Olympic Tennis

dannyjo22 said:
That you get 750 ranking points for Gold to 2000 for a much harder slam tells you all you need to know and 1000 for a masters event.

He played well but it was the one Gold I'd be happy to have seen lost :D

Murrays got the gold and that's what matters I suppose, not that it should be there in the olympics really as most of them can't take this that seriously.
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Seeing as most professional tennis players think the Olympics should rank the same as the majors says it all, heck it's been said at least twice today during the coverage that it SHOULD be ranked as important and many of them wouldn't be surprised if the rules were changes. john mcenroe even said so at the end when he butted in on Henman's interview.
 
The fact that the 3 of the big 4 that are fit all made the semis suggests they do take it pretty seriously. Agreed a slam is more prestigious but I think the Olympics should really be regarded as at least as good as a masters event forgetting ranking points for a moment.
 
I think the main reason it isn't ranked as highly is that it's not every year, so there's probably a danger of it skewing the points, or something. Since I think the rankings are done on the calendar year, aren't they?
 
Thing is Murray will rarely have ever played with that level of support. He's english(kinda) but Wimbledon has a huge share of Federer fans, in the final before there was huge support for both players, maybe not equal but a fair amount and really mostly tennis fans. Today he had support of the media, and the entire country plus most of the court was squarely behind him rather than split as much as normal.

Federer didn't really turn up, but a lot of people don't when you stand infront of that many people who don't want you to win.


Likewise in his build up to wimbledon its his team but thats really it. in the build up to this he has the entire gb support, hundreds of athlete's wishing him on, the atmosphere in the country, the belief we can win. He played great, he stepped up, but everything in the country at the moment is geared exactly for that.

THe next final is a big question, he'll be tired, it could well , rather like normal go either wya. Ride a massive high from winning and play through the tiredness, or is the absolute elation of winning after all this time.... it will be ridiculously emotionally draining. I hope he can do it, as before its rather built up and he'll have humougous support, even more one sided than in that match.

I couldn't believe it earlier, how the hell have the womens doubles gone first when he's got two matches to play, absolutely insane really.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Gold in sailing today too.
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And a silver for Percy & Simpson in the Star class, not a bad day so far. :)

What a fantastic result for Andy Murray there, he was the better player today and thoroughly deserved the victory. Regardless of how some people think it compares to the Slam events it's only every four years and the best in the World compete for it (and take it pretty damn seriously) so it's one hell of an achievement to win it. I hope for a similarly great result in the mixed doubles but even if not they've at least got a silver guaranteed.
 
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