WIMBLEDON 2012

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.)

i thought that was just me and my shitty laptop re: the bbc streams! goddddd.

anyway, whoa @ Lucic - a game away from beating CAKE...

And that she did.

Amazing scream of delight from Lucic as she seals the win. So nice to see her with her game under control - when I saw her in qualies she definitely looked like she was on a mission, and she's blown this section wide open. A second SF run 13 years after her first is not out of the question...

Seriously, Petrova and Babos are at 7-7 in the third and it's not on a TV court? AND JAMES FUCKING WARD IS?

Lol, a Brit vs a top ten player or Petrova vs Babos! Must have been a tough dilemma for the organisers.

Mardy Fish Used To Be Fat fails to serve out the match which means it remains on my TV screen, ugh.

Babos was a top junior! Though Petrova won that.

RT @TennisReporters: Sharapova on Simon & equal prize $: "I think more people watch my matches than his."

Excellent sing, Maria. Even though I, personally, would rather watch a Simon match than a Sharapova one.

*zing

Wow, much as I'd rather another match was on my TV, that was a dramatic end to that set. Fish had a MP on Ward's serve at 5-3, didn't take it, failed to serve out, looked completely flat and fatigued in the TB and DFed on SP.

Yay for the possibility of Mardy losing. Ward is pretty cool.

Lollllllll @ Maria! Yesssssssss.

Ward seems pretty likeable. Whenever I've seen him he's looked pretty good too, though really that only just shows the kind of total package required to be a top tennis player, and he'll remain a mid-100s chump forever.

Dimitrov pulls up lame at a Slam again - ab muscle at AO, cramps at RG, now retires looking sickly. Boring. Get fit, kid.

RT @TennisReporters: Serena on Maria's comment that more fans watch her matches than Simon's: 'Obviously because she's way hotter than him.'

is...Serena shading BOTH of them there?

raising her game for the big occasion with the rarely seen doublezing.

hahahaha xp

Fish just hit one of the worst FH volleys I have EVER seen followed by a BH which was only just in...the doubles court.

is...Serena shading BOTH of them there?

Nah? Obviously just trying to keep the mood light.

I'd've thought she would've complimented Maria on her tennis rather than looks? Given that the whole "the girls are just decorative totty" attitude is kind of at the root of the whole anti-equal pay thing.

If she wasn't making a joke, yes.

i thought the anti-equal pay thing stemmed from men having to play best-of-five matches, while women played best-of-three.

pretty sure it was an unintentional double-zing, but it's still funny.

how can the official bbc live streams be so abhorrent

I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING. TRYING TO WATCH THE FIRST SERENA/VENUS DOUBLES MATCH SINCE I DON'T KNOW WHEN. WIMBLEDON 2010?

cmon rosol at least get 1 set!!!! plzzz

wtf

fucking idiot

nadal so lucky always ugh

double bagels for serena/venus and kvitova please <3 baltacha is such a pointless irritance

anyone see what baltacha got a hinderance for? i missed it :(

where did you all go??? this is pretty excited

1 set all and rosol up a break in the 3rd! time for me to get irrationally overexcited followed by massive disappointment!

*pretty exciting

FUCKING YES! TWO SETS TO ONE :D

yowee, good going, guy i've never heard of.

UGH @ this fourth set

i've decided to watch a TB between medina garrigues and cepelova instead lolz

nadal goes right down the middle on a short ball thinking he's clever, rosol was right there waiting, hits an awesome forehand CC pass. immediate 5th set break.

wait what, i was watching in silence and thought they had gone in for the night (and was wondering why they didn't use the roof lighting).

nopeee! :D

HOLY SHIT at these two forehands to start his 2-1 service game. ridiculous. rosol is my new fave player. unless he chokes and loses.

thank FUCK. 40-15 rosol hits an ace but nadal wasn't ready. UM PLAY TO THE PACE OF THE SERVER K THANKS?

thought rosol might unravel, but a huge smash to hold :D

c'mon some guy, you can do it!

rosol's playing like someone with a handful of grand slam titles behind him.

LUKAS BREAKS RAFA'S ROSOLVE

sports blogs, you can have that headline for free

i would give my mother's life to hit one backhand like that.

FUCK MY LIFE THAT FOREHAND RETURN NO FUCKING WAY HELP ME

ugh double break was too much to hope for i guess :(