Fed seemed shocked

[grif]

at the end how easy the scoreline was.

Fed served exceptionally well, losing only a few points on his 1st serve in
the entire match, which is kinda unheard of against Murray's return on such
a slow court. Andy by contrast, had one of his shittier days of serving so
couldn't rely on that too much to bail him out of trouble.

My main impression of this match was that Andy was a real errorfest today.
It seemed as though Fed learnt something from their last encounter and
adjusted his tactics accordingly for this match and surface. Instead of the
all out attack from last time, he was a lot more patient today, mixing up
the pace with his slices and exploding into his shots at the right times.

Murray, on the other hand, instead of being his usual patient, grinding
self, tried to hit through the court by generating his own pace off Fed's
slices. Andy M doesn't really have the forehand to do this and so made tons
of errors. Ironically, it was like a role-reversal of their normal matches.

[felangey]

> My main impression of this match was that Andy was a real errorfest today.
> It seemed as though Fed learnt something from their last encounter and
> adjusted his tactics accordingly for this match and surface. Instead of
> the all out attack from last time, he was a lot more patient today, mixing
> up the pace with his slices and exploding into his shots at the right
> times.

Someone wise ;) wrote pre match:

"He certainly isn't gonna try all out offense on an even slower surface than
that on which it didn't work last time! :)

Fed will work the angles today, pretty much like he did last year. Lots of
pace change."

> Murray, on the other hand, instead of being his usual patient, grinding
> self, tried to hit through the court by generating his own pace off Fed's
> slices. Andy M doesn't really have the forehand to do this and so made
> tons of errors. Ironically, it was like a role-reversal of their normal
> matches.

Yeah...Murrays problem is what to do on a surface this slow when Fed isn't
feeding him the pace to make his shot. Whereas Fed had better point
construction and ball placement and can choose the right ball to explode
into.

Good stuff!

[Yama]

grif <griff...@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Murray, on the other hand, instead of being his usual patient, grinding

: self, tried to hit through the court by generating his own pace off Fed's
: slices. Andy M doesn't really have the forehand to do this and so made tons
: of errors. Ironically, it was like a role-reversal of their normal matches.

Yeah, what I watched, Fed was most of the time just dinking the ball back
and letting Andy do the errors (which he did). Attacked only at opportune
moments. Murray's horrible serving was of course another key for the match.

[Iceberg]

more like Murray was just nervous about the crowd/media-pressure. he
looked white as a sheet when he walked out.

[uly...@mscomm.com]

And he's supposed to ever win Wimbledon when he gets white as a sheet
prior to a round robin match? The pressures at W. are about 10 million
higher than the Masters.

[Iceberg]

there have been rumours about why Murray was white as a sheet, same as
those for Soderling at US Open.

[GOYLE]

Yes, I agree. however, on a court like this a better approach would
have been for Murray to attack, not try to stay back trying to hit
through Federer. He was very impatient today and as such made a ton of
UFE's. This is a surface one wants to approach and not stay back for
the simple reason it is so slow. I find this tournament boring simply
because it plays almost at the level or speed of a clay court and the
guys are trying to adjust to it. I'm not saying I dislike the clay
court season but for a hard court I very much dislike the speed. I
find the doubles much more entertaining then I do the singles.

[uly...@mscomm.com]

Well, Lendl was 24 before he won his first slam and then went on to
win 8 and have a great career. So a Murray fan might take a bit of
solace in that. The problem is, Lendl was the far superior player to
Murray in every facet of the game. I've seen Andy play lights out
tennis and dominate a match, but all too infrequently and rarely in a
big match. I also don't seem him winning a slam. He's just mentally
fragile.

[GOYLE]

true

[TT]

On 23.11.2010 20:45, GOYLE wrote:
> UFE's. This is a surface one wants to approach and not stay back for
> the simple reason it is so slow. I find this tournament boring simply
> because it plays almost at the level or speed of a clay court and the

I thought today at Fed-Murray it looked rather fast and the bounces were
low too. And that was between 2 junkballers.

[GOYLE]

I thought Federer played a lot of slice but it was Murray who played a
lot of junk ball which is why he had a lot of UFE's. The court played
really slow and Federer was able to get to a lot of balls. Murray
retrieved a lot of balls, no surprise there.