Mutua Madrid Open ATP1000 02-11 May 2014

[Moxie]

^ Phabio is 0-4 against D-Love. All were straight sets. Three of the phour were blowouts. Two of the three blowouts were on clay. I'll be surprised iph this one is any dipherent.

You're right to steel yourself, but you never know with Fabio, and you never know with Dolgopolov. I bet it'll be entertaining, though.

 

[masterclass]

#4 Roger Federer has withdrawn. From his facebook page:

I’ve decided to withdraw from Madrid to be with my wife Mirka during these next few exciting weeks for our family. I apologize to my fans and hope to be back in Madrid next year. I’ll be training near my home, and am excited to rejoin the Tour soon!

Wishing good health and happiness to the coming baby Federer, Mom Mirka, and Papa Federer...

Respectfully,
masterclass

 

[britbox]

#4 Roger Federer has withdrawn. From his facebook page:

I’ve decided to withdraw from Madrid to be with my wife Mirka during these next few exciting weeks for our family. I apologize to my fans and hope to be back in Madrid next year. I’ll be training near my home, and am excited to rejoin the Tour soon!

Wishing good health and happiness to the coming baby Federer, Mom Mirka, and Papa Federer...

Respectfully,
masterclass

Thanks for the update MC. Big blow for the tourney but positive reasons!

 

[isabelle]

Haas lost in Madrid
According to l'Equipe Youngderer could miss Roma too

 

[herios]

Sijsling def Haas 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
Anderson def. Stepanek 3-6, 6-3, 6-4

 

[isabelle]

Gulbis beat Janowicz

 

[Murat B.]

Can't blame Roger for having his priorities straight. He paid his dues anyways. Good luck to him and Mirka. "Next few exciting weeks" might make him miss the entire clay court season.

 

[tented]

First Novak, and now Roger. The Madrid organizers must be quite perturbed.

 

[Murat B.]

The Dog gets the first set out of nowhere. o-40 down he starts hitting winner after winner and breaks the fabulous one.

 

[Murat B.]

Triple F calls for the trainer. Camera on his face literally, he pushes it off. I totally get him, I mean you have something called a zoom, use it...don't have to be literally an inch from someone's face.

Trying to hear , but the physio says he cannot treat this as a medical time out because it is a pre existing thing...Fabio asks "what are you doing then" Physio said " You have to deal with it".

 

[Murat B.]

#4 Roger Federer has withdrawn. From his facebook page:

I’ve decided to withdraw from Madrid to be with my wife Mirka during these next few exciting weeks for our family. I apologize to my fans and hope to be back in Madrid next year. I’ll be training near my home, and am excited to rejoin the Tour soon!

Wishing good health and happiness to the coming baby Federer, Mom Mirka, and Papa Federer...

Respectfully,
masterclass

I hope it is a boy, so I can say in 20 years "He is not quiet his father yet but the boy has future..."
Of course the twins can pick up tennis too but it would never be a fair comparison . Maybe I would compare them to Mirka...
Of course the boy can turn out to be a marine biologist or a chocolate maker, who knows...

 

[Murat B.]

I thought the Dog was going to run away with this but he keeps getting broken. 5-4 in the second for Fabio, he will try to serve it out.

 

[Murat B.]

Dogs DTL backhand has worked amazingly well today. He injects this pace out of nowhere to that shot and it is gone.

 

[kskate2]

Yeah even w/ his leg strapped up, Fog levels the match and we head to the decider. Poor errors from Dog toward the end of the set.

 

[Murat B.]

Fabio is about to lose it. They disagree on a mark with Lehani. Fabio is like" If I lose this game..." fill in the blanks...

 

[kskate2]

^^I heard that too. LOL! He saves BP and then proceeds to create 2 UE's and lose the game. Not Lehani's fault by the way. Dog leads 3-1

 

[Murat B.]

Dog closes it out...with another DTL backhand winner. Good job. Triple F was never there mentally.

 

[Murat B.]

Fabio is saying something like " I want to see you now, outside...don't be scared " or something like that to Lehani. I see some fines coming Fabio's way.

 

[Kieran]

Fabio is saying something like " I want to see you now, outside...don't be scared " or something like that to Lehani. I see some fines coming Fabio's way.

You're kidding! He wants to ruck with the ump? :laydownlaughing :lolz:

 

[Iona16]

Fabio is saying something like " I want to see you now, outside...don't be scared " or something like that to Lehani. I see some fines coming Fabio's way.

Sky Sports are reporting that after the controversial point Fabio said to the umpire "Believe me... if I lose this match you're in big trouble." The umpire responded with "Don't talk like this..."

I think Fabio could be in big trouble.