Nole on fire

Murray hit more unforced errors in 3 sets than he normally does in 5 sets, that is the double edged sword of his aggressive tennis ie the kinks he needs to iron out.

Additionally his first serve percentage was under 50%, so he needs to get that clicking too.

All that is just lack of match practice which he is getting in the first week of this slam.
Some choose to call it rust.

The unforced errors are a consequence of his aggressive game now, he'll hit a ton of winners but also a load of UEs as well until he gets used to that style of play.

To put it into context, he hit 50% more winners than Nole, but nearly 3 times as many UEs.

In case you missed it here it comes again:

Rust, you know the thing that made you say Nole was not looking in top form in Toronto and Cincy..

Well, just like Nole than, now Murray is just rusty. In top form, though.

Except that's not what I said nitb.

This is what I mean when I say you don't read what is written.

What I've actually said is that nole's form this year is off from last year.

If you'd watched anything of Murray over he years you would see that the style of play v bogomolov was completely different to usual.

Very aggressive resulting in lots of winners but also lots of errors.

Serve can be down to lack of matches, I agree, but I think you're missing the change in his style of play.

Jonty,

I do read what people say before commenting on it (most of the time).
Maybe people don't express themselves accurately.

I also watch a match I comment on.
Now that's clear, I don't think Murray was extra aggressive against Bogomolov.
He did have a few points in the third set when he came ot the net, other than that, he reminded me a lot of his very old counterpunching self when he was not bludgeoning the ball to death like he seems these days with his forehand.
The only difference between the very old Murray and the one from Bogomolov match on Monday was that he replaced dropshots and backhiand slice repetitive counter-punching with well-placed forehands and backhands down the line as a frequent, rather than random option as used to be the case in the past.

Mind you, he looked very rusty at times.

Not saying he's not rusty, but we saw very different things in his game, he actually drop shorted quite a bit, due to the fact he was inside the court ie aggressive.

He can't afford any experimenting against Dodig. He is a solid player and is capable of an upset.