Australian Open

[Graz]

Murray vs Djokovic.

Murray wins the first set on a tie break. The winner of the first set has won each of the Grand Slam matches between these two.

Still think it will be tough though. Murray's match on Friday would've taken a lot out of him, the longer it goes the more it will favour Novak you'd think.

 

[FryattFox]

Excellent match so far - wouldn't want to call a winner.

 

[pork pie fox]

Excellent match so far - wouldn't want to call a winner.

Yeah I agree, they're very closely matched and it makes it good to watch.

 

[Graz]

Excellent match so far - wouldn't want to call a winner.

Yep, very very tight.

No serves broken yet? Looks like the 2nd will go to tie break too.

 

[Graz]

Djokovic wins the first break of serve of the match after 2 hours in the 3rd set. Think the tiredness is getting to Murray now.

 

[Graz]

Djokovic is winning 2 sets to 1 and has broken Murray's serve early in the 4th. Imagine he'll win it in this set now.

Murray looks gone. You can always tell when he thinks everything is going against him, and he gets worse when he does that. Plus, he looks shattered. It wouldn't take THAT much to turn this around though. Break a serve, find a bit of belief, and he's back in it really.

Wish I'd taken that 5-1 on Djokovic to win 3-1 after the first set.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Murray vs Djokovic.

Murray wins the first set on a tie break. The winner of the first set has won each of the Grand Slam matches between these two.

Still think it will be tough though. Murray's match on Friday would've taken a lot out of him, the longer it goes the more it will favour Novak you'd think.

The better stat to use would have been that 19 of the 20 Australian open mens winners have won the second set. Now it's 20 of the 21 winners. Bizarre indeed.

 

[Billyjof]

Murray perhaps should not have let his game against Fedderer go to five sets and he would have been in with a very good chance. Djorkovic looked beatable in the first two sets.

Murray looks a far better prospect over the past year but he's still vulnarable in some areas. Counter puncher tactics against someone with an all round game like Djorkovic, who was in better physical condition at the start just won't work. Murray looked knackered after some of those early long rallys, and probably would have been a tactic to wear him down by Djorkovic.

 

[pork pie fox]

I think the second set was crucial. Murray was the better player in that set, but couldn't get the break. When he then lost the tiebreak, it felt like his opportunity had gone.