So I didn't get to see the match live on Friday but I taped it and guess what? The bloody broadcast thing was only 2 hours long so it cut me off exactly after 2 hours and the match went over that. I wanted kill people. Okay, I kid but I was really upset. I then had to dig the match up on youtube and had to watch the 3rd set part by part. Now I wanted to kill more people. Okay I kid again but where's the fun in that? With dodgy screen and all?
What a loss though. I even tweeted And the night he went out to celebrate his birthday. Oh well. He made the utmost mistake of thinking ahead at 4-2 and let it slip. And then got too tight at 5 all and felt mentally and physically insufficient to go on. Or perhaps he didn't even want to win it in the end, who knows.
I definitely thought he let the 2nd set go in order to play longer with Rafa (first set was too quick) and give the crowd a great match and he did. But that was also a great risk but perhaps not too much given that, had Andy won against Rafa, the media would have gone really crazy. Now who wants that kind of unnecessary hype just when both RG and Wimbledon are very close? Not Andy or me, really. I don't know about rest of the Murray fans but I was following the score and those were the thoughts in my head. So I felt strongly that it was a good thing that Andy lost. I'd rather he keeps his profile low at the moment. Let Nole, Nadal, Federer, Stan etc. get all the attention.