Indian Wells

[Moxie]

The kid continues his roll: Thiem takes out Gilles 7-6(5) 6-2. Served out the match like a champ.
This Sousa is some delectable eye candy Mox. :heart: But he's in a heap of trouble w/ Ernie 6-3 2-2

Good on Thiem! I wish I could have seen some of that match…did anyone else? And thanks for the heads-up on Sousa, K. How had he escaped my notice? But yes, he lost to Gulbis.

 

[Moxie]

RBA is serving for the match against Berd 5-4

He did it! This kid is getting better and better.

I've been catching up on the day, after spending a lovely Sunday in NYC meandering about. Good for Bautista Agut! I see that Robbie Koenig is touting him up on his twitter feed as an intelligent player, and top 20 soon.

 

[I.Haychew]

Serious question: Does anyone here enjoy watching Isner?

Only when he plays Karlovic. Kidding. I can tolerate him when he's playing one of my phavorites, but that's about it.

 

[Riotbeard]

Let's do this Julien!

 

[Riotbeard]

Julien breaks!

 

[Riotbeard]

Julien takes the first set. The quality of his game has improved over the set at least.

 

[Riotbeard]

Jo breaks a racket. He is not playing great.

 

[Front242]

Decided to watch some tennis after all. Unusual to see Tsonga smash a racquet. Good to see he's an avid reader of this board too and got rid of the stupid haircut Looks much better now.

 

[Moxie]

Courier thinks that Tsonga is ill.

 

[Riotbeard]

Courier thinks that Tsonga is ill.

I saw him coughing...

 

[herios]

On this side of the draw the underdogs are having quite day
Haase starts the match and he is also already up a break against Grigor.
Julien serves for the match.

 

[Riotbeard]

Not a great match, but I am glad Julien was able to win!

 

[Front242]

Very good win for Bradley Cooper. Had a feeling he might win it before it started. Tsonga's on a pretty bad downward spiral.

 

[Front242]

Courier thinks that Tsonga is ill.

The Brit commentator here (no idea who he is) called it a big, big upset. Er, no it wasn't. Benneteau's a very dangerous player and his ranking means nothing at all. Tsonga's form is poor and I had a big feeling Benneteau aka Bradley Cooper would win.

 

[herios]

Courier thinks that Tsonga is ill.

The Brit commentator here (no idea who he is) called it a big, big upset. Er, no it wasn't. Benneteau's a very dangerous player and his ranking means nothing at all. Tsonga's form is poor and I had a big feeling Benneteau aka Bradley Cooper would win.

You are right. The big upsets were delivered by Bautista-Agut and Thiem.

 

[nehmeth]

Grigor is having a rather slow start... at least he got the break back and held his own serve. Still, it's pretty sloppy out there.

 

[herios]

Dimi breaks back, good boy!
FloMa retired at the beginning of the second set in his match against Nieminen.

 

[Front242]

Courier thinks that Tsonga is ill.

The Brit commentator here (no idea who he is) called it a big, big upset. Er, no it wasn't. Benneteau's a very dangerous player and his ranking means nothing at all. Tsonga's form is poor and I had a big feeling Benneteau aka Bradley Cooper would win.

You are right. The big upsets were delivered by Bautista-Agut and Thiem.

For sure. Yup.

 

[Front242]

Commentator on the English stream I was listening to here was so bad I'm happier to listen to two Spanish guys instead.

 

[nehmeth]

Carillo and Courier have spent the last 10 minutes describing their thoughts regarding the Becker/Djokovic pairing. It seems everyone considers it to be the odd couple.