Come on people, the new season has started :D

Chennai R1 - Nadal def. Schuettler 6-4 6-2 :clap:

Go nadal! :D

Hopefully that half-season slump is behind him now, it was so frustrating seeing him lose to Berdych etc :rolleyes: roflmao

We've stil got boring Ivan in the mix though, i hope someone takes him out :rolleyes:

Yes, my scathing has begun in 07 roflmao

Ljubicic wins 61 62

Good god :rolleyes: roflmao

good on gasquet. opens his round-robing campaign with a win. to win adelaide at the start of the season would be sweet :pray:


and sorry, but 2007 brings more solid yet uninspired results from ljubicic and davydenko. i just can't get into either of the these players...

I was surreptitiously keeping an eye on the live scoring at work earlier and nearly screamed the place down when Nalby lost his match!!! Wow! What happened there I wonder? Also I was having kittens watching the Murray brothers lose their first set at Doha. Luckily they pulled through. Can't wait for tomorrow!

There's no way Nadal will win Chennai.... Karlovic is in the draw (and he's in the 2nd round too! )

Hmm I've never actually seen this Karlovic in action but have heard of his incredible serve?

Is he really a genuine threat to Nadal though?

Oh certainly.... especially on this surface!.... With Nalbandian out of the way thanks to that very pless-ant danish man, ivo should comfortably make the final now.

some pretty decent quarters at doha...

(1)N Davydenko (RUS) vs O Rochus (BEL)
(5)M Youzhny (RUS) vs (2)I Ljubicic (CRO)
(6)R Soderling (SWE) vs (3)M Baghdatis (CYP)
(4)A Murray (GBR) vs M Mirnyi (BLR)

Ljubcic beat Youzhny, after a good start from youzhny - winning 2-6, 7-6, 7-6.

Baggy is playing soderling now. Come on Marcos!!!!

Just a quick argh!!!! moment, 'cos Marcos is down a break in the first set to Soderling. :huh:

Soderling wins 63 62

:cry:

Murray up next tho.....

Malisse beats Santoro in Chennai 6-4, 4-6, 6-0

That was a great match, revetting tennis!
I did the live commentary on the MTF.

Nadal beats Sanguinetti 6-3, 6-2

Ljubicic is struggling a bit against Soderling he's trailing 3-6 4-4

i wouldn't mind seeing soderling pull this one out.

Having said that Ljubo's just taken the second set 6-4....

Soderling is a break up in the third set serving at 3-2

:clap:

:angry: Ljubicic beats Soderling 7-6 (5) in the final set dsespite being a break down :angry:

Please Murray, beat Davydenko, a Ljubicic vs Davydenko final in the first tournament of the season would quite possibly result in a suicide attempt from myself.

Come on Davydenko ;)

:phew: Murray wins 7-5, 6-2, saving me from an untimely demise.

Well done Andy! :yahoo:

Sounds like Davydenko had some injury problems --- nonetheless, a good win for the young Scot! As I recall, he beat Ljubicic last year; can he do it again to take the title?

No matter what the result in the final, a good start to the season for Murray, without a doubt!

Anyone following Chennai? Nadal is a break down to Malisse in the first set, with Malisse serving at 5-4 :huh:

A timely updated from the atp mod..! :clap:

I hadn't been aware of this.. need to visit atp site pronto.. :ok:

Nadal loses the first set :o

ATP mod is now going to have to go and get a train to london :angry: Why couldn't my dad have a birthday when Nadal isn't losing......

An interesting point Jo..

Maybe if it had been James Blake playing then your Dad might have viewed things differently ;)

Oh, train beckons.. have fun! :hug:

*takes 'live update' baton from dinky jo*

Both Malisse and Nadal hold their first serves in the second set, albeit not convincingly by either..

6-4, 1-1

Sorry Dinky Jo but Come on malisse!!

Hate to be pedantic, but shouldnt this be in the live scoring section ? :blink:
Come on Malisse ;)

You're right Al.. and Nick H has started a thread for this match..

Probably best to use that one..

I'm so happy that Malisse won.
He plays such revetting tennis, it's no wonder that he is one of my favourite players :)

BOO HOO!!!!

Rafa lost.

But...there's still hope in the doubles.

I hope Moya squashes Stefan and bagels Malisse in the final.

:angry: And Ivan Ljubicic, possibly the most ridiculous player ever to be ranked at 3 in the rankings, wins the first tournament of the season. Could it possibly get off to a more inauspicious start?

Good run from Murray, but he's got to be annoyed at not winning this. If you're gonna amount to anything, you simply can't be losing to players like Ljubicic, especially when by all accounts you deserved to win. My dislike of this joke of a player is so great that he makes me appreciate Federer.

for me, ljubicic plays uninspiring tennis.

Rafa :doh:

Another straights sets loss for Nadal :doh: :(

He best pick it up for OZ, we cant have Fed favourite after winning a couple of rounds :rolleyes: roflmao