Murray v Blake

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Murray v Blake

Drew · May 17, 2006

AM breaks for 5-3...now hold serve for 5-4 and do the same again !

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Andy takes one break back, can he pull back the first set

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

One of the breaks back - come on Andy, you need another 3 games on the trot

Sheddie · administrator

Blake serving for the set:

0-15: Great play from Andy !!! Great return from from there on he dominated the rally finishing in style with a forehand winner

0-30: Big chance for Andy now. Blake serves his first double of the match

15-30: ue from Blake

15-40: Another ue from Blake !!

30-40: Blake hits an ace. C'mon Andy !!

Great stuff Andy is still in this set. He breaks when Blake punts a forehand out of court under pressure.

Drew · May 17, 2006

Cant hold serve...1st set to Blake 6-3

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

imoen wrote:

Andy takes one break back, can he pull back the first set

Er - no.

Bother.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

6-3

I'm still confident if he can get that first serve in

Sheddie · administrator

Murray serving to stay in the set:

15-0: Long baseline rally, both players hitting heavy topspin shots and Blake is the first to crack, going for a winner and missing the baseline by several inches.

15-15: Grrrr, Andy !!!! After a really cleverly constructed point, he goes for a daft dropshot early in the rally

15-30: ue from Andy

15-40: forced error, big hitting from blake

30-40

but Blake then breaks and takes the set with some powerful shot-making

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

johnnylad wrote:

6-3
I'm still confident if he can get that first serve in

I read on another board that his first serve % was 75% - but he only won 42% of them.

Sheddie · administrator

The problem Andy's having is that he's a little over-powered by Blake once they get into the rallies so he's trying to go for the lines but it's not working.

Blake serving, start of set 2:

15-0: Murray goes for a forehand winner but sends it long.

30-0: Murray goes for his trademark backhand down the line but wasn't in the right position and he nets the shot,

40-0: Blake shows that he had variety aswell as brute power with a delicate drop shot winner

40-15: Blake unleashes a single-handed backhand down the line but it hits the top of the net

He still takes the game at the 2nd time of asking

1-0

johnnylad · Tennis legend

oh dear! I just assumed he was getting pasted because it was failing.

Lets hope Blake can't keep his standards up

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Madeline wrote:

I read on another board that his first serve % was 75% - but he only won 42% of them.

In that case it's just Blake playing better than Murray, about which there is nothing he can do (unless he's making ues). Glad his first serve % is good though. I don't like the fact that this scoreboard doesn't let us know the stats like the others do

Murray broken for Blake to lead the second set 2-0. I'm losing hope

Sheddie · administrator

Madeline wrote:

johnnylad wrote:
6-3
I'm still confident if he can get that first serve in

I read on another board that his first serve % was 75% - but he only won 42% of them.

He's getting lots of first serves in but they don't have enough "juice" on them. It'd be better if he only got 50% in but if they were at full pace

Murray serving

15-0: Murray controls this rally well and Blake's backhand floats over the baseline

15-15: Murray goes for an inside-out forehand but just misses the sideline - very unlucky

15-30: ue

15-40: forced error from Murray, Blake is really attacking that 2nd serve

Blake breaks, Murray stopped playing as he thought that his first serve was out and it clearly was - hawkeye showed it but the umpire though otherwise

2-0