Bloomfield v Tipsarevic

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Bloomfield v Tipsarevic

Sheddie · administrator

It's now 4-2 and Bloomers is facing a break back point

Timely ace brings it back to deuce

By the way, has anyone tried the audio link to live Nottingham commentary on the BBC tennis page, that may work

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

1 set all for Bloomers.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

The audio is working for me, but it`s Johansson v Vacek on Centre.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Tipsy is 2-0 up in the 3rd set.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Tipsy 3-0 up now, although it is just the one break.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Tipsy leads 3-1.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Tipsy 4-1 now with 2 BP

Sheddie · administrator

Tippy now 4-2 up in the 3rd

15-0

Just one break though Bloomers hasn't come close to breaking yet in this set.

30-0

Have you tried the BBC audio link sally ?

Count Zero · Tennis legend

good effort by rich to win a set but he's gonna have to come up with something special to save this.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

Have you tried the BBC audio link sally ?

Yes, I`ve got it on now. It`s Johansson v Vacek on Centre so they`re obviously only doing Centre but they keep mentioning scores from other courts from time to time. Andy (Murray) will be in the studio later apparently.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

5-2 Tipsy.

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

5-3 Tipsy.

Sheddie · administrator

GSM Tippy, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3

Good effort from Bloomers winning a set against a guy ranked close to the top 100. Looking at the stats, the bottom line is that Bloomers was never really able to make much headway on Tippy's serve - the Serb won over 80% of points on both 1st and 2nd serve.

In contrast, while Rich won 83% of points on 1st serve he won a meagre 29% points on 2nd serve and when your 1st serve percentage is 65% that's likely to be ultimately not enough. Tippy had 13 bp chances while Rich only had 1 [which he took].

Did they mention the result, sally ?

Let us know what Andy says please.

-- Edited by UltimateFlemingFan at 15:10, 2006-06-19

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

They said that after the second set it looked like Bloomers would win, but Tipsy used his greater experience to get the vital break.

I`ll let you know what Andy says if I`m still listening (they said around 6pm), hopefully it`ll be on the BBC site though or BBC Nottingham site. If I can pick up BBC Radio Nottingham (I`m very near Nottingham) I`ll tape it and type it up.