US Open Day 8 - Will Rojer need the Vasselin for his Lipsky? Will Kontinen's collide?

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Well that's s great volley. Hs been given the chance to do it though. Follows it with a fh dump.  Murray has to do something now

First bad miss from Andy. Shouldn't have let Kev out of that game.

Nope. Murray limply dumps his one shot designed to hurt Kevin into the net...

usual passive rubbish from murray. kev running all the points and murray just bunting it back wayting for mistakes.

Big nose will thrash him. hope stan can find some form.

muzza playing every shot from 5m behind the basline

I don't think he's read the situation this match. There's a time for defends s d a time for attack. Someone in this mood you've gotta push him back. Once he's nervous you start to ask questions. He's given kev the balls to get in a groove

pathetic

temporary21 wrote:I don't think he's read the situation this match. There's a time for defends s d a time for attack. Someone in this mood you've gotta push him back. Once he's nervous you start to ask questions. He's given kev the balls to get in a groove

exactly. hes let kev dictate. way too passive. not stepped in and taken the ball on at all.

This is all Kev now. Murray needed to keep the second set much closer to make Kev feel the pressure.

Looks like Kev is feeling the pressure anyway - DF.

In not against letting someone self destruct. It's the wrong call this match. Kevin's a different player now he nearly beat novak and Andy should have recognised  the way he was hitting and serving that this was no mook who was gonna blow up. This was a match he needed to take it on.  

If kev can tie the bow on the match it'll be fully deserved though. I feel a semi final brewing

Hmmmm doubles..........

theres always the chance that kev could choke but muzza needs to keep it close for that to happen.

kevs tightening up, choke?

Good game from Andy. Very frustrating he lost the previous game from 40-0. As it is, still very much an uphill struggle.

Well, one break back. Is it too late to salvage the set? Kevin looked nervous in that game - even at 5:1.

A minor fart. But he's got another service.

Yeah, one would think it is too late for Andy in this set. But crazier things happened.

It happened with cilic. Tbh I want kev to win it be a yravesty if he didn't

Temp - how exactly should he be more aggressive. Is it the 115 mph second serve bombs he should be crushing or the bullets coming back at him on to the baseline on return?

Murray is playing $h1t3. The Defensive mind-set to the fore. I would not be surprised if Murray lost today.

The bolleyd are coming through his court positioning. His lack of 1st serves an issue.  I'm not saying it would be enough, but it would help

Oh no... Not like this...

Passive return Murray.  Kevin isn't going throw away in the clutch

Wasted every deuce he's had...  Enough thete to suggest this may go 4 but Murray not deserving of a set all

That was very nervy from Kevin. So Andy needs to come back from two sets down again, but those last two Kev's service games should give him some encouragement - Kevin looks like he will find it difficult to cross the finish line.

summerblues wrote:That was very nervy from Kevin.  So Andy needs to come back from two sets down again, but those last two Kev's service games should give him some encouragement - Kevin looks like he will find it difficult to cross the finish line.

You looking for miracles today, SB!

They showed a stat here on FH winners (not sure if the whole match or the set only):

Kevin - 12
Andy - 0

Sums it up.

laverfan wrote:You looking for miracles today, SB!

Well, if I were to bet from here, I would also pick Kevin. Undeniably, things are looking bleak for Andy. But there are some silver linings.

Bs I sense you feel were focusing on muzz. But like fed and the others, Murray is the better player on paper, hence this match is about what's levs doing right but also what murrays done wrong. He's chosen the wrong option he chose the absolute wrong times to be reactive, levs better than that now

Just got to hold it together here Andy. I am the first to criticise him for being too passive but that hasn't been the case here. He's playing a very high quality match.

No Temp. Sorry, but you are reading this match totally wrong. There is no way Murray could be any more aggressive given the way Kev has played this match.

Absolute joke how long Murray has been kept waiting here by the way.

What the f is going on here? That's one of the worst calls of all time.

Followed by another joke net cord.

I think either Murray folds now and loses 6-1 or something or he comes back and takes it in five.

I think he'll come back.

79% returns in play from one of the worst returners on tour? Just unreal.

One question. Would novak have let that happen? Probably not

Woah!

That is taking the absolute biscuit.

That Was. Great return, it's what came before though...

Well Novak almost lost to KA temp. 

BTW anderson isn't an awful returner. Top 50 according to the stats.

Top 50 lol. He's returned like Agassi today.

118mph second serve bp down, after a double fault.

Game over. Murray in five

True but he did take it to 2 tiebreaks

That's a little better. Some pressure to the net and has a thread again

Murray still in it. Taking three straight sets off Kevin is not inconceivable.

Also, Kevin has been having difficulty holding his serve lately - had trouble his last three service games.

and look what its done to Anderson...

LOOK WHATS ITS DONE TO ANDERSON

Brilliant from Andy. Held his form together incredibly in the face of this barrage from Anderson.

Kevin showing nerves from 5:1 up in the second. Plenty of DFs, broken three times in four service games (and struggled to hold in the other one too).

Let's see how he handles it from here. Murray will not fold.