Rich2310 wrote:

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Injury free Jack is really coming alive this year with his tennis. You feel there is still much more to come from him yet. What a talent and #4 in the race.

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 Going to end IW either #3 in the race ( wins the final ) or #5 [ loses it ).

... er, except cam norrie in 2021.

Yeah IW has always been a fairly happy hunting ground for the Brits. Rusedski broke the serve speed record here back in the late 90s, and had that great run in '98 when he was probably one of the top 5 players in the world, losing only to Rios.

And Tiger always played well in the desert, beat Safin and Todd Martin during that 2002 run, and I remember him winning an absolute epic against Roddick in 2004. Unfortunately ended up on the wrong side of two thoroughly one-sided thrashings in the finals to Federer and Hewitt.

Strangely Andy never really did that well after that 2009 run (where he beat Federer in a really good semifinal before losing to Nadal in one of those bizarre Indian Wells finals where the wind kicked up to such an extent that it was almost unplayable). Made the semis once, but quite a few early exits.

And Cam's run was genuinely one of the most remarkably unexpected British performances I've seen. He got a reasonable draw as far as Masters 1000 titles go but took full advantage of it - beat Sandgren, Bautista Agut, Tommy Paul, Schwartzman, Dimitrov and Basilashvili.

Jack surely has to be the favourite tonight, as well as Rune played yesterday

paulisi wrote:

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Good start

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 I'll say, breaks in first game, breaks again in the second. 3-0.

Come on Jack. You've begun beautifully.

Think Jacks had his Weetabix this morning!

I haven't watched a zillion of Holger's matches but enough - and I've often often seen his mother - but never from recollection his dad

And now dad had come, because it's a big final. And Holger has looked SO tense, like a rabbit in the headlights, his legs are like lead, you can see that he's trying so hard to make himself bounce but he really can't

And his dad is shouting out encouragement. And it seems to be making it worse.

Meanwhile Jack is happily hitting his spots without issue