BNP Paribas Masters - ATP 1000 - Oct. 27th to Nov. 2nd

[Murat Baslamisli]

Gael clowning again...how does he come up with this stuff...?

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Gael goes through in straight sets. I expect serious clowning and highlights tomorrow against Nole.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Roger's next opponent is Lucal Pouille. They have not played against each other before.
Since, I have not heard of him before, I just looked him up. He is a young chap and has
won a total of 1 match, in his whole career. His ranking is 176 right now.

He got in as a wild card; no not as a wild card in the main draw, he is ranked too
low for that and France has a deep pocket of tennis players. He got in as a wild
card into the qualifying draw.

He took out Steve Johnson and Jarko Nimien in the qualifying draw and then
he handled the Ace Machine Dr. Ivo and then cleared the Fog, to see Fed whom
he lists as the player he admires.

 

[tented]

Gael goes through in straight sets. I expect serious clowning and highlights tomorrow against Nole.

I guess it depends on how you define "serious clowning and highlights". If you mean highly competitive, give-it-your-all enthusiasm, then I disagree. If you mean a 6-2, 6-0 defeat, because Monfils is playing so poorly people call him a clown, then I agree.

With DC on the horizon, I don't expect Tsonga or Monfils to put in more than a minimal effort this week, even though they're in Paris/Bercy.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

There won't be any highlights. Monfils is 0-10 against Novak.

 

[TennisFanatic7]

Pouille was pretty impressive against Karlovic, but I didn't catch any of today's action.

Hopefully Andy can keep up the good run tomorrow. After playing six consecutive weeks and pretty much securing his place in London, it wouldn't worry or upset me too much if he lost relatively early in this tournament, but on the other hand, I don't feel that he should be losing to Dimitrov three times in a row.

Some other good ties tomorrow, Nole vs La Monf with the Parisien crowd, also Jo Willy vs Kei. Berdych and Lopez could be interesting too - Feli has beaten him twice this year and leads the H2H 6-5 but Tomas crushed their last encounter 6-1 6-2 in Beijing.

 

[tented]

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Court Central Start 10:30 A.M.

[5] Tomas Berdych (CZE) v [12] Feliciano Lopez (ESP)

[14] Kevin Anderson (RSA) v [3] Stan Wawrinka (SUI)

[9] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) v [8] Andy Murray (GBR)

[10] Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) v [6] Kei Nishikori (JPN)

Not Before 7:30 P.M.

[Q] Lucas Pouille (FRA) v [2] Roger Federer (SUI)

Not Before 8:30 P.M.

[1] Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Gael Monfils (FRA)

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Court 1 Start 12:00

[Alt] Pablo Cuevas (URU) / Santiago Giraldo (COL) v [2] Alexander Peya (AUT) / Bruno Soares (BRA)

Not Before 2:30 P.M.

[4] David Ferrer (ESP) v Fernando Verdasco (ESP)

[7] Milos Raonic (CAN) v [11] Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)

Eric Butorac (USA) / Raven Klaasen (RSA) v [8] Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) / Horia Tecau (ROU)

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Court 2 Start 2:00 P.M.

[1] Bob Bryan (USA) / Mike Bryan (USA) v Kevin Anderson (RSA) / Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

[PR] Marcin Matkowski (POL) / Jurgen Melzer (AUT) v [4] Ivan Dodig (CRO) / Marcelo Melo (BRA)

 

[tented]

I'm looking forward to Dimitrov/Murray -- their first encounter since Wimbledongate.

Anderson has beaten Wawrinka both times they've played this year, and Stan has only won two matches since the USO. Anyone think he will win?

 

[mrzz]

Is it just me or this it the slowest court ever made by man under this very sun? It looks like its made of velcro, and a bit of glue... some nails and a super-hyper-megablaster gravity field. How can the players even walk on it? Now I understand why Ivo almost got bageled. This is anti-Ivo surface 2.0.

Look, I don't want to exagerate, but after the ball bounces I think the speed goes from 200 KPH down to 17.4. A Djokovic-Nadal match on this surface would take 3 months to end. The 78 shots rally between Simon and Monfils in this court would be concluded by their offspring.

I really don't want to exagerate. Maybe my videocard is in slow motion mode. Even the sound of the balls hitting the ground is in a lower tone. In fact, Nadal would lose all of his matches here, he would outrun every ball, get wrong footed a sprain its ankle.

Maybe it's the balls... the rackets, the players making an slowdown strike.

But it is good for the line judges. The ball stands still in the ground for five seconds, so you can get up and check if it is in or out.

Or maybe they were trying to convince Sorderling to play. Its the perfect couch-court transition.

They should play with Lacrosse style racquets, it would not change a bit. Did someone actually saw an ace in this tournament? Was the other player sleeping?

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Karlovic was short of 9000 aces in career by just 10 going into his first round match against
a qualifier who qualified after getting wild card into the qualifying draw. Karlovic managed just
5 aces. He now has to wait until next season to join Roddic and Goran in the 9000+ Ace club.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

I checked up on the court surface.

Basel and WTF use the exact same turf and they are quoted as "medium" speed surface.

However, the surface at Bercy is different than those, but gets a "medium-fast" rating.

 

[mrzz]

^I believe you, but I don't believe them.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

I checked up on the court surface.

Basel and WTF use the exact same turf and they are quoted as "medium" speed surface.

However, the surface at Bercy is different than those, but gets a "medium-fast" rating.

The surface at Bercy has been tinkered with over the years many times. The year Roger won it was one of the fastest by the way...

 

[Kieran]

Berdy is within one victory of qualification for London, more or less. Up a set and 4-1, back now to a single break...

 

[kskate2]

Despite a small wobble, Berd comes through 7-5 6-3

 

[Kieran]

Yeah, if Berdy beats Stan or Kevin Anderson, he's through to the WTF...

 

[Kieran]

I'm rooting for Andy over Grigor today. I think for two reasons, one being that Andy has sharpened his quill to face the end of the year with great results, and Grigor has gone AWOL since Wimbo, which is inexplicable and bitterly disappointing. But I wonder if Murray will start to show the effects of his recent escapades, and if Grigor will suddenly perk up and live to lose another day. It's the most interesting of today's matches.

Stan will do himself a favour and dispatch Anderson, I reckons.

The other big question today regards Federer's recovery time, and his mysterious opponent....

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSNWzSlh25I[/video]

 

[herios]

I'm rooting for Andy over Grigor today. I think for two reasons, one being that Andy has sharpened his quill to face the end of the year with great results, and Grigor has gone AWOL since Wimbo, which is inexplicable and bitterly disappointing. But I wonder if Murray will start to show the effects of his recent escapades, and if Grigor will suddenly perk up and live to lose another day. It's the most interesting of today's matches.

I do not really understand you why are you so upset with Grigor? What did you exactly expect?
And since when are you a Murray fan?:huh:

 

[Kieran]

I'm rooting for Andy over Grigor today. I think for two reasons, one being that Andy has sharpened his quill to face the end of the year with great results, and Grigor has gone AWOL since Wimbo, which is inexplicable and bitterly disappointing. But I wonder if Murray will start to show the effects of his recent escapades, and if Grigor will suddenly perk up and live to lose another day. It's the most interesting of today's matches.

I do not really understand you why are you so upset with Grigor? What did you exactly expect?
And since when are you a Murray fan?:huh:

Exactly, although I don't dislike Murray.

Grigor is irritating me, so I choose to root against him. What did I expect? More than he's shown...