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Last night a packed house at the O2 arena. Roger Federer, arguably the | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
greatest player of all time, up against a man who took over as the | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
dominant force in tennis until this year, Rafael Nadal. Over the years, | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
these two great champions have produced many epic matches. Last | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
night was not one of them. Federer was all some while Nadal was | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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was all some while Nadal was ordinary. 6-3, 6-0 was the score. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
With that victory, Federer has booked his place in the semi-finals | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
and is now the firm favourite to take the title. That was yesterday. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
The other big story was that Andy Murray was forced to pull out of | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
the tournament because of bad groin injury that hampered in so much in | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
his opening match. That means that Janko Tipsarevic, the world No. 9, | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
comes in today and will take on Tomas Berdych today. Although | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Tipsarevic is coming in late, he can still qualify for the semi- | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
finals if he wins his two matches. That is what we have to look | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
forward to, but first back to Murray. Let's what he had to say | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
yesterday. Hard luck in pulling out of your | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
final tournament of the year. It must have been a hard decision to | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
take. It is tough. I do not think it is something that any of the | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
players like to do, especially in an event like this. I always try to | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
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give it a goal and see how I am feeling. I need more time to rest | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
and recover. I did not have that luxury, so I am disappointed, but, | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
you know, nothing much else I could have done. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
How long have you been advised to rest for? It is a week to ten days | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
of complete rest, and then, obviously, you would start to build | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
up again. But I did it on Monday, a week before my match. I had scans | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
on the Tuesday. Unfortunately, I did not have a week to rest and do | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
nothing, so I was just trying to do little bits and pieces of training, | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
but nothing that was enough to test it out, test myself but physically | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
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As soon as I felt my growing towards the end of the first set | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
against David Ferrer, it just hurt me because I knew I was not going | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
to be able to compete properly and that was why I was so disappointed | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
and felt flat on the court and upset that that is the way that the | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
year's come to an end. It is a horrible thing to pull out of | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
tournaments. You feel like you're kind of letting the people down | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
that you work with, and on top of that, playing in London, you feel | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
that you have let a lot of people down. That is why it takes so long | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
to come to a decision like this. I have spent a long time speaking | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
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about it today. And trying to convince myself, but carrying on | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
was never going to be the right thing to do. | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
You have a very short off-season, but it is now crucial for you to | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
prepare as well as you can. Had you aggravated it here it could have | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
been terrible, couldn't it? Little things like that can help you make | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
the decision. The off season has been really important for me in the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
last three or four years. It is the only time when you can get a lot of | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
physical work done and work on technical things because you have | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
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that extra time. If I had played on and hurt myself more I could have | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
done something worse and the off season could have been messed up. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
We're only six or seven weeks away from the start of the Australian | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
Open as well. SUE BARKER: That means that Janko | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Tipsarevic is in. He is up against Tomas Berdych. That is what is | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
coming up this afternoon. Let us reflect on the news that Murray is | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
coming out. The we think -- we thought, 10, but that was what was | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
going to happen on Monday. That is why it is so disappointing for him. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
He has had such a good season and he wanted to finish on a high note | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
in a fantastic event like this. It is bitterly disappointing for him | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
but it is also disappointed for the fans and for us. We wanted to see | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
his progression. From Tipsarevic's point of view, it is an amazing | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
opportunity. He has finished number nine, the best year of his career. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
Now he has the opportunity of two matches, and he has a great record | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
against Tomas Berdych. He is going to fancy his chances of getting | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
through to the semi-finals. Let's just drop in on the court for | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
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They will take a photo and we will carry on chatting. Andy, I think it | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
was the right decision for Murray because he would not be able to | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
