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Stircrazy


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From the Beeb's rolling sports news page: 

We don't want to drive you away, but there are some remarkable scenes at Roland Garros right now as Andy Murray loses seven consecutive games to Mathias Bourgue to ship the second set and go a break down in the third.

He couldn't turn it round in the third set, either, losing it by 4-6.  bleh



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The big concern with Andy has to be that his return game here is so pitiful. Normally when he is having a bad day he struggles to hold as has been the case here but at least he gets his chances to break back by getting into his opponents service games. Today it seems like a succession of love holds for Bourgue with Andy unable to figure out a way back into the match. This could be over in 4.

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Andy 6-2 2-6 4-6

Kyle 4-6 4-6 2-3* ( break down in 3rd )



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L64:  (15) John Isner (USA) WR 17 defeated Kyle Edmund WR 82 by 4, 4 & 4  cry



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Andy finally makes an impression again:  *3-1 in the fourth... (it seemed to work yesterday...)



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Andy sure likes to live dangerously, it seems; theemptyvessel's intervention crucial, maybe ;)

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Andy wins the fourth set 6-2

Bourgue lost to Brydan Klein in qualies last year!!

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theemptyvessel wrote:

The big concern with Andy has to be that his return game here is so pitiful. Normally when he is having a bad day he struggles to hold as has been the case here but at least he gets his chances to break back by getting into his opponents service games. Today it seems like a succession of love holds for Bourgue with Andy unable to figure out a way back into the match. This could be over in 4.

My cunning attempt to jinx Bourgue seems to have worked biggrin



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There's far too much excitement watching the seeds in action in the early rounds of the Slams now. Roll on the return of the usual tedium.

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wimdledont wrote:

There's far too much excitement watching the seeds in action in the early rounds of the Slams now. Roll on the return of the usual tedium.

 Or Novak Djokovic to give him his proper name.



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Well it maybe can be a bit tedium to some that other players so rarely beat Djokovic, but that's not his problem.

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Meanwhile, Andy clearly feeling that his cunning plan to get yet more clay practice and time on the match court is being diluted by running away with the final set gives one break back.

5-2*

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And Andy eventually - in three hours & 33 minutes, according to the Beeb - gets his act together:

L64:  (2) Andy Murray WR 2 defeated (WC) Mathias Bourgue (FRA) WR 164 by 6-2 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-3

Phewagain.  Pity he couldn't have finished it when he served for it at 5-1!  Wonder if it's the first time Bourgue's played a best-of-five-set match?  He showed some pluck in keeping it going as long as he did.

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L32:  (27) Ivo Karlovic (CRO) WR 28 (CH = 14 in August 2008- he's the same age as Ugly Mug, 37) vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2

Big Ivo eventually overcame the young Aussie, Jordan (or Jordanie, as the R-G insists on calling him, presumably because that's the name of the country in French! disbelief  Used to do that when Ross Hutchins was playing doubles with Jordan Kerr, too!) Thompson by 6-7(2) 6-3 7-6(3) 6-7(4) 12-10!  He's never beaten Andy in six encounters, though they've never met on clay before.  Andy's still going to have to pull his socks up!



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 25th of May 2016 04:03:24 PM



-- Edited by Stircrazy on Wednesday 25th of May 2016 06:09:07 PM

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Phew again ! :)

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Andy fights back to defeat the BOURGUE in 5 sets. Resistance is not futile.

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