WIMBLEDON 2012

the betfair figures for this are something to see

2001: the day after a teenage Federer put out Sampras the headlines were effectively "if you don't win this now, Tim, you are worse than Hitler". The headlines tomorrow will be fun.

Don't think anyone would fancy Murray to beat Djoko or Fed in the final, but certainly huge pressure to reach it now :-D

Is Tsonga in that half?

yes

WHAT

HAPPENED

WHILE I WAS OUT

NO REALLY WHAT

I actually looked at the remaining schedule before I left and unlike y'day actually thought, cool! won't miss anything interesting!

WHATTTTTTTTT

OMG pressure on Murray is right. This is his window right here. I doubt he'll take it.

BTW am probz not going tomorrow due to accidental drunkenness now/work undone/flaky partner/lack of must-see outside court matches &c

Moral of the story, never have plans for the evening during the Wimbledon fortnight. I once had to drag myself away from the TV during that Isner/Mahut marathon, at least they dragged that one on for one more day.

It always happens when you least expect it too. Like...in the matches you don't even half-suspect there could be an upset.

Lex I'm comforted to know I wasn't the only one who misses this.

Missed, rather.

I haven't even been able to look at any news stories because MY JAW IS STILL ON THE GROUND

Also drunk

(Ned will understand if I just say "the Heawood bday")

Hahahah I understand perfectly!

Finally watching the clip of match point. Damn, if only I wasn't busy there for that stretch!

Right, just watched the last game. PEAK KVITOVA. Inspired by his countrywoman? Just...wow.

Gonna document my day here as I go along probz. Just saw nadal practicing. He sucks obvs. Thought he'd be hitting the ball harder. I guess the spin was pretty cool but I'd def beat him

PRESCIENT.

bbc iplayer the entire match. Rosol was just SO UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. PEAK BALLBASHING. Gorgeous to watch.

PRESCIENT.

:D

WHAT THE FUCK. Man why do amazing things always happen while I'm asleep????!

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Ivo Karlovic accused the line judges at Wimbledon of favoring Andy Murray after they called a number of foot-faults against the hard-serving Croat on Centre Court.

Karlovic, who lost, said some of the calls were "outrageous" and that "after this match, the whole credibility of this tournament went down for me."

Murray edged Karlovic 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (4) Thursday to reach the third round.

Karlovic said "it was always when it was 30-all or in a tiebreak. I mean, what is this? Is it Davis Cup or is it Wimbledon?"

Murray said he wasn't sure whether the calls were correct but that "if he wasn't foot-faulting then he has a right to be upset, because there was a lot of them."

was def something fishy bout those foot faults

was shino in the house?

I think I just realised I've been conflating Lukas Rosol and Lukas Lacko for some time now, and only recently managed to separate Lukasz Kubot from them as a big-bashing serve-and-volleyer who would be a threat on grass, lol.

Stephens to beat Lisucki today, yes? And probz Giorgi over Nadezhda as well. I have loved Su-Wei Hsieh and her eccentric shots fruitlessly for over a decade so I'm just hyped she's gonna be on a show court, hope she can do something surprising against Ma$ha.

Remember the '90s days when there'd always be a wacky men's QFist or several after a clay seed lost early? Opportunity for that again - it'll be Baker, Paire, Kohlschreiber or Rosol. Actually that's a GREAT selection there - Kohli has the best record but the other three are flashy winner machines who are fantastic to watch. Would probably watch each of those matches.

Meanwhile one of Cirstea, Kirilenko, Peng and Rus will be a QFist, lol. PLEASE NOT EITHER OF THE FIRST TWO.

Lex: he was hitting 99mph backhand winners down the line. Seriously astonishing stuff. Nadal did seem to have finally got the measure of him before the enforced 35min break for the closing of the roof though.

lol tbf Lukas Lacko is a lot like Lukas Rosol - flat-hitting big server who will probably never hit top 50 lifetime (though that might change for Rosol this year). Lacko took a 6-0 set off Nadal too last year iirc?

Stephens, yes. And Rus, hopefully. Also rooting for Goffin!

Wait, Clijsters is playing Bepa? Missed that. This could've been a big, messy epic back in the day. Probably just messy and one-sided today.

Lacko took a 6-0 set off Nadal too last year iirc?

Yes! 7-6 0-6 6-3, Doha 2011. I remembered this because, ironically enough, I was checking to see whether Rosol could be a threat to Nadal, and I had a dim recollection of this. So I looked it up and thought, oh, it wasn't Rosol it was LACKO, Rosol won't be a threat. I am an idiot.

Fairly sure Goffin will beat Mardy Fish Has A Heart Problem. Ward should've done it yesterday, Fish was so bad at times (understandable I guess).

Ivanovic vs Goerges is easily the least attractive 3R match for me. I wonder if either of them will achieve a single tactical thought during it.

Poor Bepa. I find it best to pretend she doesn't exist these days. She makes this quite easy for me by always losing early ;_;

Before this years Wimbledon Lukas Rosol had only hit 13 aces (in 11 matches) in his entire grass court career. He hit 22 last night against Nadal.

Blimey, is this right (was just from some random dude on Twitter)? Maybe having the roof on helped his serve in the final set?

That's insane

yessss they're replaying Nadal/Rosol, first time I've been grateful for the rain

Must say it's rather satisfying seeing Rafa have to hurry himself to play at Rosol's pace.

That 99mph BH winner was quite something btw.

Was crosscourt, not DTL, wasn't it? Oh well, memory jumbled.

Read somewhere that Rosol was taking just 10 seconds btw serves towards the end - god that must have driven Rafa nuts. Always wondered why Fed never did that, like just take time away from him.

Djokovic should have broken in like every Sexxxpanek service game so far.

Stephens led 5-3 in the TB than just ballooned balls over the baseline on four straight points.

Wow, Stepanek had won 20% of return points in the first four Nole service games. Now... 00-40?

Tennis, eh? Still, Djokovic can't lose this, but I bet Fed's glad his next opponent's a Frenchie.

wow what is up with Centre Court this week? Upset central.

Djokovic should have broken in like every Sexxxpanek service game so far.

And then drops his own serve to love to give the set away. WTF.

Ok so I don't think Steps will actually pull off an upset but you know... (but you never know... O_o)

And Wownic lost to Queer Eye o_0

SU-WEI ON MY TV <3 <3 <3

The other one can fuck off.

:(

Not that I expected this match to go any different.

Su-Wei breaks. No bagels :)