WIMBLEDON 2012

Last couple of games and TB were great but ugh can't get over how slow the pace of play is - Paszek, in particular, takes forever to set up before serving. and it's made worse by so many of her service games going to multiple deuces.

Great return game Tamira

FUUUUCK I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS

7-6 TO PASZEK SAVING MATCH POINTS? WHY DO I MISS EVERYTHIIIIIING

AMAZING FH DTL to break!

get it girl

Aaaahaha and an amazing lob there

Fucking hell

This match is bonkers

Woz's desperation aggressive mode out in full force, sigh.

Whoever is behind goes into beast mode

goddamnit

Break for the match plz :D

It's like watching alternating tennis she-hulks

Paszek basically is destined to be a top 10 player after this, win or lose IMO

At least top 10 grass

Grasszek

Ooh bad challenge Woz

YEEEEEEEEEEEEES

KAMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

excellent way to take match point

Amazing way to finish the match. What a way to turn around her year too, before Eastbourne Tamira had won TWO matches all year.

I loved the bits of Eastbourne I saw and now it's confirmed; I love Tamira Paszek

Oh look, as predicted, Gulbis has just lost the second set to Janowicz RMDE

I feel like Paszek could have taken that in straight sets had they closed the roof last night

She nearly did today.

Right, off to see Erykah Badu, no one do anything interesting at Wimbledon apart from Pironkova if she gets on tonight

Pironkova is the Wimbledon-GOAT and Maria plays pretty similarly to Venus. Never in doubt that she would win this. 3-0 easily lol. I am terrified of a Clijsters cakewalk :'(

Pironkova's ability to dismantle ppl at Wimbledon is endlessly entertaining

A sadistic part of me rooting for a 6-2 6-3 scoreline

Saw Pironkova practicing w/ Niculescu on Monday. Painfully gorgeous in person. She was hitting next to nadal though so I was like the only one concentrating on her.

Her BH is orgasmic and her confidence is hilarious and awesome

oh well

terrible day actually, apart from paszek obv

li and gulbis lost as well, li to cirstea o_O

I fell asleep watching Paszek in bed (hmm, that large TV in my bedroom was a good investment after all) and was very satisfied.

Waking up to find Li has lost is making me want to cry though. SMH at Gulbis. Gross results after I went to bed.

Lol Gulbis. Not even surprised really - even he didn't think he could do it. After the Berdych match:

"Told that he should be happy that he’s going to play the winner of two qualifiers next, Gulbis said, “That’s OK, I’ve already lost to both of them.”"

Fell asleep halfway through first set of Masha-Pironkova and am very annoyed with how the scoreline turned out. Hopefully the break will make Pironkova remember her grassGOAT status.

Oh FFS Na. Cirstea is one of those players she's beaten even in poor form before. That section was so wide open too.

Ugh @ Ma$ha's Fighting Spirit. Hopefully Tsveti can make a comeback today but I don't have faith.

Aga cakewalk to the SF then. She must be a rare case of a player I love reaching a level I never dreamed she could...and the result is that I like her a lot less.

Gulbis, yes, not even a surprise there.

Troicki's last seven Slam matches, dating back to last year's USO, have been five-setters. That's insane.

Care Bear, right. Her transformation into a top player over the past 12 months is just remarkable. She's so damn resilient - today's win over Makarova was another example after being blown away at first. And it's not just about being consistent, she's got the shots too. She's literally unrecognisable from the woman who lost 1R to Robson here last year.

Hurrah Ma$ha starts the day by DFing to give Tsveti the break back. C'mon Pironkova!

AMAZING point by Tsveti!! GRASS GOAT

One DF each to open the TB, lulz.

Wow another DF from Ma$ha.

And another!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Shit I come home and the wheels fall off :(

Oh well, that was nice while it lasted :(

Tsveti failed to squeak out the tight first game when Sharapova was still nervy, and since then Maria has rolled.

Hey, kudos to Ale-Alejandro Falla for taking out both Isner AND Mahut in five-set epics :D

aarghshdkdkjdufgfkjdfkd it's the Mardy Fish Used To Be Fat story for the millionth time

please be quiet commentators

At this point I'd be much more impressed if Fish put on 60 lbs but kept up his level of play

Sucks that TV here is only showing Karlovic-Murray right now but all these lobs (one of Murray's more underrated shots) over big Ivo are pretty amusing. You'd think at 6"10 he'd have learnt how to deal with them by now.

I've been wanting to see a Pair vs Dolgopolov match-up for ages and now that one's finally here...it's only on a shitty stream where I can't see the ball AARGH.

And yet I have James fucking Ward on my TV just because he's fucking British. Fuck jingoistic sports coverage.

*Paire

exactly! the one I'm watching keeps skipping too, which is doubly annoying.

even the bbc streams are being terrible for me, so blocky i can hardly even read the scoreline.

(btw, super username lex, i'll be using it as often as possible.)