ATP Masters 1000: Indian Wells

As the wind died down, Stakh was able to play his game and turn the match around, really good to see him win.

Yesterday I saw a bit of Fish/Harrison....the latter was moonballing like crazy...I remember he used to have flat risky shots and there he was playing worse than Nadal. I guess the conds are forcing this.

Sock has such an easy power. He makes many UEs but not by taking risk a la Dolgo but by being careless. The day he fixes that....he will be trouble .

but he (Sock) has no BH.

And Sock comes back from 1/5 down to lead 6/5 in that first set....it's all in his racquet.

I saw Sock in Boodles last summer: he had all the shots etc, but lacked something, there just wasn't any drive in his game, he is similar to Pospisil - a tall, modern baseliner...
Thiem beat him comfortably just by driving forwad.

What Sock has to offer is not enough, Steve Johnson looks more promising, Sock is a bit happy go lucky, not sharp enough.

noleisthebest wrote:What Sock has to offer is not enough, Steve Johnson looks more promising, Sock is a bit happy go lucky, not sharp enough.

Yes...true..plus the lack of BH.

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:What Sock has to offer is not enough, Steve Johnson looks more promising, Sock is a bit happy go lucky, not sharp enough.

Yes...true..plus the lack of BH.

American school of tennis: big serve, big forehand...and hope for the best!

Match of the Day:

Djokovic-Baghdatis
Tomic-Coric
Murray-Pospisil
Fognini-Mannarino
Nishikori-Harrison

First chance for me to see some action-- these court conditions are a travesty for hard court... smh..   Ball is bouncing shoulder high from flat hitters.   Pathetic that an owner feels the need to tailor conditions for one player who he is friends with.

truffin1 wrote:First chance for me to see some action-- these court conditions are a travesty for hard court... smh..   Ball is bouncing shoulder high from flat hitters.   Pathetic that an owner feels the need to tailor conditions for one player who he is friends with.

So Larry is still in charge....is he? As I said earlier, I was stunned to see Harrison hitting nadal's like moonball as he is normally a flat hitter.

Harrison has improved a lot since I last saw him, esp the movement and defence.
Decent match against Nishikori.

Still a lot of of waste in his game. Mouvement is still poor actually. Have you seen those think legs of his.....that's a handicap in today's game. With better mouvement he woudl be much better.

Yes I saw his quads, he's a big boy.

He played a very good first set, had Nishi on the move forcing many UEs from him with deep, fast balls and could also hold his own with Nishi's fastest shots, I was impressed.

Then in the 2nd  he lost a tiny bit of speed and that was it...couldn't keep up with Nishi any more.
He's heavy and not meant to run much.

You're right about the waste. He's traded his big attacking FH for baseline uniformity and looks a bit bland now.
Needs to fine-tune his game, still not too late.

noleisthebest wrote:Yes I saw his quads, he's a big boy.

I was referring to his legs not his quads. His walk reminds me a lot of Agassi....his game even.

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:Yes I saw his quads, he's a big boy.

I was referring to his legs not his quads. His walk reminds me a lot of Agassi....his game even.

Quads are legs!
The big muscles above the knees...

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:Yes I saw his quads, he's a big boy.

I was referring to his legs not his quads. His walk reminds me a lot of Agassi....his game even.

Agassi was miles better...Harrison should S&V but his game is quite artificial atm, he is all bark and no bite.

noleisthebest wrote:

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:Yes I saw his quads, he's a big boy.

I was referring to his legs not his quads. His walk reminds me a lot of Agassi....his game even.

Quads are legs!
The big muscles above the knees...

Yo mean the thigh....Legs are commonly known as the part below the thigh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leg

how many courts can you watch on tennis tv?

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:Yes I saw his quads, he's a big boy.

I was referring to his legs not his quads. His walk reminds me a lot of Agassi....his game even.

Quads are legs!
The big muscles above the knees...

Yo mean the thigh....Legs are commonly known as the part below the thigh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leg

No, thigh is above quads, top part of the upper leg.
What you call leg I call calves.

What I call leg is the whole thing.

So, yes, his calves or "legs" are tiny compared with the "rest" of it.

noleisthebest wrote:

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:

Tenez wrote:

noleisthebest wrote:Yes I saw his quads, he's a big boy.

I was referring to his legs not his quads. His walk reminds me a lot of Agassi....his game even.

Quads are legs!
The big muscles above the knees...

Yo mean the thigh....Legs are commonly known as the part below the thigh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_leg

No, thigh is above quads, top part of the upper leg.
What you call leg I call calves.

What I call leg is the whole thing.

So, yes, his calves or "legs" are tiny compared with the "rest" of it.  

I dunno...my anatomy knowledge on legs is based on our Sunday's roast chicken.

Ooooh...that explains it, then

Murray-Pospisil such ugly tennis.
Murray looking more and more like Nadal.

