TMS Madrid : Rd2 : Murray v Ljubicic

Sheddie · administrator

RE: TMS Madrid : Rd2 : Murray v Ljubicic

Sheddie · administrator

2nd serve....40-15

Game and 2nd set Ljubicic

6-4, 3-6

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

L holds to 15 to take the second set.

Drew · Oct 18, 2006

Set 6.3 to IL

Sheddie · administrator

Andy serving:

15-0:

2nd serve...30-0

40-0

Game

6-4, 3-6, 1-0*

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Andy just held to love in the blink of an eye at the start of the third, hopefully a sign of things to come and he now goes on to break to love.

beeb still thinks the second set is in progress:

Murray 3-5 Ljubicic
Hugely impressive from Murray. At 0-40 and staring down the wrong end of a second set thrashing, he fights back with two great serve-volleys and then moves to advantage with a sensational stretching volley. Another big serve later and the game is his.

Murray 3-6 Ljubicic
The answer is a big fat no. Another one of those dodgy drop-shots gifts Ljubicic the advantage, and his crashing serve does the rest. The match goes to a third set...

-- Edited by imoen at 16:59, 2006-10-18

Sheddie · administrator

Ljubicic serving:

15-0: Big serve, L powers away 2nd shot into open court

30-0: Murray sends a lob long

40-0: Big serve, L wrong-foots Murray

Game

6-4, 3-6, *1-1

Sheddie · administrator

Andy serving:

15-0: L sends forehand just wide

30-0: Big serve, L return into net

40-0: Ue from L

Game

6-4, 3-6, 2-1*

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Beeb has completely given up now, stopping at the end of the second set.

no one has yet taken points on the opponent's serve in the third set...

and the right person bucks the trend with Andy moving to 40-15 on L's serve. can he get another four points in a row?

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

imoen wrote:

L's serve. can he get another four points in a row?

he got another 2 but its adv ljubicic now...

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

40-30, there's the first

beeb have remembered there's a third set:

Murray 1-0 Ljubicic
Perfect game from Murray - he holds to love as all four of his first serves sizzle in.

Murray 1-1 Ljubicic
And it's the same story from Ljubicic. If that big first serve keeps landing in, there's not much Murray can do.

Murray 2-1 Ljubicic
As you were - another service game to love. But that's exactly what Murray needs after that second set slipped away from him so quickly. The giant screen in the stadium shows a close-up of a teenage girl in the crowd, and her face turns bright red in seconds.

deuce, there's the next, only two more Andy come on. (It's helping that L has forgotten how to get a first serve in but I'm not complaining!)

ad L, he remembered again.

Sheddie · administrator

L serving:

2nd serve....15-0: Attacks the net and puts a volley away

30-0: Murray misses a bh pass

40-0: Another backhand pass, which just misses

40-15: L hits a wild forehand long and wide

40-30: Andy on the run rips a backhand cross-court pass winner

Sheddie · administrator

Deuce

Ad L: Big serve

Drew · Oct 18, 2006

Cmon Andy time for a break ...deuce...

mkkreuk · Admin:Moderator + ATP qualifying

for those of you who want to watch the match but dont have sky or whatever here's a stream:

http://live2.nusports.cn:53420/login

its slightly delayed but not otherwise quite good