Andy's competitors-French Open (weeks 22 and 23)

RobC · All-time great

RE: Andy's competitors-French Open (weeks 22 and 23)

RobC · All-time great

Uh- oh! Novak's got the second set too. Come on folks get those pins wiggling wildly!!

Allez Monfils! you do 5 - setters well, remember, that's how you beat Andy.

Now then Novak, time to go to pieces!

RobC · All-time great

Pin failure

Novak wins 7-6, 7-6, 6-3.

Andy drops another place to 45th (back where he ended the previous week).

Julien Benneteau also goes past him if he wins his Quarter Final tomorrow against Ljubicic.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

All I can say is I hope Novak has a very very bad grass court season. Why couldn't he content himself with a fourth round appearance? It's not as if anyone expected him to get that far anyway. (I'm not bitter at all)

RobC · All-time great

RobC wrote:

Julien Benneteau also goes past him if he wins his Quarter Final tomorrow against Ljubicic.

Correction: Benneteau plays on Tuesday (As does Djokovic), according to the R-G oop. the ATP scores page had all the QFs tomorrow.

ah well, just one more day of this this week.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RobC wrote:

Correction: Benneteau plays on Tuesday (As does Djokovic), according to the R-G oop. the ATP scores page had all the QFs tomorrow. ah well, just one more day of this this week.

Tuesday is tomorrow Rob :angelicinnocence: (i realise that isn't an avaliable emoticon but seemed appropriate ).

I presume you mean they don't play until Wednesday (the day after Tuesday, which is the day after today - Monday- :evenmoreinnocence:)

RobC · All-time great

Unghhhhhh....what day is it???? where am I?????

Drew · Jun 5, 2006

RobC wrote:

Unghhhhhh....what day is it???? where am I?????

it is 'novak' day & u are in 'pain' LOL

RobC · All-time great

From the Prostejov Challenger:

Tabara, Michal, CZE
def
Srichaphan, Paradom, THA

6:1 6:2

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Who else (of Andy's competitors) is playing in challengers this week Rob?

Paradorn's not having a good year so far is he

RobC · All-time great

imoen wrote:

Who else (of Andy's competitors) is playing in challengers this week Rob? Paradorn's not having a good year so far is he

He's not, is he? - almost as bad as Tim's year. I guess that's one place Andy can expect to climb if he just keeps treading water (which means defending his Wimbledon points).

No other Andy competitors in Challengers. The nearest are Hrbaty above him & Vik below him

Drew · Jun 7, 2006

Djokovic just retired hurt against Nadal...shame for him ...but good for Andys ranking

Bethans pins must really have worked well this time.....did you sacrifice a chicken or something ?

RobC · All-time great

Drew wrote:

Djokovic just retired hurt against Nadal...shame for him ...but good for Andys ranking Bethans pins must really have worked well this time.....did you sacrifice a chicken or something ?

- hmmm. Delayed pin reaction that one. Novak overtook Andy on Monday, so all this does is keep him within range of a good performance at Queens!

Hopefully she sacrificed a chicken or two aginst Benneteau on Monday as well: If he gets past Ljubicic to the semis, Andy drops another place.

RobC · All-time great

On Court now:

Julien Benneteau, Last French hope, and hopefully a pin- cushion by now, 120 points behind AM

-vs-

Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia's finest, number 4 seed and already helped Andy's ranking by putting paid to Ramirez- Hidalgo, and Tim's by beating Berlocq and Monaco.

1 game all in the first set.

Start wiggling those pins for Benneteau, and wave the red & white checked flags for Ivan!

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Don't be silly, of course I didn't sacrifice a chicken. It was a cockerel.

Most of my pins seem to work when it's too late. I'm thinking of starting the campaign for Wimbledon up now, in the hopes it has an effect.

(Come on Ljubcic!)