Tennis

[leicsmac]

Jamie as good at delivering in the dubs as Andy is in the singles at Davis Cup time.

 

One more win needed and an away match against France beckons. That, however, will be tricky.

[foxes_rule1978]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Jamie as good at delivering in the dubs as Andy is in the singles at Davis Cup time.

 

One more win needed and an away match against France beckons. That, however, will be tricky.

With Murray not so much I feel.. 

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

With Murray not so much I feel.. 

On away soil I feel Tsonga or Monfils is capable of giving Murray a hard time, and tbh we'd be in the old position of relying on him to win both his singles matches and the dubs to come through as I'm not sure how much help Evans or Edmund will be on this one.

[foxes_rule1978]

12 hours ago, leicsmac said:

On away soil I feel Tsonga or Monfils is capable of giving Murray a hard time, and tbh we'd be in the old position of relying on him to win both his singles matches and the dubs to come through as I'm not sure how much help Evans or Edmund will be on this one.

I know what you are saying for sure, but Andy doesn't have to play the doubles, Canada have a strong doubles team and inglot did great IMO so I think we could play Jamie and Inglot again and still stand a good chance. Andy will be favourite against any of the French players, not guaranteed wins but I would say he is 70/30 to actually win both matches 

Edited 5 February 2017 by foxes_rule1978

[Collymore]

Bloody hell, just now in the Davis Cup GB V Canada match with Edmond.  Shapovolov has just been disqualified for hitting the umpire in the eye full pelt with a tennis ball after going down a break! He was lucky he wasn't blinded! 

[Benji]

Hopefully no damage to the umpire but wow that was funny. Super slow mo that.

[leicsmac]

Good grief, it's Nalbandian flipping his shit and injuring an official all over again.

 

Weird way to resolve the tie, though Edmund was looking good to come through anyway.

[Facecloth]

Ironically if Shapovalov had been that accurate during the match he might not have been 2 sets and break down  

[Carl the Llama]

Just now, Facecloth said:

Ironically if Shapovalov had been that accurate during the match he might not have been 2 sets and break down  

Accurate?  He was aiming for the stands and hit the one potential obstacle  

[Facecloth]

Just now, Carl the Llama said:

Accurate?  He was aiming for the stands and hit the one potential obstacle  

Yeah but he got him right in the eye, that's a once in lifetime shot, only bettered by smashing it into someone's balls  

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Yeah but he got him right in the eye, that's a once in lifetime shot, only bettered by smashing it into someone's balls  

As we're on that topic...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PxEJ9n-mJM

 

New balls please.

[Carl the Llama]

9 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Yeah but he got him right in the eye, that's a once in lifetime shot, only bettered by smashing it into someone's balls  

He's certainly not recreating that shot any time soon either way 

[spacemunky]

26 minutes ago, Benji said:

Hopefully no damage to the umpire but wow that was funny. Super slow mo that.

Typical dirty Canadian player! 

[Facecloth]

Murray won a 31 minute tie breaker yesterday! Saved 7 match points. Crazy.

 

Djokovic lost again, to Kyrigos.

Edited 3 March 2017 by Facecloth

[Manwell Pablo]

1 hour ago, Facecloth said:

Murray won a 31 minute tie breaker yesterday! Saved 7 match points. Crazy.

 

Djokovic lost again, to Kyrigos.

 

20-18  nuts.

 

Think Novak will be more concerned about the next two tournaments....he struggles there we will see, no immediate danger of Stan catching him but he is defending A LOT of points up until Wimbledon and needs to at least make Semis and finals. 

[leicsmac]

Utterly insane TB that.

 

Think we're seeing that both Djoko and Murray seem to be rather vulnerable this year.

[leicsmac]

First title of the year for Murray, good to get the ball rolling. Now for the American hard court swing.

[leicsmac]

Do not ask Murray to play well at Indian Wells as a refusal often offends.

[foxes_rule1978]

13 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Do not ask Murray to play well at Indian Wells as a refusal often offends.

The usual from Murray, maybe it is too hot for him there and he just wants to leave asap

[Manwell Pablo]

Hes garbage at Indian well ain't he....disappointing start to the year on the whole really. Let's see if dan the animal can lighten the mood. I doubt it.

[EastAnglianFox]

Been a while since anything productive has been posted in here so I'll start....Caroline has a great arse!!

[Facecloth]

37 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Been a while since anything productive has been posted in here so I'll start....Caroline has a great arse!!

She does have a great arse, but she doesn't have the Miami Open title. 

 

Well done Konta. Up to 7th in the world now.

[leicsmac]

Fed does the IW-Miami double. Late career resurgence continues - good on him.

[leicsmac]

Davis Cup pretty much done for another year then. Taking on France on clay away from home without Murray was always going to be tough, though.

[Manwell Pablo]

Christ Andy Murray, will be lucky to be top 8 come November at this rate nvm no.1