French Open 2012 May 27th-June 10th

[Cripps_orig]

Murray wins a game on his own serve :yikes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

If Murray was to retire that would change his ranking quite significantly wouldn't it? Presumably he wouldn't be properly ready for Queen's either.

[Cripps_orig]

Id be surprised if it did. Hes miles ahead of the rest in 4th place.

Murray showing slight signs of improving

[Cripps_orig]

Slowly but surely Murray is improving

Could be too little too late

[Cripps_orig]

Murray breaks back

4-4

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Id be surprised if it did. Hes miles ahead of the rest in 4th place.

Murray showing slight signs of improving

He'd lose close to a 1000 points wouldn't he? Given he reached the semi-final last time.

Having said that, looks as though he is back and you're right, he is currently miles ahead of fifth. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Break point for Nieminen. Double fault from Murray. :lol:

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Saved but he does the same thing. Adv. Nieminen.

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And saved again.

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Nieminen serving to stay in the second set.

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Three set points for Murray.

[Cripps_orig]

3 set points Murray

He cant run at all but his shots are coming to the fore

And he wins the set

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Double fault. Murray takes the second set 6-4. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kvitova beat Radwanska 6-1 6-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Murray breaks and leads 2-0 in the third set.

:rose:

[Cripps_orig]

Murray breaks in the 3rd set

2-0

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Petchey is in full-on Murray suckfest now.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Murray breaks again and will serve for the third set. 5-1.

[Cripps_orig]

Double break

5-1

Murray serves for the 3rd set

[Cripps_orig]

Murray win the 3rd set 6-1

He will play some Colombian Drug Lord in the next round

[Cripps_orig]

Murray breaks in the first game of the fourth set

1-0

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Petchey calls him Braveheart. :sick:

[Cripps_orig]

Niemenens gone mentally

Hes not even trying

And hes stamping on his racket

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He has stamped on his racquet again. :lol:

[Cripps_orig]

5-2

Double break

Murray will serve for the match

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Murray breaks and will serve for the match.

[Cripps_orig]

Post match interview should be good

Murray wins 1-6 6-4 6-1 6-2

How he came through that, fuck knows. He was dead in the water for a set and a half

[Syn]

Good to see the warm-up is going well. It has been a great tournament so far. All the twists and turns that you'd expect in such a quality sport. Tim's been playing superbly so far, lets see if he can win this as a confidence boost ahead of the greatest sporting event of the summer.

[Cripps_orig]

Andy says his camp was telling him to quit at the end of the first set

[Syn]

I must tell you that is very silly of Andy. But that's what you get when you play on these crazy little non-green courts. An injury is never far away. Courts should be green. That is proper, safe tennis.

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Nadal breaks and leads 2-1 in the first set against Istomin. :lol:

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Nadal takes the first set 6-2.

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Nadal leads 5-2 in the second set and will serve for it.

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And Nadal takes the second set 6-2.

[Master Splinter]

Murray's pointless heroics :bow:.

The Spirit Of Parker :bow:.

[Master Splinter]

Camoranesi was a set down against Pironkova, but has levelled it up.

Come on Pironkova.

[Master Splinter]

Nadal a break up in the third as well.

2-0.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nadal breaks again, 3-0.

Istomin. :lol:

Stick to being a chemical.

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Nadal wins 6-2 6-2 6-0.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Heather Watson is on soon.

:popcorn:

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And Watson breaks in the first game against Goerges.

Germans. :lol:

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Goerges broke back and has now broken again, leads 3-1 in the first set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Watson breaks now, 3-2 she trails.

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Goerges breaks again, 4-2. Watson hasn't held serve yet. :lol:

Razzano is out. :rose:

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Goerges takes the first set 6-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Goerges breaks and leads 1-0 in the second set.

:rose:

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Isner and Mathieu's match has been going on for five hours now.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's 14-13 in the fifth set. :haha:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Not again :lol:

[The Wengerbabies]

Isner :bow: Lets go for 71-69

[McNamara That Ghost...]

15-14. :lol:

Isner serving to stay in the match, again.

Two hours and 10 for the last set alone. :scarf:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

15-14. :lol:

Isner serving to stay in the match, again.

Two hours and 10 for the last set alone. :scarf:
That'll be the women's champion's entire tournament.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sharapova's match was 50 minutes :lol:

Two match points for Mathieu.

[The Wengerbabies]

2 match points for Mattheui

[The Wengerbabies]

That'll be the women's champion's entire tournament.

