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Getting underway shortly also is the Hopman Cup, featuring

Group A

Australia - Stosur & Hewitt
Spain - Martinez Sanchez & Robredo
Romania - Cirstea & Hanescu
USA - Oudin & Isner


Group B

Dementieva & Andreev
Great Britain - Robson & Murray
Germany - Liscki & Kohlschreiber
Kazakhstan - Shvedova & Golubev

Session 1 - Romania 2 d Australia 1

Sorana Cirstea d Samantha Stosur 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
Time: 113 minutes, Umpire: Louise Engzell
Victor Hanescu lost to Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 3-6, 6-7(2/7)
Time: 150 minutes, Umpire: Alison Lang
Cirstea/Hanescu d Stosur/Hewitt 7-5, 6-1
Time: 73 minutes, Umpire: Louise Engzell


Andy and Laura get underway on Monday against Kazakhstan - they are seeded third.

[Andi-M]

Good luck in 2010 to both Andy and Laura Hopman cup should be a bit of fun. Glad Andy isn't wearing himself out this year by playing loads like he did last year.

[MsTree]

I think this is much better prep for him than Doha, despite him losing his No 4 ranking. Good luck GBR

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Andy beat Golubev 62 62 in his opening singles, while Laura lost to Yaroslava Shvedova 64 36 06.

Andy and Laura combined to beat the Kazakhs 63 57 [12-10] to win the tie!

[Corey Feldman]

like his adidas kit this year

[MurrayFan1]

I watched a bit of Laura in singes but that was it.

Is Murray playing in the Wednesday sessions?

[nazza]

Hey everyone, I've been a member for awhile but this is my first time posting in Andy's forum.
I'm volunteering as an usher at the Hopman this year, and I worked at Andy's match last night (if you watched it, I'm the girl in a highly unattractive fluro yellow top standing behind Andy's chair). He played really well, and it was sweet how he thanks the ball boys At the end of the night, I managed to pick up one of his wristbands (which were drenched with sweat as you can imagine) I'm going to his 2 other matches on wednesday and friday so I'll post photos here if I can

[MsTree]

Yeah he looked great in his adidas kit. Their mixed doubles was just delightful And the interview afterwards was funny! I really hope the pair of them team up for MD at a slam in the future

Hi Nazza! I'll look out for you

[Goldenoldie]

A second good singles win for Andy vs Kohlschreiber, but I see the silly **** got himself sunburnt while practising. That's taking acclimatisation a bit too far.

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Originally Posted by Goldenoldie

A second good singles win for Andy vs Kohlschreiber, but I see the silly **** got himself sunburnt while practising. That's taking acclimatisation a bit too far.

Totally - stupid boy

But great to see that they won AGAIN in the mixed doubles, beating Kohlschreiber/Lisicki 63 62 to take this tie also. So they're not doing badly at all and have a chance of making it to the final from their group if they can post a decent effort against Russia on Friday.

[tedlesurfeur]

Originally Posted by scoobs

Totally - stupid boy

But great to see that they won AGAIN in the mixed doubles, beating Kohlschreiber/Lisicki 63 62 to take this tie also. So they're not doing badly at all and have a chance of making it to the final from their group if they can post a decent effort against Russia on Friday.

They can totally win that tight. I mean, Murray will win over Andreev and as for the doubles match, Dementieva doesn't feel good at the net.

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Originally Posted by tedlesurfeur

They can totally win that tight. I mean, Murray will win over Andreev and as for the doubles match, Dementieva doesn't feel good at the net.

It's tedlesexy!

Yeah they have a shot at winning that match though I think I'd make the Russians the slight favourites.

[tedlesurfeur]

Originally Posted by scoobs

It's tedlesexy!

Yeah they have a shot at winning that match though I think I'd make the Russians the slight favourites.

The favourussians just lost to Kazahkstan, oops, I don't even know how it writes Anyway.. not sure the russians are in top form.

tedlesexy scoobidoobidoo

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V surprised by that result but that does make matters easier for GB actually - we could end up with a 3 way "won 2 lost 1" split on friday to decide the finalist even if we lose to Russia.

[MsTree]

I'm loving the mixed, what a great team they make
Surprised that Andy asked her if she wanted to play mixed with him in the 2012 Olympics and she knocked him back
Loving their banter I want to see them team up for Wimbledon this year never mind the Olympics