WIMBLEDON 2012

Oh for god's sake. Obviously Serena and Maria will ~fight~ and win and Petra will lose.

Lol, since I mentioned Fed might lose, he dropped his serve meekly, broke easily and is now playing well in the TB. Hilarious.

Bine breaks to win the first set :D :D :D

Of course I expect Sharapova to now win 4-6 6-3 6-0.

i am gonna fucking scream

HITTING TO HER BACKHAND I MEAN JESUS

YESSSSSSS saving three BPs Yari!

Thank god she held before the rain

so many 0-30 or 30-30 or deuce games on yari's serve and serena just wanting shvedova to crumble WHICH HASN'T HAPPENED. then a fucking 0-40 and the same fucking thing UGH

UGH Yaroslava DFs, her first serve is gone...why can't this ever happen to Serena

Obviously she cracks at 5-5. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE FUCKING TIME AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

Peng :(

UGHHHHHHHHHHHH

OMFG THOSE LAST 3 POINTS! THE FOREHAND WINNER! THE BACKHAND LOB WINNER! THE BACKHAND DOWN THE LINE WINNER! FUCKING YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. COME THE FUCK ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate the world for Serena, Sharapova and Kvitova being on at the same fucking time. Maria doesn't need my help as the end result is NID, so come on Petra.

As I said post-Zheng, Silliams has this title wrapped up. Her serve is not.going.away. It's impeccable. And she's actually gone past the only players in her draw I could have seen beating her.

Petra wins the set just as play starts again while I'm in the kitchen... POJD.

Oh, BBC are already showing replays...but the scoreboard just flashed up with Petra taking the set?

Oh, Paszek won! That was surprisingly easy. Who would have thought, two weeks ago, that she'd defend her Wim QF points?

so I come home to another close Serena win, rain delays and Petra apparently being a moron again? -_-

Why on Earth was Peng breadsticked by frigging Kirilenko? How does that happen? Ugh.

Rain of errors from Peng, that's how.

Also, really ESPN asia? The middle set of Istomin-Youzhny instead of the Schiavone-Kvitova decider? TV broadcasters are morons.

oh wait, nvm, did they stop play again?

Some courts are going and some courts are not. Very localised showers obv. Petra and Fran seems to be...half-suspended? They were both sitting down mid-game but didn't go off court. Now Petra's back on court but Fran is refusing

ah okay. I can't seem to find a working stream for anything anyway. And is it true the roof still hasn't been closed yet?

Fran back out.

Roof still closed.

*still not closed

wtf. So they close it on a bright sunny day and leave it open on a day like today?

At least Petra seems to be doing well dealing with the conditions.

ugh I say that and she goes down 3 BPs. -_-

Saves all three though I had zero faith she would put away that last drive volley

Kvitova in control now. God. So lucky, though - only Fran's DFs kept in her that second set.

well then.

Petra :)

OK now to turn my attention to Maria... first point I see is a DF to go down 0-30. Lovely...

and another to go down 15-40. bloody hell. clijsters cakewalk to the final ughhhhhhh

holy SHIT at that lisicki forehand return to break

Kerber could beat St Kim!

FINALLY we get Petra vs Serena.

I feel like Serena will win so easily it will be painful. Except for uberweiss.

Wow is Lisicki actually going to win?

She was in SUCH bad form coming in...

xpost ya kinda terrified for Kvitova now that Serena's got her confidence-boosting, closely-fought wins.

Yeah I'm fairly sure Serena will win like 3 and 4.

wait why has lisicki still not choked? this is getting worrying

gonna lol pretty hard if Lisicki wins, not gonna lie

Can I just point out that coming into Wimbledon, Lisicki was on a five-match losing streak and hadn't won a match since Charleston? I was SURE she was gonna lose her opener to Martic.

It's only one break, guys.

i was at the lisicki/martic match and left when martic was up like *4-3. lisicki was playing very very average tennis. i'm highly surprised at this. then again maria - whilst the talk has been about how average serena is playing - has been quietly unimpressive all tournament.

all these DFs. so this is basically over now? very odd

of course this is maria and this is sabine so it's not basically over, but yeah... not looking good

Lisicki's groundstrokes are so unreliable

1-4 0-30 to 2-4. k NOW is surely when sabine chokes?

best challenge ever

Not if she just bangs down unreturnables like she's doing.