:gp:


Womens sport :lol:

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Both saved. :haha:

Mathieu has won 3 break points out of 22 opportunities. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Isner holds. On it goes for at least another two games.

[The Wengerbabies]

Isner's not ready to lose 15-15 :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

16-16. Think the crowd are asleep.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Only nine games away from breaking the French Open record. :popcorn:

[The Wengerbabies]

17-16

[Rors]

The Bionic Man :bow:

[The Wengerbabies]

2 matc points for Mathieu

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Match point for Mathieu again, two of them.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

One remaining. :lol:

[The Wengerbabies]

1 remaining

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Mathieu wins 6-7 (2-7) 6-4 6-4 3-6 18-16!

[The Wengerbabies]

He's done it.


Isner :rose:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Goerges beat Watson 6-3 6-4. :lol:

[Rors]

Isner. :rose:

"A metaphysical dichotomy has forced this unit to shut down"

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He looked worse than Murray did earlier today.

[Master Splinter]

Isner :wacko:.

Watson :rose:. She's still the one most likely to make a significant mark on British women's tennis. She's got the athleticism.

Friday order of play: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/9678131.stm

Come on Mahut :scarf:.

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Ivanovic takes the first set 6-1 against Errani.

[Cripps_orig]

Errani takes the 2nd set 7-5

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ivanovic breaks in the third set and leads 1-0.

[Cripps_orig]

Errani breaks back :lol:

1-1

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Errani breaks back straight away. :lol:

1-1.

[Cripps_orig]

Errani breaks again

3-1

[Cripps_orig]

Ivanovic breaks back

2-3

Back on serve

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Awful. :haha:

[Cripps_orig]

Errani breaks

4-2

:haha:

Terrible quality on show here

[McNamara That Ghost...]

5-2. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ivanovic holds, 5-3. Errani to serve for the match.

[Cripps_orig]

Errani wins 1-6 7-5 6-3

Ivanovic is awful

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Errani wins 1-6 7-5 6-3.

Ivanovic. :haha:

Bloody awful.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kuznetsova is annhilating Radwanska.

6-1 and 3-1 in the second. And to serve.

Radwanska is the No.3 seed. :lol:

[Cripps_orig]

Why the fuck are they showing this one sided contest?

Go to the Sharapova match ffs

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Radwanska inevitably gets a break back after I condemn her. 3-2. :rolleyes:

[Cripps_orig]

Radwanska breaks back

2-3

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sharapova just took the first set 6-1.

[Cripps_orig]

Sharapova breaks in the 2nd set

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kuznetsova breaks again, 4-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kuznetsova wins 6-1 6-2.

[Cripps_orig]

Kuznetsova wins 6-1 6-2

Womens tennis :lol:

All down to Sharapova

[Cripps_orig]

Do ITV only have one Tennis commentator in Mark Petchey?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

They have another one for the pub team courts but he is in charge of all the showcourts I think.

Sharapova breaks, 4-1.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sharapova wins 6-1 6-1. :lol:

[Cripps_orig]

Sharapova wins 6-1 6-1

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Petchey must be on a break, Nick Mullins is commentating.

:o

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tsonga leads Fognini 7-5 6-4.

[Cripps_orig]

Tsonga serving for the match in the 3rd set at 5-4

[Cripps_orig]

Tsonga wins

7-5 6-4 6-4

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed on soon. :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed somehow turns a body serve in to a backhand up the line winner. :blink:

Fed breaks to love and leads 4-2 in the first set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed takes the first set 6-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Still on serve in the second set, Mahut leads 4-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Set point for Mahut.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mahut takes it 6-4!

Fed. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed breaks and leads 2-1 in the third set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed breaks again, 4-1.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Set point for Fed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well saved.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Adv. Fed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mahut holds though. Fed to serve it out at 5-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed takes the third set 6-2. :bow:

2-1 he leads.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-3 in the fourth set, Fed just saved a break point too.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Now Fed has three break points.

Mahut. :rose:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed breaks to love and leads 4-3 in the fourth set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Break point for Mahut, brilliant dropshot.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mahut breaks back! 4-4.

[Master Splinter]

Mahut :bow:.

Federer struggling against Mahut on clay doesn't really bode well for him.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mahut holds, Fed serving to stay in the fourth set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Federer does hold. 5-5.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Break point for Federer.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Great serve. Deuce.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Adv. Federer.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pathetic return. :lol:

Deuce.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Much better from Fed this time, backhand up the line.

