London 2012 Olympics : Match Of The Day (Round 1)

After a long wait (well, it felt like eons!) London Olympics tennis tournament begins tomorrow, 28th of July, AT LAST .

Lots of exciting matches, starting at:

DAY 1

11.30
Giraldo - Harrison 2:0
Lacko - Petzschner 0:2
Tipsarevic - Nalbandian 2:0
Berdych - Darcis 0:2
Giraldo - Harrison 2:0
13.30
Benneteau - Youzhny 2:0
LU YH- Yaziri 1:2
Troicki - Almagro 0:2
Isner - Rochus 2:0
15.30 15.30
Istomin - Verdasco 2:0
Bogomolov- Berlocq 2:0
16.00
Federer - Falla 2:1
Simon - Kukshkin 2:0
Ungur - Muller 0:2
18.00
Dodig - Del Potro 0:2

DAY 2

11.30
Ferrer - Pospisil (court 2) 2:0
Stepanek - Davydenko (court 7)
Soeda_Bahgdatis
(court 14)
Davverman - Niemenen (court 17) 0:2
Tomic - Nishkori (court 18) 0:2
12.00
Djokovic - Fognini (court 1) 2:1
14.00
Murray - Wawrinka (centre court) 2:0
Roddick - Klizan (court 2)
Tursunov - Lopez (court 11)
Cilic - Melzer (court 15)
15.30
Goffin - Monaco (court 1)
Tatsuma - Raonic (court 14)
Gasquet - Haase (court 16)
Kohlschreiber - Kavcic (court 17)
16.00 Hewitt - Strakhovski (court 18)
18.00
Tsonga - Bellucci (centre court) 2:1


So,
half an hour before the start of the opening ceremony, I declare the
London 2012 tennis on our homely, cosy tennis forum up and running.
May we see plenty of beautiful tennis and may The Best win!
Feel
free to share your thoughts and comments on the matches you choose to
see. In case you are one of the lucky ones with the tickets, share those
special moments with us!
God willing, I'll be there at the men's final on Sunday.

GO NOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Missed the opening ceremony, it was too late night for my time zone and I was too tired from work. And sadly even missed the replays in the morning . Lets hope another round of its is soon shown up.

really excited to see the start of Olympics today. Some good matches lined up today. I'm not sure any full match will be telecast on TV given the number of parallel events going on.

The first scalp of London 2012, Berdy falling in straight sets to Darcis of Belgium 4-6 4-6. One potential danger for Murray cleared before he set a foot on court.

Nalbandian lost to Tipsy.

Unebelieavable loss from Berdych...really didn't expect it.
Not surprised about Nalbandian. Saw the same match on day one of Wimbledon, Nalbandian does not play well on grass.
He looks so last era at the moment...

Fed-Fall going on. On serve at the moment. No tennis on TV, livescorehunter is coming for aid

Rotla, try:

http://www.sportlemon.tv/c-4.html

surprisingly large number of empty seats ....

Fed playing fantastic.

Wow, baseline ALREADY going bare :shock: :shock: :shock:

Fed playing very fast. Falla not bad.

Fed looking very 2005 at the moment 8)
Falla returning very well.

And Falla breaks back!

Fed's backhand letting him down big time. Match was in his pocket.

Crowd beautifully loud and raucous! So non-Wimbledon

And just when I thought match is over, Fed doesn't let it happen. Now 3rd set.

good tennis!

Federer's bakchand has got to be the most beautiful shot in the history of tennis!

Exactly what VJ was saying, when you least expect him to lose, he just lost the 2nd set! :twisted:

Credit to Falla, he held tight. Game got very physical at times.

Strange to see the Centre Court visually vandalised like this....

Fed wins. Much relief.

Roger scraped through that one!!
Falla was returning really well off Rogers 1st serve and plead like he had nothing to lose,really going for his shots and creating some incredible angles
Roger played like he has everything to lose thats why he was so tight

noleisthebest wrote:Strange to see the Centre Court visually vandalised like this....

The pink all over the place looks so tacky!! uurrggghh
If had been blue or green it wouldn't look half as bad

Looks like Michael Phelps has been smoking from his bong too much

Veejay wrote:Looks like Michael Phelps has been smoking from his bong too much

That guy....disgrace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EckYgnUv6ag

He didn't even get a medal,he came 4th!
He looked a long way off his best

good!

Article updated with tomorrow's order of play.
Interesting that Tsonga plays on centre instead of Djokovic.

noleisthebest wrote:Strange to see the Centre Court visually vandalised like this....

Agree. Looks like a fallen X'mas tree with the colorful ornaments splattered all over the place in August. A visual chaos. Purple/pink belongs in a bordello anyway. I'm shocked. :shock:

noleisthebest wrote:Article updated with tomorrow's order of play.
Interesting that Tsonga plays on centre instead of Djokovic.

It does seem unfair, although I can understand national interest starting today with Murray in CC while Nole in C1. Could they not have put Nole in a later slot in CC while moving Tsonga to C1 instead? :?:

SR wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:Article updated with tomorrow's order of play.
Interesting that Tsonga plays on centre instead of Djokovic.

It does seem unfair, although I can understand national interest starting today with Murray in CC while Nole in C1. Could they not have put Nole in a later slot in CC while moving Tsonga to C1 instead? :?:

The organisers have done everything to disadvantage Novak. From giving him the worst possible draw, right down to scheduling his matches the way they are. And still, it won't help Murray to win it. When will they learn....

Murray Wawrinka started .

Nole time

Difficult playing conditions on court 1. Match stopped due to rain at 7 all in the tie-break.

ADJEEE NOOLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Beat Fognini in the tiebreakl, i'm so nervous. It's still raining, why?

After the difficult 1st set, long rain delay break, Nole closes the match with ease & confidence " 6:7, 6:2 6:2.

Playing conditions not good.

phew, was worried after the 1st tiebreak there; but then luckily Djoko came back.
Tsonga comes back as well, good to see.