Grass-court tennis looks great near-dusk and I'm sure that's just nostalgia at play. They need to get the old illuminated scoreboard back in.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 09:37 (eight years ago) link
Seeing a lot of Bouchard/Kournikova comparisons which just seem lazy and inaccurate...it's just not the same situation at all, let alone the same career arc. Kournikova was ultra-talented but chased the money and off-court stuff before her game was wrecked by injury. Bouchard, despite how she's written about, actually does minimal off-court glam stuff and seems more motivated by the tennis than the fame, and last year did the absolute best she could with her limited game.
I see Hantuchova as a better parallel - big breakthrough year sees a few very flashy results and very consistent Slam showings take her to the top 5, gets hyped up beyond belief, various factors including the over-hype lead to a death slump the following year, she'll eventually stabilise and have the #10-#30 career that befits her talent.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
Christina Macfarlane @chrissymacCNN 10m10 minutes agoBREAKING: Gates have been temporarily closed at @Wimbledon...officials say there has been a fire on Court 1. More details to follow
!!!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
Urszula Radwanska is now 0-9 in Slam R2s with this loss to Stosur. Quite surprising that a former top 30 player and top junior hasn't made even one R3 but I guess if you can't beat Stosur on grass...
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
kei withdraws :(
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link
:(
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
The AUS fans are somehow even worse this year than usual
Keys trying her utmost to choke at the end there but Voegele couldn't do anything
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
my annual hatewatch is in progress, cmon hoegenkamp
― rahrah avis (imago), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
*hogenkamp, even
my annual hatewatch is going to have to wait until she's playing someone who's any good
― rahrah avis (imago), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
Kyrgios outright bullying umpires on the regular now
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
scrrratch that, 2DFs into 3BPs
― rahrah avis (imago), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link
and a third DF! :D
Last year's AO girls' champ Elizaveta Kulichkova, making her Slam debut, is at 8-8 in the third vs Wickmayer...
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Pretty much unbearable during Hewitt's match yesterday.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
were they there wearing those stupid fucking green and gold hats I saw in Paris? HATE FOREVER.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Awful awful awful.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
Tumaini Carayol @tumcarayol 35m35 minutes ago"Is that a threat? Does it feel good to be up there in the chair? Do you feel strong up there in the chair?" - Kyrgios to the umpire.
Howard Bryant @hbryant42 31m31 minutes agoLinesman tells chair ump of Kyrgios language. Kyrgios looks at him and says, "You're a real champion. Did you get your point across?"
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Imagine being sat next to the AUS fans in 35 degree heat watching Kyrgios act like a petulant brat while winning easily
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
cypriot fire
― rahrah avis (imago), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
tommy haas pushing raonic to a second straight TB in the 4th after getting smoked 0&2 the first two sets
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Thiem's looking more comfortable on grass than I've ever seen him before. Learning fast. Really nice touch at net that I didn't know he had. 2 sets to 1 up on Verdasco, who started the third set in control and obviously threw in a massive braincramp service game towards the end of the set
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
man berankis with that backhand DTL twice in 3 high-leverage service points, good stuff
― wisdom be leakin out my louche douche truths (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
(in 3rd set TB)
Baghdatis is like the proto-Monfils, still trolling everyone by going two sets and a break down just for fun before the NID comeback
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Oh Verdasco. Down BP in the 5th, idiot FH out then idiot challenge wasted despite the umpire TRYING to tell him not to bother
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Thiem didn't press the advantage home...
Probably the best match yet, that was
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
Vika looking pretty good so far, got Mladenovic next
― cerealbar, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Amazing set from Krunic - was a double break down vs Errani but won 6 games in a row with some brilliant shotmaking
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
i like Krunic
― cerealbar, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
is that Martic in the crowd supporting her?
― cerealbar, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Lisicki losing to McHale on Centre Court would be quite funny
― cerealbar, Thursday, 2 July 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
~dustin~
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
It's been a good match
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 July 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
he has an insane touch
― rahrah avis (imago), Thursday, 2 July 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
...I say as he bunts that half-volley wide
2DFs in a row from Rafa
― rahrah avis (imago), Thursday, 2 July 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
To even entertain losing to this..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 July 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
this is extraordinary tbf
― rahrah avis (imago), Thursday, 2 July 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
Sadly post-Rosol and Kyrgios it isn't.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 July 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
hark at scrooge!
― rahrah avis (imago), Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
awful unforced error for BP
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
Nadal's FH were made of iron now its just wait and its over. Broken.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
awful unforced error for break!
― rahrah avis (imago), Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is rubbish Nadal but Brown is still playing great
― rahrah avis (imago), Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
lol
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
standards people.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Nadal shakes his head after dicking around with this nobody at the net.
Can tell how you're feeling Rafa. I can.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
Dustin is awesome fuiud
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
but I guess he's a nobody if you only bother to watch tennis 4x a year
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link