WIMBLEDON 2015

Browns just won a set. 2-1 against Troicki

Niculescu into week two of a Slam for the second time :))))))))

Muguruza easily the 92-95 (or whatever) generation player i've been most impressed by

She fell off just a bit in the second set. What a contrast.

In the 1992-95 generation I'd put Keys' potential above Muguruza's but those are definitely the two most impressive to me.

Meanwhile, Giorgi has hit her 300th DF of 2015

(Not an exaggeration, her actual 300th)

Maria just hit a dropshot ROS vs Keys

Kerber/Muguruza getting good again (and just in time for Kerber, who woke up at 1-3 15-40 down)

That game where she was down 00-40 and still won it was amazing.

Haha @ that match ending on a Hawkeye challenge so close

Brilliant performance by the White Mug over one of the most in-form opponents tbh. Really time for her to make a push for the top 10 rather than floating around #20 forever

isner has mishit like 8 shots already since the restart

& bails himself out w some bomb serves

Haaaaaaa @ that match's resumption lasting two games and finishing with an Isner DF. PERFECT

Potential tournament-ruining nightmare stopped in its tracks. BEGONE

the ball kid ran all the way back across ct and i think fucked up his tempo there

agree m/l xp

ugh there is nothing worse than Groth servebotting out a set when I want him OFF THE COURT immediately.

timea is exposing lisicki there

espn is asking fed to explain his emojis lol

Tsonga got robbed :(

Blatant double hit from Karlovic down SP.

Elsewhere, Govortsova makes it two Belarusians in a Slam second week ever (the last non-Azarenka BLR in a Slam second week was Olga Barabanschikova, Wimbledon 2000). Jankovic playing very well to take Petra to three, let's see how long it lasts. Pospisil seems to have got it together for now vs Ward.

ffs Petra, get it together.

If Jankovic had only had a serve like this in her prime...

Petra's first serve seems to have gone missing but aside from that I don't think she's playing that badly.

Oh my god. 4-4, 30-30, Petra stops the rally to challenge (AFTER she'd hit a really great cross-court FH that had Jankovic on the run). Obviously she was wrong. IDIOT

Oh my gawwwwwwd these errors suddenly. From 30-0 to 30-40, MP Jankovic

lol petra

Oh well, bye bye Petra

Bollocks

Well, probably Jelena's best ever win at Wimbledon. Petra...no comment for how the last two games unfolded.

Also what the fuck is going to happen in that bottom half now. Here's your women's last 16.

(1) Serena Williams (USA) vs. (16) Venus Williams (USA)
(23) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) vs. (30) Belinda Bencic (SUI)
(4) Maria Sharapova (RUS) vs. Zarina Diyas (KAZ)
Coco Vandeweghe (USA) vs. (6) Lucie Safarova (CZE)
(5) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) vs. (20) Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP)
(15) Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) vs. Monica Niculescu (ROU)
(Q) Olga Govortsova (BLR) vs. (21) Madison Keys (USA)
(13) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) vs. (28) Jelena Jankovic (SRB)

Going with Serena, Vika, Ma$ha, Lucie, Garbiñe, Timea, Madison, Aga.

Venus is obv in better form but form doesn't historically matter that much in all-Williams matches, I cannot see Venus ending her little sister's Serena Slam. Niculescu actually leads the h2h against Bacsinszky 4-1 but all those matches were in Bacsinszky's first career...I would be delighted with a Niculescu run obviously.

You probably know exactly what's happening in Monfils/Simon. Exhibition tennis. Exhibition attitudes. Monfils serving at SP in the third set TB, has fit of giggles. Loses ensuing point, is still giggling

Brilliant shotmaking all around too obv

simon/monfils are v even

yea simon has better head on his shoulders & focus obv

They really should move this to Centre, like, NOW, handy post-set break. I imagine they won't.

lol gael

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CJGGkIHWEAAUQMK.mp4

Monfils breaks by cracking three massive BHs and then a dropshot return winner

it continues!!

I like the way the rules on a gift shop headband were VERY CLEAR and NON-NEGOTIABLE but no one - not players, not crowd, not any of the tweeting journalists actually there - had any idea what the fuck was going on with the court change until it actually happened there

this is fun. like a classroom change at school

Of course he jumped

trust it's all been this great

aw, those two <3

Your men's last 16!

(1) Novak Djokovic (SRB) vs. (14) Kevin Anderson (RSA)
(9) Marin Cilic (CRO) vs. (WC) Denis Kudla (USA)
(4) Stan Wawrinka (SUI) vs. (16) David Goffin (BEL)
(21) Richard Gasquet (FRA) vs. (26) Nick Kyrgios (AUS)
Vasek Pospisil (CAN) vs. (22) Viktor Troicki (SRB)
(23) Ivo Karlovic (CRO) vs. (3) Andy Murray (GBR)
(6) Tomas Berdych (CZE) vs. (12) Gilles Simon (FRA)
(20) Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) vs. (2) Roger Federer (SUI)

predicting Djokovic, Cilic, Wawrinka, Kyrgios, Troicki, Murray, ...I have no idea, Simon?, Federer

Best matches of week one imo:

1. Verdasco/Thiem
2. Simon/Monfils
3. Maria/Duan
4. Brown/Nadal
5. Muguruza/Kerber
6. Serena/Watson
7. Coric/Stakhovsky

falling asleep in front of the TV with Petra up a set and then waking up to find Jankovic has won, oh god, why, why, why. I guess I should thank Groth for winning that set because if I'd had to watch it live I might have ODed on something

Only two games in and something tells me Kyrgios won't have to save nine MPs this year

LOL there's a crowd of pro-Gasquet chanters giving the Fanatics a taste of their own medicine. I don't even think they're French

Oh my god, Keys looks dire, dire, dire. Hitting everything long and cannot deal with Govortsova's fast, low responses to her every shot.