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Alex is in the main draw which will be probably released tomorrow, I think it's going to be a day later than usual as the qualifying goes on until Monday. The indoor hard courts should suit him, hopefully he gets a good draw.

Jamie Murray is in qualifying. He's had a good win in rd1, over a 20 year old unranked Thai wildcard: 7-6, 6-2. In rd2 he's got 19 year old German Mischa Zverev, former US Open juniors semi-finalist. Zverev has been on fire this year winning 1 challenger title and 4 futures titles and raising his ranking several hundred places to 196. His rd1 win over Andy Ram was 6-2, 6-1, very impressive considering Ram's serve-volley game is tailor-made for fast indoor courts. Worryingly, Jamie plays a similar sort of game, he'll be serve-volleying the whole time. However, Jamie's serve has more variety and spin than Zverev so it'll be harder for Zverev to get a good hit on the return. They never played in juniors but Zverev has played Andy, losing twice. A couple of weeks ago he lost in straights to Mackin in Orleans.

Jamie and Andy will play doubles together, a great chance for Jamie perhaps to get into the top 100 as I expect they'll play together in Tokyo aswell.





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J Murray v Zverev is 2nd on stadium court tomorrow at about 6.30 am BST. As it's on stadium court, we'll be able to follow it on the live scoreboard

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Jamie needs 46 more points to crack the doubles top 100. He could do this by winning a 50K challenger, I'm not sure how far he'd needed to get in ATP Bangkok to do this.

I'm sure Bethan or RobC will know

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UltimateBoggoFan wrote:

Jamie needs 46 more points to crack the doubles top 100. He could do this by winning a 50K challenger, I'm not sure how far he'd needed to get in ATP Bangkok to do this.

I'm sure Bethan or RobC will know


 


Grr... issuing challenges like that.....


Bangkok has 40 points for a QF place, 75 for a semis place. Jamie's defending 12 points from GB F13 (Edinburgh) last year (won with Colin as partner).  He's on 468 points now, so a QF place takes him to 468+40 - 12 = 496.  A semis place takes him to 468+75-12 = 531 - should get him into the top 100  - just. (James Blake is #97 on 530 at the moment)



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Murray-Zverev is on court, Murray is serving to stay in the set at 4-5 down

15-40

30-40

Deuce

Ad Murray

Game

5-5

Go Jamie !! He did extremely well to hold there, saving two set points, he's playing a great match so far

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Zverev serving:

15-0

30-0

30-15

40-15

40-30

Game

5-6


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Stats so far:

Zverev has served 2 aces and 2 double faults, Jamie has served none of either

Both men are serving extremely well - Zverev's at 73%, Jamie's at 74% which is very high !

Zverev has won 76% of his 1st serve points but Jamie has exploited the 2nd serve and he's only won 44% of those points. Jamie's won a fairly low 64% of points on his 1st serve but has compensated by winning 50% on his 2nd serve.

There have been 1 break each so far. Both have saved 2/3 bps

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Jamie leads 40-30, a point to take it to a tiebreak. 2nd serve.....and it's 6-6.

Go Jamie !!!! He's done extremely well so far,, as Zverev is ranked so much higher and has had a lot of success indoors.



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Tiebreak: [Zverev serving 1st]:

0-1

1-1

1-2: Grrr, 1st minibreak to Zverev

1-3: Ace

2-3: Jamie gets the minibreak back. 2 key points to hold now

3-3:

4-3: Zverev's under pressure now

4-4

2nd serve...

4-5

4-6: Grrrrrr

5-6:

2nd serve....

5-7

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So 1st set Zverev after 41 minutes, 7-6[5].

Jamie came extremely close there, he's got to take heart from pushing Zverev so close in that set and keep fighting.

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Jamie serving to open the 2nd set:

15-15

15-30

30-30

40-30

Deuce

Ad Zverev:

Grrrrrrrrr, Zverev breaks

6-7, 0-1

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Zverev serving:

15-15

15-30 C'mon Jamie, lets get this break straight back. A similar thing happened at the start of set 1

30-30

40-30

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6-7, 0-2

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Jamie serving:

15-0

15-15

30-15

40-15

Ace

Game

6-7, 1-2

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Zverev serving:

0-15

0-30: Go Jamie, big chance here !

0-40:

2nd serve...

15-40

30-40:

Deuce

Ad Zverev

Deuce

Ad Zverev

Game

6-7, 1-3

I doubt Jamie will have a better chance than that to break 3 missed bps and a 2nd serve on one of them

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Jamie serving:

0-15

15-15

15-30

30-30

30-40: Double fault

Game Zverev

6-7, 1-4



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