WIMBLEDON 2016

Watching Del Potro these days is so stressful. YESSS BIG FOREHAND, but jesus, don't hit it so hard, you're going to hurt yourself again.

yep, wincing every time he hits a flat backhand. he's winning though!

Delpo!

Dustin Brown!

Keep this up!!!

Delpo kept it up <33333

<3 chuffed for the guy

Kasatkina has hit some brilliant BH dropshots en route to leading 5-3 from 1-3 down here

Incredible Delpo win, messed up backhand and all. So happy for him. <3

Brown-Kyrgios is ridic. Nick did his usual tanking thing in set three and then woke up. They're into a 5th set in 1hr 35. Kyrgios' last service game took 39 seconds.

Brown hit a no-look tweener dropshot winner at one point

Four-and-a-half sets in under two hours!

Venus/Kasatkina is riveting, 6-6 in third...

aaahhhh it starts TORRENTING down with Venus at match point up over Kasatkina

And the rain forces NK-DB off at break point for Nick K. They were slow to leave - the court got a bit of a soaking. Isner and Fognini both two sets up in the only other outstanding men's r2 matches.

bizarre argument on twitter over whether you'd rather be in Venus or Kasatkina's shoes right now. like, clearly Venus's!

Very good timing for what is presumably the final rain of the day from Djokovic's PoV. Two sets down. Moore gave Kuznetsova a hell of a match.

yeah Moore played so well, loved how she kept on laughing throughout!

Stephens/Minella was one of the most dire matches I've ever watched by contrast.

Serena/McHale was like a reprise of Serena/Watson.

Can't believe Djokovic here. Even if you hate ND, which a lot of people (not here) do, why anyone would want him to lose to Querrey I don't know.

Enjoyed the Wawrinka/Del Potro match, some absolutely beautiful forehands and smart switching up, even the slice is developing into a weapon (hey, how many Wimbledons did Steffi win slicing nearly exclusively? A LOT), but it has to be said that Stan was super-sloppy in that second set and the start of the third. Could have been over in 3! Glad it wasn't!

I just watched the replay of the first two sets of Querry/Djokovic and I have no idea what was going on. Djokovic was making Querry look like a tennis god in that second set.

When my brother told me my first q "is he injured?"

Pretty sure ND would have been out in straight sets last night if they'd played on until 8:45 or so. Now I'd make him the favourite. I can't recall the last time he played badly two days in a row.

hope querrey wins because the tour could use some excitement

Querrey not known for providing it though. Up for Djokovic losing to Herbert in R4 though.

BBC2 literally cut away from Kerber/Witthoeft at 6-6 in the TB to show Djokovic walking on to court. Like seriously...you've got time to finish the TB at least, have some respect.

(Querrey so dull that even at this stage I'm not bothering to watch)

ND up 4-0 before the rain came again. Querrey's best hope is probably to serve himself into a 4th set t/b. Wasn't it middle Saturday last year when Djoko came from 0-2 vs Anderson? I seem to recall traipsing around West End shops looking for a laptop with two very bored children, catching the odd point on display TVs. I'll be out again this afternoon for the inevitable comeback win.

Weather confusing things again, but are some players going to have to double up today, in order to get the 3rd round done? Is Stephens-Kuznetsova & Bacsinsky-Pavlyuchenkova now pencilled in for the late afternoon? Kvitova-Makarova didn't even restart though, nor did the last of the men's r2 stragglers, Youzhny-Zverev.

BBC2 literally cut away from Kerber/Witthoeft at 6-6 in the TB to show Djokovic walking on to court. Like seriously...you've got time to finish the TB at least, have some respect.

It's pretty dreadful, this kind of programming. The day I decided I *had* to get a Freeview box was when BBC left the Agassi-Philippoussis fifth set at a crucial moment to show Tim Fucking Henman knocking up on Centre. This was 13 years ago, before the advent of multiple streaming options, when the Red Button on Freeview was the only way to see what the main channel wasn't covering.

I assume the players who still had to play their R2s today will have their R3s on the Middle Sunday schedule

the Henman years were so dreadful for BBC coverage, the wealth of courts at our fingertips is obviously luxurious in comparison but it's still frustrating that the BBC fucks up so egregiously when the technology means it doesn't even need to, even if it prioritises its own stupid "better to see a famous/British player not playing than anyone else actually playing" philosophy

So we are going to have Middle Sunday? There has been a decision?

yes we are - details to be given later I believe..

