Week 44 - ATP Masters 1000 - BNP Paribas Masters - Paris (indoor hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - ATP Masters 1000 - BNP Paribas Masters - Paris (indoor hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

SF: (2) Andy Murray WR 2 "defeated" (4) Milos Raonic (CAN) WR 5 by a walkover hmm

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Final: (9) Marin Cilic (CRO) WR 10 (CH = 8 in October 2014) vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2 (1 on Monday! biggrin )

Andy leads the head-to-head by 11-3. Cilic beat Andy by 4 & 5 in the final of this year's Cincinnati Masters, but Andy beat him in three in the semi-final at Queen's, their first encounter since the quarter-finals in Beijing in 2014 which Andy won by 1 & 4. Cilic beat Andy in the Rotterdam quarter-finals earlier that same year by 3 & 4, but his only win before that was a straight-sets win in the last 16 of the USO in 2009!

malincanada · Improver

Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (2) Andy Murray WR 2 "defeated" (4) Milos Raonic (CAN) WR 5 by a walkover
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Final: (9) Marin Cilic (CRO) WR 10 (CH = 8 in October 2014) vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2 (1 on Monday! )
Andy leads the head-to-head by 11-3. Cilic beat Andy by 4 & 5 in the final of this year's Cincinnati Masters, but Andy beat him in three in the semi-final at Queen's, their first encounter since the quarter-finals in Beijing in 2014 which Andy won by 1 & 4. Cilic beat Andy in the Rotterdam quarter-finals earlier that same year by 3 & 4, but his only win before that was a straight-sets win in the last 16 of the USO in 2009!

I guess the excitement of Andy getting to #1 has gone to your head.

Pretty sure Andy will be playing Isner in the final!! :)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

malincanada wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (2) Andy Murray WR 2 "defeated" (4) Milos Raonic (CAN) WR 5 by a walkover
*****
Final: (9) Marin Cilic (CRO) WR 10 (CH = 8 in October 2014) vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2 (1 on Monday! )
Andy leads the head-to-head by 11-3. Cilic beat Andy by 4 & 5 in the final of this year's Cincinnati Masters, but Andy beat him in three in the semi-final at Queen's, their first encounter since the quarter-finals in Beijing in 2014 which Andy won by 1 & 4. Cilic beat Andy in the Rotterdam quarter-finals earlier that same year by 3 & 4, but his only win before that was a straight-sets win in the last 16 of the USO in 2009!

I guess the excitement of Andy getting to #1 has gone to your head.
Pretty sure Andy will be playing Isner in the final!! :)

Whoops! I think it must have! You're quite right!

Final: John Isner (USA) WR 27 (CH = 9 in April 2012 vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2 (1 on Monday! biggrin )

The head-to-head is even better than with Cilic: the pair have met seven times since the AO in 2010 & Andy's won every single one, most recently in the quarter-final in Vienna (1 & 3) & the last 16 at Roland-Garros (7-6(9) 6-4 6-3_! wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

John Peers & Henri Kontinen take the doubles title, beating the top seeds, Mahut & PHH, by 6-4 3-6 [10-6]!

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
John Peers & Henri Kontinen take the doubles title, beating the top seeds, Mahut & PHH, by 6-4 3-6 [10-6]!

Just saw that. Well done to them and well done on having earlier clinched their place at the 02.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
malincanada wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
SF: (2) Andy Murray WR 2 "defeated" (4) Milos Raonic (CAN) WR 5 by a walkover
*****
Final: (9) Marin Cilic (CRO) WR 10 (CH = 8 in October 2014) vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2 (1 on Monday! )
Andy leads the head-to-head by 11-3. Cilic beat Andy by 4 & 5 in the final of this year's Cincinnati Masters, but Andy beat him in three in the semi-final at Queen's, their first encounter since the quarter-finals in Beijing in 2014 which Andy won by 1 & 4. Cilic beat Andy in the Rotterdam quarter-finals earlier that same year by 3 & 4, but his only win before that was a straight-sets win in the last 16 of the USO in 2009!

I guess the excitement of Andy getting to #1 has gone to your head.
Pretty sure Andy will be playing Isner in the final!! :)
Whoops! I think it must have! You're quite right!
Final: John Isner (USA) WR 27 (CH = 9 in April 2012 vs (2) Andy Murray WR 2 (1 on Monday! )
The head-to-head is even better than with Cilic: the pair have met seven times since the AO in 2010 & Andy's won every single one, most recently in the quarter-final in Vienna (1 & 3) & the last 16 at Roland-Garros (7-6(9) 6-4 6-3!

Half-way there: first set in the bag by 6-3. smile

indiana · Tennis legend

Just 11 return points in total in set 2 ( just about all Isner's 6 in one game when I think he may have had *0-40 ) and it's 6-6, tiebreak.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Isner captures the second set in a tie-break (7-4) to take the match into a decider.

Jan · Hall of fame

Big John played really well in that set.
Come on Andy!

TMH · Futures qualifying

Isner's serving at 80%. If he played like this consistently he'd be unbeatable. Let's hope his level - and that FSP - drops in the decider, or I can't see how Murray can possibly win.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Isner serving at 1st serve 210kph (131mph)
2nd serve 191kph (119mph) AVERAGE speeds, amazing consistency

indiana · Tennis legend

5 out of 5 Isner first serves in the tiebreak certainly eased life for him.

Andy 1-0*

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Andy's a ! biggrin His first ever Paris Masters title!

Final: (2) Andy Murray WR 2 defeated John Isner (USA) WR 27 by 6-3 6-7(4) 6-4 biggrin

Jan · Hall of fame

Brilliant!!!!
John played really well and made a great match of it.
Huge congrats to our number one!!