2021 WIMBLEDON

commentators now second-guess saying the tournament should have been pushed back due to the french being pushed back a week and the "wet spring" in london ~

having kyrgios back playing is all i truly need tbh

yes, totally rooting for a good long entertaining run for him.

love alize cornet. her guile, her complaining, her upturned nose. didn't realise she has the 3rd longest consecutive majors streak going at 58 and counting.

Bianca unforced erroring her way to defeat against her at the moment.

hooray! we don't have to watch isner lumber around the baseline for the rest of the tournament! and nishioka gets his first trip to the 2nd round. win-win.

around the court, i should say. he gets to the net.

good fight put up by boulter, good grit by sabalenka to get thru

i thought tiafoe would get tested by pospisil but wow @ not facing a break pt and 41 winners / 13 unforced errors

kept trying to figure out who otte reminded me of, then it hit me...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/c9/e0/dac9e06a7723ec52a20c6fabb42cb120.jpg

--andrew m.

impressive you can play and post @ the same time!

lol that actually took me a second as i've never gone by andy

truly #onethread

first set of kerber vs tormo absolutely astonishing stuff. 70 mins 7-5 angie.

Italian bartender at the pub the other night (SUI 3-3 FRA, place to ourselves) had tickets for #2 Court today, glad he's getting to see a contest (though I'm guessing Svitolina's exit wasn't without its moments).

Sad to see Monfils go. Lockdown really snapped his late-career surge - he was in great form early 2020.

impressive by kenin

At the Slam, she defeated Wang Xinyu in the first round, before being defeated by Madison Brengle in the second round. In this match, Kenin set a new Wimbledon record, as she committed 41 unforced errors in just 45 minutes; this was equivalent to 0.91 unforced errors per minute.[67]

Kerber-Tormo now immense.

DF for three match points Kerber

Done at the first.

Federer looking better than Tuesday, but Gasquet is practically his ideal opponent. 10 years since he dropped a set to him.

khachanov/korda 5th set break fest

1 hold each / 5 breaks each lol

we're @ 6-6

make that 7-7 and 6 breaks each

Jabeur/Swiatek had some fantastic shotmaking. Happy for Ons - played smart, dialled down the errors after losing the first set, and ran away with it

Frustratingly easy ride for Djokovic. Wish Berrettini was in his quarter. Fucsovics has now taken out Rublev, so he's next.

fed has played himself into form & kept his time on court quite low..meds and then either felix or berrettini isnt exactly easy but i also am increasingly finding it hard to envision him losing on ctr court to someone other than novak

make that hubie hurkacz instead of medvedev wow

novak/shapo top half semis

Fed is not looking good here

Tie break at the 2nd

Fuck me that slip..

wow hubie!

little of everything in that tiebreak, tough now for rog to dig out

Hurkacsz is 2 sets up, he has an excellent serve and great temperament

fed was 2 pts away from being up 5-1 and serving to close out that set btw

it’s like watching Serena being deconstructed by one of those next-gen players who are not in awe of her

fed at least wont crumble emotionally like serena usu does

hurkacz has only hit 12 unforced errors

straight sets, bagel last set - my word~

could this finally be the young male player to break through the Big 3 ceiling straight away and just go for that slam title (and Djoko’s throat), the way it’s so common on the women’s side these days?
getting ahead of myself probably, but it would be exhilirating

*exhilarating

Would love Shapovalov to win this. Be pretty happy with Berrettini. FAA would be amazing (to lose eight ATP finals in straight sets and then... just win a Slam). Hurkacz too... I mean, you can see where I'm going with this.

Also... re: getting wiped out in a Slam qf like that and it possibly being the end of yr career. Why oh why couldn't Thiem 76 63 60 Djokovic at RG 2017 have been similarly career-ending?

At the end of the 2nd set, felt it was over so I switched off. I didn't want to see it.

I mean, you can see where I'm going with this.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Yeah lol. Frankly if Djoko loses a set I'll be surprised.

Prove me wrong kids!

standard in this berrettini/felix a-a match p dire tbh

can’t see Shapovalov or Berrettini (or FAA) beating Djoko, but Hurkacz has that meteoric quality. it’s got to happen one day, might as well be him, now. please, I need this dream!

Hurkacz quality of play against Fed was incredible. Great winners, low on UE, amazing sublte touch at times (that lob from just behind the net in the second set (iirc), wow). If he keeps this up he could win this

Barty Kerber looks excellent from what I've seen

I didn't see that coming half an hour go.

It’s best to get the pessimistic posts in early. ;)

Terrific how he put some embarrassing shots out of his mind

Earlier in the set

Djokovic earning that early break

Djoko has a double break. Just throttling Berrettini, like a switch has been turned

berrettini's dad ripping a huge box vape in the stands is the content I tune in for

Couple of UEs and an unexpected break back

Djoko straight into it, playing like a dream. 3 sps

Lol saved all three

Strong serving, and Djoko is made to serve for the set

Does it, 1-1

Brilliantly broken...

Berrettini fighting but 3-1 Djoko

If they mention Tom Cruise one more time..

Predictably awesome hold by Djoko

Nah not feeling it at all

i was so sad for pliskova yesterday.

also, watching the men's championship and hoping the underdog wins this

UE for the 3rd. Just plays with a little bit more composure in the tense points

On serve so far..

Novak is unbelievable

So good, makes it - BP..

DF, breaks, ofc

Reconciled to this. At least the first 30min of garbage has has no bearing on the result, Matteo has acquitted himself reasonably well and Novak has really had to play.

CP

wow, djokovic wants england to win tonight

okay, i misread that. he has said he supports italy

When did he say that?

No he said he loved football and wanted IT to win !

(It being football, no italy !)

https://football-italia.net/djokovic-i-hope-italy-win-but-only-in-the-evening/

he's a fan of ac milan, speaks italian, and spends a lot of time in italy, apparently

I knew he'd probably want Italy to win, stupid question to ask him after he'd just won Wimbledon though.