Week 8 - ATP 250 - ExxonMobil Open, Doha, Qatar (hard)

9vicman · Satellite level

RE: Week 8 - ATP 250 - ExxonMobil Open, Doha, Qatar (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Jakub Mensik (CZE) WR 116 defeated Andy Murray WR 50 by 7-6(6) 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in three hours & 24 minutes

A report from the ATP which includes a link to the story that persuaded me that Andy would have his hands full today & be lucky to win.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 50 (30+20) defeated (3) Nicolas Mahut & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA/FRA) CR 48 (37+11) by 6-1 3-6 [12-10]

L16: (1) Jamie Murray & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 37 (18+19) defeated Tallon Griekspoor & Bart Stevens (NED/NED) CR 194 (112+82) by 7-6(5) 7-5

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Jakub Mensik (CZE) WR 116 defeated Andy Murray WR 50 by 7-6(6) 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in three hours & 24 minutes
The young (he's 18, so half Andy's age) Czech served for the match twice in the second set & twice again before the tie-break in the third.
Mensik didn't serve for the second set - was on serve throughout. However Andy missed 2 set points in the first set tiebreak, the first with a sitter of a volley. And if he'd managed to win the first set...

I sit corrected.

Oscariyan · Strong Club Player

I thought Murray played well in parts especially when he was aggressive but sadly that missed volley cost him. Mensik didn't totally outplay Murray but perhaps was steadier at key points in the tiebreaks

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 50 (30+20) defeated (3) Nicolas Mahut & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA/FRA) CR 48 (37+11) by 6-1 3-6 [12-10]
L16: (1) Jamie Murray & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 37 (18+19) defeated Tallon Griekspoor & Bart Stevens (NED/NED) CR 194 (112+82) by 7-6(5) 7-5

QF: (ALT) Andreas Mies & John-Patrick Smith (GER/AUS) CR 103 (36+67) vs Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 50 (30+20)

Mies & JPS put out Bhambri & Haase in straight sets (4 & 3).

RJH1962 · Intermediate Club Player

Saw some of the first set and then the 2nd when he pulled it back to 5-5 with 2 breaks. He played really well in that period. Mensik will be a very good player

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: (1) Jamie Murray & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 37 (18+19) defeated Tallon Griekspoor & Bart Stevens (NED/NED) CR 194 (112+82) by 7-6(5) 7-5
QF: (ALT) Andreas Mies & John-Patrick Smith (GER/AUS) CR 103 (36+67) vs Lloyd Glasspool & Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) CR 50 (30+20)
Mies & JPS put out Bhambri & Haase in straight sets (4 & 3).

QF: (1) Jamie Murray & Michael Venus (NZL) CR 37 (18+19) vs Wesley Koolhof & Nikola Mektic (NED/CRO) CR 38 (6+32)

That's going to be tricky...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Jakub Mensik (CZE) WR 116 defeated Andy Murray WR 50 by 7-6(6) 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in three hours & 24 minutes
A report from the ATP which includes a link to the story that persuaded me that Andy would have his hands full today & be lucky to win.

Also from the ATP site, a quote from a commentator describing a winning deep lob hit by Mensik (unfortunately): "That is top draw!" Unless "top draw" is an expression actually in use in tennis, but with which I am unfamiliar, the plague is spreading! disbelief

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Jakub Mensik (CZE) WR 116 defeated Andy Murray WR 50 by 7-6(6) 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in three hours & 24 minutes
A report from the ATP which includes a link to the story that persuaded me that Andy would have his hands full today & be lucky to win.
Also from the ATP site, a quote from a commentator describing a winning deep lob hit by Mensik (unfortunately): "That is top draw!" Unless "top draw" is an expression actually in use in tennis, but with which I am unfamiliar, the plague is spreading!

Top drawer is regularly used, as in like something out of the top drawer (as opposed to from the top of the draw ie field), whered youd find the good quality silverware and cutlery etc.

I hear that all the time, think it is a great expression!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Jakub Mensik (CZE) WR 116 defeated Andy Murray WR 50 by 7-6(6) 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in three hours & 24 minutes
A report from the ATP which includes a link to the story that persuaded me that Andy would have his hands full today & be lucky to win.
Also from the ATP site, a quote from a commentator describing a winning deep lob hit by Mensik (unfortunately): "That is top draw!" Unless "top draw" is an expression actually in use in tennis, but with which I am unfamiliar, the plague is spreading!
Top drawer is regularly used, as in like something out of the top drawer (as opposed to from the top of the draw ie field), whered youd find the good quality silverware and cutlery etc.
I hear that all the time, think it is a great expression!

I am well aware of the uses of the adjectival expression "top drawer". I was questioning the intelligence/grammatical competence of the ATP site administrator who transcribed it as "top draw"!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Jakub Mensik (CZE) WR 116 defeated Andy Murray WR 50 by 7-6(6) 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in three hours & 24 minutes
A report from the ATP which includes a link to the story that persuaded me that Andy would have his hands full today & be lucky to win.
Also from the ATP site, a quote from a commentator describing a winning deep lob hit by Mensik (unfortunately): "That is top draw!" Unless "top draw" is an expression actually in use in tennis, but with which I am unfamiliar, the plague is spreading!
Top drawer is regularly used, as in like something out of the top drawer (as opposed to from the top of the draw ie field), whered youd find the good quality silverware and cutlery etc.
I hear that all the time, think it is a great expression!
I am well aware of the uses of the adjectival expression "top drawer". I was questioning the intelligence/grammatical competence of the ATP site administrator who transcribed it as "top draw"!

Ah ha - definitely an American journalist, Id say!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
L16: Jakub Mensik (CZE) WR 116 defeated Andy Murray WR 50 by 7-6(6) 6-7(3) 7-6(4) in three hours & 24 minutes
A report from the ATP which includes a link to the story that persuaded me that Andy would have his hands full today & be lucky to win.
Also from the ATP site, a quote from a commentator describing a winning deep lob hit by Mensik (unfortunately): "That is top draw!" Unless "top draw" is an expression actually in use in tennis, but with which I am unfamiliar, the plague is spreading!
Top drawer is regularly used, as in like something out of the top drawer (as opposed to from the top of the draw ie field), whered youd find the good quality silverware and cutlery etc.
I hear that all the time, think it is a great expression!
I am well aware of the uses of the adjectival expression "top drawer". I was questioning the intelligence/grammatical competence of the ATP site administrator who transcribed it as "top draw"!
Ah ha - definitely an American journalist, Id say!

Not necessarily. I see the error repeated frequently in readers' response to articles published on the TimesOnLine site.

christ · Futures level

There are people that have no idea that draw and drawer are different words.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

christ wrote:
There are people that have no idea that draw and drawer are different words.

This feels like it needs to go to the grammar section someone (SC?) recently started!