Delpo 6-3, 6-1 over Berdych. Beautiful match. Playing indoors helps both of these players with their serves, Juan especially, who served at 59% on his first serve and won 90% of those points. Most of the long rallies ended in Delpo's favor as well. Four breaks of serve. Some controversy in the match in Delpo's favor that helped with two of those breaks: a foot fault on Berdych at 3-5 0-30 second serve and a slow but correct challenge from Delpo to a Berdych ace on break point in the second. Still, a thorough victory.
Delpo 6-3, 6-1 over Berdych. Beautiful match. Playing indoors helps both of these players with their serves, Juan especially, who served at 59% on his first serve and won 90% of those points. Most of the long rallies ended in Delpo's favor as well. Four breaks of serve. Some controversy in the match in Delpo's favor that helped with two of those breaks: a foot fault on Berdych at 3-5 0-30 second serve and a slow but correct challenge from Delpo to a Berdych ace on break point in the second. Still, a thorough victory.
I really wish DP would get back to US Open championship form. I love the way he plays.
Sportsnet1 is carrying the semi match at 6:30 pm eastern time.
Yup, Tennis Canada posted this:
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Tennis Canada
Sportsnet One will air the Raonic vs. Harrison semifinal from San Jose today on tape delay at 6:30 pm ET. It will be streamed live on TennisTV.com.
Saw it on tape delay. I avoided the radio and stupidly went on facebook and the first thing I saw was that he won so it was anticlimatic. The final is on sportsnet 1 tomorrow and it's live. I have to come up with a plan to watch it.
Saw it on tape delay. I avoided the radio and stupidly went on facebook and the first thing I saw was that he won so it was anticlimatic. The final is on sportsnet 1 tomorrow and it's live. I have to come up with a plan to watch it.
Better double check. It's in San Jose, so I doubt that they will start at 10:00AM especially with the other semi going on as we speak. Istomin won the first set over Benneteau, 6-3.
Looking at SAP's website says tomorrows events are underway at 1:00pm (PST) with a doubles match going first. So Milos will play around 3:00PST I'm guessing? Probably something around there...don't really watch doubles so I'm not sure how long those matches usually go for.
Also looking forward to Delpo and Fed tomorrow. Thinking Delpo takes it.
Yes, Delpo should take this in straights. He has the advantage of form this tournament and having played the afternoon match yesterday. I also think the faster court will help him despite the thrashing Fed gave him in Melbourne - it will be harder for Fed to wrong foot him and exploit his movement, and conversely it will be easier for him to overpower Fed and reduce his time. Fed's play was pretty spotty against Mahut and Nieminen, and he should have lost to Davydenko after being down a set and break. Denko really exposed just how much Fed's movement has declined: Fed probably hit a good 10 rally forehands into the net in the first set alone not because he was on the stretch, but because he just wasn't quick enough to set his feet or get around to hit the off forehand properly. His poor play and the mere 14 hour turnover between the semi and the final put the prospects decidedly in Delpo's favor.
Fed giving Delpo the Roddick treatment, jeez. Short slices to draw him in for the pass, midcourt slices to get him out of position for a winner to the open court, a bunch of drop shots too in the first. I was very wrong about this match. Delpo of course doesn't hit the ball as quick as Davy to take Fed's time away, and Fed actually showed up to play today. Has saved a bunch of BPs the past two service games and now up 6-1, 4-2.
Yes! 71st title and 500 points in the rankings. Hopefully he can make a push for the #2 ranking now. Nadal has a ton of points to defend between now and Wimbledon: 4 MS finals, a MS win, and a GS win. Hopefully Nadal falters a little bit.
Yes! 71st title and 500 points in the rankings. Hopefully he can make a push for the #2 ranking now. Nadal has a ton of points to defend between now and Wimbledon: 4 MS finals, a MS win, and a GS win. Hopefully Nadal falters a little bit.
Is Roger #3 right now? I missed most of the second set but loved how he carved up DP, as much as I like him, too.
Also, firstrowsports.tv has been seized by the FBI, where do you guys get your streams now?
Wish I'd seen it--sounds like a really good win for Roger.
I saw bits of Istomin's win last night, not much. Gotta say he is the best player I've ever seen from Uzbekistan (population 29+ million, only about 5+ million less than Canada, which surprised me). Both he and Benneteau struggled to hold serve all night, but Isotim was very effective whenever he ventured to the net. Milos should win going away, but Denis is capable of putting a little pressure on if he plays aggressively.
In the first set, he had too much of everything. Plus JMDP looked lethargic but then again, he always does. Roger was moving him all over the place and serving well.
4-3 Istomin on serve. Milos is playing a bit lackadaisical and needs to put a bit more pressure on Istomin's serve. He's holding his very easily. Cracked an ace at 150 mph which I think is 241 kph. I wish they just stuck to metric in all these tourneys, or at least gave both mph/kph.
5-4 Istomin on serve. Milos' games are generally won at love or 15. He's getting a few more points on Istomin's serve but I don't think they've been to deuce yet.
6-5 Istomin. Milos had him at 30 all but Istomin is playing really well and not cracking under pressure.
Breaker time! What has impressed me about Milos is his backhand today, last year it was mediocre, now it's becoming a weapon.
7-6 Milos! Last serve was 145 mph. Breaker was 7-3 including a loss of a point on his own serve.
Beautiful match. Playing indoors helps both of these players with their serves, Juan especially, who served at 59% on his first serve and won 90% of those points. Most of the long rallies ended in Delpo's favor as well. Four breaks of serve. Some controversy in the match in Delpo's favor that helped with two of those breaks: a foot fault on Berdych at 3-5 0-30 second serve and a slow but correct challenge from Delpo to a Berdych ace on break point in the second. Still, a thorough victory.
