I actually think Murray can win but I'm just not going to go out on that particular limb in any official prediction sense
― lex pretend, Sunday, 28 June 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
Agree Verdasco is generally useless but he leads the h2h with Stan 2-1, Stan's return game is so much less effective on grass and Verdasco has this habit of randomly peaking after stretches of uselessness
― lex pretend, Sunday, 28 June 2015 06:51 (nine years ago) link
I also actually think Venus is perfectly placed to beat Serena but their matches have rarely been about form or logic.
IMAGINE tho if the player who ends Serena's quest for both a second Serena Slam and a potential calendar Slam is HER OWN SISTER
― lex pretend, Sunday, 28 June 2015 06:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah also look out for a potential CSN upset - Ostapenko in R1 is last year's girls' champ who's come on strong in the ITFs this year. Should be interesting to watch regardless.
I see the ATP are already selling the Kokkinakis/Zverev/Chung/Ymer/Edmund gang as a New Generation, very smart of them. The WTA meanwhile stays writing headlines about Bouchard's selfies
― lex pretend, Sunday, 28 June 2015 06:57 (nine years ago) link
eeeee excited.xp Venus preventing Serena Slam would be extra weird given the last one was entirely at her expense
― cerealbar, Sunday, 28 June 2015 09:30 (nine years ago) link
I come back from Italy on Fri 10th, wim men's SF day - really hoping to see a Djoko - Stan rematch in the SF.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 June 2015 09:48 (nine years ago) link
Gasparyan acquitting herself well so far
― groovemaaan, Monday, 29 June 2015 12:33 (nine years ago) link
Told you all she was good. Nice to see a few brilliant 1HBs in there too.
Diyas/Pennetta was a good match, pleasantly surprised to see Zarina make the upset
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
Ostapenko up an early break on CSN, playing very well
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
That's turned into "Ostapenko is hammering CSN, up a set and a double break"
Really impressed by her game, very smooth and easy power
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
wow csn is so incredibly inconsistent, even for a women's tennis player
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 June 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
overly reliant on on-court coaching + least comfortable on grass + tendency to go into her shell when being overpowered + much-improved junior champ from last year with a big game = this result
Ostapenko's BH is wonderful
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Incredible get from Bencic to finally close out Pironkova. Tsvetana got injured in the second set and it looked like a formality until she started fighting right at the end
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
Elsewhere I saw Struff totally gift the key breaks in sets 4 and 5 to Tomic, who looked weirdly super-casual about going five. Kanepi is basically not moving vs Hsieh. This Hewitt epic is a grindingly predicatble occurrence WHY HASN'T HE RETIRED YET
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Victor Estrella Burgos broke Becker with an amazing FH pass, served out to love - first Dominican win at Wimbledon!
Chung v Herbert is an aggravating match, Chung just spurned about 100 game points to hold serve. Lots of multi-deuce games where none of the points are good
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Someone's only here for the R1 paycheque...
https://twitter.com/angelikf/status/615570037404008448
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
The Missed Smash @Themissedsmash 28m28 minutes ago@angelikf thank goodness there are players like this on tour. If you're in a slam, you should play unless you physically cant. #thankyou0 retweets 0 favorites
@angelikf thank goodness there are players like this on tour. If you're in a slam, you should play unless you physically cant. #thankyou0 retweets 0 favorites
but... it seems that she physically can't play?
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
PAM https://twitter.com/PHShriver/status/615580778454454273
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
I think they meant "at least she didn't retire after a token three games like others have in the past *cough, Martic*" but I don't think that would make it better or worse. I don't blame Rogers either, someone ranked where she is can't afford to turn down the pay cheque and - possibly - her one shot of competing at Wimbledon. Not the players' fault that Slam wealth doesn't trickle down to where they make a living the rest of the year
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
oh alison ;_;
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
HURRAY NO MORE HEWITT
(Hi everyone!)
― katstevens, Monday, 29 June 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Every year I almost enjoy this thread more than Wimbledon itself.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Baghdatis is just PEAKING, beautiful to watch, no sign of the calf thing from the Nottingham SF
Young is as useless and whiny as ever
Really thought Safarova would be an obvious upset after her shambolic Eastbourne outing but Riske choked gigantically and Lucie managed to win ugly
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
lol, Baghdatis casually rushing the net after every return. So disrespectful to Young's serve
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 June 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
This is one of the most unusual sets of stats you'll see in 2015 men's tennis, or really tennis in general
http://i.imgur.com/q1l60OD.jpg
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 June 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
Dolgopolov dfs to hand back the breakAndrew Castle: "Edmund breaks back, that's a bit of Yorkshire grit for you!"
