Murray v De Voest

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Murray v De Voest

GC77 · County player

And with it number 41 in the world rankings (as things stand) and certain to be british number 1 on monday.

bellamy11 · Lower Club Player

Well done son!

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but I've only just really got back from a meeting and joined this thread late, but does this mean Andy overtakes Tim in the rankings? I'm sure I heard he had to better Tim's performance to do so.

Xenon123 · Junior player

Oh my god! I can't believe he won! It sounded like a bit of a scrappy match. Oh well, another ugly match won! But I wish he would do better on his serve.

I never thought that Andy would be British number 1 this early... I'm really glad that Murray did win, because 5 live have been going on for ages about how Murray would be British no.1 if he won.

-- Edited by Xenon123 at 23:52, 2006-02-23

geo1 · Intermediate Club Player

JINGS, that fair had my hear a flutter, it's awfull following Andy like this, so little idea of how the game ebb's and flows, hope we get some TV coverage sometime soon, this could finish me off.

Still it's win, well done again Andy..no real idea how hard fought, but I suspect De Voest was not the walkover we suspected ( hoped )

Cheers

Geo

timmoore46 · Admin:moderator + Club Coach

I don't think Andy cares what his UK Ranking is. It's the top 10 Entry Ranking he is after.

Sheddie · administrator

bellamy11 wrote:

Well done son!

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but I've only just really got back from a meeting and joined this thread late, but does this mean Andy overtakes Tim in the rankings? I'm sure I heard he had to better Tim's performance to do so.

Andy will now be Brit no 1, great stuff. Yet another amazing achievement for him - I know he publically says that it doesn't matter but I suspect that it actually will mean a lot.

Andy struggled in sets 2 and 3 as De Voest suddenly started serving so much better

timmoore46 · Admin:moderator + Club Coach

Thank you Peter for the on-going info! It helped a LOT! Livescore is SO monochrome! *LOL*

Sheddie · administrator

If you have any questions on the match, ask them now !

Murray's serve percentage was actually pretty good in the end - 70% is pretty world class. It really helped in that final set !

Drew · Feb 23, 2006

timmoore46 wrote:

I don't think Andy cares what his UK Ranking is. It's the top 10 Entry Ranking he is after.

Tims right...Andy keeps repeating the same line...he would rather be No 10 in the world and No 20 in the UK than No 1 in the UK and 50 in the world !!!

Sheddie · administrator

timmoore46 wrote:

Thank you Peter for the on-going info! It helped a LOT! Livescore is SO monochrome! *LOL*

Sure, it's fine, great to have so many people following it. It will continue tomorrow !!!

Ask as many questions on the match as you want

Drew · Feb 23, 2006

Peter wrote:

If you have any questions on the match, ask them now ! Murray's serve percentage was actually pretty good in the end - 70% is pretty world class. It really helped in that final set !

1. Is Rik a typical serve / volleyer ?

2. Andy's serve was very good..was he mixing it up ?

3. Do you think he could go all the way ?

Sheddie · administrator

Drew wrote:

timmoore46 wrote:
I don't think Andy cares what his UK Ranking is. It's the top 10 Entry Ranking he is after.
Tims right...Andy keeps repeating the same line...he would rather be No 10 in the world and No 20 in the UK than No 1 in the UK and 50 in the world !!!

True, but surely overtaking both Tim and greg, guys he's looked up to for at least a decade will really mean quite a bit to him.

What a whirlwind couple of weeks it's been for him !!

Niall · Pro player

How many times can Andy pull out these victories late in the first set?

It's amazing to think that we used to say Andy would win in strait sets and struggle with long matches. Now it seem like Andy is at his best after two and a half hours of tennis.

It seems like Andy has lost the ability to win a strait forward match. That is probably because there is a lot of depth in mens tennis and there aren't many mugs entering the tournaments Andy is now playing in.

aria81 · Club Coach

Peter wrote:

If you have any questions on the match, ask them now ! Murray's serve percentage was actually pretty good in the end - 70% is pretty world class. It really helped in that final set !

Thanks for the commentary - livescore can only tell you so much and stats don't really tell the whole story.

Did Andy look really lethargic today or was it just one of those days where the other guy played a blinder? Do you reckon he has any chance of beating Soderling after such a long match or did he look too tired at the end of it?