Rafael2.02pm GMT“I’ll try to be aggressive like I was the other day,” Murray says in response. The loud music is on and they players are coming down the corridor. Are you alert? I am. This will hopefully be the match that gives this thus far idle tournament the jolt it needs. 2.00pm GMTNadal speaks! The last couple of weeks I have been improving. Today is an opportunity to compete with a fantastic player … who likes to play at domestic. I’m excited about it. He’s a very total player and to be competitive I need to be at a tall level.” 1.52pm GMTDoubles result for the record: Herbert/Mahut have beaten Matkowski/Zimonjic 5-7, 6-3, and 10-8 1.22pm GMTI was lucky to be at Federer’s win over Djokovic last night – and particularly delighted to see that every ace was “powered by” a car manufacturer. But the best thing of all was the couple sat next to us who spent the entire match reading a kindle and playing candy crush. Why?! 11.29am GMTWhat a way to spend a Wednesday afternoon! Andy Murray v Rafael Nadal – two of the four best players from the greatest era of men’s tennis taking each other on in a tent in south-east London in front of 20000 people.
But let’s face it,this tournament has not been much so far. Only one game has reached a third set – yesterday afternoon’s win for Kei Nishikori against Tomas Berdych – and several of the players behold tired and jaded at the conclusion of hard, testing season. Novak Djokovic certainly looked oddly lethargic in the second set against Roger Federer last night and the less said about Stan Wawrinka’s feeble surrender to Nadal on Monday evening the better. Murray also won his opener, or against David Ferrer,but we can not but mention him having one eye trained on next week’s Davis Cup final.
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Source: theguardian.com