What could be the tennis equivalent to this...?

I think if his serve was upto scratch, he would have won.  How many times does Murray lose his serve 0-40 or because every serve he hits is his second serve.  He doesnt get any cheap points, not like he did before and for him not to serve an ace, shows how bad it was yesterday.  In the end, it's his return game that make his serve points won look good when they could just be average.  He hit the net alot yesterday and we should accept that more errors are going to come.  It shows he is trying to be aggressive, hitting hard and looking for the lines instead of looping the ball over the net.  It takes time to adjust his mentality of being aggressive when he naturaly looks to play safe.  I myself get pissed off when he plays safe, but if you watch his two matches im Rome, he is hitting the ball harder and flatter, its easier to accept if he loses.  He needs to start from the very first shot and the rest will follow.

I don't understand why 70% have disagreed with fuzzy's observation, you would think we were the official website. This clay court season has been a disaster, how can you possibly argue against that?

1) How is that an argument against my comment? I hope it was a joke.

2) Yes but so far it has been a disaster.

I would simply say that your way of thinking is completely wrong and illogical - you shouldn't judge whether someone has performed well by comparing it to something that never happened, you should instead compare it to his general success this year and the last as that is all we really have to go on.

Technically he has progressed but the question is not about progress. Whether you compare his performances to this year or his whole career, this clay court season has been a disaster. Your argument is so unbelievably weak, I've come to expect better from you.

Not voted yet, until Hamburg and RG are out the way.  We are in the middle of the clay court season. I'll reserve judgement until the end.  But been half way through, it's not ideal.