Western & Southern Open - Cincinnati (Men)

[nehmeth]

Murray survives a 7 minute opening service game.

 

[Front242]

Windows has decided it needs to restart here so the match will probably be over once it installs all these "essential" updates. Imagine the match is as good as over now anyway.

uzzled

Brother, I certainly hope you mean Djoker v. Dog and not Murray v Fed.

Just starting watching the 2nd match now. Went for a shower too, wasn't waiting for that long for the laptop to restart!

 

[pavlik89]

Andy Murray vs Roger Federer LIVE Cincinnati Open 2015
http://intennis.tv/live/4319

 

[Backhand_DTL]

Dog is doing all the attacking. Nole should be a bit more active no? You cannot just rely on the Dog missing...or maybe you can??

With Novak being as off as he was today I think it was his best option against someone who is that inconsistent. And when he actually tried to be active he mostly missed. It's probably hard to find matches which he won with worse numbers than 14 winners to 40 unforced errors.

It was similar to the match against Gulbis last week in terms of Novak showing he's not going away after a bad start to the tiebreak was enough to make the opponent fall apart.

 

[Front242]

Dog is doing all the attacking. Nole should be a bit more active no? You cannot just rely on the Dog missing...or maybe you can??

With Novak being as off as he was today I think it was his best option against someone who is that inconsistent. And when he actually tried to be active he mostly missed. It's probably hard to find matches which he won with worse numbers than 14 winners to 40 unforced errors.

It was similar to the match against Gulbis last week in terms of Novak showing he's not going away after a bad start to the tiebreak was enough to make the opponent fall apart.

14/40 were the final stats? Wow. Fugly.

 

[pavlik89]

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

 

[Kieran]

Windows has decided it needs to restart here so the match will probably be over once it installs all these "essential" updates. Imagine the match is as good as over now anyway.

uzzled

Brother, I certainly hope you mean Djoker v. Dog and not Murray v Fed.

Just starting watching the 2nd match now. Went for a shower too, wasn't waiting for that long for the laptop to restart!

You put on windows 10?

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVB_1vZ-XlM[/video]

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Roger closes the first set out, 6-4. I almost get this feeling that he has another gear handy and if Murray steps it up, he will counter that too but who knows. Can Murray come back again?

 

[tented]

Roger closes the first set out, 6-4. I almost get this feeling that he has another gear handy and if Murray steps it up, he will counter that too but who knows. Can Murray come back again?

No. Roger will take this in straights. Second set prediction: 6-2 or 6-3

 

[Aung Aung]

Even though the chances are too slim, i want murray to beat federer so as to break that losing streak before going to USO.

 

[Front242]

uzzled

Brother, I certainly hope you mean Djoker v. Dog and not Murray v Fed.

Just starting watching the 2nd match now. Went for a shower too, wasn't waiting for that long for the laptop to restart!

You put on windows 10?

Nah, screw that Just routine Windows update crap.

 

[Front242]

LOL, Peter Fleming just said there that after the last match Brad Gilbert asked Djokovic if his stomach was ok and he said "It's ok. It's a boy" :snicker

 

[Front242]

Eagle eye Roger.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Murray is a stubborn chap. He finds good first serves when he needs them. Roger could not do much with the BP chance there.

 

[Kirijax]

Andy hanging on for dear life. Federer needs to wrap this up in straight sets to be ready for tomorrow.

 

[Backhand_DTL]

Dog is doing all the attacking. Nole should be a bit more active no? You cannot just rely on the Dog missing...or maybe you can??

With Novak being as off as he was today I think it was his best option against someone who is that inconsistent. And when he actually tried to be active he mostly missed. It's probably hard to find matches which he won with worse numbers than 14 winners to 40 unforced errors.

It was similar to the match against Gulbis last week in terms of Novak showing he's not going away after a bad start to the tiebreak was enough to make the opponent fall apart.

14/40 were the final stats? Wow. Fugly.

Yes, with 8 of those 14 winners being aces. I don't remember if there were any volley winners but a maximum of 6 winners off the ground on a fast HC in 30 games plus one tiebreak makes me think that offensively Novak can't play worse than he did today.

 

[Front242]

Sweet forehand from Roger to win that last game.

 

[Front242]

With Novak being as off as he was today I think it was his best option against someone who is that inconsistent. And when he actually tried to be active he mostly missed. It's probably hard to find matches which he won with worse numbers than 14 winners to 40 unforced errors.

It was similar to the match against Gulbis last week in terms of Novak showing he's not going away after a bad start to the tiebreak was enough to make the opponent fall apart.

14/40 were the final stats? Wow. Fugly.

Yes, with 8 of those 14 winners being aces. I don't remember if there were any volley winners but a maximum of 6 winners off the ground on a fast HC in 30 games plus one tiebreak makes me think that offensively Novak can't play worse than he did today.

Pretty horrific! Glad he won though 'cos it makes for a much better final.

 

[Front242]

Whether or not you're a fan of Federer, it's hard to not like the variety he throws at opponents. That last one totally threw Murray off.