Think Federer's marathon match against Del Potro might have taken the edge off him, nevertheless, imperious performance by Murray.
He was referring to the fact that Federer has won an gold medal in the doubles. Which is still an Olympic gold medal.
Is it weird that I found this event far more interesting than the tennis? The appeal of tennis is so lost on me.
When I heard about the gold postboxes and the special stamps, I thought, well done the Post Office, for getting into the mood of things. But of course, it's actually very clever on their part to tap into the spirit and inevitably raise some extra revenue. I bet sending letters through the post office, goes through the roof for a good while. The we'll all be back to emails.
I'd be surprised if we didn't get 20, tempting fate maybe but I'm sure we're expected too. In fact, bookies have it as an amazing 70/1 that we'll get 19 or under, with a remarkable 73/100 to get 26 or over!
I agree, that epic semi-final with Del Potro did the damage, and Andy owes the guy a big debt of gratitude. Federer was a perfect Gent in defeat, many others would have been seething and grudging, it has done Tennis no harm at all as a Sport, the Olympic spirit is alive in the World of the yellow ball.
Oh right. I didn´t realise that. Well, a medal´s a medal but I don´t think the double´s means as much to Federer as the singles. I think we saw that wehn when Federer walked off the court and didn´t even salute the crowd like he normally does, win or lose. I think he was really, really disappointed with himself....and slightly humiliated. Well done Murray!!
Interesting. Team GB put in a sub-standard performance in football, leave the field without shouting and screaming. Federer puts in a sub-standard performance, leaves the field without shouting and screaming. I wonder if this will make certain people complain about a lack of passion and effort and say tennis players are an embarrassment and it shouldn't be in the Olympics?
once again our footballers cannot muster the skill. guile or effort to win a quarter final, whilst our other sportsmen and women put in superhuman efforts to win medals. These olympics for me are certainly putting football into their true perspective!
Played two matches yesterday, although both could only loosely be termed as three set matches. The deciding set in each was just a super tie-break, as is the case in mixed doubles. But still, he played two matches yesterday. Also, Del Potro was on the other side of the net in that epic vs Federer, and he still managed to beat Novak today (albeit in a three set match).
No, I don't think so. Although I don't watch tennis anymore, even I can't miss the fact that Federer is always gracious in defeat. The fact is though, it doesn't happen to him very often. I think a few people have been piddled off by Sturridge's reaction to losing. It was petulant and bad tempered. A typical footballer..? Unlike a few others, I don't think the GB footballers lacked passion. They probably had every bit as much passion and commitment as any other football team out there. They lacked preparedness, organisation and quality perhaps, but they didn't lack passion. You can have all the passion in the world, but if it is misdirected or lacks the necessary quality to go with it, it gets you very little further. Incidentally, I wonder if Corky is as fit as the rest of the Saints squad..? What's the betting he isn't..? BTW, Jason Kenny just trounced his opposition in the Men's Sprint to go into tomorrow's final.
No, but Murray seemed "fairly" subdued having just won. Ok, he climbed up to the balcony, but he was hardly showing an outpouring of emotions.
Following on from a few people's logic last night, that means it shows he didn't really care. You could see it in the faces of people like Ennis and Rutherford and Farah how much it meant to them, Murray didn't care, no passion Speaking of Murray, great start for him and the lovely Laura.
