CAMELOT FANTASIES

thanks for firing up the thread general masterclass.



there is a lot at stake indeed. looking forward to this.

Post #1 draw updated with results through to the QF.


Order of Play for Friday, October 31, 2014

    Court Central Start 2:00 pm

    [5] Tomas Berdych (CZE)  v  [14] Kevin Anderson (RSA)

    Not Before 3:30 pm

    [7] Milos Raonic (CAN)  v  [2] Roger Federer (SUI)

    Not Before 7:30 pm

    [1] Novak Djokovic (SRB) v  [8] Andy Murray (GBR)

    Not Before 8:30 pm

    [4] David Ferrer (ESP) v  [6] Kei Nishikori (JPN)


    Court 1 Start 2:00 pm

    [5] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Marc Lopez (ESP) v  [Alt] Pablo Cuevas (URU)/Santiago Giraldo (COL)

    [7] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/Daniel Nestor (CAN) v [PR] Marcin Matkowski (POL)/Jurgen Melzer (AUT)

    [1] Bob Bryan (USA)/Mike Bryan (USA)  v  Leander Paes (IND)/Stan Wawrinka (SUI)


Respectfully,
masterclass

Wow! What a day of tennis; some totally unexpected results. I thought that Anderson was finally going to get his first win over Berdych. It kept looking good for him, but he tightened up at the wrong time. It was a good win for Tomas though, because in the past he would've concluded that it wasn't his day and gave in, so it was good that getting further in the tournament outweighed his past mental state. #Growth.

The same with Milos. He needed to step up in a big way, in a big match, and he finally did it. I was surprised, a little, but it's what he had to do to convince himself that he deserves a piece of the pie. Bad luck for Federer; with his quest for #1 taking a huge hit.

Andy? I guess he's still not there yet. I'm getting tired of Novak beating him so easily. Is it the back, or the lack of confidence? Anyway, it's frustrating.

Watching the end of the Ferrer/Nishikori match and hoping that Kei pulls it out. He'll give Novak more to think about, whereas Ferrer will fold at the sight of most players with a #1 next to their name. Come Kei!!! There's nothing worse than a dud of a match.
 

Raonic and Berdy have split sets. 2-1 in the final set - on serve. Pulling for Raonic here.

And the winner is:



This is the 2nd best outcome for me. The first would be Andy winning Paris of course. This saves Andy's ranking for the moment and also, Nole is one step closer to seal his No. 1 ranking for the year.

Nole has also added another milestone to his resume with 600th win. Pretty amazing if you think about it.

Congrats to his fans including myself!

And congrats to both Raonic and Nishikori. They both played so well here.Taking out Federer, Berdych, Ferrer, Tsonga, Robredo isn't easy by any means but they did just that.

And looks like Raonic has qualified as the 8th player at WTF.