Australian Open Day One Scores and Chat

Sheddie · administrator

RE: Australian Open Day One Scores and Chat

Sheddie · administrator

Johansson now an early break up in the 5th

steven · Tennis legend

ultimateshedman wrote:

Was Roddick a bit off his game or was Tsonga just playing brilliant ? From the Beeb report, sounds as though he was having quite a go at the umpire, lol

Serena Williams v Mara Santangelo coming up shortly. Based on Serena's form last week, you have to favour Santangelo but maybe Serena will come up with something special to upset the 27th seed given her memories of Melbourne Park

I saw a little bit of the Roddick match, including part of that tiebreak, but German Eurosport was concentrating on the Mauresmo match at the time. I think the tightness of the match was a combination of Tsonga showing flashes of brilliance and Duckboy coming down from the high of beating Fed in Kooyong.

The bookies would beg to differ with you over favouring Santangelo!

Sheddie · administrator

Lol, I'm really not sure who will win that Williams-Santangelo match. Serena's form last week was very poor, she lost to Safarova - a player she would have beaten 1 and 2 at her best.

Santangelo is not the typical Italian clay-courter, she looks to get forward and into the net as much as possible so she'll be rushing Serena a lot. Who do you think will win ?

How come you've got German Eurosport

What did you make of Mauresmo, struggling with the heat ?

Sheddie · administrator

johnnylad wrote:

Ferrero wins 3-0 retired against Hajek. Hajek must be gutted.

Hajek had a stomach bug I think.

Big shame was Pim Pim's retirement due to blisters, after his great form in Adelaide, I was looking forward to seeing how he did here. No one would have wanted to face him

Sheddie · administrator

Well I was totally wrong, Williams-Santangelo was about as 1-sided as you could get, 6-2, 6-1 win for Serena.

She looked dominant, in fine form. Her serving was really good while Santangelo didn't really show up, didn't have anything in her game to hurt Serena and made too many forehand errors.

Djokovic is giving the Olympic Champion (Massu) a real hammering at the moment, 6-1, 6-1 so far. Very impressive given that these courts suit Massu's game

VSandhi20 · Futures qualifying

i watched the tiebreak of Rod-Tsonga match and it was tense, i was hoping Roddick lose easily given the fact that Tsonga was 5-2 up in the second. When Roddick broke back, i knew Tsonga would not be the player he was in the first set Nevertheless the A-Rod escapes and i hope Tsonga does fufil his potential, hes got a monster of a serve and a awesome forehand!

I watched Serena's matchi think it was a ok match for her, she was serving well and she relied on her backhand too much Every other time she was not confident going for her forehand, also the commentators believe she a dark horse! i doubt it, she not moving great, and she needs be physically conditioned because she normally strikes her forehand while in the air, but that wasnt happening so she still got a long way to go before reclaiming that no1 ranking again. Petrova will show what's been happening in the last year while Serena's been away in the third round.

steven · Tennis legend

Serena was a vision (not!) in yellow.

I think Santangelo was simply intimidated by Serena. Evidence: when serving to stay in the 1st set, she went 0-30 down, left a Serena shot that stayed well in when she was close to the back of the court and well placed to hit it to go down 0-40 and then double faulted on the first set point!

I've got German Eurosport because my girlfriend is German so we have the Satellite pointed to Astra 19E, which is where all the German channels are.

With Greg commentating for British Eurosport this week, I wish I could get that - though his penchant for very confidently stating stats that are completely wrong (even about his own career) would probably begin to grate on me after a while.

The German commentators are actually very good - seem to know more about even the lower-ranked Brits than some of ours do and certainly way more than our commentators would know about any of the Germans. They don't get very excited though, even when Haas / Muppetman / Becker are playing - they try to be a bit too impartial for their own good sometimes.

One very telling comment during the Mauresmo match - they were talking about there being 'only' 4 German women in the main draw and saying how this meant German women's tennis was "sicherlich not at ze top" (one of them has a tendency to break into Engleutsch from time to time) at the moment. If only our women's tennis was useless enough for us to have 4 in the AO main draw!

RobC · All-time great

2 amazing games on at the moment:

Jamie's doubles partner, Ben Becker is a set up, and has just come back from 5-3 down with one break to 5-5 against Safin....

Meanwhile Dlouhy and Gabashvilli (the shed man himself!) are at 11-12 in the fifth!!!!

Sheddie · administrator

Now 14-14 between Dlouhy and Gabashvilli !!!

steven · Tennis legend

Choky, I mean Dlouhy, holds to love for 14-14. He's only missed TEN match points so far.

steven · Tennis legend

Match stats so far:

40 break points between them

143 unforced errors between them

111 net approaches by Dlouhy

4 hrs 40 mins and counting

steven · Tennis legend

Dlouhy converts BP no. 42 to break for the 5th time in this set and will choke for the match again at *15-14.

steven · Tennis legend

He did it!

16-14 in the 5th on the 11th match point!

steven · Tennis legend

40-15, MPs 11 and 12 coming up ...