[Emma Jean]

Yeah I have, but I can hardly write a column on Murraysworld saying that Raonic is gonna dump out Andy in the 4th, can I?

It wasn't so much for Murraysworld but just that Raonic is still simply not good enough to even make the 4th round at Wimbledon. To put him down for a win would have been more like falling into the hype a bit too quickly and not ever knowing what exactly hit you.

And the King has also lost his crown.

[Aileen]

There was only one guy left in that list and he was the one who took out our Andy. How depressing.

Reflecting back on certain things, one must feel a lot for Benneteau and Andy. Benneteau played so well to the point that Federer really had to wait on him to finally fizzle out in the fifth. I really thought Federer got enormously lucky in the 4th set TB against Benneteau and then again, in the final against Andy in the 2nd.

Andy was definitely the best player in this whole tournament given the tough draw and the overall pressure on him etc. That’s a lot to deal with.

I wonder what would have happened if Benneteau had put Federer out.  With Nadal out and Djokovic ill ...

[robbie]

If........ small word

[Aileen]

Don't you do that, Aileen..I want to sleep tonight
  

Aww - sorry! 

Djokovic, in that case, would have made the final and that's still a tough final.

If Djokovic has flu, which I understand he has, how do you think he would have performed in the final?  Not all that brilliantly I think.  Anyway, I can't imagine Andy getting much satisfaction from beating an unwell opponent in order to achieve his ambitions.

[janetx]

So yes, I think Andy had a better chance against Nole and mind you, Nole is kinder. Who knows with this joker, really.

A Murray/Djoko final is what I was hoping for; their matches are almost always close and well contested, including some classics, like Cincy 08, last year in Rome, and this year at the AO. It would have been nice, too, because I would have been happy for either one of them winning.  Alas, maybe next time.

[Aileen]

Hard to tell. If Nole had made the final, even with the flu, he probably would have been keen on going the extra mile as this would have been the final match he would have played, so who knows. Maybe Andy would have pulled it off. I don't know, really.

I have yet to see the full match point by point because there were times, when things got too tight, I ended up switching to Scoreboard for a bit. Right now, I am still not there yet mentally to watch it again, but once I do, I feel I will get to see what went wrong where. Federer was coming in a lot a lot but that mostly happen after the rain delay, so I guess that was Paul's suggestions during the break. I have no idea what Lendl's suggestions were but couldn't be any massive tactical change because the rain delay happened when Andy was still playing very well and Andy didn't seem to come up with any plan B.

Oh I know Nole would have tried his best, but if he has full-blown flu as opposed to a flu-like illness, he really would have been struggling.

I could be wrong, but I've a feeling Andy said he never spoke to Lendl during that break.  However, given the fact that they all knew that play under the roof was a strong possibility, it does seem strange that no plan B was in place, although maybe there was but Andy simply couldn't execute it because he couldn't adapt to the change quickly enough.

[ljs]

I dont think anyone who knows Fed would argue that the roof closing put him at an advantage .  Such a bad twist of fate for Andy