The first match on center court has the tiger against the Argentine J.I.Chela.

If there is one surface Tiger will have an advantage, it is the hard courts of Cincy and New York.

Tim badly needs a win today to maintain his ranking.

Tim holds comfortably first game..

1-0

Tiger is holding well. Anyone seeing this match?

3-2 on serve

:blush: didn't even know it was on

thanks Chet :ok:

Chela serving for the first set :(

Hi DJ btw..

Tim had two BPs in that game but couldnt convert. First set to the argentine..
6-4

:(

Afternoon chet - still bouncing from Djoko's win are we??? :P

Yes kind of..But honestly Djoko was lucky to win yesterday (and even against Nadal).

If Fed had won the first set, he'd have won the match. But anyway good for Djoko..

Mischa is playing well against the dominator..
6-4, 3-1

Timmy breaks for 3-1..

4-2 to Tim and serving....CMOoon Turbo :clap: :clap: :clap:

:yahoo: 5-2 :clap:

The Tiger won the second set 6-3. :clap:

However, he has had a habit of losing tight 3 setters as of late. About time that was reversed, I think.

Karlovic and Melzer also involved in a tight one, the Austrian taking the first set on the tiebreak, and unsurprisingly the second has just entered one too.

Youzhny mauled Hrbaty.

Nadal will have a tough match against the Russian..

Henman's throwing in loads more serve volleying than usual, and it's coming off well. Chela's also hitting some decent passing shots, making this an entertaining match - very difficult to pick a winner.

I'll have to go with Chela, who's had so much more match practice recently. He leads 3-2 in the decider, on serve.

Karlovic surprisingly lost to Melzer in two tie-breaks.

:yahoo: I like Youzhny!!!! Although he's another russian who's a bit on the inconsistent side i think.....

I am just following the scoreboard but it seems Timmmy is holding well.

A love game to make it 3-3.

Slightly farcical moment there as Henman makes a challenge, but the screen froze before anyone could see if the ball was in. The umpire had to ask the operators if it was in or not... apparently not and the point went to Chela, who went on to hold easily.

4-3 now to Chela, who's not really doing anything spectacular. He's certainly there for the Tiger's taking.

Come on Tim! Most of my predictions so far are wrong so he might as well go on and win, one more won't matter!

Ah no, Tim's down a break. That's it folks!

Oh dear... absolute calamity for Henman, who inexplicably allowed the Hawkeye bugger-up to get to him. He moaned at the umpire during the changeover and clearly hadn't got over it once play resumed, hitting two double faults and making a poor shot choice to go down break point. He saved it with a good serve, but was unable to save the next one after some good defence from Chela, who will now serve for the match. :(

So typical of how Henman's year has gone so far...

What a pity..Its over for Henman...

It's getting very ominous for Tim now............ i just wonder how he's going to get back on track now :(

Well the only good thing abotu this is that my prediction WAs right! roflmao

Very sad for Tim as I'm a huge fan, but I expected it tbh. He's gonna have to get sorted for next year or things will just get worse. :(

Looks like a nice match is going between burger king Nalby and Moya..

yeah, second set tie-break - come on Moya!!!! :clap:

Well done Moya! 7-6 7-6!

So its Djoko against Moya then..

Was waiting for the next match all day..

Marat against the German..

come on Marat!!!!! :bow:

:( :( :(

Horrendous start ..

3-0 Kiefer..

Even worse now, 4-0. Marat might as well start thinking about the second set.

5-0 Kiefer.

Two successive bagel sets against Safin :yikes:

thank god, marat has got on the scoreboard :yikes:

man, this is painful to follow......

Ljubicic lost the first set to Delic 6-1 :blink:

ok, marat has somehow managed to claw it back to 5-3 :blink:

Kiefer finally wins it 6-3.

At least Marat's got some momentum now.

yeah, fair play to safin 'cos it was looking like a bagel there!!!! hopefully he can keep this going in to the next 2 sets!!!!

And Kiefer breaks. Looks like this is over :(

Whats wrong with Marat? Cant he just play one tournament properly.

Doesn't look like it! Break down already!

oh, ffs!!! Marat keeps blowing breakpoints!!!

:yahoo: Marat breaks back :yahoo: