympics and US Open triumphs?

Possibly, indeed probably, not. But much as I really loved what Jonny and Freddie did at Winbledon, you won't get backup from me. That said, my long and close following of Andy's career, and what I have stated before that the US Open win more particularly did to my emotions, was never going to make me your best candidate

Well I think I can confidently say that I have followed Andy's career closely for a similar length of time as you and have also been through the emotional wringer many, many times. Logically I should have been more happy over Andy's win but for some reason I wasn't. Maybe it was just down to feeling more relief at Andy finally winning as oppossed to simply feeling joy at at Jonny's "fairytale win".

RJA · Hall of fame

Ratty wrote:
Chance seems to play a very large part in doubles. I don't know why that is.

Yes, you get the odd unexpected result in singles - like Rosol beating Nadal at Wimbledon. But then reality was restored, and Rosol went out in straight sets in the next round.

Marray/Nielsen were almost a scratch pairing at Wimbledon, and yet they won the entire tournament. Since then they have played together 4 times, with 2 first round losses, 1 second round loss, and now 2/3 wins at the ATP Masters.

Strange stuff. And if I might get a bit cosmic, might I suggest that the unpredictability is one of the (many ) reasons why doubles is not very popular. People prefer established hierachies. Yes, we can live with the odd upset, but anything more smacks of anarchy.

All fair points but they won the tournament that is least likely to produce an upset. The dire format now used for most Doubles events does make matches a bit of a lottery but you can't fluke 6 matches played over 5 sets.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

While I enjoyed the "fairytale" run, I have to say that to me it comes NOWHERE NEAR my feeling for Andy's exploits. But then I am not very interested in doubles, and I think that is mostly because of the constant changing of partners.