Indian Wells Masters 1000 (2016)

[herios]

Andy Murray has a history of crashing out early at IW:
He lost to qualifiers both in 2011 - D. Young and 2012 G.G. Lopez.
This was always one of his weakest HC masters for some reason.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Andy Murray has a history of crashing out early at IW:
He lost to qualifiers both in 2011 - D. Young and 2012 G.G. Lopez.
This was always one of his weakest HC masters for some reason.

Here is the reason. He typically will lose at AO to Novak or to someone else, missing another opportunity to grab a GS trophy. Then, he will sulk for 3 or 4 months, before getting into winners circuit. This is his general pattern.

 

[isabelle]

Poor daddy Andy, he played poorly one more time in IW, don't know what happened to him but it's a bad result

 

[nehmeth]

Novak and Nadal had difficult openers and Murray didn't survive his. Roger is probably laughing and glad he sat this one out.

You make it sound like Roger chose to have a surgery instead of making a fool of himself playing at IW

:huh:

I am sure he skipped this event at the advise of his doctor.

Sure he did,but that doesn't mean he didn't want to play. Seeing the results, I had a picture of him chuckling to himself and saying to Mirka, "Glad the doc told me to stay home!"

Thiem v. Sock and Zverev v. Simon are two matches I shall look forward to seeing.

 

[Kieran]

Young Ralph v 'dasco today. This is the kinda match that if Rafa wins it, we get to resurrect the "Incline" thread...

 

[herios]

Young Ralph v 'dasco today. This is the kinda match that if Rafa wins it, we get to resurrect the "Incline" thread...

Have you been following tennis lately?
Verdasco is now ranked 65, and beside beating Rafa at the AO, he is a punching bag all season.
Defeating Verdasco will not mean much in the larger picture.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Young Ralph v 'dasco today. This is the kinda match that if Rafa wins it, we get to resurrect the "Incline" thread...

Have you been following tennis lately?
Verdasco is now ranked 65, and beside beating Rafa at the AO, he is a punching bag all season.
Defeating Verdasco will not mean much in the larger picture.

It appears that when he plays against Rafa, Verdasco is allowed to turn back the clock due to Rafa's unagressive play

 

[Carol]

Young Ralph v 'dasco today. This is the kinda match that if Rafa wins it, we get to resurrect the "Incline" thread...

Have you been following tennis lately?
Verdasco is now ranked 65, and beside beating Rafa at the AO, he is a punching bag all season.
Defeating Verdasco will not mean much in the larger picture.

It appears that when he plays against Rafa, Verdasco is allowed to turn back the clock due to Rafa's unagressive play

Not for 15 times and I hope today will be the 16 unless Rafa would play so bad like in the AO :cover

 

[El Dude]

Meanwhile, Alex Zverev wins another, handily defeating Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-2. This kid is legit, y'all.

Next he'll face either Verdasco or Rafa. Rafa would be a nice accomplishment for him.

 

[herios]

Meanwhile, Alex Zverev wins another, handily defeating Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-2. This kid is legit, y'all.

Next he'll face either Verdasco or Rafa. Rafa would be a nice accomplishment for him.

Very good result for him.

 

[herios]

Andy Murray has a history of crashing out early at IW:
He lost to qualifiers both in 2011 - D. Young and 2012 G.G. Lopez.
This was always one of his weakest HC masters for some reason.

Here is the reason. He typically will lose at AO to Novak or to someone else, missing another opportunity to grab a GS trophy. Then, he will sulk for 3 or 4 months, before getting into winners circuit. This is his general pattern.

I don't know about that. Murray has not been very successful at IW, while at Miami he fared a lot better.
He is complaining about the balls flying here and being more difficult to control them.

 

[10isfan]

Coric is 46. Zverev is 52 in live rankings. Zverev will surpass the counterpuncher very soon and take his place in the top twenty next year, barring injury. I wonder why Coric said he is the best of his generation. I guess players have to have that kind of mentality to survive the tour, but he looks silly saying that.

 

[tented]

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Day 9

STADIUM 1 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(30) Steve Johnson VS (5) Kei Nishikori
(3) Agnieszka Radwanska VS (19) Jelena Jankovic
(4) Rafael Nadal VS Fernando Verdasco
(1) Serena Williams VS (Q) Kateryna Bondarenko

NOT BEFORE 7:00 PM
(1) Novak Djokovic VS (27) Philipp Kohlschreiber

NOT BEFORE 8:30 PM
Magdalena Rybarikova VS (9) Roberta Vinci

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STADIUM 2 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(Q) Nicole Gibbs VS (8) Petra Kvitova
(9) John Isner VS Adrian Mannarino
(11) Dominic Thiem VS (21) Jack Sock
(31) Sam Querrey VS (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(26) Samantha Stosur VS (13) Victoria Azarenka

NOT BEFORE 6:00 PM
(8) Raquel Atawo / Abigail Spears VS Bethanie Mattek-Sands / CoCo Vandeweghe

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STADIUM 3 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

Alexander Zverev VS (16) Gilles Simon
(18) Feliciano Lopez VS (14) Roberto Bautista Agut
Barbora Strycova VS (5) Simona Halep
(18) Karolina Pliskova VS (25) Johanna Konta
Daria Kasatkina VS (12) Timea Bacsinszky

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STADIUM 4 STARTS AT 11:00 AM

(7) Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut VS Daniel Nestor / Radek Stepanek
(4) Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares VS Dominic Inglot / Robert Lindstedt
(Alt) Jeremy Chardy / Fabrice Martin VS (PR) Juan Martin Del Potro / Leonardo Mayer

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STADIUM 6 STARTS AT 2:00 PM

(8) Edouard Roger-Vasselin / Nenad Zimonjic VS David Goffin / Joao Sousa
Andreja Klepac / Katarina Srebotnik VS (3) Timea Babos / Yaroslava Shvedova

[Sorry for posting this so late.]

 

[Kieran]

Young Ralph v 'dasco today. This is the kinda match that if Rafa wins it, we get to resurrect the "Incline" thread...

Have you been following tennis lately?
Verdasco is now ranked 65, and beside beating Rafa at the AO, he is a punching bag all season.
Defeating Verdasco will not mean much in the larger picture.

Oh suddenly you're all talking down his chances, and getting sneaky cheeky likes for it, even though AP is correct on this one. So if Rafa wins, you shrug and say it's no big deal, and if 'dasco wins, you all get to gloat louder. It's an old trick, not a very nice one... :dodgy:

 

[10isfan]

Nadal v Verdasco should be a good match. I expect the Spanish lefty to win.

I expect Nadal to win.

 

[Front242]

Coric is 46. Zverev is 52 in live rankings. Zverev will surpass the counterpuncher very soon and take his place in the top twenty next year, barring injury. I wonder why Coric said he is the best of his generation. I guess players have to have that kind of mentality to survive the tour, but he looks silly saying that.

Jeez, Coric is older than me. Shouldn't he be retired now ?

 

[nehmeth]

Coric is 46. Zverev is 52 in live rankings. Zverev will surpass the counterpuncher very soon and take his place in the top twenty next year, barring injury. I wonder why Coric said he is the best of his generation.

Forum posters egging him on. :snicker

 

[the AntiPusher]

Darn it. Rafa was playing so well

 

[nehmeth]

I expect Nadal to win.

Ralf bagels Verdasco for the first set.

 

[the AntiPusher]

Rafa will find a way to let Verdasco back into the match