Week 10 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (Hard)

daisy · County player

RE: Week 10 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (Hard)

indiana · Tennis legend

Rather strange, Madeline, I do see that.

I was looking at the scoreboard pretty intermittedly. But I first saw it at Andy 5-2 up with 2 breaks and Andy to serve in game 8. I then "saw" him finish off game 9 against the serve to take the set 6-3.

It could be 5-2 was wrong and there was a scoreboard rewind to 4-3 with just one break when I wasn't looking.

With Andy serving first in set 2, the first 3 games were shown as going with serve, so can't have been just a case of the SB indicating the wrong server ( or these would have been 3 breaks there ).

...or the match stats are wrong.

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Rather strange, Madeline, I do see that.

I was looking at the scoreboard pretty intermittedly. But I first saw it at Andy 5-2 up with 2 breaks and Andy to serve in game 8. I then "saw" him finish off game 9 against the serve to take the set 6-3.

It could be 5-2 was wrong and there was a scoreboard rewind to 4-3 with just one break when I wasn't looking.

With Andy serving first in set 2, the first 3 games were shown as going with serve, so can't have been just a case of the SB indicating the wrong server ( or these would have been 3 breaks there ).

...or the match stats are wrong.

I doubt this helps explain the mystery much but the bet365 detailed results suggest Andy broke in the 5th and 9th games of the 1st set and that Lu won the 7th game from 0-30 down by winning the next 4 points, which cuts out the possibility of Andy getting break point and appearing to convert it before a Hawkeye overrule. In game 8 with Andy serving at *4-3, it looks like Lu got to 15-40 on Andy's serve, then it went to deuce, ad Andy, deuce, ad Andy, game 5-3*.

Miriambee · Futures level

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Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Andy being made to work by Berlocq. He was broken early in the first set, recovered it, only to surrender his service again in the ninth game. disbelief Fortunately he broke straight back for *5-5 & held for 6-5*, but couldn't manage a thrid break. Fortunately, he then took the tie-break by 7-4 in an hour & five minutes. Game on... I'm off to bed & hope to wake up to good news!

Stan the Man a break up on Fed in the decider...

SMC1809 · All-time great

Fed has just won in 3 sets. Andy a break up in the second set.

daisy · County player

Andy won 7'6(4), 6'4

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I watched the first set but then gave up as I was freezing - the central heating is complicated to adjust, so it went off before the match began. Once Andy got the first set, I felt that Berlocq would be unable to redline his game for another two sets, so went to bed. Delighted to see I was right.

RJA · Hall of fame

Not the best of performances from Andy. Will have to step it up tomorrow if he wants to progress.

SMC1809 · All-time great

I thought he played very well. Berlocq played poorly in the first two games but after that he went for everything and most of it (apart from his overheads) paid off. I noticed Neil Harman was tweeting but his tweets corresponded with the point outcome rather than the way Andy played, i.e. when Berlocq won a game he criticised Andy irrespective of how Andy played in that game.

Andy was muttering between points and games but he wasn't too disappointed with his play. He was mainly complaining about Berlocq's grunting and extending his grunts until Andy was playing his shot.

However, I agree that Delpo will be a bigger test so Andy will need to step up another level.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Really glad Andy's doing well in this tourney after the last couple of years, and that he's broken his pattern of doing badly in this part of the year. Onwards and upwards!
Hope he can step it up and beat Delpo.

indiana · Tennis legend

Nadal beat Federer 6-4 6-2 ! He will face Berdych in the bottom half semi final.

Andy will now go to world no 2 if he reaches the final here. So that's just beating Delpo and then Tsonga or some guy Djokovic then.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

As soon as he started whinging about the security guards moving in the aisles I knew it was likely he would lose. Just not focussed. Dangerous to let his mind get caught up in that sort of stuff.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Saturday 16th of March 2013 06:49:51 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Djokovic has beaten Tsonga 6-3 6-1

Thus, Murray vs Del Potro should start off at 10.30 pm GMT ( 3.30 pm local time )

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
or some guy Djokovic then.

I believe that in America a randon nobody is referred to as "some dude"

On a more important note, come on Andy, lets have a good performance tonight. I want to be able to say something positive about you.