compete against the top players like that. He is right to delight. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
It is a brave decision as well because he knows he is | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
disappointing everyone here. He has commitments that he would like to | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
satisfy, but it is a brave decision because it is the right one. It is | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
just one of those things. What you have to do is manage your schedule. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
You have to learn how to do that over the years. He is a vastly | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
experienced man out on the circuit but you have to question whether he | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
would have got injured. To go to Asia and Neil Furman tournaments | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
and come back and satisfied the commitment in Switzerland, was that | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
the right thing to do? Or should he have taken some time off? He did | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
admit that yesterday - the fact that he has learned some lessons | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
and he has to rest his body. think, when you reflect on him | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
making his schedule, after the US Open he was probably thinking, I | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
want to go for the No. 3 spot. He probably did not think he was going | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
to go there and when all the tournaments. In hindsight, he has | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
to learn. You see Federer and Nadal, the manager their schedule very | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
well. -- they manage their schedules. It would be | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
disappointing if Federer was able to overtake him as well. When you | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
look at the rankings, Federer, who is looking awesome, could overtake | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
Murray can take that away from them. That is the irony of this situation. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
He could lose the number three spot because of injury. It is just one | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
of those things. To be honest, they are the top four in the world and | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
they know it. If Federer produces tennis like that again I want to be | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
there to see it. That was incredible last night. He was half | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
volleying, playing with this wonderful freedom. It is like | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
watching anyone who is excellent at anything that they do. I sat there | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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giggling on this offer. It was great to watch. -- on the sofa. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
can ask if Nadal was at his best, but he was not allowed to be at his | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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best. Federer served a double fault near the start of the match. Then | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
none for the remaining two sets. Given the right conditions, he is | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
still capable of beating anyone. has left so many performances | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
hanging this year, hasn't he? And last year. When you think of the | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
last two a US Opens for Federer, where he has had matches against | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Djokovic was I think he feels he has not had quite the return and he | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
should have done since he won his last Grand Slam. That is two full | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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years without a Grand Slam. Briefly, on Murray, the off season | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
is so important for him. Very much so. Obviously, he needs to recover | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
from the injury but then you have this one really good window of | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
opportunity where you can do the bulk of your fitness work that will | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
give you that foundation that will, hopefully, see you through it will | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
just after Wimbledon. If you look at what Federer and Nadal did after | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
the US Open, they took a big block then. People think that you finish | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
this season and take your big training block at the end of the | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
year. Four guys to play that well, they have to look at little windows | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
of opportunity within the year. Perhaps after the US Open is a very | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
good time to have a training block that will set you up for the rest | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
of the year and then move into the following year. I think they will | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
all be pleased it is changing next year anyway. Today, we have this | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
match to look forward to. It is going to be a tough one, isn't it? | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Tipsarevic was ranked 29 at Wimbledon, he is now a number nine. | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
He has gone up 40 places. It is unbelievable. He has been here for | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
ten days preparing. I think it is an advantage for Tomas that he has | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
been on the court already. He has been out there and he has felt the | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
heat of battle and of competition. If anybody likes a big stage it is | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
Janko. He is only 53011 and covered in tattoos. He plays with the same | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
intelligence that he has in his mind. I am looking forward to him | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
trying to get close to Berdych. We will get this match under way in | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
just a moment. Ten-man Andrew are going to the commentary box. Let's | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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I came to London early enough, I was practising every day and | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
preparing, whether I am playing a match the day after. My daily | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
routine and my regime is not going to change much now that I know I am | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
officially one of the top eight. You have two matches to come, | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Berdych and Djokovic. What are your thoughts? I am aware that I am | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
