2015 Australian Open

[Pretty Boy]

This been a great tennis match so far. I said early on it would be a war and I've not been disappointed.

[Speedy]

Great comeback from Murray. About to erve for the match.

Line judges have been very poor (in comparison to normally impeccable standards).

[Sir David Gray]

Murray breaks again and Dimitrov breaks his racket!

Murray now serving for the match at 6-5.

[Sir David Gray]

Murray wins 6-4 6-7 6-3 7-5.

Great match.

He'll play Nick Kyrgios in the quarter finals on Tuesday.

[Tynie01011973]

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Great comeback from Murray. About to erve for the match.

Line judges have been very poor (in comparison to normally impeccable standards).

Murray was raging at the Umpire when he never called the double bounce that Dimtrov failed to get to for the rest of the match.

[Sir David Gray]

Another good bit of scheduling for fans in Britain tomorrow as Murray plays his quarter final against Nick Kyrgios at just after 8am UK time.

I'll need to get up for that one.

Tomorrow's other men's quarter final between Tomas Berdych and Rafael Nadal will be on around 3:30am UK time.

[Pretty Boy]

Nadal out to Berdych in straight sets.

It's opening up quite nicely for Murray if he gets through today.

[lyonhibs]

God damnit - everywhere I look I'm getting the old "not available in your country/region" message.

Here for updates it is then...

[Hibee87]

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God damnit - everywhere I look I'm getting the old "not available in your country/region" message.

Here for updates it is then...

Not even on wwwAusopen.com? The slam tracker on there Is great

[lyonhibs]

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Not even on wwwAusopen.com? The slam tracker on there Is great

Can get highlights, but not Live.

Clearly Australia and Switzerland aren't best of mates in cyberspace for whatever reason

[easty]

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Can get highlights, but not Live.

Clearly Australia and Switzerland aren't best of mates in cyberspace for whatever reason

I've sent you a link that'll work. I'm watching it at work now.

[Hibee87]

Boom murray through to the semi to play berdych.....out of curiosity, should murray get to the final, or dare I say it, even win the thing what will that do to his ranking?

[Pretty Boy]

Murray must fancy his chances now. He's playing really well and whilst not easy Berdych is beatable.

Djokovic obviously looms on the horizon should he win that match but I reckon he's be quietly confident the way he's playing.

[PatHead]

Anyone know the head to head with Murray and Berdych?

[Sir David Gray]

Good match for Murray this morning. Kyrgios was never really in the same league during that match although I think he does have a bright future.

Murray was very calm, composed and completely in control of everything that he wanted to do on the court.

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Anyone know the head to head with Murray and Berdych?

Berdych leads it 6-4 and has won their last two meetings.

Their Grand Slam head to head is 1-1 but they have never played at the Australian Open before. Their only previous meeting in a semi final was at the 2012 US Open, which Murray won in four sets before going on to lift the title.

Could that be an omen?

[Sir David Gray]

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Boom murray through to the semi to play berdych.....out of curiosity, should murray get to the final, or dare I say it, even win the thing what will that do to his ranking?

It all depends on others around him and how they got on last year in comparison with this year.

If Murray wins the tournament, he'll gain 1640 points. That would potentially put him ahead of Wawrinka, Nishikori and Nadal and into third place in the rankings.

[Sir David Gray]

Another interesting thing to add to the mix for the semi final is the presence of Murray's long time friend and hitting partner Dani Vallverdu in the Berdych camp.

Vallverdu left the Murray team towards the end of last year and then hooked up with Berdych last month. In Murray's own words, there's probably no-one who knows his game better than Vallverdu, so Berdych should be well briefed on the tactical side.

On the flip side, Murray has also noted the many discussions that he used to have with Vallverdu regarding Berdych's strengths and weaknesses so maybe that could go in his favour.

I certainly think that gives Berdych a bit of an advantage but it's up to Murray to overcome it.

[Sir David Gray]

Really looking forward to both men's semi finals.

Obviously Murray v Berdych is on tomorrow and I've posted about that match already. I think that should be a great encounter and hopefully it's an entertaining match.

And on Friday, the other semi final sees Stan Wawrinka face Novak Djokovic for the third year in a row at the Australian Open. The previous two matches made for fantastic viewing and although Wawrinka's overall record against Djokovic is awful, he is the defending champion here at he's played two of the best matches of his life against Djokovic at the Australian Open.

I hope that both matches live up to their potential because if they do, I think we're in for a treat over the next two mornings.

[Speedy]

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It all depends on others around him and how they got on last year in comparison with this year.

If Murray wins the tournament, he'll gain 1640 points. That would potentially put him ahead of Wawrinka, Nishikori and Nadal and into third place in the rankings.

4th or 5th looking most likely.

Will be great for him to get back into the top 4 (particularly with the real top 3 in there as well).

[Sir David Gray]

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4th or 5th looking most likely.

Will be great for him to get back into the top 4 (particularly with the real top 3 in there as well).

If I've worked things out correctly, after the quarter final results, if Murray wins the tournament he'll definitely go third in the rankings.

I think.

[PatHead]

If Murray wins tournament he goes 3rd above Nadal but still 2900 behind Federer who is second

If Murray wins semi but loses final to Djokovic he goes 4th above Nikosuri by 310 points

If Murray loses semi he stays 5th if Djokovic wins but will be 6th if either Berdych or Wawrinka win the tournament.



According to this site anyway

http://live-tennis.eu/

The effort he put in at the end of last year seems to be paying off now.

Think I will work from home tomorrow morning.

[Sir David Gray]

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If Murray wins tournament he goes 3rd above Nadal but still 2900 behind Federer who is second

If Murray wins semi but loses final to Djokovic he goes 4th above Nikosuri by 310 points

If Murray loses semi he stays 5th if Djokovic wins but will be 6th if either Berdych or Wawrinka win the tournament.



According to this site anyway

http://live-tennis.eu/

The effort he put in at the end of last year seems to be paying off now.

Think I will work from home tomorrow morning.

Yep I would agree with all of the above.

The only way that he won't go above Wawrinka is if he loses to Berdych and Wawrinka defends his title.

It's amazing how far ahead Djokovic is at the moment. If he wins the tournament, I reckon he could easily go on holiday until the French Open, or even Wimbledon, and he would still be comfortably ahead of the rest.

[Sir David Gray]

Quite even so far, still on serve.

Murray's speed around the court is phenomenal.

[Sir David Gray]

Looks like I gave it the kiss of death.

Berdych breaks and is serving for the set.

[Sir David Gray]

Murray breaks straight back.

Murray to serve at 4-5.

[Sir David Gray]

First set goes to Berdych, 7-6.

Murray will be gutted at losing that set.

[DarrenSQH]

Thats some second set from Murray. 6-0

1 Set all now.

[Sylar]

Bagel!

[Sir David Gray]

Second set goes to Murray, 6-0.

What a turnaround!

[Sir David Gray]

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Bagel!

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Thats some second set from Murray. 6-0

1 Set all now.

Ahh i have some company at last!

Take it you two only turn up for the good times!?