Matt Cronin's prediction-read the last line, Andy will not be pleased roflmao

27-DMITRY TURSUNOV V. TIM HENMAN

Thus ends the Grand Slam career of England's finest post-War player, who will wave goodbye after this contest, unless he pulls off a minor miracle and upends Tursunov. That's not going to happen, as Henman has been contending with a back injury that won't go away and has only won three matches this year. It will be sad to see the soon-to-be 33-year-old go, as his classic serve-and-volley style was always a pleasure to watch, and when he was in a good physical space, was a second-week threat at the Slams, reaching six semifinals, including a run at the US Open in 2004, where he lost to Roger Federer.

Henman will attempt to put a stern fight in this match, but Tursunov has too much game for him. The Russian has had his way with him before and will torture him off the ground with hard, consistent, deep groundstrokes. This hasn't been Tursunov's best year either as he's been troubled by a wrist injury, but the man who calls the greater Sacramento area home did win Indianapolis earlier this summer and has the potential to be a real force here. Grant Tiger Tim a set based on some early clawing, but he'll be gone in four sets. Now it's really Andy Murray's turn to step up for Mother England.

Safin vs Dancevic is on serve with Marat serving at 1-2

Wawrinka is 2-0 against Korolev

Youzhny is 3-0 against Devilder

Berrer is 3-1 up against Przysiezny

Kohli a break up on Zabaeltta

come on Marat!!!!!! :bow: :bow: :bow:

*waits for SG to join in the Safin-worship*





or maybe not :P

For the sake of my predicitons I want Safin to win :ok: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


I'm not fickle honest :lol:

nope, me neither - i always want Safin to win :P

Safin vs Dancevic has to be the tie of the day. The Canadian has been in fantastic form over the summer, reaching the final of one ATP tournament, where he beat Roddick in the semi-finals before losing to Tursunov. He also reached the quarter finals on home soil in Montreal, eventually losing to Nadal after impresisvely taking the opening set.

Safin, on the other hand has done f*ck all, except the odd entertaining rant about how he doesn't care about anything. :lol:

I see this as almost 50/50, but I think Safin will raise his level for what is probably his favourite Slam and edging it in 4. 3-3 at the moment in the first set.

I bet he's done a hell of a lot of f*cking actually Wise :P

*goes to pre-mod herself and leave Wise to give live updates*

:blush:

Youzhny has bagelled Devilder.

And Korolev is now a break up on Wawrinka, well done lad :ok:

:blink:

Well he's f*cking Dancevic so far, having just taken the first set 7-5. :clap:

Devilder is also getting f*cked pretty hard, and is yet to win a game against Youzhny. :yikes: The Russian leads 6-0, 4-0.

That's enough f*cking I think, before I join you in pre-mod... Korolev just serving for the first set against Wawrinka, Kohlschreiber is a set and a break up on Zabaleta and Berrer took the first set off... erm... some Polish guy.

*removes self from pre-mod*

FFS Safin - come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angry:

I think he heard you, he just broke Dancevic when the canadian was serving for set 2.

good man :wub: :wub: :wub:

Set 2 has gone to a tiebreak, can Jo's nerves handle it ;)

Safin wins the 2nd set. 7-5 in the tiebreak

Gulbis a break up on the potatoe man

Youzhny 4-2 up in the third against Devilder

Wawrinka serving for set 2 against Korolev

Kohli serving for the mathc against Zabaleta

:yahoo:

and Youzhny is winning too :yahoo:

Safin-Dancevic headed for another close set at 3-3, although Marat was 3-1 up....

Safin is broken at 5-5 :o :o

Dancevic has another chance to serve for a set....

come on Marat!!!!!!!!!!! :yikes:

roflmao roflmao He heard you again, because he broke straight back....


You know i think you're finally getting through to him....

he's just scared i'll start stalking him again if he loses :unsure:

:peek:

This is what I was talking about on the question thread... :lol:

Ginepri is destroying Rochus.....i really don't think i predicted that :blink:

Before his excellent run over the summer, Dancevic was always seen as a talented player, but a bit of a choker. However, in many of his American hard court victories, he was closing out sets and matches with good serving, and it looked like he had turned a corner.

Sadly today his nerves got the better of him badly. He served for both the second and the third set but was broken and eventually lost both tiebreaks, although admittedly after fighting bravely in both. A missed opportunity for him against a solid but unspectaclar Safin.

Safin closes the match with an ace down the T.

7-5 7-6(5) 7-6(7)

It was an entertaining match but Dancevic just wasn't strong enough on the big points....

Korolev and Wawrinka into a deciding set. They're currently at 5-5 so it's right down to the wire - Wawrinka's pretty weak under pressure though so I'd make the Russian favourite.

Robredo got the first two sets against Reynolds 6-3, 7-6.

Garcia-Lopez took the first set off Kunitsyn 6-4.

Moya stormed to the first set 6-1 over Phau.

Nadal has just started against the Australian wild card Alun Jones and it's on serve at 2-1.

except Korolev is Russian.....but never mind :P

Not being pedantic (well actually i am but...) but Korolev is Russian.

Wawrinka is serving for the match but is 0-30 down

Come on Korolev :clap:

:moody:

Good start to the tournament from Nadal :P

oh, holy moley.....didn't notice that....... :blink:

Wawrinka wins in 5


Rafa is 4-1 down, he better win this set or it buggers up my predictions....

is it Timmy up next? I think he probably deserves his own thread, don't you think??? :unsure:

Do people want the updates or is everyone able to watch the match???

Normality is restored in the Nadal match, back on serve.

Had anyone heard of this Jones fellow who seems to be giving Nadal quite a fight? He's not exactly a youngster, but I don't recall hearing about him before.

Nadal won a tight first set, but currently trails in the second:

7-5 1-4

i dunno - all i know is he's an Aussie wild card :blink:

The USTA have an agreement with Tennis Australia where they each grant the other country one wildcard into their home Slam - Jones was the recipient of said wildcard, I believe. Don't know anything about him other than that though.

He's 5-3 up in the second set... this can't be promising news for Rafa.

Kunitsyn 2-1 up in sets over Garcia Lopez.

Jones takes the second set, good match for him so far.

what's going on with Nadal? on paper this was a nice easy first round match for him :blink:

Evening all :)

Kind of trying to write a report, and keep half an eye on the Henman v Tursunov & Nadal v jones matches.. :blink: Obviously being a guy, multi tasking in an alien concept!

Tim seems to be battling well against Dmitry, which is very encouraging.

Rafa seems to be struggling. It looked to me as if he pretty much pickpocketed the first set from Jones, who really should have taken it. He could therefore have been 2-0 up.

Also Rafa is being broken as often as he is breaking Jones. It doesn't look like a particularly authoritative start for the youg Spaniard, but of course he had an inauspicious start against Kendrick early on in SW19 last year, and he didn't do too badly then.. so early days..