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 11:02 (nine years ago) link
Kvitova looking great on paper. No points lost on serve in the set. But Bertens looks pretty rubbish, and her look as being blasted past reminded me of Wozniacki, with about as much chance of beating Peaktra on grass :D :D :D
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
Second consecutive Slam where I've watched Svitolina win a three-setter despite being far the less imaginative, creative and versatile olayer on court. Doi was dominating every rally and never really stopped but suddenly was unable to put a finishing shot into court. It was kinda hard to watch because that's exactly my problem on court too
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
Brown/Lu obviously tremendous fun, lots of diving volleys and angled passes and all sorts of delightful shotmaking
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
Petra serving for the match, having not lost one point on serve. DFed, obv.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
35 minutes. Quicker than any of the three double bagels so far. (Weirdly - there had been no double bagels at Wim since 2009!)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
"the hors d'oeuvre is over"
― rahrah avis (imago), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
sounded like andrew castle obv
― rahrah avis (imago), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:53 (nine years ago) link
Lucic-Baroni beats Shvedova 75 67 75, sinks to her knees. Has a shot to take out Muguruza next.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 13:06 (nine years ago) link
It's really beyond doubt for me that Pospisil is the hottest ATP player
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
total package yeah
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Very rusty by Robson, as expected, but glimpses of her old form. Rodina was very average but solid in every department, a good foil to see where Robson is at. Nearly got horrendously screwed on MP though
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
There really is no greater disparity between physical talent and mental strength in the top 100 than Garcia. Watson choking for her life and chucking in puffball serves and Garcia just smacks errors.
Coric dealing with Stakhovsky's wily game surprisingly well...
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
LMAO Bouchard is a set down to Duan Ying-Ying. Duan choked three SPs before finally taking the TB; she's generally hampered by a total unwillingness to run or move (at one point a ball bounced ~3ft away from her and she just sort of lunged and stumbled at it) but was bashing the ball a whole lot better than Bouchard.
Duan's sole career grass experience prior to coming through qualies was one Australian ITF 25K in 2012, where she qualified and lost R1 to Arina Rodionova.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Duan to serve for the match after Bouchard completely panics at 4-4...
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
DUAN WINS. Served out to love. Seventh career match on grass, beats last year's Wimbledon finalist. Bouchard out of the top 20 now...
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
yeah i was watching that match and duan seems very...movement averse
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe Bouchard only tried one dropshot, which worked perfectly. Or just, y'know, not bash full pelt at the ball with your horrible technique and maybe take a bit off and just move Duan around
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Halep hitting error after error in solidarity with Bouchard right now
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
on one point in the first set bouchard kind of took a half-swing on a return; the return landed around the service line and duan couldn't get to it
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm experiencing what I will call a "schadenfreude sandwich":
1) lol Bouchard2) Something is going on with her, right? This is some super dramatic peak/valley shit and I hope everything is okay with her.3) LOL BOUCHARD
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Coric cramping badly at 4-4, deuce in the 5th...
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
Coric actually won multiple extended baseline rallies to hold despite being unable to run
Bouchard had nine opening round losses last year so it's not like she was ever a player who went deep into tournaments every time. Obviously the pressure is affecting her, but there's also 1) she massively revamped her game to become ultra-aggressive in the 2013-14 off-season; it always takes the Tour a while to collectively figure out a new way to beat you (Petra helpfully wrote the set text on this in last year's final); 2) that revamp happened despite her fugly technique which may have worked while she was confident and her opponents hadn't figured it out, but now that neither is the case...
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Beautiful volley by Cepelova to get to MP on Halep...
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
lol halep
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
consolidates at the next 3-1
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
they're going to put the roof on aren't they *cries*
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
can't roddick get his tie in order? what a rebel.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
lob for 15-30
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
not a great approach from fed: 40-30
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
4-2
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
sleepwalking to 3sps
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
3rd set Djokovic.
2-2 15-30, Fed in the net
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
30-40, BP
Djokovic making some crucial gets to get that break...
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
that return pushed all the lines - and so a break, give this another 15 mins.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
Federer doesn't look like he has much left. These errors
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
oh man 0-30 up then more errors after some good serving
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Break for the title Nole!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
two BPs for the title
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Does it!!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Drama-free!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Welp. Kinda feel like if Rog couldn't do it here, he might not ever again. Though I guess it's always possible he lands in a final against someone else. But it's going to be hard.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Really kept it together after the calamity of that 2nd set.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
As for Fed to make it to a final at 33 its just one more line to add to the legend.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
The one weird thing about Djokovic's resumé post-2011 is that he's underperformed at Slams relatively to his dominance everywhere else. This is the FIRST time since 2011 he's won multiple Slams in one year, and even with this he's only won 4 of the past 14 Slams (obv still great, but a small proportion given that he's mostly been a dominant No 1 in that period).
4 of the past 14, but now 3 of the past 5, so this is being redressed, it looks like
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
I was rooting for the old guy but man, those errors at the end. Such a shame after the way he's been playing these past few weeks.
