Week 24 - ATP 250 - Queen's Club, London

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Week 24 - ATP 250 - Queen's Club, London

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Have they put Muzza on an outside court ? If so, I will be interested to know if they have live pictures all of a sudden.

Josh · Challenger level

Murray's on centre, Hewitt and Cilic have beeb shoved over to an outside court, despite starting their match on centre earlier this afternoon.

DF · Tennis legend

Murray held the first game of the match
1 - 0

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Josh wrote:
Murray's on centre, Hewitt and Cilic have beeb shoved over to an outside court, despite starting their match on centre earlier this afternoon.

Gobsmacked. Disgraceful.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

I have been sitting here watching Flash scores for the last hour or so, and just discovered that I have FOX sports over here and Queens is on live. Do I feel like a plonker !!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Well, this is a first. Fox Sports have decided to show Nascar at the same time so they have split the screen down the middle. But rather than shrinking the image size, they have left it as it is and all I can see of the tennis is the deuce court at the far end. If Andy runs out to play a backhand, he goes off screen !! Wierd.

indiana · Tennis legend

Hewitt and Cilic were "shoved over" to Court One with their agreement, which was needed and was a very generous gesture.

It also to my mind made sense. The vast bulk of the crowd presumably wanted to see Murray vs Tsonga and I believe there were also some safety concerns if many had wanted to try and watch that match on Court 1.

A bit unfrtunate for Hewitt and Cilic ( whose gesture will no doubt be remembered by Queen's ), but I do think the most sensible move.

Murray incidentally had been expecting his match to be played on Court 1.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Well, obviously Andy needs my support, even if I am at home watching on tv: I got back home when the score was 3-3 in the second set - and Andy never looked back!

Cilic in the final tomorrow. H2H is 8-1 in Andy's favour - but I think Cilic has improved a lot lately especially on grass. I promise to watch all the final as well as I can while throwing lunch at the Other Half. . .

daisy · County player

NOTE THE EARLIER START TIME ...

The Aegon Championships singles final at The Queens Club in London has been moved forward by two hours to a new start-time of 12 noon (BST) tomorrow after weather forecasts predicted that rain would arrive mid-Sunday afternoon.

The singles final had originally been scheduled for 2pm (BST) with the doubles final beforehand and the Rally Against Cancer charity match afterwards, but both singles and doubles finals have now been scheduled for 12 noon, with the doubles final on Court One (with tickets for the doubles final available separately on the gate for £10, and free for under-16's).

The Rally Against Cancer match (Andy Murray/Tim Henman vs. Tomas Berdych/Ivan Lendl followed by celebrity doubles) will follow the singles final on Centre Court.
Gates will open at 10.30am (BST) as previously advertised.

All ticket-holders will be e-mailed with the new start start time, it will be published on our official tournament website (www.aegonchampionships.com) and through social media platforms, and we will communicate the new start-time via our broadcast partners and through the media.

The singles final and the Rally Against Cancer matches will continue to be screened, live, on BBC 1. Eurosport will also screen the the singles final live, and the Rally Against Cancer match tape-delayed.

For the latest information about the event, please go to the official Aegon Championships website: http://www.aegonchampionships.com

RJA · Hall of fame

Of course since they made that decision the weather forecast has substantially improved and it should be dry for most, if not all, of the day.

indiana · Tennis legend

Very good week for Andy.

By the third set today he was striking the ball really well. When he justt starts going for it, in a relaxed winning mood, he can be great to watch.

I make him the most likely Wimbledon winner this year - there, I've said it.

RJA · Hall of fame

27th title in the bag, 3rd of the year, a good week of practice ahead of Wimbledon and any bagging doubts about the back injury gone. I'd call that a pretty good week.

I also I agree with Indiana, I think he is favourite to win Wimbledon. I have been quite critical of him since the US Open but I do think that from the moment he won there half an eye has been on Wimbledon and that it is clearly his main goal for this year.

Jan · Hall of fame

ooh I love the optimism!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Well done, Andy. In recent years the winner of Queens has rarely been the winner of Wimbledon, but that is because Fed kept winning Wimby and he plays Halle. Time to reverse that statistic.

Visitors turned up unexpectedly when the match was on: I rudely left it on (I usually turn the tv off if somebody comes). So I couldn't give it my undivided attention, but managed to see enough.

Hilarious to see the difference between celebration for winning the USO and managing to hit Ivan in the Charity Doubles!