Murray is totally different from last year man...
Fed owned him in last year's US Open 2008 because he's still "fresh".

I don't think its that easy anymore. Fed needs to pull out his classical impossible shots like a few years ago where absolutely no one could stop him. It'll be hard for him to do that though, he has lost motivation. Isn't the great Federer anymore.

yeah it's aired live...but what's the point of showing those 1st n 2nd round matches live yet delayed telecast of semifinals or finals?! Astro is just plain stupid.

you've answered the reason why they can't please tennis fans. because there is just far fewer tennis fans than football fans. and you please the majority.

WE refer to the letter “Astro, be fair to tennis fans” (The Star, April 23). On April 18 and 19, there were several sports events taking place simultaneously.

The Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters semi-finals and finals were scheduled on April 18 from 7.30pm to 1am, and on April 19 from 8pm to 12 midnight respectively.

There were also several football events on April 18, including Bundesliga matches Arminia Bielefeld vs Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg vs Bayer Leverkusen at 9.25pm; and Italian Serie A: Genoa vs Lazio at 11.55pm.

On April 19, Italian Serie A: AS Roma vs Lazio match was on at 8.55pm while Bundesliga: Hertha Berlin vs Werder Bremen and Spanish Primera Liga: Valladolid vs Villarreal were on at 10.55pm.

Because of this, the channel had constraints in broadcasting all the events live. Seeing that the duration to broadcast the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters semi-finals and finals event was equivalent to broadcasting four football matches, Astro opted for the latter for the channel to bring as many “live” events as it could accommodate at that time.

But Astro and had telecast the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters semi-finals and finals one day after the “live” event on April 19 at 12noon and April 20 at 9.50pm respectively. The delayed telecasts were broadcast during the weekend and after office hours to ensure that tennis fans were able to catch them.

For May and June, we will be bringing live coverage for the ARAG World Team Cup from May 18 to 23 and the Tennis French Open 2009 from May 24 to June 7 on Astro SuperSport+ (Channel 816), an additional sports channel that will be temporarily available to all Astro Sports Customers until June 9.

LEE CHOONG KHAY,

Head, Sports Business, Content Management Group,

Astro.

Fuuh.... Djokovic and Hernandez match was pretty intense. I thought at the beginning Madrid open is going to be boring, but this match proved me wrong.

Hernandez eventhough he lost, played a good match. At some point he had the light to win, but I don't know whats wrong... Djoko was just too strong mentally after he slid and damn near twisted his ankle. Shows why sometimes they spray too much water on one particular spot. Djoko could have missed Roland Gaross and Wimbledon if he did snap his ankle.