― Roz, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
BONUS HINGIS STILL TO COME!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Jury is still out for me - obv he is playing at a great level, but three of those slam wins came at a still coming back Murray in Australia and then an older great.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
you can only beat who they put in front of you tho, and as lex says his slam record if anything underrates his dominance
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Murray and Federer, regardless of their stages, are probably the best rivals the ATP offers Djokovic right now. Stan as well, whom he also beat in Australia.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
There's definitely an "ATP lacks depth despite being incredibly strong at the top" argument but that's been true for the past decade.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Hingis and Paes slaying out there
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Absolutely - but its only really in that one year (2011) that you felt that Djokovic could have a level of dominance of peak Fed or Nadal.
He is favourite for the US open, but you always feel there is something unexpected around the corner. xp
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Goodness. Peya and Babos barely winning points
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Wow. A 41-minute 61 61 massacre. Martina Hingis, double Wimbledon champion just like 1997. And three trophies go to India!
Roll of honour:
Men's singles: Novak DjokovicWomen's singles: Serena WilliamsMen's doubles: Jean-Julien Rojer & Horia TecauWomen's doubles: Martina Hingis & Sania MirzaMixed doubles: Martina Hingis & Leander PaesBoys' singles: Reilly OpelkaGirls' singles: Sofya ZhukBoys' doubles: Nam Hoang Ly & Sumit NagalGirls' doubles: Dalma Galfi & Fanni Stollar
Ly - first Vietnamese Slam champion in history, I assume? I love the global diversity of this sport.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
A good Wimbers this year I think.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Jesus!!!!!!!!!! Look at the Boy's champion!
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
He's freakishly tall.
― ailsa, Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
New rankings!
1. Serena Williams (1)2. Maria Sharapova (4)3. Simona Halep (3)4. Caroline Wozniacki (5)5. Petra Kvitova (2)6. Ana Ivanovic (7)7. Agnieszka Radwanska (13)8. Lucie Safarova (6)9. Garbiñe Muguruza (20)10. Carla Suárez Navarro (9)11. Ekaterina Makarova (8)12. Karolina Pliskova (11)13. Angelique Kerber (10)14. Timea Bacsinszky (15)15. Venus Williams (16)16. Andrea Petkovic (14)17. Elina Svitolina (17)18. Madison Keys (21)19. Victoria Azarenka (24)20. Sara Errani (19)21. Belinda Bencic (22)22. Sabine Lisicki (18)23. Samantha Stosur (23)24. Svetlana Kuznetsova (25)25. Jelena Jankovic (30)26. Eugenie Bouchard (12)27. Flavia Pennetta (26)28. Alizé Cornet (27)29. Shuai Peng (28)30. Irina-Camelia Begu (31)...32. Coco Vandeweghe (47)41. Monica Niculescu (48)47. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (54)49. Magdalena Rybarikova (65)51. Heather Watson (59)62. Tatjana Maria (78)81. Olga Govortsova (122)110. Kristyna Pliskova (134)130. Jelena Ostapenko (147)
Lucic-Baroni back in the top 50 after a 15-year absence, that's kind of amazing. And Tatjana Maria has a better career high ranking as amother than she did in her first career now...
1. Novak Djokovic (1)2. Roger Federer (2)3. Andy Murray (3)4. Stan Wawrinka (4)5. Kei Nishikori (5)6. Tomas Berdych (6)7. David Ferrer (7)8. Milos Raonic (8)9. Marin Cilic (9)10. Rafael Nadal (10)11. Gilles Simon (13)12. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (12)13. Richard Gasquet (20)14. David Goffin (15)15. Kevin Anderson (14)16. Grigor Dimitrov (11)17. Gaël Monfils (18)18. John Isner (17)19. Feliciano López (16)20. Viktor Troicki (24)21. Tommy Robredo (19)22. Leonardo Mayer (21)23. Roberto Bautista Agut (22)24. Ivo Karlovic (25)25. Bernard Tomic (26)26. Andreas Seppi (27)27. Pablo Cuevas (23)28. Dominic Thiem (30)29. Vasek Pospisil (56)30. Juan Monaco (35)...37. Borna Coric (40)41. Nick Kyrgios (29)80. Dustin Brown (102)81. Alexander Zverev (74)89. James Ward (111)
― lex pretend, Monday, 13 July 2015 07:58 (nine years ago) link
wow, when's the last time the top 10 remained unchanged after a slam?
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 July 2015 08:18 (nine years ago) link
rewatched this final, incredible level the first two sets ~ what can you say abt fed in the 2nd set tiebreak? legendary
novak then bouncing back w the early break in the 3rd, he hit really hard and clean the last two sets and forced rog to make errors. the drama got sucked out of the match, & the rain delay didnt help either. wildly impressive performance regardless
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
Ha, at Tom D's:
Ah, Reilly Opelka, have ya stopped growin' yet?
Perhaps the only way to stop Novak was a global pandemic for which he will ultimately to refuse to take the eventually-developed vaccine.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link