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**AlistDakisa** · 06-11-2011, 09:09 AM

The final match I watched (and only one in its entirety) was Tomic-Mahut, on Court 1. Crowd was heavily pro-Mahut, of course, but there was also a warm greeting for Tomic and solid applause when he hit winners.

Tomic is larger and older-looking than I expected. It's kind of a pity these two met in the first round of quals, because they again seemed a level above the rest of the qual field, even though Tomic was having arm trouble (requested the trainer 1 point into his first service game, and again a game or two later; when Mahut requested the trainer at the end of the first set, Tomic pointed over to Mahut when the med team came out as if to say "It's him this time"). That said, Mahut was having some trouble with focus and with overhitting; on the other hand, Tomic gets caught flatfooted more often than not when Mahut rushes the net.

[Whew! I didn't realize writing even summaries would take this long -- sorry about the spammage, y'all. *sheepish* I'll confine future writeups to my own blog and post just the links here.]

06-11-2011, 09:09 AM	#12
AlistDakisa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	The final match I watched (and only one in its entirety) was Tomic-Mahut, on Court 1. Crowd was heavily pro-Mahut, of course, but there was also a warm greeting for Tomic and solid applause when he hit winners. Tomic is larger and older-looking than I expected. It's kind of a pity these two met in the first round of quals, because they again seemed a level above the rest of the qual field, even though Tomic was having arm trouble (requested the trainer 1 point into his first service game, and again a game or two later; when Mahut requested the trainer at the end of the first set, Tomic pointed over to Mahut when the med team came out as if to say "It's him this time"). That said, Mahut was having some trouble with focus and with overhitting; on the other hand, Tomic gets caught flatfooted more often than not when Mahut rushes the net. [Whew! I didn't realize writing even summaries would take this long -- sorry about the spammage, y'all. sheepish I'll confine future writeups to my own blog and post just the links here.]
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