Andy's match coming up. I need drinks. Cheap beer should do. herc, are you at my service today?
Andy, if I am not too wrong, has missed all of his first serves in his first game. You can see how it's not at all consistent.
Two double faults by Alamagro and 2nd break point opportunity for Andy.
Well I don't think Andy has much to worry about since Almagro is serving worse than Andy. lol Very error prone game for Almagro to get broken. Which means Andy has the break 2-0.
4-0 Andy. The last point was very well played by Andy but otherwise Almagro is making all sorts of errors.
Almagro has a foot injury that I believe he picked up during his match against Nadal? In any case, that's not what I think is bothering him right now though he took a medical timeout. He's just seems completely out of sorts, disoriented and very error prone at the moment.
Andy takes the 1st set 6-1. Perhaps Almagro will raise his level in this set.
Andy's 1st serve percentage has picked up a bit since the first game.
Test is now in for Andy as Almagro broke back and held his own. 2-1 Andy to serve and even things out. He's become a bit error prone since the 1st game of the 2nd set. Almagro more together at the moment.
Andy got broken again. 3-1 Almagro. All sorts of errors from Andy. Almagro foot problem disappeared btw.
Tsonga is out to Girlado in the meantime in straight sets. Shocking.
And Almagro takes the 2nd in the same fashion as did Andy in the 1st.
Andy cannot afford to let Almagro dictate the rallies. He needs to take control over those and cut down the errors as much as possible. Almagro is hitting in the same manner but in this set, with more accuracy and that's all the difference there is between the two sets. But Andy must raise his 1st serve % if he fancies winning this set and the match.
Andy took the first set but coughed up the 2nd.
let's go Andy. finish him.
Andy's match coming up. I need drinks. Cheap beer should do. herc, are you at my service today?
I am out on the road today Emma.
Andy can do this.
finish him Andy.
Almagro is holding so easily that it's putting a lot of pressure on Andy's serve. This time though Andy was able to hold just as easily and literally 4 points away from the match. Hope Andy capitalizes it right here since Almagro is bound to be under some pressure in this game.
And he does it, phew. Andy gets it done in 3. Almagro was very aggressive while Andy stayed passive throughout the match. Though it's Almagro's mindless aggressiveness that took him down as well.
It's not a great match but Andy will be able to use this going forward as he faces Giraldo next as opposed to Tsonga.
Oh no Emma not had flu jabs but I agree with you its a probably a good idea as so easy to get flu these days. Lol glad you thought my code was hard to crack :-). I have a few more up my sleeve ;-). Great win for Andy. Now hopefully can build momentum and confidence now in clay season.
Andy delivers as promised sports fans.
I knew he could do this. he just had to believe in his abilities.