TENNIS: Queen's rounds 2 and 3
Jun. 20th, 2015 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllRound 2:
Wawrinka out, to a big server playing well! Is it because some players just are better on grass – you’d have thought more time to practice would help nullify the adjusting-to-the-surface factor? (Ah well, although the tournament and spectators will be disappointed, it helps Murray.) I dipped in and out of the next two matches.
But then Dimitrov too went out to a big server. Murray stayed in. Isner got through – big serves doing well on grass.
Round 3, which was also the quarter finals:
I would imagine that QF day would be the best one to be a spectator on centre courts, as you got the four singles matches. For all the talk of the big servers, only Anderson (who is playing well) came through, while in the only QF where the seeding ran true, Simon won. I dipped in and out of the Murray match, missing the core of the second set, but he capitalised on Muller’s blip at the start of the third, and will face Troicki who was playing well (Isner was playing well on his break points.) At one point, Peter Fleming asked why bother with sets when you knew they were heading for a tie-breaker, and there were a lot of tie-breakers yesterday. I know it's a rhetorical question, but it is true that if you aren't invested in a player or match, this strong serving is, er, a bit dull, but all the players have to go through a proper set.
Wawrinka out, to a big server playing well! Is it because some players just are better on grass – you’d have thought more time to practice would help nullify the adjusting-to-the-surface factor? (Ah well, although the tournament and spectators will be disappointed, it helps Murray.) I dipped in and out of the next two matches.
But then Dimitrov too went out to a big server. Murray stayed in. Isner got through – big serves doing well on grass.
Round 3, which was also the quarter finals:
I would imagine that QF day would be the best one to be a spectator on centre courts, as you got the four singles matches. For all the talk of the big servers, only Anderson (who is playing well) came through, while in the only QF where the seeding ran true, Simon won. I dipped in and out of the Murray match, missing the core of the second set, but he capitalised on Muller’s blip at the start of the third, and will face Troicki who was playing well (Isner was playing well on his break points.) At one point, Peter Fleming asked why bother with sets when you knew they were heading for a tie-breaker, and there were a lot of tie-breakers yesterday. I know it's a rhetorical question, but it is true that if you aren't invested in a player or match, this strong serving is, er, a bit dull, but all the players have to go through a proper set.
