Week 6 - ATP 500, Rotterdam, Indoor Hard - Andy

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 6 - ATP 500, Rotterdam, Indoor Hard - Andy

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I had to go out immediately at the end of the first set: to be honest, I should have gone out before that! I'll watch the second set now. Nice to see Andy looking positive, it hasn't always been that way after an AO defeat.

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeed, much better than Andy's past occasional 'prepare really well for the Aussie Open, do well there though ultimately lose, then go AWOL for a couple of months and undo much of the good work' thing.

wimdledont · Challenger level

After previous AO losses, Andy was reduced to tears and seemed to go into something of a prolonged sulk.

This year, he looked bloody furious, which is better.

cpmax · Improver

IF Murray wins this he does get a useful benefit besides the cash and points is that he would (should) have beaten 3 top 10 players. That should give any player a bit of a boost and some validation of current form.

emma · Strong Club Player

good to see Andy winning yesterday and even better to see him no. 1 seed again :)

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

wimdledont wrote:
After previous AO losses, Andy was reduced to tears and seemed to go into something of a prolonged sulk.

This year, he looked bloody furious, which is better.

Well he's grown up abit, and won the odd slam Now he's acting like a champion.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Andy will jump to no.3 in the world if he plays to his ranking this week.

TMH · Futures qualifying

Don't understand the constant mentions of Murray 'going AWOL' post AO (not just on here). That was in 2010 and 2011 when he was a lot younger. In-fact, this is the fourth year he's not 'gone AWOL' after the Australian Open.

Complete fallacy.

indiana · Tennis legend

"it hasn't always been that way" and "past occasional" are clearly not fallacies.

It is very good that as he has got older and had big successes that these episodes seem confined well to the past.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

First set to Andy 6-3

EddietheEagle · County player

First set over in a blink. Pospisil plays some nice 1-2s, holding serve easily enough then mysteriously loses focus and drops serve mid set. 6-3 Andy.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Andy wins 3 & 5 :)
Simon next...

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Andy wins 6-3 7-5. Some twists and turns in the second set, but he got the job done. Simon next. It might help if Andy can find where he left his first serve.

Edit - I see it was 63% - it didn't seem that high!

-- Edited by Madeline on Thursday 12th of February 2015 03:26:08 PM

EddietheEagle · County player

Certainly not a routine second set. After he lost that set point at 5-3 which he'd worked hard for with his forehand weapon, Pospisil ended up drained, losing the next four games.