WIMBLEDON 2016

I don't know that much either but I know enough to know that, when I actually sit down to watch tennis, which isn't often, I don't want to be sitting down to watch someone like Raonic.

^ xxp

He's no Glenn Michibata. He's no Carling Bassett either.

xp

HOPE: maybe his career will follow the post-Wimbledon final trajectory of Bouchard's!

Comparing generational peers, I feel it is extremely necessary for my tennis fandom that Nishikori ends up with a better career than Raonic.

can't speak for anyone else but i don't HATE any players, just don't want the boring ones (e.g. Raonic) to succeed at the expense of less boring ones

Raonic = Portugal at Euro 2016

having said that i reaally didn't want to watch Murray lose another slam final to old man Fed so i'm glad that's no longer a possibility

let's be fair, he played some amazing shots

you don't have to be a big tennis head to watch raonic and federer play each other and decide which is more pleasing to watch

pandemic what do you have against murray? just some euro beef?

dour, habit of having bum-fluffy facial hair, a bottler

Yeah, that's him.

i don't mind AM but he's definitely got things that you could dislike about him

I like him, the fact that he's unlikeable makes him more likeable.

gripping match here

Berdych's FH needs its own laugh track

it always kind of amazes me that you could be a tennis player who could probably beat 99.99% of the world at a game of tennis and someone like Murray can make you look like an amateur.

and he's even beaten murray before.

they had never played each other on grass before today. fun fact.

not a lot of grass court tournaments

gonna be watching the finals in ~social situations so will unfortunately be absent but I'll take Serena in three and Murray in four

(Murray's first Slam final not against Djokovic or Federer, whoa. The "he's too miserable" complaint about him pales next to the fact that he's one of the few ATP players with progressive opinions tbh)

yeah i have encountered way too many IRL murray haters who think he's awfully sour and grumpy, tbh whenever he's interviewed i'm always impressed by how articulate and sensible he sounds

saw in passing the stat of murray making at least the qtrs in 21 of the last 22 majors i think? thats p killer

some outstanding rallies here

kerb looks good

@ work, missing this, bah!

That was a solid set, so many amazing rallies. Hoping Kerber keeps it up.

The highlight reel from this match will be unreal - it's just been winner after winner from both players.

so many points making me gasp

Jesus this match

Sad for Angie. Nice net hug! Serena was generally very very good. But Wimbledon's been won with worse play than Kerber showed.

This final was everything I wanted it to be. Stellar performance from two of my favorite player.

And Serena gets 22, tying Steffi Graf's record.

Shame that had to end so soon - there were more amazing points in those two sets than the entirety of yesterday's Raonic-Fed five-setter.

Meanwhile, drama and hilarity in the girls' final. So much foot-stamping and screaming in the last game - Potapova needing six championship points to close it out, thinking she won on at least two of them only for Yetremska to challenge, both times guessing right.

By the time Potapova actually won, she looked ready to jump over the net and throttle Yetremska.

FEELING EXTREMELY 22 RN

serena <3

so crazy that serena won her first grand slam in 1999. that is a long time ago. beat hingis. i remember that one. did not know that hingis won the doubles at the u.s. open last year. missed that one.

serena/venus in the doubles final now

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