London 2012 Olympics: Match of The Day (Round 2)

Due to bad weather, a lot of round one matches have not been played today and are now scheduled for tomorrow, mixed up with round 2 matches:
So far, only one major upset saw Berdych open the draw up for Murray. Also Tomic losing to Nishikori was a bit of a surprise.
My observation is that this tricky surface will be rewarding for good movers.

ROUND 2 DAY 1

Centre Court

Federer - Benneteau 2:0
Seppi - Del Potro 0:2

Court 1 (12.00)

Goffin - Monaco 0:2
Isner - Jaziri 2:0

Court 2 (11.30)

Roddick - Klizan 2:0
Petzschner - Tipsarevic 1:2

Court 7

Stepanek - Davydenko (to finish, Davydenko won the first set) 0:2

Court 11

Tursunov - Lopez 1:2
Darcis - Giraldo 2:1

Court 12

Bogomolov - Almagro 0:2


Court 14

Cilic - Melzer 2:0
Soeda - Baghdatis (to finish, Soeda won the first set) 1:2

Court 15 (11.30)

Gasquet - Haase 2:0
Istomin -Muller 2:1

Court 16

Tatsuma - Raonic 0:2

Court 18 (11.30)

Hewitt - Strakhovski 2:1
Simon - Dimitrov 2:0


ROUND 2 DAY 2


Centre Court

Niemenen - Murray (second match) 0:2
Djokovic - Roddick (third match) 2:0

Court 1

Tsonga - Raonic (first match) 2:1 (25:23 in the third!)
Ferrer - Kavcic (last match, btw, what a horrible draw for the 4th seed.....) 2:0

Court 2
Cilic - Hewitt 0:2

Court 14
Davydenko - Nishikori 1:2 (Nishikori comes back from a set down)

Court 18
Gasquet - Baghdatis 0:2
Lopez - Monaco 2:0

ahh. back home after a long day at work. Looking at the scores and it appears Fed played a clean game. 4 BPs won, non faced. good match it must be.

Missed most of the matches,looking at the the score it looks like Fed dominated Benneteau
Gotta say the BBC coverage is rubbish,they claim they are showing every single event but when you look on the red button many matches aren't being covered

This is really funy, nobody seemed to have watched any tennis today! Hoping to catch some now and def tomorrow :shock:

Really happy for Davy winning his match.

noleisthebest wrote:This is really funy, nobody seemed to have watched any tennis today! Hoping to catch some now and def tomorrow :shock:

Really happy for Davy winning his match.

I did see Serena,she looks like she's going for gold

that doesn't surprise me. I'd love to see someone try and stop her...I reckon she wouldn't even let her big sister have a sniff

noleisthebest wrote:that doesn't surprise me. I'd love to see someone try and stop her...I reckon she wouldn't even let her big sister have a sniff

Serena is unstoppable on grass,she can just serve herself to victory.She's in much better shape then she was at Wimbledon

Just updated the scores for the day, impressive comebacks from Hewitt, Tipsarevic and Baghdatis.
You really need to hit the road running with this slippery grass, rain delays and best of 3...

I love watching Serena, the show she puts on is priceless: no mucking about!

Oh my god,Britain takes silver in the mens gymnastics!!
Incredible!!!
They beat Japan,U.S.A and Ukraine

updated order of play for tomorrow, some potentially great matches....

Raonic Tsonga should be interesting, almost all matches pretty tricky.

Gasquet-Baghdatis will be great!
Cilic Hewitt looks interesting too

Veejay wrote:Oh my god,Britain takes silver in the mens gymnastics!!
Incredible!!!
They beat Japan,U.S.A and Ukraine

"LONDON -- Uzbek gymnast Luiza Galiulina was provisionally banned from the 2012 Olympics on Sunday after becoming the second athlete in two days to test positive for a banned drug, the International Olympic Committee said.

Galiulina provided a urine sample on July 25 that showed traces of furosemide, a diuretic that can be used as a masking agent or for weight loss.

