Week 26 - Wimbledon men's main draw

RJA · Hall of fame

Week 26 - Wimbledon men's main draw

RJA · Hall of fame

Evo has really upped his level. Playing well now.

RJA · Hall of fame

A horror game at *5-5 from Evo undid a lot of good work. Hard to see him winning from 2 sets down.

Priesty · Challenger level

Kyle now 2 sets down having lost the second set breaker from 3-0 up. Time for him to get back to the grind of challengers now. Playing some good stuff but clearly not quite ready for this level yet and this fast-tracking business needs to stop.

RJA · Hall of fame

For the love of humanity can someone please ban Ronald MacIntosh from commentating on a tennis match ever, ever again.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Ha. I was thinking the same thing Priesty. He needs to be getting wins and build up to the tour for next year

murrayman650 · ATP level

5-2 Down

Haider-Maurer to serve for the Match

0-15

15-15

30-15

30-30

40-30

GSM Haider-Maurer 6-3 7-6 6-2

GB 2 wins (Murray, Broady) v 4 Losses (Konta, Ward , Cox , Edmund)

RJA · Hall of fame

Smethy will be third match on court 3 tomorrow.

scottie1 · Futures level

RJA wrote:
For the love of humanity can someone please ban Ronald MacIntosh from commentating on a tennis match ever, ever again.

He is dreadful no appreciation of the game mind you he is equally dreadful when commentating on Athletics

RJA · Hall of fame

scottie1 wrote:
RJA wrote:
For the love of humanity can someone please ban Ronald MacIntosh from commentating on a tennis match ever, ever again.
He is dreadful no appreciation of the game mind you he is equally dreadful when commentating on Athletics

He hit a new low today. He described a service return as a volley and backhand as a forehand.

RJA · Hall of fame

Not to be for Evo. After being blown away in the first set he played 3 pretty good sets but Kuznetsov was also pretty good for much of the match. On another day Dan would have forced a fifth set but Kuznetsov won just enough of the big points.

-- Edited by RJA on Monday 23rd of June 2014 06:49:34 PM

steven · Tennis legend

A pretty disappointing day really - especially Kyle not even taking a set off AHM, who might be the best draw he ever gets as a WC (though if he gets back to business in Challengers from now on, hopefully he won't need (m)any more), and Evo will probably feel it's a missed opportunity too. Dan Cox did best of the GB men today, apart from Andy.

L128: (WC) James Ward WR 154 lost to (17) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) WR 16 (CH 8 in 2008) by 6-2 6-2 6-1

L128: (WC) Dan Cox WR 214 lost to Jérémy Chardy (FRA) WR 42 (CH 25 in 2013) by 6-2 7-6(3) 6-7(6) 6-3

L128: (WC) Kyle Edmund WR 320 lost to Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) WR 95 (CH 70 in 2011) by 6-3 7-6(4) 6-2

L128: (WC) Dan Evans WR 143 lost to Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) WR 118 (CH 68 in 2013) by 6-1 7-5 3-6 7-6(5)

L128: (WC) Dan Smethurst WR 234 v (9) John Isner (USA) WR 11 (CH 9 in 2012) - 3rd on Court 3 on Tuesday

Spectator · All-time great

Really quite glad for Mr Cox: that was a fine showing. Sounds as though Mr Evans also fought back nicely after a weak opening. Ah well. Now back to the daily grind ... except for hoping for Mr Smethurst to do well tomorrow!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Yep, given the matches and the opponents, I thought Dan Cox turned in the best performance today, by quite a way.

And that's including Andy, although it's no criticism of Andy, simply that you can't get many brownie points if you're ranked number three and you beat the WR 105.

spud · Challenger qualifying

Never understood why posters on this board give so much flack to commentators... chill out for goodness sake!