Wimbledon 2010 Day 7: Murray v Querrey

Once upon a time, I started up a FB thread for a few of us from tennisforum.com and Tashi (a regular reader and commenter to these very bloggies) came up with THE BEST line I had ever read… that Sam’s non-dom(inant) hand/arm resembles that of a “gay t-rex”.
I swear – since reading that I have:
a) never really been able to take him seriously as he now reminds me of the dinosaur out of Toy Story… and
b) this was to be another one of Rozzie’s piccy fixations! We’ve had Paula Radcliffe of Tennis in Dani… time for Gay T-rex to take a bow…!



Both players started confidently – going with serve until a break in the 4th when Sam started dumping a lot of UEs into the net.





Then he got the total yips with a run of multiple Let calls but the quality of play despite that was amazing – blistering passing shots from both the guys at times in the 7th… it was easy to see that people thought this would be a stern test – but Andy had a comfortable hold to stay ahead…



But… Murray coaster ahoy – a DF at Set point let Querrey break back.



After a nervy hold in the 11th game – Andy was able to break to take the first set 7-5.


This was all good though, right – a decent competitive match from the two winners of Queens in the last two years…
And the second set started in the same way as the first with Andy breaking in the 4th game.
Sam started making a lot of errors when being brought in to the net





Andy had a good hold to take the lead at 5-2 but a busted string on the racquet meant that the intensity dropped after taking the set 6-3









The third set took a while to get going – the levels dropped a little for both players but they hung in there… but things shook up in the 9th game – amazing rallies and genius shotmaking and Andy took a decisive break at this point… whipping up the crowd in the process… A great 3 set victory.











Sam packed and left the court extremely quickly which was odd … he did at least wave to everyone…

Andy sets himself up a bruiser of a match with the mighty fine looking Jo-Wilf – this will be an amazing match up with the way they’re both playing… and if they both bring their A-Game…