2013 Aegon Championships

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It's my third favourite tournament of the year!!! Headlining the bill is Sir Andrew of Murray who will be hoping to do better than last year which we will not speak of. Second seed is Berdych. The third seed is DelPo who is making a long-awaited appearance at Queen's Club and the number 4 seed is grass court extraordinaire Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Amongst the other seeds are previous champions Sam Querrey and Marin Cilic and Federer-wannabe Grigor Dimitrov. Also, keep an eye on 12th seed Lukas Rosol as he has potential.

ualifying is currently underway with Feliciano "Deliciano" Lopez as the top seed. There are also a plethora of Brits in action including ex-British-number-2 Alex Bogdanovic.

The main draw isn't out yet unfortunately but I'll keep looking.

Draw: http://www.lta.org.uk/3G/Tournaments/AEGONChampionships/Draws/2013/MDS.pdf

Muzza levels against The Palindrome!

Decent set by Murray (if unspectacular). He came through some turbulent times to win the set.

I love the anti-Murray woman in the crowd who is shouting "Come on Cilic!"  If you really were pro-Cilic you'd shout "Come on Marin!" I imagine.  Anyway, Murray's going to cruise to this now, hopefully.

The Special Juan wrote:I love the anti-Murray woman in the crowd who is shouting "Come on Cilic!"  If you really were pro-Cilic you'd shout "Come on Marin!" I imagine.  Anyway, Murray's going to cruise to this now, hopefully.

Send her to the Tower. This is Queen's Club. It's not cricket.

Murray serving much better now. Another hold to love. This is all about if Cilic can respond mentally and rise to the challenge put before him.

Cilic solid on that service game. Responding well.

That last game by Cilic shows the difference between a top twenty player and a top five player.

Murray motors into a 4-1 lead in the deciding set.

Wow an unreal winner there from Andy.

Well done to Andy Murray. He wins 5-7 7-5 6-3 to seal his third Queen's title levelling the great Jimmy Connors total. Commiserations to Cilic - a bold defence but he really must try to find that extra gear in order to be able to topple the very best players.

That is Andy's 27th ATP title win in his career leaving him one behind Lleyton Hewitt who has 28.

So the match was close as predicted, Cilic had his moments , congrats Andy for a well deserved win.

Yes!!!!!!!  They're showing the Rally Against Cancer!!!

US Open, this is how you do exbo doubles!!!!!!!

Andy.

Cilic played well the first two sets. Would expect better from him at W.

Lendl actually smiled and laughed!

The Special Juan wrote:Yes!!!!!!!  They're showing the Rally Against Cancer!!!

Already great fun and they haven't even started yet.

Come on Tim!!

Dave. wrote:Lendl actually smiled and laughed!

Very rare indeed.

This always cracks me up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InJzaIR3b7M

All those that think Murray has no sense of humour should watch this. And Lendl for that matter.

Oh and Tim for that matter. Saying he needs a drink after one game.

HE GOT HIM!

Great fun, wonderful!!  And Berdych with no cap on is almost as funny.

Berdych is a good sport

What great fun. Congrats to everyone involved and dispels the myth that Murray has no sense of humour likewise Lendl.

Loving it so far. He's brave choosing Boris first!

Marvelous!

Fabulous stuff.

One thinks Ginny Wade would not have approved of Wossy's comments.

I can't find my "Ginny Wade Does Not Approve" picture.

This umpire has a great sense of humour

Michael Mcintytre is surprisingly decent at tennis!

Oh that was just great. A credit to all concerned and hope they raise a pot load of money for charity.

Cogen wrote:Michael Mcintytre is surprisingly decent at tennis!

He looks like Santoro!

I set it up to be recorded it but it didn't record?  Oh dear, this is the last post I'll ever make here then

The Special Juan wrote:I set it up to be recorded it but it didn't record?  Oh dear, this is the last post I'll ever make here then

It wasn't on one channel long enough to record! Why they didn't stick with BBC2 'til the end is beyond me. A donation number on screen would have been good too. Great stuff from all players / celebs though

I recorded the wrong channel too!

Congrats to Murray on a third Queens crown and commiserations to Cilic.  Would be nice to see Cilic have a decent Wimbledon. 

Only saw first set - presume Murray's fall didn't cause he or his fans any further worries?

Goddam it! Just back from watching Man of Steel and my recording of the charity match failed too, because they kept switching channels. Why couldn't BBC have just picked a channel and stayed there? 

Sounds like it was great too. Hopefully it will be on bbc iplayer soon.

TP - on first sight it looked like he'd rolled his ankle. But on replay you could see he'd just stretched his groin and five or ten minutes later he was fine. 

He played brilliantly in the third set. First time I've seen him in top gear since the Aussie open.

Thanks Danny - that's good to hear.  Presumed he was reasonably ok because he didn't seem to call for a trainer at the end of set 1, but then I had to leave and wondered.

Great to hear that he woke up in the 3rd - he looked a little complacent at times in the 1st I thought.

I kept swapping channels but when it went to the red button, even though it said it was recording and the red light was on the box, it didn't!!!  Grumble grumble.

Just checked youtube guys and nothing posted yet - hopefully someone, anyone, out there might just be doing so soon!

Why couldn't the blasted Beeb just have stayed on the same channel!!!

Murray hitting Lendl is on YouTube!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVWa9GFM3I

Haha, brilliant. 

I pray bbc put the charity match on the iplayer.

Highlights of charity match on you tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQWejBIt0To

Thanks carrieg4, looked good fun

BTW, was a great gesture from Murray to donate his substantial winners cheque to the Royal Marsden Hospital cancer charity fund

Its a hard sight seeing Ross Hutchins reduced from budding top doubles player to a relatively frail looking young man with a slightly haunted look in his eyes (as anyone has facing the unknown future of battling cancer).

lydian wrote:BTW, was a great gesture from Murray to donate his substantial winners cheque to the Royal Marsden Hospital cancer charity fund

Its a hard sight seeing Ross Hutchins reduced from budding top doubles player to a relatively frail looking young man with a slightly haunted look in his eyes (as anyone has facing the unknown future of battling cancer).

He's got every reason to have a haunted look in his eye - I wonder whether we are more ready to see such a look in someone's eye for expecting it to be there.  I've never been close enough to someone in such a situation (thankfully) to have any sort of view or real understanding of how it works. 

Anyway - well done Murray and best of luck to Hutchins.

For those that missed it, the charity match is now available on bbc iplayer.

Danny_1982 wrote:For those that missed it, the charity match is now available on bbc iplayer.

Just the doubles match it seems