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Post Info TOPIC: Miami : Murray v Wawrinka
Who will progress to meet Gonzalez in rnd 2 [29 vote(s)]

Andy goes 'Super G' and takes it in 2
24.1%
Andy awakes from 'Davis Cup' nightmare....edges it in 3
62.1%
Wawrinka goes like 'clockwork'...wins in 2
3.4%
Wawrinka gets a shout from the 'Fed'....wins in 3
10.3%


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RE: Miami : Murray v Wawrinka


Oh, so so annoying.


I know I have said here that we must be prepared for times when Andy's game doesn't seem to advance forward but plateaus, and I think some people, even on this sensible board, are too critical at times, and expect too much, but there appears to be one fundamental problem at the moment :


SERVICE !!!


Whatever they ( Petchey ? ) has been trying to do with his service clearly is far from working at the moment.  I hear that he's tried to slow it down to produce more accuaracy.  Well, although in some matches I have noticed it seemingly a bit more accuarate, if rather tame, yesterday we had the worst of both worlds. :   54% accuracy  and when he did get his first serve in , he won 24/49,  49 %  ( yes, 49% ! )  of the points.  Flippin heck he had 60% success on second service ( actually quite impressive ).  I have never seen service stats so mixed up as that.


I am no expert ( far from it ! ), but to me he last year he had a pretty impressive service ( I was surprised by the power when I first saw it ),  and surely you spend a lot of time working to improve the accuracy but NOT taking most of the pace of it.  He has now recently lost 2 close games, with Davydenko and Wawrinka, where he has had loads of breaks of serve, certainly plenty to be winning any match, but has conceded far too many of his owm serve. 6 breaks each last night, think it was worse against Davydenko, who to be fair is a superb returner but still.


I don't think I am being overcritical because I'd say he still seems to be fundamentally playing well in points, it's not as if he's making loads more unforced errors ( 39 to Wawrinka's 64 ). 


In fact it says a hell of a lot for the young man that he is so close to winning these matches with service stats like that.


However, that's 3 Grand Slams and Masters Series gone with one this year with one win.  They are going to count for 13 of his 18 countable points this season.  So no matter he does well in other tournaments ( and San Jose was such an unexpected joy ), he better start delivering soon in the more major tournamensts.  At least on clay, his service won't be such a sitting duck, but I think I like others, had seen more hard court potential.


Grrrr, so so annoying.



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I wonder if the ankle injury had an effect on his serve? I know his serve has been shocking this year and it definitely needs a lot of work considering how good it looked at times last year, but even with his dodgy serve from this season I wouldn't expect him to lose serve three times out of five in the final set.

It's a disappointing loss but it was going to be a tight match and unfortunately it didn't go our way. I think he gets a lot of credit for coming back from a double break down in the third but it's unfortunate he couldn't keep it up. It's not a lack of effort anyway.

I think Petch should have let him go home for a couple of days last week when Andy wanted to. It's been a long trip for him and it's no wonder he's feeling a bit mentally tired and maybe that contributed. At least he has a few days off now.

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I have calmed down a bit from my deep disappointment of last night; watching just live scores, I knew nothing about any ankle injury. So, in fact, major congrats to him for fighting on and finishing the match. It was so very close, it could have gone either way quite easily.

While, as I said, he needs to win this type of match to rise in the rankings, it is not a given that he is going to do so. Patience is still required.

At least for about the first time in British Tennis history in my memory, we can look towards the clay season without a shudder of horror. . . it may not prove to be his best surface but at least he knows how to play on the stuff and hopefully will pull off a few wins.

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His ATP bio still puts clay down as his best surface ?

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In the words of your Scottish legal system - Not Proven!

I hope it is at least a good one for him.

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