playing against two really tough opponents. I played Tomas a couple | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
of times this year. I lost and I won. But every time I remember that | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
we played really, really interesting and tough matches. So | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
why am looking forward to that one tomorrow. Regarding Novak, he is | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
probably one of my best friends off of the tennis court. Friendship is | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
set aside for the time on court. Things will hopefully go back to | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
normal after wards. He has had to wait but he will get | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
his chance. Andy was talking about the big stage, not only their | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
grandson's but the David Cups as well, it has been terrific for him. | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
That is right. If you can play in the Davis Cup at home in front of | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
20,000 people then you are safe to play anywhere. We talk about | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
Berdych, I think he probably fancied his chances coming into a | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
match against Murray of who had questions and injuries. Then, all | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
of a sudden, you have someone coming in who is fresh and you have | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
a losing record against him. It depends to his best on the day. | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
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certainly has the weapons, Berdych. Absolutely. I think it is a bit of | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
a coin tossed to see who will come out on top here. Thank you very | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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much. Now over to Andy. Thank you. Berdych has an advantage | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
in terms of height. He will be trying to bring his power to bear | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 82 seconds | :15:09. | :16:32. | |
So much for my theory that it might take a bit of time for Tipsarevic | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
to play his way into the pace of the court and the arena. I thought | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
it might be an advantage for Berdych to have played a match. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
sat on the fence in the studio and said that it was a bit of a toss of | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
a coin, but after seeing those first two points, Tipsarevic looks | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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After the tie-break he lost to Djokovic in his first round-robin | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
match, Berdych made some of the worst mistakes he could probably | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
have made in his career. This is a very disappointing start to this | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
one. He has probably had enough of the Serbians. That is mum and dad | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
there. He made a lot of unforced errors in the tie-break against | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Djokovic and there was no real need to hit the drive volley there, he | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
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could have taken his time and let The parents are getting younger | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
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these days, as well. Have you What is going on here? Parents are | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
looking younger because you are looking... I know! Every morning I | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
think the same. Is there mobile phone somewhere or something? There | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 82 seconds | :18:52. | :19:33. | |
is a bit of a buzz in the arena, 27 years old from Belgrade, part of | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
the winning Davis Cup team last year. What a platform it was for | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
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all of them. Tipsarevic and Djokovic have had wonderful years | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
following that. Fantastic national pride. Two Serbians at the season- | :19:54. | :20:03. | |
ending championships. Throw in Nenad Zimonjic at the doubles as | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 82 seconds | :20:13. | :22:16. | |
His long-time coach, since his No doubt having Djokovic on board | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
and seeing him achieving is just going to help the whole climate for | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
tennis in the country, for them to win the Davis Cup. I wonder if | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
Djokovic has been around -- if Djokovic had been around these last | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 82 seconds | :22:42. | :23:33. | |
few years, whether Tipsarevic would His cards seem to be bigger than | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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the rest of him. -- his calves. He really is a fantastic move around | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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the court. There is Nenad Zimonjic, Tomas Berdych is having a bad time | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
here, isn't it? He is certainly having a bad time that a lot of | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
that is to do with Tipsarevic, who has really come out and in -- and | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 82 seconds | :24:39. | :25:22. | |
produced an impressive first couple One player is being proactive, the | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
other reactive. Tipsarevic is dictating play, moving Berdych side | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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to side, coming in, knocking a off the easy forearm volleyer. -- | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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Really the first disappointing shot for Tipsarevic. He would have liked | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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0-30 down in this game, Tomas Berdych. It is a must-win game for | :28:14. | :28:24. | |
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One thing you can say about the pace of this court is that, even at | :28:49. | :28:57. | |
3-0 down, it is not like being down on a grass court. Slow-medium, I | :28:57. | :29:07. | |
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Challenge. UMPIRE: Mr Tipsarevic is | :29:10. | :29:18. | |
challenging the call. ANDREW CASTLE: The lady on the line | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
called it out. UMPIRE: No challenge? Second | :29:20. | :29:29. | |
service. The line judge called it out so | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
Berdych was asked whether he wanted to challenge. | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
UMPIRE: Game, Berdych. ANDREW CASTLE: But if the umpire | :29:38. | :29:45. | |