The Uzbek, scheduled to compete in artistic gymnastics, was banned a day after Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku was thrown out following a positive test for an anabolic steroid.

The 20-year-old Galiulina, who also competed at the 2008 Games, will now have to wait for the testing of a second sample.

Should that also come in positive, she would be barred from competing in London and could face a maximum two-year ban as a first-time doping offender.

Galiulina, Uzbekistan's only gymnast at the Games, had been due to compete on Sunday evening, only in the floor exercise.

Furosemide, often sold under the brand name Lasix, can be used to treat high blood pressure, congestive heart failure or edema (swelling caused by excess fluid retention). It has also been used to prevent horses from bleeding through the nose during races."

Fed re-established authority, Falla all forgotten. :king:

SR wrote:

Veejay wrote:Oh my god,Britain takes silver in the mens gymnastics!!
Incredible!!!
They beat Japan,U.S.A and Ukraine

"LONDON -- Uzbek gymnast Luiza Galiulina was provisionally banned from the 2012 Olympics on Sunday after becoming the second athlete in two days to test positive for a banned drug, the International Olympic Committee said.

Galiulina provided a urine sample on July 25 that showed traces of furosemide, a diuretic that can be used as a masking agent or for weight loss.

The Uzbek, scheduled to compete in artistic gymnastics, was banned a day after Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku was thrown out following a positive test for an anabolic steroid.

The 20-year-old Galiulina, who also competed at the 2008 Games, will now have to wait for the testing of a second sample.

Should that also come in positive, she would be barred from competing in London and could face a maximum two-year ban as a first-time doping offender.

Galiulina, Uzbekistan's only gymnast at the Games, had been due to compete on Sunday evening, only in the floor exercise.

Furosemide, often sold under the brand name Lasix, can be used to treat high blood pressure, congestive heart failure or edema (swelling caused by excess fluid retention). It has also been used to prevent horses from bleeding through the nose during races."

Yes, always nobodies from nowherelands, easy targets....I want big names from big countries 8)

Does anybody know where can I see the highlights of today's matches? There is nothing on youtube (probably due to the Olympics restrictions). And the people outside of the USA cannot watch it on the NBC site eithe...

"big names from big countries"

Yeah, the big names with REALLY big muscles from Spain and France
have curiously exiled themselves in advance. :affraid:

How could the Uzbek gymnast and her team not know about the seriousness of London's anti-doping initiative?

MartinJondzic wrote:Does anybody know where can I see the highlights of today's matches? There is nothing on youtube (probably due to the Olympics restrictions). And the people outside of the USA cannot watch it on the NBC site eithe...

Found some stuff on you-tube maybe of interest.
Check you BR in-box.

SR wrote:"big names from big countries"

Yeah, the big names with REALLY big muscles from Spain and France
have curiously exiled themselves in advance. :affraid:

How could the Uzbek gymnast and her team not know about the seriousness of London's anti-doping initiative?

Yes, you will never hear of an American athlete being doped. They know they are covered, like they were in Seoul 1988. Sick.

MartinJondzic wrote:Does anybody know where can I see the highlights of today's matches? There is nothing on youtube (probably due to the Olympics restrictions). And the people outside of the USA cannot watch it on the NBC site eithe...

Martin BC IPlayer shows entire matches. You should be able to watch it via a proxy (whatever that means):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=tennis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/

Murray Niemenen just starting, sounds as if the roof's closed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w2xt9

Niemenen just called FOOTFAULT!!!!!!!!! ARE WE GOING TO SEE ANOTHER KARLOVIC GATE HERE :x

Murray takes the advantage of rattled Niemenen (footfault) and breaks in the first game.
I wonder if he's going to be given any foot-faults :roll:

Murray wins the first set and breaks at the beginning of the second. Really boring match. Pure baseline. Unbelievable!

Again, depressing number of empty seats....the really good ones at that

Murray really muscling his forehand successfully so far. Won't work against faster players, though.

