Wimbledon - Mens Semi Final Day 12

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Well here we are at the business end. Centre Court will be the gladitorial theatre. Here's hoping for some blockbuster encounters and winners by the bucketloads!

Novak Djokovic v Juan Martin Del Potro

Andy Murray v Jerzy Janowicz

The first one certainly the pick of the matches.

The money is on another Andy v Novak final. Can Delpo and Jerzy cause the top seeds a massive upset to rival the biggest upsets?

Chydremion wrote:Crowd now turning really classless celebrating double faults.

Probably partly due to the boorish Polish contigent who make the Murray lot look mild mannered. And JJ's histronics

Janowicz has zero rallying capability.

Murray's getting his racket on a lot of first serves at least.

Interesting to see a match with so few rallies, quite old school wimbleon, could be evne more so with roof closed

banbrotam wrote:

Chydremion wrote:Crowd now turning really classless celebrating double faults.

Probably partly due to the boorish Polish contigent who make the Murray lot look mild mannered.

What are they doing? Beating people up?

BB, your first comment is harsh, but the second is funny

how short was that second serve?

standard of the match has decreased in set 2 compared to set 1

Murray played some smart points in that game. I actually like the short low slice and come to the net at 0-30. it was as good a play as he had available in that tricky position

Bl**dy hell - well done Murray.  Some really cool and clever play.

Janowicz is going to be a monster v soon, even if he is looking flakey atm.  First set he looked almost unplayable at times and he covers the court in a stride and a half.

Phew he got away with one there.

Murray proving that a good big 'un beats a good gigantic un'

Hes choking again... hes really playing badly, if hes lucky enough again itll be 90-10 in the serbs favour

3 crappy errors...

Thank god for that serve

banbrotam wrote:

Chydremion wrote:Crowd now turning really classless celebrating double faults.

Probably partly due to the boorish Polish contigent who make the Murray lot look mild mannered. And JJ's histronics

blame the foreigners  

Murray is really giving hard time for Janowicz. The young lad is bit nervous here.

subhranshu.kumar.5 wrote:Murray is really giving hard time for Janowicz. The young lad is bit nervous here.

Janowicz's errors are not helping him either. Stark difference between first and second sets, as noted earlier.

bogbrush wrote:

banbrotam wrote:

Chydremion wrote:Crowd now turning really classless celebrating double faults.

Probably partly due to the boorish Polish contigent who make the Murray lot look mild mannered.

What are they doing? Beating people up?

I knew you'd respond  I wonder if you'd have been so understanding if it was Judy Murray  

1-1 is the score after the second set.

I cannot beleive how much Janowicz is red lining it every balls a gunshot

OH MY GOD.....  what a horrific miss hes in trouble now

banbrotam wrote:

bogbrush wrote:

banbrotam wrote:

Chydremion wrote:Crowd now turning really classless celebrating double faults.

Probably partly due to the boorish Polish contigent who make the Murray lot look mild mannered.

What are they doing? Beating people up?

I knew you'd respond  I wonder if you'd have been so understanding if it was Judy Murray  

Talking about Judy is still better than watching Murray play  

Janowicz misses another break point.  

Im sorry this Janowicz must be the classless tennis player. I really hope the crowd can start to wind him up.

Absolute c*ap Janowizc deserves to win and is heavy favourite to do soo now... I can beleive hes THIS poor again

NickisBHAFC wrote:Im sorry this Janowicz must be the classless tennis player. I really hope the crowd can start to wind him up.

Well that's bit harsh....He is 3-1 ahead in the second set.

I meant classless as in his attitude. Very unsportsmanlike when he gets a point.

banbrotam wrote:

bogbrush wrote:

banbrotam wrote:

Chydremion wrote:Crowd now turning really classless celebrating double faults.

Probably partly due to the boorish Polish contigent who make the Murray lot look mild mannered.

What are they doing? Beating people up?

I knew you'd respond  I wonder if you'd have been so understanding if it was Judy Murray  

I meant that to make the Murray box look mild mannered they must have been beating people up.

It's great over here, we're not getting much of Judy. Bliss.

Henman Bill wrote:Well done to both players for the quality of the first set. For quality rather than entertainment, it was better than the first set of the Djokovic-Del Potro match. Does anyone else think that match was overrated a bit? Set 1 was average, set 5 was OK, set 4 tiebreaker pretty awesome. I missed sets 2, 3 and half of 4 though, were they better?

HB : Djoko/Delpo was in no way overrated, not for me. One of the very best semis I've seen at Wimbledon  

NickisBHAFC wrote:I meant classless as in his attitude. Very unsportsmanlike when he gets a point.

Is he cheering unforced errors, that sort of thing?

I can't stand the aggressive fist pumping from Janowicz or the wagging finger at his box after crucial games........other than that, he's scarily impressive.

Great service game from Murray to hold.

NickisBHAFC wrote:I meant classless as in his attitude. Very unsportsmanlike when he gets a point.

Yup agree with that. In the first semi both del porto and Djoko showed a true sportsman character, with djoko applauding del's point and del was waiting for djoko after the match. Hats off to two great players of this game. 

Janowicz would be some player if he had a backhand.

laverfan wrote:Quite agree, Danny. Impressive from DelPo. Hope iC is watching. That FH @15-30 was just amazing.

Yea it was so nervous so I didnt comment, but Del Po didn't let me down, he was a bit unlucky but thats part and parcel of sports, what I liked is he gave his best yet came short but that didn't make lose respect for the winner, he paid due respect the winner deserved at the end of the match. 

lydian wrote:Janowicz would be some player if he had a backhand.

And wasn't throwing in a drop-shot every other rally.

OMG JJ is letting Murray back in the match now he gonna pay for it.

A break point for Murray, a good response to ruthless behavior of Janowicz.

Del Potro - Djokovic was undountebly a good match but what I heard ranged from match of the tournament (OK, maybe) to one of the best of all time (no) although to be fair it was more the BBC than the forum overdoing it.

I'm not certain I've seen two SF's as thrill bound as these today

As I suspected, this is turning into a needle match

May the best man win!!

Yeah, he's basically a serve plus a rallying FH.

"Murray has the widest variety of facial expressions"

More brilliant commentary by the beeb!

Did anyone else think "one too many" the instant Janowicz hit that drop shot on break point down? Wasn't as bad as the one Murray hit but still..

Shame that Murray broke with a netcord, he was almost broken with a netcord earlier but got away with it...lucky

  coolly played again Mr Murray - now hold your serve please!

Murray is serving out a tree today.

good value for money for ticket holders today. Now very much looking like roof after set 3.

Murray has this in the bag, JJ's got great potential but not consistent enough as of yet. Murray in 4. Djokovic/Del Potro game was immense compared to this.

Janowicz is still very raw, very much a work in progress.
Don't think he's playing particularly well though.
All that said, I don't like it when the crowd get this involved.

Now James Corden is cheering Janowicz's error - unnecessary and pretty classless!

Danny_1982 wrote:"Murray has the widest variety of facial expressions"

More brilliant commentary by the beeb!

Just a small correction it was

"Murray's box have the wildest variety of facial expressions"

Semi wasnt the best ever match for me... but it was a pleasure to watch both guys trying to win it... this one torture both guys giving it away