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seriously, his BH is like a parody of Roddick's

Zheng v Ormaechea is actually quite good! Lovely counter-drop from Jie.

Bloody good match, that. Zheng hit her first two aces of the entire match on her last two points in the final set TB!

Fantastic pass from Duval to take the first set.

Petko has amazing shoulders. Giorgi though :D

Sock just is not fit enough. I really don't think his backhand is THAT bad, it's just weak. Your backhand looks a lot worse when you're too slow to ever get your feet set.

he's on my list of guys who should have gone with a one-hander.

didnt know fed/stan were playing doubles?!? cool

didnt know doubles implemented like club tennis scoring, im kinda into it tbh

lol @ feds backhand winner on a clearly out serve that bop wanted to challenge and was too l8

Murray getting Rosoled

Rosol getting Murrayed

Halep/Safarova was terrible at the end of the second set so I switched to CSN/Cornet and was immediately rewarded by a sweet all-court rally finishing with a lovely CSN BH <3

bautista-agut painting the lines right now against berdych

Safarova's shot down MP was out by millimetres!

Halep needs to improve.

this is sort of terrible from Berdych

Those FH errors to end the match lolllll

Why did he and Safarova ever split up

that bh by suarez navarro looks like gasquet

this'll be an interesting 3rd set

Cornet's lobs are on point today (and they were when she beat Serena too, I guess she's been practising)

Love CSN's game so much but she's such a gigantic choker, no wonder she hasn't won a title yet

Cornet's theatrics are just hilarious. Collapsing to her knees after a DF!

Oh my god that CSN volley miss howwwww

Shvedova lost her break lead over Wozniacki? :ignore:

Murray was OK earlier in this match but ever since attempting to serve for the set has flopped hard. I'm impressed with Vesely's game though - first time I've seen him - youngest man in the top 100 I think? Good power, reacting well to Murray's tricksiness, even winning some of the Murrayesque cat-and-mouse points.

Oof, that game from Vesely.

Oof, that FH tapped softly into the tramlines from Murray

wozniak is about to bagel a-pav; why is she playing well again all of a sudden?

maybe over her injury issues at last? Or maybe an element of Pavs being Pavs - she won four points in the last set and concluded the match with three consecutive DFs.

Vesely can't smash at ALL

got into a betting panic during that ridiculous Pav-Woz match but ended up cashing out at the end of the 2nd set with only £1 loss

Murray v Vesely is so bad now. Still waiting for a service hold in the third set

that MP save o_O

The definition of winning ugly. I wonder if Vesely will be a choker generally or if it was just inexperience showing.

http://www.changeovertennis.com/saga-jiri-veselys-overheads-told-gifs/

vesely wanted off the court there, at least def in that last game

amazing stuff from giorgi, now please please serve it out

forzaaaa :DDD

she did it! this result makes me so happy.

The definition of winning ugly. I wonder if Vesely will be a choker generally or if it was just inexperience showing.

― lex pretend, Monday, March 10, 2014 9:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's his first masters appearance... but yeah it was pretty bad. Thiem is much more ready for this kind of stage imo.

Quite enjoyed Victor Hanescu giving Nole a bit of fright last night, before Nole woke up and tonked him. That was the first match I've watched this tournament apart from a half-arsed attempt at pretending to watch Tsonga the other day.

Stan looked awesome against Seppi there.

Sveta's current dress is actually really nice

dolgo 3rd set break v rafa

lol terrible

Well I just assumed Dolgo wouldn't win another point. At least he can lose this in a TB.

bizarre tiebreak

Oh man, how sweet is Kleybanova's comeback looking now? Back-to-back 4Rs in Doha and IW! And still outside the top 100. There'd better be a lot more WCs coming for this girl. Hopefully she can pull off an upset next round.

Amazing results from Giorgi and Dolgopolov! Dolgopolov's been on fire for a month now (have seen none of it, annoyingly), glad he got this upset. And we all know Giorgi has the power to dictate against anyone, and what I saw of the first set before I fell asleep was good stuff from her. And this is proving a tough road back from injury for Ma$ha...

Lovely to see Kleybanova doing well, yeah.

From what I've seen of Thiem he has a better game as well as temperament than Vesely...

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The GOAT better stan for the Queen!

From what I've seen of Thiem he has a better game as well as temperament than Vesely...

― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:38 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah he's a stone cold killer out there. Vesely kind of seems like a claycourt specialist to my eyes?

Halep up 5-0 against bouchard after about 2 minutes

that behind the back shot from Dimitrov!