John Lloyd talkin tripe....Murray has got a great chance of winning gold...I mean, what planet is he on?

noleisthebest wrote:John Lloyd talkin tripe....Murray has got a great chance of winning gold...I mean, what planet is he on?

What more can you expect from the British commentators,same tripe about Murray all the time
They are forgetting that Murray only made the Wimbledon final cause he didn't have to go through the top 3 to get there
He has Novak standing in his way this time

Venus was incredible today,she made quite a statement in that match,I just wonder if she can keep it up

Easy win for Murray. Niemenen disappointing.

Veejay wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:John Lloyd talkin tripe....Murray has got a great chance of winning gold...I mean, what planet is he on?

What more can you expect from the British commentators,same tripe about Murray all the time
They are forgetting that Murray only made the Wimbledon final cause he didn't have to go through the top 3 to get there
He has Novak standing in his way this time

Venus was incredible today,she made quite a statement in that match,I just wonder if she can keep it up

Didn't see her. Raining in Berks, so I'm assuming there's no play on other courts. Just checked, Baghdatis cleared Gasquet in straights!

Tsonga Raonic battling it in the third set. Davy and NIshikori going neck and neck as expected.

noleisthebest wrote:

Veejay wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:John Lloyd talkin tripe....Murray has got a great chance of winning gold...I mean, what planet is he on?

What more can you expect from the British commentators,same tripe about Murray all the time
They are forgetting that Murray only made the Wimbledon final cause he didn't have to go through the top 3 to get there
He has Novak standing in his way this time

Venus was incredible today,she made quite a statement in that match,I just wonder if she can keep it up

Didn't see her. Raining in Berks, so I'm assuming there's no play on other courts. Just checked, Baghdatis cleared Gasquet in straights!

Richard doesnt really care about the Olympics
Its drizzling here in Camden

NOLEE TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GO NOLE crush the arrogant Yank!

Nole starts well, looking good, LOOKIIIIIIIIIIING GOOD 8)

I'm liking Nole's forehand very much today 8)

Nole does it! Breaks Roddick for the second time to take the first set GO NOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Centre Court not slippery today. Good!

Complete demolition 6:2 6:1, under an hour. Sweet win for Nole, esp for those who remember this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPgWoOon8-w


GO NOLEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Watching Raonic Tsonga now. 8 all in the third.
Fascinating to watch two great servers having to win the match not with serving but returning. Neither that great in that department.
Raonic looking really funny wearing that white bandana..

And Tsonga Raonic marathon continues....18 all at the moment :shock:
What I like about this match compared to the Isner Mahut one, is that the guys are actually playing tennis here, not just vegetating.

Basically, just in this third set alone , they both have played three full sets each....

21 all in the deciding set??
Another respeat of the Isner/Mahut match...

Phenomenal stuff in the woman's gymnastics...how the hell do they do that??!!

Veejay wrote:21 all in the deciding set??
Another respeat of the Isner/Mahut match...

Phenomenal stuff in the woman's gymnastics...how the hell do they do that??!!

the gymnasts?
Sheer practice. AS soon as they start walking I'd assume these days.

What the hell is up with the BBC, Ive lost the stream to the match!!
Its not the first time this has happened

I feel really sorry for the Russian girls,they were doing so well but 2 fell on the last apparatus

Tsonga wins...how old is Raonic?

Veejay wrote:Tsonga wins...how old is Raonic?

I think 20.

Great win for Tsonga 25:23 in the third, feel for poor Raonic....

noleisthebest wrote:

Veejay wrote:Tsonga wins...how old is Raonic?

I think 20.

He's got a great future ahead of him,he's been a headache for all the top players
Theres a lot of up and coming talent in that generation,Raonic,Dimitrov,Goffin,Tomic...all look like potential grand slam winners
I wonder who will break through first...

Lots of controversy over the 16 year old Chinese swimmer,Ian Thorpe claims this is the best testing ever done at any Olympics,cheaters will be caught
Over 6000 athletes will be tested,in comparison to former olympics where only around 2000 athletes were tested
No wonder El Toro did a runner