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Best of luck to:

Roger/Sjeng (there can only be a winner from that match for me)
Yevgeny (after he's taken out Safin, Mirnyi should be no trouble)
Raemon (at least one Dutchman in the final would be nice)
Sebastien (although if it were anywhere other than Rotterdam, I'd be supporting Escude for this one...)

 

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Oh by the way Hackie, you seem determined to steal awesome4hand's thunder - haven't you just duplicated the thread that he started below for the Friday results?

 

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Well esther, it's precisely because Escude has won twice in a row in Rotterdam and is, I believe, on a 14-match winning streak here that I want to see a new winner here - Federer, either Dutchman, even Kafelnikov, would make an interesting change.

I like Escude a lot more than Grosjean, but when you consider what happened to Grosjean last year with him having three match points in the final set and not taking them, revenge would be very sweet indeed.

 

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If I might ask Rebecca, how did your friend develop this crush on Sjeng? I'm not trying to suggest that he is anything less than a hearthrob, naturally, but I wonder where the attraction lies.

 

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I suppose that "because he's such a fine hunk of man meat", wouldn't be the appropriate answer?

LOL!

Philippoussis vs Schalken, when you compare their two games, looks like such a mismatch that you think Mark will sweep the Sjengster off court - and yet these are the two men that toiled for over five hours to produce that 20-18 final set at Wimbledon in 2000. I remember by the time it got to 14-14, someone in the crowd was shouting "Come on anybody!".

Schalken said afterwards that once he'd had a shower, he felt a little better about losing the match than he had when he went off court. All the BBC pundits then predicted that Philippoussis would be in no fit shape having played such a marathon five-setter to put up any real fight against Henman in the next round. What do they know?

 

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I never actually saw very much of Schalken and Philippoussis - I only saw fragments of the final set, and realised afterwards that Philippoussis served to stay in the match 14 times before finally breaking Schalken, who led two sets to one in that match. The agonies Sjeng has gone through at Wimbledon...

Put it this way: Henman and Arazi went on Centre Court to start their match a few games into the final set. When they'd finished the match, Henman winning in straight sets, that final set was still going on.

 

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First set to Federer, 6-2.

Got to go now, I'll be back in a couple of hours - I just hope that whoever wins, it's a good match!

 

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Quite the contrary, I posted this thread first (check out the timestamps).

Not that it matters now.

Ah right, I think I just looked at the thread that was newest on this forum, I didn't think about the original starting times. Still, I suppose the question applies in reverse now - why did awesome4hand copy this thread afterwards?

Roger seems to be unstoppable at the moment, doesn't he? Mind you, whenever I say that about a player they go and lose their next match, and Mirnyi is leading Y-Man at the moment - we don't want a repeat of the US Open, do we Roger?

 

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Must be a very strange feeling, playing with your doubles partner and then facing him on the other side of the net on the same day. Hmm... Roger hasn't played a really big server yet during his winning streak, with the exception of Ljubicic who did after all retire after losing the first set in Marseille. So be on your guard, Rogi!

 

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Geez Louise, Grosjean served for the second set just a moment ago, only to let himself be broken right back - now Escude leads 6-5 in the second and "Seb" is serving to stay in the match. He does have a habit of letting these chances slip away from him, doesn't he?

 

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To lose the top seed and the defending champion both through retirements on the same day is an awful blow for the tournament, and the winner's victory is going to feel rather hollow with all the good fortune that they have received. Still, Nicolas' winning run had to end some time, I suppose.