9-9 in the breaker. 9:20pm and overcast. Berdych claimed he wanted to come off 20min ago.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
Vesely takes set with a drop-shot. Now Berdych wants to play the 5th set on Centre.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
back tom.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Didn't know a Berdych match could be that fun. Loved it, excited for the 5th.
Great day. Radwanska/Cibulkova was a NID classic, lol @ anyone with a ground pass not RUSHING to court 3. Serena's 2nd set under the roof was also holy. Doi/Kerber was also far better than that scoreline. SAD FOR DOI :(
Speaking of NID, Murray/Kyrgios was useless as ever.
― uberweiss, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
in that match, with the number 10 guy against the unranked guy, the commentator said: "Never underestimate the importance of playing the winning patterns." which basically meant that the number 10 guy could win because he knew how to win. because he had won before. my college dorm room mind was blown off its hinges!
words to live by though. gonna remember that one.
but then the number 10 guy lost. he forgot the winning patterns. plus, it was dark.
― scott seward, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
seriously! I didn't even bother watching until Vesely was down 2-5 in the fourth which turned out to be exactly the time to start watching. lol @ Berdych complaining about the darkness the minute he went down in the TB.
he was right that they should have moved it to Centre though.
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 10:41 (seven years ago) link
Drama of umpire (who had practically lost his voice) barking CORRECTION on Berdych's baseline call on m/p. And Berdych wasting two minutes of light complaining about darkness at change of ends. I had that on the laptop and the marathon doubles on the TV (suspended at 13-13 after multi-deuce game). What a mixed bag of a Manic Monday. Two retirements, three non-events on Centre but elsewhere a good measure of madness.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 11:00 (seven years ago) link
great work edwardo, kuznetsova didn't win another game and raonic degoffined the tournament instead
sorry everyone. but srsly now I know why England had to go around colonising the world, needed SOMETHING to do during rain delays
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 11:07 (seven years ago) link
this isn't the first time berdych got fucked by the umpires because of the light. happened two years ago as well against cilic so i understand his frustration.
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 11:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah but the time to complain was at 5-5, did he think they were gonna stop mid-TB? Vesely collapsed today anyway for, again, a less interesteing QF line-up:
(28) Sam Querrey vs. (6) Milos Raonic(3) Roger Federer vs. (9) Marin Cilic(10) Tomas Berdych vs. (32) Lucas Pouille(12) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. (2) Andy Murray
Querrey 2-1 Raonic (1-0 on grass, 1-0 at Slams)Federer 5-1 Cilic (1-1 at Slams)Berdych 0-0 PouilleMurray 12-3 Tsonga (5-1 on grass, 3-1 at Slams plus 1-0 in juniors)
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 12:53 (seven years ago) link
In the circumstances, pretty happy that Berdych is through (three breaks to Vesely's one in today's deciding set).
NINE breaks of serve in the Halep-Kerber opener; AK takes it 7-5.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 12:54 (seven years ago) link
turn it on for ten minutes and shvedova tanks the first set tiebreak with 4 consecutive UEs from 5-2 up
not the same as yesterday's turn it on for ten minutes experiment lol
― imago, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
Kerber-Venus SF? Drool!
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
Vesely is back on court shortly in his *first round* mixed doubles. They're playing third round matches today too. They're taking a pretty relaxed attitude to the backlog elsewhere, with the outstanding r2 women's doubles not scheduled until 4th on court 8. Putting the brakes on the catch-up could be Serena-Venus-related, I guess. They're due on this evening (r3).
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
I was amazed Vesnina not only went back out for her doubles with Makarova yesterday evening but came back from a set down.
Good to see Halep fight for once but she is so much further away from a Slam title than she was in 2013-14 imo. Her game has been kind of wrecked by the constant chorus back then of "she has to be more aggressive". No, counterpunching worked for her and horrible errors don't have a good enough pay-off!
Wonderful story for Venus. First Slam SF in six years at the age of 36!
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
PEDs are an amazing thing
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 5 July 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Lendl effect paying off for Vesnina :Dhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmnLf-4WgAAL5A0.jpg
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
Cilic takes the first set against Federer in tb (4), Raonic-Querrey 64
― willem, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link
Fed not getting anything off the Cilic serve, even when gifted with two doubles in game four of that set. Two sets down, as is Querrey.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Perhaps surprisingly, Cilic-Federer is out-aceing Querrey-Raonic 25-14 right now.
Heading back to be office once I've seen a couple more feeble Fed BH returns off second serves.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
well Fed did take the 3rd (no tv/stream, can only follow live scores sadly)
― willem, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
he saved 3 break points in an earlier game too
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
Fed's BH was actually beginning to click when I left the pub.
In other news, Querrey actually has a break point. And now a break!
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
cilic really hates break points doesn't he
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
hates them less now
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
he's very audibly swearing in serbo-croat, the umpire should intervene lol
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
raja
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
dear lord
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
Hot damn, that was tense. All the way we go.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Raonic through in four. Bleh. But it was Bleh either way.
literally don't care about work in the morning, don't care, don't care
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
no way I'm missing another 30 minutes of Goran Ivanisevic looking like he wants to die
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link
lol federer being a dick to the lino
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
end of 4th set was choketastic
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Goran is in knots, isn't he? Compare and contrast with someone like Lendl.
I may dip in again on my phone in about 15min but I didn't get a thing done during that t/b. Sometimes I wish grass-court tennis was somehow an evening/night-time activity. Work days are torture during the second week.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
always think that if they must have a day off it should be the second mon or tue, not sun
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
can the crowd be banned from saying anything
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
LOL that is the worst challenge I have ever seen
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
can someone who watches more tennis than me confirm likewise
― imago, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
lol remember when cilic blew three break points in the middle of the third set
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
Desperation.
Didn't think Old Rog would pull that out. Slam #18 on Sunday or it'll never happen.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Yeah coming back from two sets down was something I didn't think he was still capable of. Was mildly rooting for Marin but I suppose I'd rather have Fed playing Raonic.
― Roz, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Funny how the first two sets appeared kind of close but from middle of set 1 thorugh middle of set 3 it didn't "feel" close, to watch it looked like Cilic was winning easily. Based on the sights, the comeback was unexpected but the score was never a blow-out. I cashed out on Cilic midway through set 3, turning my fiver into $25, five of which I'm going to waste on Tsonga! Hah!
Worst sound in the world? Todd Woodbridge trying to pronounce "Pouille" btw. (Also he kept saying Federer was geeing himself up in Swedish which was quite funny)
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Cilic did seem to be winning easily but Federer was really, really bad in the first two sets, which covered up Cilic's wobbles. And I've seen too many collapses from Cilic to ever rule another one out at any stage, that USO SF being very much the anomaly in his career. (I put money on Federer down a set and a break.)
Federer had BETTER rid us of Raonic.
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
Goddam Andy you were doing so well..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
Some real zip to Tsonga rn.
AM really hanging on atm..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
come on 0-30, this is the moment.
jesus..breaks
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
come on, tim!
― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link