has called the score, he must have thought it was in? Anyway... 2-1 to | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
Tipsarevic here. He has made a good start even though he did not take | :29:49. | :29:55. | |
his 0-30 opportunity in that game. He is in for Andy Murray Cup -- in | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
for Andy Murray because he is world number nine and therefore was the | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
alternative. He had a very good hard-court summer season and | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
tremendous indoors as well. The final full St Petersburg, lost to | :30:11. | :30:19. | |
Berdych in Paris. He was a quarter- finalist at the US Open. That gave | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
him an awful lot of point and he has risen from 49 to number nine. | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
You can see from the US Open on words, where he made that quarter, | :30:30. | :30:40. | |
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he has been consistent and he has He played a fantastic match with | :30:41. | :30:51. | |
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Roger Federer in 2008. He lost it tented eight in the fifth set. -- | :30:52. | :31:02. | |
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10-8. Did you play him? I don't think I did. And I am not sure I | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
would have liked to. He moves well and he is relentless with his | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
hitting. Very solid offer of both wings. Tipsarevic seems to be | :31:17. | :31:26. | |
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aiming for the bar ditch -- Berdych It is interesting that Tipsarevic | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
would be going to the Berdych backhand most of the time because | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
his big weapon is his forehand. It is also where he makes most of his | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
errors. It is how you go to an opponent's strength that is the big | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
thing. If you go to it with weakness you will be punished but | :32:09. | :32:19. | |
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if you go to it with strength you Was it too long? UMPIRE: Tipsarevic | :32:46. | :32:56. | |
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challenge as the call. -- That lady on the line was the one | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
that Serena Williams had a go at at the US Open, and ended up getting | :33:12. | :33:21. | |
into all sorts of trouble. You know that, if she is working here, she | :33:21. | :33:31. | |
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Straight back into action. I would never call a service line. | :33:43. | :33:53. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 82 seconds | :33:53. | :34:49. | |
That has to be the hardest thing. The only other person I can | :34:49. | :34:57. | |
remember wearing glasses, two people, in fact, Clement was one of | :34:57. | :35:07. | |
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them. He also had a bandana. There UMPIRE: It is very close. I can see | :35:34. | :35:39. | |
the mark. Accepting that this ball was out. | :35:39. | :35:49. | |
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A bit of a Perot wet here, wasn't Highways Berdych going to have an | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
impression on the match? If he is going to continue serving at 25% | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
first serves it is going to be a long afternoon. He has to get a few | :37:18. | :37:27. | |
more first serves and get a few more Kyi points. -- a few more | :37:27. | :37:37. | |
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The pattern at that -- the pattern that is developing is that Berdych | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
is getting the power on the ball. Tipsarevic is going to have to | :38:09. | :38:18. | |
avoid getting pushed back too far. If the Serbian is too far back it | :38:18. | :38:28. | |
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It is long. He made the tough one When you combine this with the loss | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
of control of his ground strokes in the first match, Berdych against | :40:13. | :40:21. | |
Djokovic. I think Tipsarevic almost stop the point here. He played the | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
shot holding the throat of the racquet. He does have racquet | :40:26. | :40:36. | |
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ability. He reminds me of some of the old players. A lot of racquet | :40:40. | :40:47. | |
ability. Moving back to Berdych, he is six feet 5 and has a great | :40:47. | :40:54. | |
service motion. He has had 19 first serves and has had four in. You | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
cannot, at this level, let that happen. He has to be a bit more | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
selective about where he is serving. Instead of going for the corners at | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
135 mph, go straight into the body at 130 mph, take a little bit of | :41:10. | :41:17. | |
pace off of it. In the rallies, Tipsarevic is moving a little bit | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
better, he is controlling the ball might well and getting Berdych on | :41:21. | :41:28. | |
the defensive. He has to race his level. The game is all about basics | :41:28. | :41:34. | |
and doing them well. No matter whether you're playing at the local | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
club or in this arena in front of 17,500 people. It is about getting | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
the basics right. And about hitting the big parts of the court if you | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
are struggling. Go back to the basics. Look at Federer yesterday, | :41:50. | :42:00. | |
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he hit 10 or 12 balls in the middle I just looked up to the screen with | :42:12. | :42:21. | |
our statistics to see how Tipsarevic was serving. Maybe these | :42:21. | :42:31. | |
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Having just arrived in Athens for the Olympics, I went to hit some | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
balls in the Olympic village. I thought, something is not quite | :42:48. | :42:56. | |
right here. I started hitting balls and then realised that the service | :42:56. | :43:06. | |
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line was about two feet to close to I am glad I did not try to practise | :43:14. | :43:24. | |
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my serve. It did not going very UMPIRE: Game, Tipsarevic. Very | :43:33. | :43:43. | |
impressed her. -- impressive. It will be | :43:43. | :43:52. | |
interesting to see at the Olympics, not far from here next year, to see | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
who's Serbia pick. I think you can and we have two players. Or is it | :43:57. | :44:04. | |
three or four now? I think it is four. A maximum of four from each | :44:04. | :44:14. | |
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That first serve moves his Four in a row. He must be listening. | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
It is all about trying to get some of them in the second set. He just | :45:44. | :45:54. | |
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has not really arrived in the match He is a very straight forward | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
player, Tomas Berdych, and a very effective one. Always top 10, | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
