Wimbledon 2013 June 24-July 7

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Djokovic has a much harder match, Del Potro is top 4 material, a powerful player with big shots who's just been unlucky with injuries.

He thrashed Ferrer on one leg today.

Janowicz is a young player tbf and it's his first slam semi-final, so an unknown quantity at that stage. It'll be tiebreak city with Murray I imagine.

[Marc Overmars]

It's more than that really it's the lack of real bottle, winning when there's no pressure is easy, but these guys just lose it as soon as they have a chance. This guy is 54 in the world though which isn't great.

Isn't Del Potro the only guy outside the big 4 to win a slam in recent memory though? Even that was 4 years ago so it shows the level required. Maybe they do lack bottle as you clearly need to have balls of steel in Tennis, but it's not a stick I would use to beat them with too harshly though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I must admit I can't stand it when a player gets into a winning position and totally lacks the winning mentality to carry it through, Gasquet is another one (albeit a ridiculously talented one), just no friggin bottle.

If they were all mentally strong then there would never be true greats.

[Özim]

I don't think he bottled them, think it was the opposite - he went for the opporunities but with not a huge amount of control. Having said that, Murray went on to full on retrieval mode so missed the chance to just drop it shot whilst he was chasing side to side from the back of the court.

He's a much better player than 54 in the world but for some reason he did mentally go to pieces in 2010. Changed his racquet though really, which seemed to have helped so maybe he can get back to 20 something.

Verdasco had some shockers in the last few sets, some simple shots a better player would have put away ended up in the net. His forehand also went awry, it's like his game went to pieces.

Murray didn't play well in the first couple of sets but Verdasco was making much less errors until he went 2 sets up.

[Özim]

Janowicz is a young player tbf and it's his first slam semi-final, so an unknown quantity at that stage. It'll be tiebreak city with Murray I imagine.

Yeah he is, be interesting to see what he does, I'm not expecting much though tbh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Yeah he is, be interesting to see what he does, I'm not expecting much though tbh.

Well he did beat Muzza in Paris Masters last year so at least he knows he can beat him.

He looked completely bewildered after his win today though, Kubot was waiting for him for ages, so not sure that's a great sign!

[Özim]

Isn't Del Potro the only guy outside the big 4 to win a slam in recent memory though? Even that was 4 years ago so it shows the level required. Maybe they do lack bottle as you clearly need to have balls of steel in Tennis, but it's not a stick I would use to beat them with too harshly though.

Yeah he is, but that's because he's got such a big game, huge shots, huge serve and a nice touch, really top class. To be fair Berdych is pretty good too and is Soderling....those guys are capable of winning one.

It bugs me when a player gets in a winning position and then his game changes, it's like they don't care enough to win and lack a killer instinct.

[Rors]

Janowicz is a young player tbf and it's his first slam semi-final, so an unknown quantity at that stage. It'll be tiebreak city with Murray I imagine.

I was hoping I'd be able to make this visual gag...Ah well :

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Djokovic has a much harder match, Del Potro is top 4 material, a powerful player with big shots who's just been unlucky with injuries.

He thrashed Ferrer on one leg today.

I disagree completley....despite not dropping a set i think Del Potro is a bit out of his depth here...he won the US Open purely because Federer crumbled mentally in the final......Federer was getting upset at how long Del Potro was taking to serve and how he was waiting to the last second to challenge. I think Del Potro is too cumbersome to give Djokovic a problem and i think using the Olympic semi final as a guideline is very misleading. It would be better to look at their head to heads in previous grand slams where Djokovic has dispatched Del Potro with ease.....if anything i'm much more surprised that Djokovic got past Berdych with such ease.
Janowicz for me is an up and coming player and has excellent court coverage for someone his size, and if Murray plays anywhere near as badly as he does in the first two sets against Verdasco he will definitely lose.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Verdasco had some shockers in the last few sets, some simple shots a better player would have put away ended up in the net. His forehand also went awry, it's like his game went to pieces.

Murray didn't play well in the first couple of sets but Verdasco was making much less errors until he went 2 sets up.

He went for the big shot when he made those key misses, hitting them in is what got him to 2-0 so he's bound to try and red line it. Nobody ever keeps a high level for five sets though.