*Masters Series - Madrid*

[Daniela]

Since no one started a topic for the MS I will:

*Singles draw:
http://www.mutuamad-mastersmadrid.com/pdf/draws/2006/MDS.pdf
*Doubles draw:
http://www.mutuamad-mastersmadrid.com/pdf/draws/2006/MDD.pdf

I only saw one match today: Chela - Moya
before the match I thought it was going to be really hard for Juan if he wanted to win, but Carlos didn't look like Him on the court, Chela played a good match, he was regular he didn't make many mistakes.

does anyone have match comments? please please please

[just_ibeth]

hey..

I guess marat will play soon with acasuso..
interesting..

[Forever1Gasquet]

[just_ibeth]

Im sooooooo happy!!!!!


he´s doing such an amazing year...
hope he wins now bagdhatis..

good luck!

[llom]

yeah i hope marat will win this match against marcos!
he's such a great player and just won the first set 6/4 actually!

i hope the marat come back continue for all this end of season!

[Sweet4Richard]

Today was a huge upset day: Davydenko, Baghdatis, Ljubicic, Ferrero, Ancic, Blake.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Singles – Second Round
(2)R Nadal (ESP) d (Q)M Fish (USA) 64 62
A Murray (GBR) d (3)I Ljubicic (CRO) 64 36 64
J Johansson (SWE) d (5)N Davydenko (RUS) 64 67(5) 63
K Vliegen (BEL) d (8.)J Blake (USA) 64 36 76(5)
(10)F Gonzalez (CHI) d P Srichaphan (THA) 75 67(5) 64
(11)T Berdych (CZE) d A Calleri (ARG) 76(2) 63
R Ginepri (USA) d (12)M Ancic (CRO) 76(5) 76(5)
(13)T Haas (GER) d D Hrbaty (SVK) 63 76(6)
(15)N Djokovic (SRB) d R Gasquet (FRA) 76(2) 16 61
R Soderling (SWE) d (16)J Ferrero (ESP) 63 62
M Safin (RUS) d (9)M Baghdatis (CYP) 6-4, 6-3

Doubles – First Round
(4)Hanley/Ullyett d Nalbandian/Prieto 36 62 10-2 (Match TB)

[Daniela]

today's results are

Yesterday I saw Andy's match against Seb and I think Andy improved a lot, he did some things he couldn't do before. (I was cheering for Seb but I'm not unhappy, Andy is doing a great job lately)

Today I watched James match and I still can't believe it, he was sooo close, and now the race for Shanghai it getting interesting with all of today's results!

And Pim Pim won against Davydenko! I'm really happy about his results after that much time out of the courts because of the injury!

[Forever1Gasquet]

[cheska]

andy roddick just lost to berdych. i'm alright with him losing..it's just he got an ankle injury in the second set. i really want him to be in top shape in shanghai. oh well.

i guess fed's going to win this one. there's really no clear threat. well, safin maybe..if he's in top form (which he is as of late...i'm thinking that he needs to be mentally tougher though.)

[Daniela]

I saw Andy - Tomas match today (I set my alarm at 7:30am to watch the match and I went to bed at 3:30am yesterday so I was really sleepy, I was cheering for Tomas so when he won I fell asleep again)
The match was really even and it only had one break, during second set... Tomas served more than 20 aces. I hope he can beat Rafa
The bad thing is Andy's injury I guess it's the same ankle.

David won so , I didn't see the match but I read that he and Henman had a discussion during the match, David has to play Marat now and I think if they both play their best it's going to be a great match, also because they know each other very well.

I saw second set of Federer's match and Soderling played a good match, I don't think Federer played his best but well, Roger is Roger!

and another bad thing is Pim Pim... he was playing so good, after all that time and... pharyngitis!!! it sucks! poor Pim Pim

[Forever1Gasquet]

[Daniela]

[cheska]

i only saw the third set of nalbandian and safin match at it was so awesome. i was clapping and screaming whenever they'd challenge a call. it really is a shame that marat lost already. i wish that match was in a final rather than in a quarterfinal. nevertheless, i really enjoyed watching that game and it reminds me why i'm a tennis fan.

[Daniela]

I'm soooooo upset

I didn't watch Roger - David because I don't know when was it! it wasn't the same time I read the OP! but because of the result I'm and and

I saw the repetition of yesterday's match against Tomas and Rafa, and I don't know, did anyone see it? what's the opinion about what Tomas did after the match? I don't think it was that bad, I mean, I love Rafa, I went to see him when he came to Buenos Aires, he seems like a great guy, but now I think his celebrations are turning into "hewitt" and I don't like that, the last celebrations were because of Tomas errors so I'm not sure if what he did what good but I don't think it's that bad like everyone said, Rafa said something to him at the end of the match like "it was very very bad" (with Rafa's english).
Today everyone was cheering for Gonzalez just because they seemed to hate Tomas and they didn't care about the match. I'm really sad because Tomas lost he didn't play good, he was very erratic and he seemed tired. He had good results and he did a great tournament so I'm happy about that.

I hope Roger wins the final.

by the way here's a pic about Tomas at the end of yesterday's match:
http://tennis-masters-madrid.com/gallery/images/image_410.jpg

[Daniela]

I found an article on ESPN website about what happened with Tomas and Rafa yesterday:
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=2633022
I don't see in a bad way that the crowd is screaming and cheering for a player, and if you're in Spain, the crowd is going to be cheering for Rafa, Tomas should know that, but I don't think he had a bad reaction, I don't think he's a bad person for what he did. Tomas is right when he says that people shouldn't be cheering his mistakes because it's not Davis Cup. And if the crowd is against him, why can't he react like that?
I would kill him if he does something like that in Buenos Aires just kidding!
you can see what happened if you search the video on youtube:
www.youtube.com
(I don't have the exact link right now, sorry)
Opinions???