Apologies first of all for missing my post on Thursday, but the commentating has been full-on this week in Madrid!!! Two matches after 8pm is such bad scheduling, no one stays to watch the second match, irrespective of who’s playing! Its crazy to start a match at 10:30/11pm at night, a few players were pissed off this week playing at that time, and i totally understand!!
Anyway…how about Saturday – ridiculous quality tennis!!! I’ve been talking a fair bit about Andy Murray, and he proved he’s the real deal – sick athlete and great tactition! He served as good as I’ve ever seen, and he’s gonna take the title Sunday cause Gilles Simon has got to be outta gas…..?
What a Hercleun effort yesterday from the Frenchman, to beat Rafa Nadal in that fashion in his own backyard. He deserves a serious amount of respect!!! I tell you the stadium was rocking, we could hardly hear ourselves in the booth, and both Jason (Goodall- co commentator) and myself rate that as one of the best matches we’ve ever called.
Novak Djokovic seems to have lost his edge a bit, some of the boys tell me he’s been partying pretty hard and enjoying himself….Fair enough, he’s had a great year and is entitled to enjoy his success! As long as it doesn’t affect his game too much, he’s young, he’ll learn.
There was a big a party last night with all the “Hugo Boss” ball-girls and hostesses (a lot are local models), but I was just too tired to make a guest appearance, but I’m sure it was fun. Tiriac (Ion Tiriac- tournament owner, the guy with the big moustache) only does things to the max. He’s a genius businessman!
Gotta run and go prep for the finals, If Simon pulls this one off, it will be the eighth wonder!!!
Robbie: Andy Murray is just doing great! He reached the final of the U.S. Open and had a great tournament.
On top of that, he was absolutely King of Madrid, the whole week. Plain and simply, there was not a single player in the Madrid tournament that could beat Murray, the way he was playing there. At the most, Federer took him to 7-5 in the third set, but really even that match was not as close as the score suggested.
I’ve always said that with Murray I feel it’s step by step. He won his first Masters Series tournament. I felt he was going to get to his first Slam semi – he outdid that and got to his first Slam final.
Now, it’s a matter of time when he wins his first Slam. It will be either the Aussie or U.S Open, I think. I don’t know him at all, I am just a fan. But it seems like he has that immense desire to keep improving overall. He can do it!!
Hey Robbie…….as you’re on the air you should speak proper……why do you pronounce “centre court” as “senna court” ? It gets up my nose….the viewers at home are trying to enjoy the tennis and all we hear are the commentators blah blah blah-ing just to hear their own voices……so annoying……can’t you guys stick to the job of commentating on the match instead of chirping on and on throughout the matches about other sh…??? We hear the same old, same old during every match….about trivial things…like a stuck record. I’m a tennis fanatic – don’t miss a tournament – but I often have to hit the mute button on my remote as you guys really go on….. all the viewers want to do is focus on the match…..is this too much to ask..?? Lose the half-American half SA accent – be ‘you’ and you’ll come across better……just a bit of constructive criticism…….
Maggie,
Tennis Channel commentating is actually way better than most. GET A CLUE.
And don’t fault someone for having an accent of the place in which they live.
Get Another Clue.
Just come constructive criticism to help you in life, clearly you need it.
Guys calm down, please
Robbie is a fantastic commentator. His tone and inflection are just superb. I hope he continues doing it even outside the Tennis Channel, and for a lifetime, in my opinion.
Thank you for the good writeup. It if truth be told used to be a leisure account it.
Glance complex to far introduced agreeable from you!
However, how could we be in contact?
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