between 10 and 30 for his entire career. Been in the top 10 | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
regularly for the last two years with a magnificent run at the semi- | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
final that the French last year and the final of Wimbledon last year as | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
well, where he happened to beat Federer and Djokovic before losing | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
to Nadal in the final. Tipsarevic is doing his best to take the ball | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
early on the first serve. Second set he is trying to move in a | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
little bit close up. You can see how the second serve gets up with | :47:24. | :47:34. | |
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the top spend. -- the top spin. Some of that writing on his left | :47:35. | :47:45. | |
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arm says in Japanese, beauty will Did you read when you wrap out on | :47:55. | :48:03. | |
tour? -- when you were out on top? What did you read, instruction | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
manuals? I have never been a prolific reader! Were you a | :48:09. | :48:19. | |
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computer game player? I just Tipsarevic, 5-2, serving for the | :48:35. | :48:45. | |
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Took a chance on second serve break You get the feeling with Tomas | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
Berdych that if he had 5% more variation in his game, just a | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
little bit more skill in the racket hit, he could have gone to the very | :51:05. | :51:11. | |
top. He has already had a tremendous career, but not one of | :51:11. | :51:21. | |
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the greats. You always felt it was His coach and trainer there. Three | :51:48. | :51:58. | |
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So, the substitute has come in, and he is relaxed and has played very | :52:58. | :53:08. | |
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SUE BARKER: certainly making the most of his opportunity, Danko | :53:33. | :53:38. | |
Tipsarevic. He has taken the opening set, we will be back with | :53:38. | :53:48. | |
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Group B is back in action tomorrow, we will have Roger Federer against | :53:54. | :54:00. | |
Mardy Fish live for you on BBC tip, and in the evening Rafael Nadal | :54:00. | :54:08. | |
against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. -- on BBC Two. Back to today, let's | :54:08. | :54:18. | |
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It is interesting, if we looked into our crystal ball and speculate | :54:19. | :54:23. | |
a bit, if Tipsarevic goes on to win this match and Djokovic beats | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
Ferrer tonight, you would -- it would put Tipsarevic right in the | :54:28. | :54:32. | |
mid- because he will be playing Ferrer in the final match and the | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
winner will go through to the semi- finals. To join Djokovic. That is | :54:36. | :54:41. | |
why the round-robin format, it can get very complicated, but it is | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
interesting as well. If they had come in after the second match it | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
would have been all over, but he came in after the first to replace | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
Andy Murray and has got a real shout. He has only got to play | :54:53. | :55:00. | |
Ferrer and Berdych. It is not like playing a Federer and Nadal. He | :55:00. | :55:10. | |
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leads the head-to-head with the man He is not, is he? I got that wrong, | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
he will have to play Djokovic. did you say? That he had to play | :55:20. | :55:30. | |
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for rare, but Andy Murray played Tonight it is Djokovic in action | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
looking to seal the deal as Federer has done in the other group, | :55:54. | :56:04. | |
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When you come through these groups, you want to come through as | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
champion because you then played the runner up from the other group. | :56:31. | :56:41. | |
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The other group is pretty strong. It will probably be Federer-a dull, | :56:43. | :56:50. | |
-- Federer-Nadal, though the Tsonga match is important there. That is a | :56:50. | :56:55. | |
winner-takes-all, Nadal against Tsonga. After Federer of defeating | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
Nadal last night, everyone is saying song there is in with a good | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
shout. Of course he is, but you have to start with Nadal as | :57:03. | :57:13. | |
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favourite. -- St song there is in UMPIRE: Game, Berdych. | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
A better start to this set for Berdych, and that is exactly what | :58:01. | :58:06. | |
he was after. He made a poor start to the match and never recovered in | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
the first set, but that is much better. Back to basics for him. He | :58:11. | :58:17. | |
is the natural attributes, natal set of scales, 6 ft 5, the | :58:17. | :58:22. | |
athleticism, the ground strokes, the server, you would never call a | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
Wimbledon finalist an under- achiever, would you? Certainly not, | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
and when his game is on he is one of the most dangerous because he | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
has that power. You saw it for large parts of the match against | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
Djokovic, he was the one dictating. Unfortunately in that third set | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
tie-break I think he almost lacked belief in those shops and suddenly | :58:43. | :58:53. | |
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the unforced errors crept in. -- in And that is good. It is a winner. | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
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Wow! He had the width of the line to aim | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
at, and he found it. Using all the dimensions of the court, aren't | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
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they? The entire playing area. That That is a strange NICE, isn't it? | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
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great served by Tipsarevic out wide. On the women's tour, coaches can | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
come out and talk to the players. Somehow, you feel it would really | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
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benefit Berdych if he could get I think I would sit down with him | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
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and tell him to play better, as UMPIRE: Mr Tipsarevic is | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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challenging the call. I thought that look in. -- looked | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
