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RJA


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Good draw for Andy. Possible opponents

 

R1: Bye

R2: Davydenko / Granollers

R3: Nishikori

QF: Del Potro / Almagro

SF: Federer / Tsonga



-- Edited by RJA on Saturday 11th of May 2013 04:18:20 PM

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Yes, this is about as good a clay court Masters draw as he could possibly have hoped for at the moment.

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RJA wrote:

Good draw for Andy. Possible opponents

QF: Del Potrol

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L32:  Marcel Granollers (ESP) WR 37 (CH 19 in July last year) vs (3) Andy Murray WR 2

Andy's beaten him twice on clay, the first time in Futures qualies in Vigo in 2004 (!), the second in the first round in Barcelona in 2006.  Their most recent encounter was in the second round of the Oz Open in 2009, when Andy won in straight sets.



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 13th of May 2013 11:57:06 AM

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Andy isn't on the OOP for tomorrow.

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Andy 2nd after 11:00 on Centrale tomorrow

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Federer looking awesome tonight. His schedule so far this year hasn't worked out for him but it should have left him fresh for Roland Garros and more pertinently Wimbledon.

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There's quite a cute story about Andy taking his first private jet and giving Jo-Wilfried a lift:

http://www.thetennisspace.com/tennis-players-and-their-private-jets/

Hopefully, they both got there fast and rested and had a fun dinner together.

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It's a good job Muzz - in less than an hour's time, he will no longer be able to get a youth discount on an Interrail pass



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It's true that in Spanish, in the absence of an accent mark, the stress is on the penultimate syllable if the word ends in a vowel, -n or -s (though the last syllable is stressed instead if the word ends in any other consonant) but the confusion occurs here because Granollers is a Catalan name (it's actually a place near Barcelona) - I was trying to work out how to make it obvious how to say it, then came across this http://www.forvo.com/word/marcel_granollers/ , which does the job for me

I'm sure SC will correct me if any of that is wrong!



-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 15th of May 2013 01:51:26 PM

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Granollers strolled to the first set 6-3

Feeble and inept from Murray.

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1-4 down in 2nd set. just watching LS, when I can bear to look.

got in a right mess when watching live streams a week or 2 back - we had to reboot and clear out microsoft etc, then reload everything.

 



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He had a MTO at 1-2*, problem with his hip.

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From 1-4* to *4-4

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Dear Bob in Spain,

I speak no Spanish. How should you pronounce 'Granollers' ?

I've alwyas used three equal weight syllables, with a french-style ending i.e. gra-no-lay

The Uk commentators have a strong second syllable accent gra-NO-lers with an english 'ers' ending

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