O/T - Murray v Nadal

Anyone staying up to watch this?

Got to be up early tomorrow to head up to the Steel City for a mate's 40th birthday bash, but fancy this might be a corker.

Great result for Murray to beat Djokovic yesterday.

Hardly a suprise that the fitter he gets, the better he seems to get, but Murray really seems to be someone who gets knocked back by even the slightest pull or twinge, and just at the moment he seems in decent nick.

Will be interesting to see how much more effectively he can compete with Nadal than he did at Wimbledon after his epic against Gasquet.

Murray will lose, I will laugh at his crying Scottish face, and all will sit well between me and the world. And no, I'm not getting up early/staying up late to watch it - if I can't do it to watch England get thrashed in the Ashes, I can't do it for cǘntmonkey and his antics.

Ooh, you scottishist

JAMTT(tennis tournament).

PlanetPakistan wrote:JAMTT(tennis tournament).

btw tennis is my second favorite sport

PlanetPakistan wrote:JAMTT(tennis tournament).

The Masters series is hardly meaningless if you're a tennis fan.

Players on court . . .

Not a huge tennis fan but isn't this one rung down from the slams?

JKLever wrote:Not a huge tennis fan but isn't this one rung down from the slams?

Me neither, but yup - basically.

Ridiculously high standard from both players early on.

Tennis is great to watch when it is played as well as these two are.

4-3 to Murray with serve and he's more than holding his own so far.

Going to have to go to bed, and I'm sure that Nadal will come through eventually, but good to see Murray slugging it out toe-to-toe and competing with a guy who will go past Federer as World No 1 before the end of the year IMO.

JKLever wrote:Not a huge tennis fan but isn't this one rung down from the slams?

Probably, but if Murrays doing well it's significance will be HUGE.

Geoffrey Trueman wrote:

JKLever wrote:Not a huge tennis fan but isn't this one rung down from the slams?

Probably, but if Murrays doing well it's significance will be HUGE.

...and he'll be British rather than Scottish

Cor an Aussie being chippy on behalf of someone else - now i've seen it all....

JKLever wrote:Not a huge tennis fan but isn't this one rung down from the slams?

yeah but there are around 8 of them per year.

Nadal won the tournament.

Good player this guy Murray is but comes across as a whinger and a drama queen.

Josh Carney wrote:Good player this guy Murray is but comes across as a whinger and a drama queen.

That (evidently) comes with living in Scotland

tennis is for posh gayers.

bob is a numpty starting a thread about this.

it should be deleted for crimes against sport.

Nadal will be World No 1 next week. Frankly, he has unofficially been No 1 since the French.

Murray through to the final, despatches Karlovic pretty ruthlessly.

Early chance for him to beat the new World No 1 in all likelihood.

Djokovic beat Nadal anyway.

Indeed.

Decent enough match, but Nadal had lost a spark.

Understandable.

Big opportunity for Murray now to stake a claim to being the player most likely to make an impression on the top 3 over the coming months.