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Errors on the forehand side. They have these lovely double-handed | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
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Two are really strong, heavy, muscular second serves 2 finish | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
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that game. Tipsarevic just guilty of backing off a little bit. I met | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
that man on the left this morning. I have forgotten his name. He is in | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
the theatrical version of The Railway Children. | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
Tipsarevic has to stay in. You have to take the ball back from a big | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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guy before the spin takes it away. That's right. You can get mishits | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
and that sets a Berdych for another point. Certainly, when he is | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
getting on the front foot, he is dominating some of these rallies | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
from the baseline. I think if he can eliminate some of these | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
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unforced errors there -- Berdych It is an intense part of this | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
particular match. Remember, both players are looking for their first | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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win in this stage. Tipsarevic is the alternate, taking over from | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
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That was a good punch from Tipsarevic. Tipsarevic was able to | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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hit the two-handed backhand into Tipsarevic just had one scare | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
serving for the first set. Apart from that, he has looked very solid, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
no other break points in any other service games. Now his chance to | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
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UMPIRE: Mr Tipsarevic is challenging the call. | :14:18. | :14:28. | |
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We have seen a lot of shots right He has his towel delivered by one | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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of these ball kids. There were 2,500 applications. Just over 100 | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
of the applicants were selected to come to London. Boris Becker helped | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
to select them. The whole staging of the event is magnificent, isn't | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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it? First-class. Www.barclaysballkids.com Is the | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
address if you want to have a try for next year. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
There will be a negotiation after next year to see if the tournament | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
will stay in London or if it is going to go elsewhere. If you look | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
at the schedule, this tournament will start the day after Paris next | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
year. Moving forward, if the event is still taking place in Paris, it | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
will be quite difficult to put this event in Brazil if you have to take | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
players from the final of Paris to another continent for the next day. | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
And Brazil are the only other competition at the moment, as bad | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
as you know? I do not know, is the honest answer. I am sure there will | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
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The women's tour, the season-ending championships, are in Istanbul | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
three weeks prior to this, which gives a much long off-season. -- a | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
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That forehand from Berdych, I don't know what he is trying to achieve. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
If it is a rally in shot, there is no way a player of his calibre can | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
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miss by eight feet. It is an First point of the game, as well. I | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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With this point it was the right idea. He will be disappointed to | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
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have missed the drop volley, but it It is a tidy game but it was set up | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
by that huge missed forehand, wasn't it? That forehand that | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
ballooned over the net, miles out. You've really want to get stuck | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
into a game, and at this level you cannot give the server start. | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
Tipsarevic has only lost two. On his serve in this set. -- two | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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Important point and with the extra effort, the extra decibels on the | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
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ground there from Tipsarevic... -- on the grunt. Do you think he does | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
that to send a message to his opponent? He is trying, isn't he? | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
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Credit to Berdych on those two points. He made some unforced | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
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errors but he backed himself to go UMPIRE: It was inside, yes. Inside | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
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ANDREW CASTLE: He is right again. So, the season-ending finals | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
welcome Janko Tipsarevic. Andy Murray pulled out, Tipsarevic came | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
in and he is playing a good match. Berdych hanging on, it is a must | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
win for both players. A look back at the history of this great event | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
which has landed in London and will be here for two years. You can see | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
that the decades have been dominated. Federer is trying to | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
make it six wins it. The record for qualifying for the top eight, this | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
year end showdown, Andre Agassi, 14 times he qualified. Amazing. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Nastase, a four time when of this event in the seventies. Boris | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
