Lessons from London – Wednesday

Written by: Staff on 25th November 2010

Lessons from London – Wednesday |

Start young…

Judy Murray, having opened a school in south London on Tuesday and then hotfooted it to watch her son Andy take on Roger Federer, was performing a different duty at the O2 Arena today – playing host to some future stars of the game. She was chaperoning a quartet of Scotland’s best young players invited by Andy to experience a day at the O2. They toured the player areas, the media rooms, saw Nadal practice, and had a chat with Andy. I’ll wager it was a very noisy train ride home…

Double-tastic

The four-man part of the game has been enjoying record exposure here at the O2 this week, and today was no different. “A lot of people showed up to watch dubs;),’ tweeted British doubles No.1 Sarah Borwell. “Maybe they just love doubles. Sounds like they were taking pity on dubs players ;)”

More famous faces

Monty Python alumni John Cleese was in the audience last night. I wonder what his serve his like?

Battle of the Wimbledon finalists

Young prevailed against old in the battle of the SW19 runners-up as Tomas Berdych pulled off a shock 7-5, 6-3 win over Andy Roddick. The Yank looked the fresher in the opening stages, but the lanky Czech saved two set points to rediscover the form that saw him unseat Roger Federer on Wimbledon’s turf this year. Roddick meanwhile, combusted. “I’m breaking MY racket on MY foot; why the hell does it matter to you?”, he yelled in answer to a code violation. Hello Serena.

Complex equations

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer seem to be on a collision course to provide fans with a dream Federer/Nadal final. Both have two wins under their belts here at the O2, after Nadal saw off Novak Djokovic on Wednesday night, and are within reach of qualifying for the semi-finals. Having said that, there are all sorts of permutations that will come into play should either of them lose. It’s worthy of a degree in calculus.

Nadal beats Djokovic and eyes semi-spot

Roddick stunned by Berdych in London

Check out our photo gallery from the O2

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