“It’s a long day for sure”, he said.
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He meant the first two sets, until a bad call put some lead in their pencil.
“We played a solid match, it wasn’t amazingly spectacular but we were good value for the win”. In between, some protein shakes and an ice bath.
I would guess so. The Scot pulled off a four-set defeat of Croatian serving giant Ivo Karlovic in the fourth round. Pospisil and American partner Jack Sock – the defending men’s doubles champions – were scheduled to play their third-round match later Monday.
“I’m more comfortable playing best-of-five-set matches”, he said.
Roger Federer, 33, chasing a record eighth Wimbledon and 18th major, faces Spanish 20th seed Roberto Bautista Agut, who was voted the most improved player of 2014.
ANDY MURRAY roared into the Wimbledon quarter-finals last night – then thanked brother Jamie for leaving his next opponent knackered.
Tasked with ending the Swiss’ attempt to become the oldest Wimbledon champion in the Open era is Frenchman Simon. Both matches went five sets, which has been the Wimbledon pattern for Pospisil.
Pospisil hasn’t beat Murray in three career tries. He had lost five of them. Obviously he won the doubles here past year.
Lendl has a theory about the discrepancy: Murray’s mind is so attuned to tennis minutiae that he doesn’t need to watch much of a match to understand exactly what’s working and what isn’t.
Asked to explain what that entails, he couldn’t exactly put it in words: “Just focusing on the mental side”, he said. To get the “W”, it’ll probably take all the energy Pospisil needed that famous weekend in Tel Aviv to lift Canada to a massive triumph.
Indeed the last time he dropped his serve was in his opening-round win over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, more than 100 service games ago. Murray explained how his plan paid dividends after his 7-6(7), 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 victory. News of his sibling’s win came through during Murray’s press conference at the All England Club. “He didn’t have unbelievable numbers of aces, but he had great percentage of serves and great angles”.
That’s how long Vasek Pospisil spent on Court 12 Monday-which he doubtless never wants to see again.
“He’s had a good run here”.
When did his breakthrough come? Against the sport’s heavyweights in the biggest tournaments, Raonic has been unable to deliver a monster win, and that at least saves the opportunity for Pospisil to do just that on Wednesday against Murray. He played that many on Saturday and then another 10 on Monday, winning in the singles but losing in the doubles.
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A lack of experience on the big occasion and a rare outing on Centre Court in a singles match could leave the 25-year-old anxious, or, as he hopes, could inspire him to a memorable victory.
