ATP Indian Wells

Drew · Mar 9, 2006

RE: ATP Indian Wells

Sheddie · administrator

I think it may be done at random, I'll try and find out

lucyflory · Social player

Andy will play Greece's Vasilis Mazarakis in round one. Can't say I've ever heard of him before...

Lucy

PS. I'm new here!

stagger · Club Coach

hello lucy
welcome to this website.
I went to your homepage -its the damndest thing but you look just like andy murray.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

lucyflory wrote:

Andy will play Greece's Vasilis Mazarakis in round one. Can't say I've ever heard of him before... Lucy PS. I'm new here!

Hi Lucy and welcome. I doubt if anybody has heard of the guy except for in Greece, and the ones he has beaten in the qualifiers! I looked him up, he won a couple of challengers and some futures last year, mostly on clay but some on hard. He must be playing well at the moment to have qualified, but if that is as far as he has got at 26 he looks to be something of a journeyman, so hopefully Andy should not have too much of a problem with him.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

lucyflory wrote:

Andy will play Greece's Vasilis Mazarakis in round one. Can't say I've ever heard of him before... Lucy PS. I'm new here!

Welcome to the board Lucy

Drew · Mar 10, 2006

From BBC online......seems a very mature attitude from Murray here...

Murray reins in Indian Wells hype

Murray is downplaying the hype surrounding his rankings riseAndy Murray insists he is under no pressure to make major progress at the Indian Wells Masters Series event.

The Scot, 18, defeated Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick en route to the San Jose title in February, but he said: "This is a much bigger tournament."

If Murray beats Greek qualifier Vasilis Mazarakis on Friday he will face fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko, who has a bye.

"I'd like to win a few matches, but I'm not expected to do great," said Murray, now up to 44 in the world rankings.

He added that steady rather than spectacular progress was his main aim this season.

"As long as my ranking is going in the right direction, I'm winning matches against the best players, then that's really the most important thing.

"My best tennis isn't going to be right now, it's going to be when I get to 21-, 22 years old.

"Life's pretty good just now. So if I do jump up (the rankings), that's great, but if I don't, that's not really a big deal."

Sheddie · administrator

Hi Lucy, welcome to this site

Andy's got a really nasty draw here, he should win his opening match but from then on he's going to be up against extremely tough opposition to put it mildly.

Lots of people around the different websites are completely underestimating Davydenko, they forget that if Davydenko had held his nerve he could have beaten Roger Federer in 4 sets in the Aussie Open. If Andy beats the world no 5 and one of the on-form players this year - it will be one of the best wins of his career, second only to the win over Hewitt in San Jose. The courts will really suit Andy but they will also suit Nicolay down to the ground. Davydenko has metronome consistency from the baseline - he can outrally the best clay-courters in the world, he actually uses similar tactics to Andy to get variety in his groundstrokes - lots of looping topspin shots to the baseline followed by a sudden change in pace. Davydenko's an extremely good counter-puncher he's very fast around the court and has pin-point passing shots on both wings and he has a great return of serve. His mental strength and physical fitness are second only to Nadal. Davydenko has two main weaknesses which Andy must try to exploit - [1] his 2nd serve - Davydenko has one of the weakest 2nd serves on tour [John Lloyd once described it as "just getting the ball in play"], he makes up for it with his phenomenal speed around the court and great hand speed but if Andy can really get stuck into the 2nd serve and try to dominate it, he has the returning power to hurt the Russian [2] Davydenko's volleying - to be fair to the Russian he has really improved his volleying skils but he still looks uncomfortable at the net, I can see Andy using lots of dropshots and short angles to draw him in.

-- Edited by UltimateSlabbaFan at 17:41, 2006-03-10

murrayman650 · ATP level

let the fun begin

mjd · Challenger qualifying

10.25pm GMT play still held up due to "Rain Delay" Which started just as Andy due on court. Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Sheddie · administrator

Newspaper previews of Murray v Mazarakis:

Independant:
http://sport.independent.co.uk/tennis/article350315.ece

Scotsman:

http://sport.scotsman.com/tennis.cfm?id=361202006

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Unsuprisingly, Andy wins eailsy, 6-2, 6-1.

Tim Henman was also untroubled, beating US rising star Donald Young 6-3, 6-1

-- Edited by stevemcqueen at 07:07, 2006-03-11

Drew · Mar 11, 2006

The web site has just launched "Pacific Life Open TV" its completely free and the quality of the streams is fantastic.

There are currently no match highlights from this year but its 'coming'.

They also say that on the main courts they will be doing 'nearly live' video streaming !!!

http://www.pacificlifeopen.tv/page/Home/0,,11555,00.html

Lets hope Andy goes far enough and we can watch live !!!!

Edit : From the QF they will also being streaming LIVE audio commentary. A bit hopefull to think that Andy will still be about !!!!

-- Edited by Drew at 11:59, 2006-03-11

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

The live video streaming is very good! Any body who has a broadband connection but not Sky Sports should definitely gove it a try. I am currently watch Ginepri V. Schrichaphan....

Sheddie · administrator

My computer tells me I need an extra plugin in order to view it, can anyone tell me what this is and maybe give a link for where I should download it ?