Hopefully a good match!! :ok:

I like Mahut's style of play.. hopefully he will do himself justice.. who knows, maybe be the first Frenchman to win this title?

Re; Mahut: a bit of a rarity to see someone serve and volleying with such regularity... feels like a quaint old-style game being brought back! :lol:

How nice it is to watch serve and volley..I am getting goosebumps.

Cant understand why people dont do this often.

Mahut is a very good volleyer..

So.. has a good serve, is ver tall and athletic (6' 3'' ?) can volley well..

Tailor-made for grass!

hope he gets through the qualifiers for SW19 as he will be a good player to see there too :)

Will he have to play quallies? How many direct entries do they take? He's ranked 106 now. He'll be even higher after this week, but that probably won't help him for SW19 . . .

He will Nick.. he's due to play in them tomorrow I think.. :unsure:

His wins over Lluby and Rafa on Friday came a day too late for him to be in the picture re: the Wimbledon wildcards, which is a shame. Although he's 106 in the world, he would be ranked much higher than that on grass..

Mahut produces yet another cracker of a volley from around shoelace level in the process of saving a break point and holding serve to lead 5-4 in the first set.. :ok:

Fabulous play from Mahut to break Roddick's serve to take the first set 6-4!!

Game on!! :D

Splendid play from the frenchman.
First set 6-4..

*runs in to say*

fantastic first set for Mahut - he deserved that - very interesting to watch... wouldnt want to be on the end of one of Roddicks serve mind...

*runs back to telly*

Indeed! Poor ballgirl getting hit by one of A-Rod's serves.. she seemed ok though thankfully.. :)

Cmon Mahut!! :D :D :D

I'm loving Mahut I tell you :D

It's a scandal that he has to qualify for wimby, whereas Cilic, de Bakker and Tsonga all have a WC.

Fabulous play from the Frenchman. :clap: :clap: :clap: I hope he wins!

Plays like Tim don't you think? :D

I would put him in the league of someone else..7 wimbledons?? Ring a bell ;)

oooh let me think ...... ;) roflmao

He's obviously referring to William Renshaw. ;)

Mahut is playing such a wonderful match. I'm just loving this intricate, eloquency. His backhand slice is just beautiful to watch, and his volley's are almost Pat Rafter-esque, they're that good technically.

And i love how he's deconstructing Roddick's game as well, making Roddick look like a lame duck out there. His groundstrokes just arent hurting Mahut at all......

That's the one! Hi sname was eluding me. :D

I know dl, it's a beautiful spectacle to behold. :D We need more men to play this way. And some women too.

Roddick arguing with hawkeye! :angry:

Mahut just missed an easy CC forehand on matchpoint :doh:

And Roddick took the set 9-7 :rolleyes:

I know! :( Roddick was a right arse though challenging that ace. It was clearly in, then he started arguing with Hawkeye and playing to the crowd trying to disrupt Mahut's rhythym. :rolleyes:

Go Mahut :yahoo:

What a sitter miss from Mahut on matchpoint..
Andy is going to run thru this set.

I know, i wish someone would throw a shoe at him or something roflmao

We should attend next year SB to boo him roflmao

Roddick is contineously talking gibberish between every point trying to distract the opponent.
Unsportive jerk.. :angry: :angry: :angry:

Oh I would love to! roflmao We can tell him his volleys are Sharapovaesque and that has no plan B ! I'll shout that he is a por immitation of Jimbo Connors! roflmao

This is class stuff! Roddick monaing abotu balls that are obviously in, staring at Mahut and Mahut is just laughing! roflmao

Im starting to think ARod is getting more 1D as the years go by. He is not worthy to be coached by Jimbo :tsk:

I know what you mean. I have nothing against A Rod personally, he's a nice guy off court from what I can tell, but I'm just unimpressed by has game esp these days. He is playing a god match today though, but I feel the star fo the shwo is Mahut, win or lose.

Oh, I don't think he's that bad SW. his volleying has improved and his backhand too..

The problem is that they couldn't get any worse thn what they were!! :lol:

He's also become much better competitor. Connors' influence there..

Just that he needs more improvement re: volleying and backhand. I'd bet he'd love to be able to volley anywhere near as well as Mahut..

looks like robo rod will break
0-30..

No they're not that bad :lol: He's playing ok today, it's just that I have some of his horrible performances from earlier this week stuck in my head!

Super hold form Mahut under threat there, and what a second serve ace!

Yip, Roddick really starting to apply some pressure now, and Mahut has responded well :ok:

hopefully Mahut can continue this resilience after a very quick love service game from A-Rod.

Well now's the real test.
To hold to stay in the match..

I still cant beleive that dolly miss on MP though..

Does the 3rd set have a TB?

What an opening point in the 10th game!!!! :clap:

Well look how Mahut just returned that volley that A Rod was on top of the net for! Divign liek Becker. What a great match this really is. B)

Twas a shame. Maybe it was just an error, not pressure. Mahut has hardly missed a thing really.