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Becker won three times, it was his birthday yesterday. John McEnroe | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
and others will be at the Royal Albert Hall next week. Tim Henman | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
will be there as well. I'm sure there are still tickets left. | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
Starting on Wednesday night. Saturday night I was meant to play | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
against Greg Rusedski but he has had problems with his foot and has | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
had to pull out. Unfortunately for me, they have flown in the | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
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Tim Henman, a qualifier for this event on two a occasions, in | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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You are quite right, Andrew, talking about how a return is | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
trying to get into a service game, the first serve is always important. | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
He cannot afford to give away donations at this stage in the | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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He is very quick to find eye- contact, the umpire. I like the way | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
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he does it. The players like it, He could have left that one, you | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
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feel. But he elected to play what He hits the forehand down the line, | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
scoops up from Tipsarevic. It could have been a leave, couldn't it? It | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
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looked like it was just going wide. Back to level in the game, can he | :27:40. | :27:50. | |
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That is very well played. He does not back off. Sometimes errors, | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
sometimes fine, false or play. A delicate balance, isn't it? -- Fine | :28:23. | :28:33. | |
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It isn't hard to see why he beat Federer and Djokovic at Wimbledon | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
last year and made the final. was the type of tennis he was | :29:25. | :29:35. | |
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playing, sensing his opportunity to I don't think you would call it | :29:58. | :30:04. | |
coaching, would you? You would call it encouragement. No coaching | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
allowed from outside the court. Tipsarevic way out. And then went | :30:09. | :30:19. | |
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UMPIRE: Game, Berdych. New balls, There is the break. Perfect timing | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
from him. I like his body language as well. Although he has not played | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
his best in this match, you see the intensity. He made this forehand | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
pass. See the way he was watching the | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
ball there? He knew that Tipsarevic was coming in. The last thing you | :30:57. | :31:05. | |
want to do is Nissan give it away. That was good, professional play. | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
You get the feeling he would like to see a backhand sometimes. I mean, | :31:10. | :31:20. | |
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Serving for the set with new tennis Again, serving for a set, serving | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
for a match, it is the basics - first serves, look for the | :31:47. | :31:57. | |
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opportunities to dictate with your UMPIRE: Game and second set, | :34:12. | :34:20. | |
Berdych. It is one set each here at the | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
World Tour files. SUE BARKER: And we are ready for | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
the decider. If you are watching on BBC Two we are coming to the end of | :34:29. | :34:35. | |
our transmission at 3:45pm. If you want to continue watching it will | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
be available on the be BCH the Channel and the red button. Just a | :34:40. | :34:48. | |
final reminder of the groups. Both Berdych and Tipsarevic are looking | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
for their first win here. Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer both have | :34:53. | :35:03. | |
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a win it -- each in the tournament. Tomorrow we will see Roger Federer | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
up against Mardy Fish. And then the winner of the Nadal and Tsonga | :35:13. | :35:20. | |
match will go through to the final. Just over ten minutes until we | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
change channels. Thank you, Sue. A third set here | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
and, with a bit of luck, it will be a good one. Berdych has shown good | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
determination, good grip. It was a fine comeback for him after losing | :35:37. | :35:47. | |
:35:47. | :35:56. | ||
to Djokovic the other night, when he got really tight. Berdych is | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
hoping to bring some of his experience to bear on Janko | :36:00. | :36:08. | |
Tipsarevic. An easier time for Tomas' mum and dad. His dad was a | :36:08. | :36:15. | |
railway engineer and his mum was a doctor. Their little boy, though he | :36:15. | :36:22. | |
has grown up a bit now, won all these junior competitions. They | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
moved to a town where there were good tennis coaches and a better | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
set up. To move away from among the age of 12 or 13, it is a price to | :36:30. | :36:40. | |
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pay. -- away from home. Tomas Berdych is leaping up and down and | :36:43. | :36:53. | |
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ready to receive this Tipsarevic The umpire is having a little chat | :39:08. | :39:17. | |
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up with some of the technical staff who have rigged up this court. They | :39:19. | :39:26. | |
have sensors and little lights that go off. Back to business. A hold of | :39:26. | :39:36. | |
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He is playing a simple game now, isn't he? Top spin on at forehand. | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
Berdych staying down on the ball. Watch the racquet head going | :40:10. | :40:20. | |
:40:20. | :40:55. | ||
There has been this momentum shift in the match. In the first set it | :40:55. | :41:02. | |
was Tipsarevic that was dictating the.. Now the roles have been | :41:02. | :41:10. | |
reversed, Berdych -- Tipsarevic that was dictating the points. Now | :41:10. | :41:20. | |
:41:20. | :41:51. | ||
the roles are reversed, Berdych is Lays her-like accuracy now. -- | :41:51. | :42:01. | |
:42:01. | :42:39. | ||
UMPIRE: Game, Berdych. The man from the Czech Republic | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
makes it 1-1. SUE BARKER: That is it, we have | :42:42. | :42:45. |