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Loki

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  1. A very disappointing loss for Murray.  He had umpteen chances in that first set, and Bublik did play well in the second, but that’s one that slipped away from him.

    Considering the how the draw is looking, he might not get a better chance to go deep in a Masters again.

    Lendl has a lot of work to do with him.  Obviously under Lendl before it was about building strength and stamina to outlast his opponent.  He just can’t play that way anymore he’s 35.  

    Today he did win more points over 9 shots than his opponent but it’s the shorter points he can’t dominate in.  He needs to change that if he can.  Lendl will be with him in Miami, so hope he gets a nice draw.

  2. 11 hours ago, Steve_Wilkos said:

    Osaka crying because someone in the crowd shouted "you suck".

    She equated it to memories of what happened to the Williams family at Indian Wells back in their early career.  A large part of that crowd was racially abusing them and Osaka got a bit of heckling.

    Obviously having a very tough time of it mentally, but it’s a bit of a stretch to equate both incidents.  I always thought she’d get a bit more heckling considering she stopped representing the US.

    It will be interesting in April to see if she will get asked the same questions as last year in regards to her performance on clay and grass.

  3. Murray drawn in Novak Djokovic 16th.  Will play a qualifier, then Bublik and then scheduled to face Novak. 
     

    Novak hasn’t withdrawn from the competition so he won’t get a 0 in his ranking until the competition is finished, which means he’ll return to number one on Monday.  A lucky loser will replace him, if he withdraws before the first schedule is named.  If not the seeds are rejigged.

  4. 5 hours ago, Trogdor said:

    Good game mate. It was round about here where the tactics started to favour me. It took a decent amount of calculation on my part to work out I was going to be in the ascendancy. When I had the connected passers it's very difficult to hold. I think you're best try is to nab the a pawn and try to push yours. In the hope it distracts me from pushing my passers.

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    I hate playing you.  It’s like you come and kick my brain around inside my head until I eventually succumb. Then praise me for the game 😂

  5. In Eindhoven’s defence he makes a lot of moves per day when he is on. We are currently on our 31st moves this week.  

    We have two weeks to complete games so I’d rather people pause over a weekend and get games finished by playing within 14 days.  
     

    I get more frustrated with people who only move one a day every day.

    I am just not sure why other players time out and others don’t.  I don’t have a subscription so I assume I’ll be allowed to time out.

     

  6. With the incident Zverev gets defaulted and he loses all points from the competition and that 0 will remain on his rankings for a year.  An absolute clown.

    Andy did well, but ultimately left too many balls short for Sinner to hit.  He has already accepted a wild card for Miami and will be offered one for Indian Wells if he wants it.  Although he has said he won’t play the clay there will still be hard court challengers to play in that time before the grass.

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