Dubai Duty Free Championships, UAE, ATP 500

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[isabelle]

weather looks nice compared to Paris (wind and awful rain...) they're lucky to be there

 

[Shivashish Sarkar]

Khachanov is gone. It will still take some time for him to be able to beat top 20 players.

 

[Frode789]

wow this Paire guy is quite the idiot. What an attitude.. Slams the racket all around the place, clearly very angry and tilty. At one time he slams the racket so hard into a commercial sign that it rebounds across the court. And he was luckily warned for unsportsmanlike conduct.

On another matter, Fed won 2-0 in sets. 6-1,6-3.

 

[Shivashish Sarkar]

Federer looked good enough for a first round match. He will build on this form.

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[DarthFed]

Crisp match from Roger today. Paire is too much of a flake to really cause the top guys trouble but he's tough to get in a rhythm against.

 

[sid]

I hope Muzz plays much better in Dubai than in the AO where he was completely off :cover :nono

Andy was said to have had shingles @ the AO,if that was why no wonder he never did great.Word is now he's back & ready to fight @ his best.

 

[Carol]

I haven't seen the match but I've read that Paire has played bad, really bad smashing his racket several times. Where is that Paire who gave a hard time to Muzz in MC? I also I've read that he has some injury

 

[El Dude]

It is par (or paire) for the course with Paire. He's a talented player that should have been a fixture in the top 20, but he's just too inconsistent. But I think he had the talent to be an Almagro/Simon type.

 

[Front242]

I hope Muzz plays much better in Dubai than in the AO where he was completely off :cover :nono

Andy was said to have had shingles @ the AO,if that was why no wonder he never did great.Word is now he's back & ready to fight @ his best.

No, he wasn't. Stop trying to make excuses.

"I was a bit sick for 10 days, a couple of weeks, after I got back from Australia," said Murray, who will play Malek Jaziri of Tunisia in the first round in Dubai. "I feel fresh and ready to go here.

Murray said he's not sure if the illness had already started developing while he was playing in the Australian Open.

The British top-ranked player was upset in a four-set, fourth-round encounter with Mischa Zverev at the first major of the year.

"I didn't play particularly well at the Australian Open," Murray said. "I started to play a bit better as it went on, but not as well as I would've liked."

No one said he had shingles at the AO, not even Murray himself. He lost to a guy playing great. That's it.

 

[the AntiPusher]

I hope Muzz plays much better in Dubai than in the AO where he was completely off :cover :nono

Andy was said to have had shingles @ the AO,if that was why no wonder he never did great.Word is now he's back & ready to fight @ his best.

No, he wasn't. Stop trying to make excuses.

"I was a bit sick for 10 days, a couple of weeks, after I got back from Australia," said Murray, who will play Malek Jaziri of Tunisia in the first round in Dubai. "I feel fresh and ready to go here.

Murray said he's not sure if the illness had already started developing while he was playing in the Australian Open.

The British top-ranked player was upset in a four-set, fourth-round encounter with Mischa Zverev at the first major of the year.

"I didn't play particularly well at the Australian Open," Murray said. "I started to play a bit better as it went on, but not as well as I would've liked."

No one said he had shingles at the AO, not even Murray himself. He lost to a guy playing great. That's it.

4 more years of Federer/Front ,:nono Trump/GOP.:nono.God help Us All.:angel:

 

[Front242]

Pretty sure we've just as long with the Murray fan and Nadal fans too. Zzzzz.

 

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Results from the Dubai Championships Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday

4-Gael Monfils (France) beat Mohamed Safwat (Egypt) 6-4 6-3
3-Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Benoit Paire (France) 6-1 6-3
6-Roberto Bautista (Spain) beat Karen Khachanov (Russia) 6-1 7-6(4)
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) beat Viktor Troicki (Serbia) 6-4 6-3
Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) beat 8-Gilles Muller (Luxembourg) 6-4 7-6(1)
Marcel Granollers (Spain) beat Jiri Vesely (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-2

 

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