Pumped out of Olympics in first round from some unknown Chinese Taipie player in straight sets.  He can be British this week then!!

absolutely pumped.

Djokovic was absolutely astounding. Fully deserved victory, but as you say brownybrown, shite weekend of sport

Murray currently on course for the 'Montgomerie Award' of being one of the finest players of his generation never to win a major championship.

Fucking bottler.  I wonder if he's any good in goals?

 

Ach he's still got some time on his side, but you've got to think he wont get many better chances than today to pick up a GS.

 

Shit but in all honesty the other player was as good as Sonoftherock says he would be.

I only saw the first set because I had stuff to do but Murray and Djokovic were closely matched and I was convinced it was going to go down to a tie break. Not to be!

 

I now have doubts that he'll ever win one because it's likely to be years and years before he gets a chance as good as that. And sporting careers are short.

I'm not convinced by this "that was his best chance" talk.  He'd have had just as good a chance, if not better, if it was Federer he was playing in the final.  Djokovic is on fire at the moment and he and Murray know each others' games far too well.

the difference in Djokovic and Murray is that Djokovic is able to produce top level tennis consistently for the whole match, something that Murray seems incapable of at the moment; he's up and down with his game within one match never mind just within a tournament.

Think the difference was that Murray started on fire in the tournament, he was done by the 4th round where as Djokovic had so much more to give. Murray is a great player 

Monte Carlo Masters Semi v Nadal is on Sky Sports 3 this afternoon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/13101650.stm

 

Expected to be on at around 2pm.

A brutal match but Murray is storming the second set.  Looks like it'll go to a third.

Live on BBC now

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/9501131.stm

 

Come on  Murray! 

Through.

 

I wonder how much that match will have taken out of him though.

Well he certainly did it the hard way there! I think mentaly it will have done more good than harm. It will be a confidence booster to have looked beaten so often during a match and still winning it. Physically he may have gotten off lightly because as far as 5 setters go it was far from brutal. And played over 2 days of course.

 

He'll need to try and make light work of Chela.

Got a great chance of getting to the semi now.

And I don't think Nadal is by any means a shoe-in to win his quarter.

And i have sneaked a day off tomorrow so I can watch it live 

Sorry to disappoint you all but as I have an afternoon off I will probably be watching Andy's game which means he will lose and be knocked out the French Open 

 

He's making a meal of this.

 

He's making a meal of this.

 

Eh?

Eh?

 

Some of us watched the whole match 

 

 

He's making a meal of this.

 

 

He certainly did. I think he's bitten off more than he can chew with Nadal though!

 

I can see it being one of the most one-sided semi finals ever. 6-0 6-2 7-5

Nadal's form hasn't been the best this year though has it? I'd be more concerned if it was Djokovic.

I think it will be close between Nadal and Murray. Quite simply, Nadal doesn't have the edge on clay against opponents that he used to have. Injuries are taking their toll on him, and the rest of the field is getting better all the time.

 

Provided Murray is 100% fit, I think he will take this in a decider or 3-1.

Nadal must be happy. According to the BBC webside Murray's win set up a Nadal semi! 

Ooh I am quite excited about this afternoon

 

C'mon Murray