Adv. Federer.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed breaks and will serve for the match!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed wins 6-3 4-6 6-2 7-5!

Mahut. :bow:

[Syn]

Quite a high scoring game. good attacking play from both. It really was end to end stuff from the go, but ultimately federer had that bit more class and ambition.

[Master Splinter]

Djokovic takes the first set 6-1 against Devilder.

I think I can get the :rose: out pretty safely today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Devilder was a wildcard just to get in to qualifying. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Devilder breaks back in the second set. :haha:

1-1.

[Master Splinter]

Djokovic broken back in the second set.

Djokovic :haha:.

1-1.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic breaks again. :(

2-1.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1937: Serena Williams has suffered another agonising defeat here when she and Bob Bryan, who she plans to play with at the Olympics, lost in the first round of the mixed doubles. The American pair were defeated 7-5 3-6 10-6 by Argentina's Gisela Dulko and Eduardo Schwank. Serena lost her first ever first round Grand Slam singles defeat on Tuesday when she squandered a set and 5-1 lead in the second set tie-break to lose to France's Virginie Razzano.

:haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic took the second set 6-2.

Azarenka takes the first set against Wozniack 6-4.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic breaks in the third set, 1-0.

[Master Splinter]

Murray second on court one tomorrow.

French Open organisers :doh:.

[GP]

:haha:

:lol: Schwank

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Awesome name. Something you'd expect in a GTA game.

Devilder serving to stay in the match. Azarenka serving for the match.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Azarenka wins 6-4 6-4.

Wozniack. :lol:

Canadians. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic wins 6-1 6-2 6-2. What a shot to win it.

[Master Splinter]

Ferrer currently killing Youzhny 6-0 6-2 2-1 (with a break).

Kvitova just dropped the second set against Bratchikova. :doh:

[Master Splinter]

Ferrer wins 6-0 6-2 6-2.

Kvitova wins 6-2 4-6 6-1.

Schiavone 6-3 3-4 up (on serve).

Murray should be on soon then.

[Master Splinter]

Lepchenko has just taken the second set 6-3.

Murray delayed.

Camoranesi :doh:.

[Syn]

FFS. Been waiting for ages to watch the muzzatron. It's so frustrating when you can't watch your favourite player in your favourite sport because some has-been short-tempered Italian footballer can't find the back of the net. Considering the conditions and strengths of both players, I'm going to put myself on the line and say Murray has a good chance of progressing.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I can't work out if I dislike Cripps' little brother on tennis matters or not.

[Syn]

Well I must say as well you know that it does ruin the homogeneity of the thread. Fuck knows where else you could get second to second updates on tennis scores.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not on Redcafe, their thread has ten posts. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lepchenko is serving to stay in the match against Schiavone. 40-30 at the moment.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And she does. Long game in the deciding set though so it could be a while until Murray's match if Schiavone summons the spririt of Isner.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lepchenko breaks and will serve for the match!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three break points for Schiavone.

:rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

One break point remaining.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Deuce. Come on Lepchenko.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Adv. Schiavone. :(

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Deuce. Wide serve saves it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Match point. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lepchenko wins 3-6 6-3 8-6!

[Master Splinter]

Camoranesi/Grosjean/Detorri/Pires :haha: :haha:.

Big day for ITV1 today.

Huge Muzza match.

Then the main event.

Demolition Man :bow:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Murray is serving for the first set at 5-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And Murray takes the first set 6-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Li Na wins 3-6 6-2 6-1 against McHale.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Murray breaks in the second set, 3-2 he leads.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And Murray takes the second set 6-4.

[GP]

Camoranesi/Grosjean/Detorri/Pires :haha: :haha:.

Big day for ITV1 today.

Huge Muzza match.

Then the main event.

Demolition Man :bow:.

Three Seashells :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Murray breaks and leads 4-3 in the third set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Murray wins 6-3 6-4 6-4!

[Master Splinter]

Murray :bow:.

The New Parker :bow:.

Sharapova killed Peng 6-1 6-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gasquet beat Haas 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 6-0 6-0. :lol:

He faces Murray next.

[Cripps_orig]

Just got back

Missed the Murray match.

How was he fitness wise?

Also Gasquet again? Do they play every slam?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He was moving fine from what I saw. And yup, it's nailed on that Murray has to play Gasquet and Nadal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wozniacki is out. :haha:

Rory McIlroy has been shit too recently.

