This one will be starting in next few minutes. A had a look on the predictions thread and no-one stuck their neck out for a Davydenko win, although a few thought 4 set or even 5 set wins for Federer were on the cards.

I'll go for...

Federer to win: 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6.

There'll be a lot of breaks in this match I reckon.

I will be interested to see what kind of game Davydenko tries to play against Federer. I can't see him winning, but you never know.... If Federer goes walkabout anything can happen...

Fed at 30-40 in the opening service game. You may be right. Hope not

There'll be a lot of service breaks in this match...

....and the first goes to Davydenko. He leads 2-0.

who's watching and what's happening? Manzi, where are you?

Fed holds - DD serving at 2-1 up.

DD claws back to win from 0-30 on his serve.

Davy playing really well :clap:

Not watching, but the stats look like Henin vs. Jankovic. DD not troubled on his serve and putting Fed under all sorts of pressure on his.

Darn! I predicted Fed to win this in three!

I said Donkey will be no pushover!

Davydenko leads 4-2

Davydenko with some "Agassi" like rallying puts him 0-40 up on Feds serve!!!

How old is Davydenko?

Two nice serves from Fed and it's 30-40...


EDIT:- Make that three nice serves....and deuce!

Why the hell is the pointracker not working on the Roland Goarros site?

So much for him being "no weapons" he's totally outplaying Federer, I've never even seen Nadal manage it like that before! :yikes:

I know! :yikes:

I think Davy is quite malgined being called 'no weapons'. His forehand si quite a weapon.

Fed holds to make it just a 3-4 deficit in this set.

Its the same as his backhand...same strength in my eyes!

Can I take any encouragement from the fact that Fed has saved 10bp's - suggesting that he is mostly on the money on important points?

Federer breaks back to love. It's 4-4!

You could be right there.

Federer gets the break back, he played better in that game and Davy played a little looser.

Thats my man he is back.....

He looks about 70 roflmao

I know :o

What people never realise is that Davydenko's main strength is not a particular shot, but the fact that he has an amazing ability to take EVERYTHING early. That's why he has caused Nadal problems even on clay.

However Federer is better equipped to expose the limitations in that I suppose... :bow:

Feds 5-4 for up and looking to break Davy now for the set..

Gav - I'm not a particular fan of Sharapova, but I'm not complaining at seeing endless repeats of her sprawled over the beach in threads to which you are a big contributor....

;) ;)

I just saw Alan Mills the Wimbledon referee in the audience. Didn't think he would deign to show up at RG :lol:

Trouble is though, all those pics of semi-naked players look a bit dodgy on my work computer! Makes it look like I'm on a soft-porn site or a dodgy chatroom or something...

I have to say that pic is great coz I too dont like that Moon Howler!

Ex Ref....

Ahhh yes good point. I should perhaps make it a tad smaller..

O yeah he's retired now :( Must be why he can find the free time to go to RG ;)

Nothing wrong with half-naked pics of players...... :P

Meanwhile it's 6-5 Federer.....