Switching to Fignini-Mannarino, to rest my eyes a bit...

I thought Murray played well..depressingly well.

My brain refuses to absorb it.

It's not tennis any more.

Does anyone have a link for Tomic-Coric?

Trying not to laugh here.

Dodig saves MPs with Ferrer serving for the match, breaks back, but loses a tight TB when he was up 5:3.

So Ferrer continues to perform.

So many good matches today!

Dimitrov-Kyrgios
Stakhovsky-Berdych
Golubev-Robredo
Federer-Schwartzman
Nadal-Sijsling

Also playing Dolgo, Stan, Muller...

Great to see a strong presence of SBH.

Djoko's  first opponent ranking   61
Murray's  ,,    ,,   ,,   ,,     ,,     62
Federer's  ,,    ,,  ,,    ,,     ,,     63
Nadal's    ,,    ,,   ,,   ,,     ,,    134

Tenez wrote:Djoko's  first opponent ranking   61
Murray's  ,,    ,,   ,,   ,,     ,,      62
Federer's  ,,    ,,  ,,    ,,     ,,     63
Nadal's    ,,    ,,   ,,   ,,     ,,    134

Yes...it's become embarrassing.
The worst must have been Berlocq tanking that TB the other week being 6:1 up...

noleisthebest wrote:

Tenez wrote:Djoko's  first opponent ranking   61
Murray's  ,,    ,,   ,,   ,,     ,,      62
Federer's  ,,    ,,  ,,    ,,     ,,     63
Nadal's    ,,    ,,   ,,   ,,     ,,    134

Yes...it's become embarrassing....

Let's be generous this time and call it "luck of the draw".

Kim Jong-Un wrote:Trying not to laugh here.

No No.. please let yourself out. The world is laughing at you. You too can join in.. 

raiders_of_the_lost_ark wrote:

Kim Jong-Un wrote:Trying not to laugh here.

No No.. please let yourself out. The world is laughing at you. You too can join in.. 

How's India going ROTLA ?

Kim Jong-Un wrote:

raiders_of_the_lost_ark wrote:

Kim Jong-Un wrote:Trying not to laugh here.

No No.. please let yourself out. The world is laughing at you. You too can join in.. 

How's India going ROTLA ?

Its doing fine here, thanks for asking kimmi. And nice weather in my city Bangalore, spring season with lots of yellow and pink flowers on trees this time around.

I hope you are doing good too.

Dimi vs Kyrgios could be interesting.

raiders_of_the_lost_ark wrote:

Kim Jong-Un wrote:

raiders_of_the_lost_ark wrote:

Kim Jong-Un wrote:Trying not to laugh here.

No No.. please let yourself out. The world is laughing at you. You too can join in.. 

How's India going ROTLA ?

Its doing fine here, thanks for asking kimmi. And nice weather in my city Bangalore, spring season with lots of yellow and pink flowers on trees this time around.

I hope you are doing good too.

Thanks, yes I'm doing well, weather in London is slowly improving and getting warmer.

They just showed the average time between the points for the two today:

Dimi - 18s
Kyrgios - 15s

Nice to see the guys get on with it. I kind of like them both, so too bad they had to play this early.

Just started watching Dimi-Kyrg.

There is something attractive about Kyrgios's game, he doesn't calculate much.

I know what it is Dimi is missing: he simply doesn't go down line, esp not with his FH.
Just these endless, routine CC ones.
Short angles...that's the latest craze!

I can't stand when receivers raise their hand in order to disrupt the server, so cheap!

Odd turn of events.  Kyrgios gets hurt while breaking Dimi's serve for 4:5.  He then plays a bad service game and gets broken right back while serving for the match.  6:5 to Dimi now.

Can Kyrgios recover?

No interest in defending from K. Just all out attack.

Did well there to get to the tiebreak!

Kyrgios still looking hurt, but manages to get it to 6:6.

Congrats Dimi, but shame about the way it ended. Hopefully nothing serious with Kyrgios.

I kind of wanted K to win. Dimi frustrates me no-end. He is 24 soon and has gone backwards since wimby.

Poor Kyrgi...so unlucky.
Stan on the other hand....
Come on man wake up that animal!!!!!

Haase just pushing the ball back wins the first set

luvsports! wrote:I kind of wanted K to win. Dimi frustrates me no-end. He is 24 soon and has gone backwards since wimby.

I was kind of split.  Game-wise I prefer Dimi's game but I am also starting to get frustrated with him.  As you say, he has been going backwards since Wimbledon.  And I do like Kyrgios too.  He certainly can hit it big, though overall I find his game less appealing.

noleisthebest wrote:I know what it is Dimi is missing: he simply doesn't go down line, esp not with his FH.
Just these endless, routine CC ones.
Short angles...that's the latest craze!

Very true. Well pointed.