[Master Splinter]

Kanepi :bow:.

Wozniacki :haha:.

Danes :haha:.

Dennis Bendtner :haha:.

Aqua :haha:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Errani beats Kuznetsova 6-0 7-5!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seppi leads 5-4 and will serve for the first set against Djokovic. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Inevitably break point for Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Superbly saved.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Set point for Seppi.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And Seppi takes the first set 6-4!

[The Wengerbabies]

Azarenka is also a set down.

World no.1s :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seppi breaks and leads 3-2 in the second set!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cibulkova breaks and leads 4-2 in the second set. :lol:

My predictions are going down the pan today it seems.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Azarenka breaks back though, 4-3 she trails.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-4.

Seppi is serving for the second set at 5-4.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Break point for Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And Djokovic breaks back, 5-5. Really poor shot from Seppi.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Azarenka breaks and will serve for the second set at 6-5.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cibulkova breaks though, tiebreak time in that one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

As it is in Djokovic's match.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three match points for Cibulkova!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Azarenka somehow saves one of them.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And Cilbukova win 6-2 7-6 (7-4)!

Azarenka. :lol:

Me. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-3 at the changeover in Djokovic and Seppi's tiebreak.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Set point for Seppi. Djokovic to serve.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And Seppi takes it 7-6 (7-5)! Wow.

[The Wengerbabies]

Seppi :bow:

Got to say I'm pleasently surprised with ITVs coverage of this. Hopefully they can get the AO from the BBC aswell.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hmmm BBC might keep that given the Olympics would be over by then.

Djokovic breaks at the start of the third set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seppi broke back. :lol:

[Özim]

Worst part of this is Seppi is sh*t, seen him loads of times and he's been useless.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Clay can be a leveller with the right conditions, Djokovic losing in straight sets would be ridiculous though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed vs Goffin is on now. Goffin was a lucky loser.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three break point for Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic breaks on the second of them and leads 3-2 in the third set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seppi breaks straight back again. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Break point for Djokovic again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic breaks again, 4-3 he leads. Surely this time he will supplement the break.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And he does. Seppi is serving to stay in the third set at 5-3 down.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Set point for Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic takes the third set 6-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Break point for Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Deuce. Tame shot in to the nets.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Adv. Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic does break and leads 2-0 in the fourth set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three break points for Seppi. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And he breaks back, 3-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Two set points for Goffin against Fed. :blink:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Both saved. Some sense of normality remains.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Goffin gets it on the third attempt, 7-5 he takes the first set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The wind took a dropshot by Seppi from landing in the middle of the service box to well outside the tramline. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Goffin vs Fed is like Fed vs Sampras in 2001.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Two set points for Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic takes the fourth set 7-5!

2-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Break point for Federer.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed breaks and will serve for the second set. Error strewn game from Goffin.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Adv. Goffin. :blink:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Quite a serve from Fed. Deuce.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed takes the second set 7-5! Great set of tennis.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed breaks and leads 2-1 in the third set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Two break points for Djokovic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seppi gifts it. Djokovic leads 4-2 in the fifth set.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seppi is serving to stay in the match.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed breaks again and will serve for the third set at 5-2.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic to serve it out.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed takes the third set 6-2. :bow:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Order is restored.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic wins 4-6 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 7-5 6-3!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed is serving for the match.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-30. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Match point for Fed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fed wins 5-7 7-5 6-2 6-4!

Fed. :bow:

Goffin. :bow:

Very good match.

[Cripps_orig]

Azarenka :haha:

[Master Splinter]

What a great day of tennis :bow:.

Seppi was never going to win though.

Azarenka :doh:.

Azarenka, Radwanska and Serena all out. Women :lol:. Time for Li Na to step it up.

Goffin was brilliant, but probably ran out of energy considering it's only his fourth Grand Slam match ever. Hope he's not a one-Slam wonder.

[Master Splinter]

Tsonga 6-4 7-6(8-6) up against Wawrinka.

Berdych v Del Potro into a first set tie-break. Berdych with an early mini-break at 2-1.

[Master Splinter]

Del Potro takes the first set 7-6(8-6).

This will probably go to five sets.

Murray v Gasquet third on Chatrier tomorrow.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wawrinka vs Tsonga has gone to a fifth set.

Del Potro is serving for the third set against Berdych.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Berdych breaks back but still trails 5-3.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Stunning game from Del Potro. He takes the third set 6-3.