WIMBLEDON 2016

lol remember when cilic blew three break points in the middle of the third set

Desperation.

Didn't think Old Rog would pull that out. Slam #18 on Sunday or it'll never happen.

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.

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)

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.

Goddam Andy you were doing so well..

Some real zip to Tsonga rn.

AM really hanging on atm..

come on 0-30, this is the moment.

jesus..breaks

come on, tim!

fuck, Tsonga responding with everything, now 0-30

brill challenge tsonga 0-40

I mean it was an awful decision

saves 3 BPs, great 2nd serve there

astonishing depth T, one mroe bp

awesome - breaks back

epic fkn game, T just about hangs on - can't even begin with this one: 4-4

rifling them thru now..0-15

If Tsonga keeps going, Fed wins his 8th Wim - one of these days

This is getting crazier as it goes.

fk a dropshot oh my life

Incredible winner - bp

and breaks..

peak tsonga is such an amazing sight

yeah, just all lines all the time

TSONGA GOING FOR HIS!

BAM!

hate this - he is so going to fail in the SF

Major murray fail here.

fkn running fh from Tsonga

WHAT THE

god. Murray has been trying to contain tsonga in what seems like forever

DAMN...

that last shot...

HA!

this keeps getting better...

Murray indominable

and then all of a sudden. idk how Murray has raced to 3-0, feels like a blur already xp

Level has def droped now and mistakes are coming.

dbl break

Just outlasted Tsonga - basically the level dropped a touch and then there is no plan B. Blowing cold..

never underestimate the importance of following the winning patterns. is what i have learned from Wimbledon.

VAMOS MURRAY!

And I am away for the final so I won't be having a nervous breakdown in here

murray -vs- federer will be fun.

lmao I had a tennis court booked at 7 and left after the second set thinking surely I'd seen the best bits.

deeply unthrilled by Raonic and Berdych in the SF, deeply unthrilled at the very real possibility of Raonic in the final, if it's a Federer/Murray final though I'll be perched (also pissed off) to see how heavily the crowd will favour Federer.

Serena/Kerber or Serena/Venus should be pretty fascinating finals either way - the latter might actually be the psychologically toughest match the sisters have ever had! (well no, the competing narratives make it seem so, but ultimately I think Serena is hungrier for her history.)

Fed record in Wimb semis is ridiculous: 10-0 and 30-1 in sets. Only Novak stretched him to four in 2012. First time he's faced a repeat opponent* though, and if he's as flat as he was for the first 90min vs Cilic, Raonic could upset him. Murray-Berdych could be a decent contest.

(*: Roddick, Grosjean, Hewitt, Bjorkman, Gasquet, Safin, Haas, Djokovic, Raonic, Murray; I think only Hewitt, Djokovic and Murray were his expected SF opponents by seeding, so he's had it a little easy).

Fed actually a month older than Connors was at the time of *that* Pernfors match and Jimbo's last run to the semis (the USO run was a further four years on, mind).

And Venus a little younger than BJK when she had her autumnal fighting years in SW19, 1980-83. I can remember getting updates on the QF vs Navratilova in '80 from my English teacher who kept disappearing into the staff room for "supplies".

13th Slam in a row on the women's side with a first-time SFist, remarkably. In the previous 70 Slams going back to 1995 the longest streak of SF debutantes was six (2004-05 and 2007-08).

That is an extraordinary stat! I wonder what the recent record is for the men? Two?