In between Grand Slams tennis thread

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Poor Delpo was flat by the end of that. Still silly scheduling there. Someone might have to be playing 3 days in a row.

Not interested in it now. Tennis is over until mid January for me.

Djok was always going to beat him even if he played 3 days in a row :P

Ha the quality hasn't been brilliant alright but to be fair it's after a long hard season. Still prospect of another Djok/Murray match tomorrow is quite exciting

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Not really, unless you're a fan of either of them, which you quite clearly are

I kind of feel like I need a break from the tennis at this point anyway, so it's fine.

Ha that plays a role indeed but to be fair their matches of recent are very intriguing with very little in the balance at any stage. It's an incredibly interesting rivalry. It's good for the tournament/London/the fans/ and organisers to have the top two players in the world on form in the final so to say it's not exciting is a bit much

A lot of Nadal/Djok finals for example have been insanely one-sided of recent which isn't great. Fedal matches too have Rafa written all over them

It'll be no harm to get a break for a while until the AO indeed

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Fed is turning the screw on Murray ,5-2 up in second set,his quality will shine through on the faster surface.
There should be more tournaments on faster surfaces ,it makes a change from the baseline grinders .

Fair play to him rolled back the years tonight! Hope he beats djok tomo if he plays like he did tonight no one will stop him! Consistency could be an issue

Loves the indoors!

walshb wrote: »

Murray can kiss goodbye to the BBC SPOTY award next month.

This won't make any difference. this event wasnt very much in the public eye. The fact he's not going will prob cost him a few votes but I'd say he'll still get second!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I wasn't really paying attention but I do find it amusing how many people seem to assume that Murray would have full support from the crowd. Federer is universally loved (for some reason). He's always got massive crowd support. Tennis fans travel for the big events and this is pretty big. Sure it's not a slam but you've got the top 8 in the world there, guaranteed to get to see big names if you go. There's no way that the entire crowd is going to be locals.

Obviously there was no need for booing if that did happen. That's not on regardless of where you are or who is playing. Leave the booing to the French Open crowds.

Oh indeed. I'm not saying it's like a Wimbledon crowd (which will be far more British and pro Murray) or anything but still I couldn't get over it. To be fair Fed has done so much for the game and deserves so much support but there was booing evident out there and some wild cheers for unforced errors by Murray. To be fair Andy is a very thick skinned bloke and won't let it get to him but it seemed to affect his game out there. Roger would have won anyway, this was one of those games that he decided to roll back the years for

There's life in the old dog yet but I'm still not convinced he has a AO title in him. Remember he hasn't made a hard slam final since 3 years ago January

He's taken Nole apart in their last two meetings and I'm sure he'd take great pleasure in doing so again. The Serb probably won't be given a break by the crowd so I'll be firmly supporting him hoping he can shut them up cos he's a dead sound bloke

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Some suggestions that the crowd weren't impressed with how quickly he left the court after. Delpo for example took a moment to clap the crowd and gave them a wave. Murray just legged it. Of course that's up to him, probably annoyed at losing that 2nd set so easily. I didn't actually hear any booing but like I said I was only half watching it.

That was nothing to do with it. There were no boos at the end, probably more because their guy won. Basically every player walks off when they lose without any sign of acknowledgement which is dead bloody right. Let the winner enjoy their moment.

To answer your question WalshB, the boos actually came when Andy changed his racket in the tie break, which he is perfectly entitled to do. It was awful to watch

The other stand out incident was in the first set when Andy was under pressure to hold serve. He was heckled big time mid serve and the second serve then missed which led to a double fault which sparked huge cheers from the crowd, which is not on.

Every Federer point was roared wildly and even mammoth efforts from Andy were only met with mild enough applause at times. Was very strange, but Federer is the goat and I'm not complaining at all that he got a great reception, he bloody deserves it, but booing is absolutely not on

walshb wrote: »

Yes, but wasn't the racket change due to him abusing the racket? It won't go down well with fans. He has a sore loser attitude on the court. Berating, shouting and moping about when things go against him. Hey, not saying he shouold be cool as a cucumber, but maybe tone it down a little bit. I am betting it's what makes him so good, he needs to let off that stem when he is frustrated. Just a wee tone down!

It's frustrating to watch at times indeed. At least the only one he seems to be hindering is himself though

Rarely does he come across as unsporting on court tbf to him

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