Tickets all to be sold online from Ticketmaster at 3pm, schedule I guess dependent on what isn't finished today? They're still aiming to get all the R4s done on Manic Monday so assuming Kvitova and Zverev get their R2s done today, it's all the leftover R3s. If Kvitova and Zverev don't finish today they're fucked

xps not wanting someone to dominate every slam ever =/= hating them

query 4 bps at 3-2 up on the 4th..D dug himself out, wonder if query's chance is gone

serving 'em up to keep a lead on serve

surely now novak

breaks and now to serve for the 4th. but really novak on the brink for a cpl of mins

fuck me

thrash volley - break back

querrey's incompetence is pretty amusing

and yet if he breaks novak..

I'd consider retiring now instead of losing to this thrash

omg rain

lol this match
this blessed rain
this engerland

oh my god.

rip novak

lmao this is amazing

querrey

http://blog.mytennislessons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-09-at-11-10-24-am.png

so who fucked Novak's mind? there has got to be another explanation for this

I mean sure the slam but you might think a loss in a 2nd week - and not to this?!

Finding Makarova's black socks weirdly jarring

Petra making error after error: not jarring in the least, obv

Shades of Curren vs Connors, '83.

the funny thing about the Querrey loss is that Querrey was choking for his LIFE. I really didn't see much of it before the closing stages but the last set was atrocious quality from both. Even the MP, Querrey tentative on every stroke before Djokovic hits an error for no reason.

After the immense pressure of finally winning RG/holding 4 in a row was lifted I don't think much further explanation is needed. We saw how hard 4 in a row was, 5 in a row is unfathomable. Just one of those situations where you couldn't imagine who exactly would do it, and tbh Djokovic wobbled against Ward and Mannarino so...

No such excuses for Kvitova who seems to have finally changed her career's frustration "85% flopping, 15% peaking" ratio to "100% flopping". Easy money, cheers Kate M.

Can't believe this is Mahut's first Slam second week! Thrilled with Doi's first week 2 too, exciting that she gets a chance to avenge her loss from MP up to Kerber at the AO. Halep/Keys and Radwanska/Cibulkova are popcorn R4s, Aga was incredible against Siniakova.

Why are there so many #hormones among the men this tournament? So many tantrums and fights. Kyrgios, Paire, Troicki, Delpo v Pouille (this was a great match otherwise), Fognini v Lopez...I don't want to hear any ATP player talk about WTA emotions again. Even Cornet has been an oasis of calm in comparison.

I scored No 1 Court tkts for tomorrow! I get to see the Kyrgios circus in person.

Maybe time to introduce best-of-5 women's tennis - dual purpose - shut up the bigots and make top matches possibly more classic

http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/the-last-stand-of-fed/?utm_network=twitter&utm_post=6008512&utm_source=TW%20%40NBCSportsWorld

posting this partly because seeing safin's name reminded me of how much i miss him

very special to see history made with such a great match yesterday! and bey in the crowd!

Excellent from Murray so far

Hewitt needs to pick a pronunciation of Raonic and stick with it, even if it's the wrong one.

(Quite a good match-up this, Milos displaying far more variety)

Far more variety than we usually see from him, I mean, not more than his opponent.

brilliant passes from murray all maych

raonic has no shot coming in against murray's backhand today

murray is serving good

murray gets back shots no_one short of novak gets back

raonic has done well to keep this respectable because murray has played one of the best matches i've seen him play

srsly he has been great

good one! unbelievable some of the serves that Murray returned today. like, how the hell do you even do it?

He did the business for sure.

this dude who always chats up the ball kids as he walks out to present the plaque always creeps me out

lol

not always an on-court interviewee throws a little simile out there

raonic seems like a nice kid tho

yeah, surprising

yeah i feel bad when people get slammed for not showing emotion or having fun or whatever when all they must be thinking inside their head is: AHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M IN THE FINALS AT WIMBLEDON HOLY SHIT! i mean you need to keep it together.

Raonic is such a clunky, one-dimensional player. Murray tight as a drum yet it was NID at every point. Raonic lumbering into net was so exactly what Murray needed today! Really glad he took the opportunity, he's put together a much better career than every other two-slam champion.

Watson's mixed doubles win was nice too :)