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[curtis71]

Unlucky Murray, just one of those days, loved the way you still gave it everything

Berdych was more consistent....just

look forward to Murray at the O2

[FCR]

Andy appeared to let the ball changing incident get into his head for way too long.  I just hope it wasn't that which influenced the outcome of the game.  The calm, confident Andy disappeared and the mumbling, swearing (he was warned by the umpire), hitting trainers Andy reared its ugly head again.  Not nice and I hope that version never returns.

[bes03_philippines]

for all its worth, our andy had a good run. 17 match winning streak cannot be shrugged off just because he lost this one.

more time to recover for the O2 which is in 9 days.

[adb..OH]

What I call Andy's "Djokovic noise" was only sporadic today, maybe it needed to be more to the fore.

[deb]

Tough match to watch if you are a diehard Murray fan, I feel as if I have been through the wars. Third set was so stressful that I had to put it on pause and managed to go through a half bottle of black sumbuca and cry in the last point of the match. I was soooooooooo hoping Andy would win. But I'm still an Andy fan eat sh*t or die!

Me too. All is not lost who says Fed will win he has had hard matches with Berdych,  After a rest Andy will be up and ready for the O2, also Andy must be so worn out, Fed and Djoko didnt play in Asia , and Berdych went out early, it takes a lot of physical and mental strengh to keep going, and he has been amazing these last few week.

[deb]

Positives from this:

*  Andy didn't play his best but still made Berdych, who was playing out of his skin, work hard for the win.
*  I would have hated to see an exhausted Andy losing easily to Fed tomorrow - would not be good for his confidence going into WTF.
*  Andy doesn't drop any points.
*  He gets to go home and rest and, hopefully, cure those niggles before the O2.

Smuggerson didn't play well in his match.  If he had been playing Fish I doubt that Fed would have won.  If Berdych manages to play tomorrow as he did today he could well beat Federer.  If it comes down to a Tsonga/Fed final, I'm optimistic that Jo will win with the partisan Paris crowd behind him.

well said as always Alis, Andy has been amazing up till now, i think he is due a rest, i to feel it will be hard for Fed to win, i hope not any way.

[ChrisMac]

Positives from this:

*  Andy didn't play his best but still made Berdych, who was playing out of his skin, work hard for the win.
*  I would have hated to see an exhausted Andy losing easily to Fed tomorrow - would not be good for his confidence going into WTF.
*  Andy doesn't drop any points.
*  He gets to go home and rest and, hopefully, cure those niggles before the O2.

Smuggerson didn't play well in his match.  If he had been playing Fish I doubt that Fed would have won.  If Berdych manages to play tomorrow as he did today he could well beat Federer.  If it comes down to a Tsonga/Fed final, I'm optimistic that Jo will win with the partisan Paris crowd behind him.

Thanks Alis, I like these positives, just hope they go that way. But most important is that Andy has not lost his no.3 spot.