WIMBLEDON 2012

St Kim really would have been better off trying to win the French. It's not like she actually moves well on grass.

who the fuck actually cares about federer/malisse? YAWN. i want clijsters' last ever wimbledon match to be televised to the nation :(

I quite like it like this. No one cares and no one notices :D

Stuff this, I'm hoping for an Ivanovic win later. Only ever against Azarenka will I do this, but imagine if Radwanska makes the final and gets to #1. Meltdown.

Love how totally hopeless Care Bear is making St Kim look though.

Amazing point Angie :D

ho the fuck actually cares about federer/malisse?

Well, Fed's doing his best to turn this into another Tsonga... sloppily losing serve at the start of sets three and four and suddenly it's a match.

YES! 6-1 5-0 Care Bear. PLZ PLZ GET THE BAGEL omg I will be given so much life if St Kim's final Wimbledon match is a 1 and 0 thrashing.

clijsters getting just a single game, just like vs petrova 2010 :D a beautiful thing :D

0-30 COME ON ANGIE

God she is just PUMMELING Kim. Merciless.

2 MPs :D for a 6-1 6-0 drubbing :D by kerber :D on court 3 :D and not even televised :D poor clijsters surely expecting a wimbledon retirement ceremony with the belgian national anthem playing and her fellow players crying about all her stunning, memorable and epic matches at wimbledon over the years

:((((((((((

ewwwwwww 6-1 6-1 is just nowhere near as good

boo no bagel

GOODBYE FOREVER! :D

I'll take 6-1 6-1 :D

BYE KIM, WON'T MISS YOU

giving me so much life that this was on court 3

and YASSSSSSS Shuai got the second set :D :D :D

erm... WHAT?

i SWEAR i looked at the livescores and kirilenko was up 6-1. and now 6-8? surely i misread?

These results are giving me life now. Now all I need is for Tsonga to absolutely mutilate Fish and I can go to bed happy.

Federer won but looked annoyed and worried. His back problem is back apparently.

Why do all of these Istomin/Youzhny streams suck ass >:(

the official bbc streams are so lame as well

why is it so grainy and pixelated all the time?? ugh. then once in a while it suddenly turns all high quality!

I thought that was just me! The unofficial ones are actually better than the BBC ones.

Youzhny went down a break in the fifth, broke his racquet on his shoe (!), immediately broke back, and played some CLUTCH tennis to save 3 more BPs serving at 4-4...and eventually held.

This is a really good tussle, actually. It's on my actual TV, which is a surprise.

Wow...Youzhny serving at 5-5, deuce, Istomin hits two consecutive would-be-BH winners that are both juuuuuuust out.

And then breaks to love to win.

WHAT why is Fish beating Tsonga STOP THAT IMMEDIATELY

I predict a BAGel for BAG

vika really doesn't like media darlings does she? lol

Ew, Discount Ma¢ha actually won. Stupid Peng.

Hey, Florian Mayer a set up on Gagsquet. Eight years after his first Wim QF...a second?

Ivanovic literally just stamped her foot like a five-year-old after Azarenka returned a putative winner and she hit the next FH out.

This is hardly a newsflash but Ivanovic is soooooooo mentally weak it's not funny. That game from 40-15 up...

bless ana, she's still plugging away at that little career of hers

pam shriver is my favourite person

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q1NTtr5y4fU

lol @ that
lol also @ Ivanovic pissing her pants every time a game point hoves into view

breadstick and a bagel. mmmm

And with that massacre done and dusted, your women's QFs:

(15) Sabine Lisicki vs. (8) Angelique Kerber
(3) Agnieszka Radwanska vs. (17) Maria Kirilenko
(6) Serena Williams vs. (4) Petra Kvitova
Tamira Paszek vs. (2) Victoria Azarenka

- Kerber has never lost to Lisicki and unlike Maria will test her unreliable groundies with her impeccable defense: she moves on this surface so well. Needless to say Care Bear is also infinitely more mentally resilient and reliably clutch. KERBER.
- It's Discount Ma¢ha. RADWANSKA
- Only one aspect of Serena's game is reliable and impeccable right now, compared to zero aspects of Petra's game, who is still sloppy and lazy. And you know that coming through those tough matches has only done Serena good. WILLIAMS
- They played in this round last year and sadly I expect it to go much the same way; Paszek doesn't have the weight of shot to hit through a wall like Azarenka. AZARENKA

Then in the final Kerber/Williams. Then Serena wins. Duh.

have Paszek's groundstrokes not gotten bigger since last year?

Hmm...I don't think so. I've only seen her match vs Woz at length, and they seemed great there, but Woz does have a history of making players seem much better and more powerful than they are. Tamira doesn't have explosive first-strike power, she has to work the rally before she can hit the winner, which...Azza sadly does much better.

I remember last year's QF and Paszek seemed pretty helpless for most of it ;_;

In the Eastbourne final, it seemed like a combination of gutsy shot selection and well-timed vicious forehands allowed her to boss Kerber around for extended periods of time. I'm wondering if she would be able to disrupt Azarenka's rhythm in a similar manner.

I do take the point of her needing to get into a rally before she really unleashes, though.

That's the annoying thing with Azarenka, she's so metronomic and steady these days that you can't really disrupt her. It's why she owns Radwanska so heavily. She'll probably expose Paszek's two big weaknesses - her serve and her inability/refusal to volley - quite horribly.

I know Ivanovic is no real measuring stick but Azarenka could even expose the winner of Serena/Petra if she plays like today :/

I'm assuming Nole beating up on Trotsky yet again will be straightfoward. So the question is, given that the forecast says play on other courts is unlikely...do they try to cram as many matches on to Centre as they can before the curfew?

With the matches-must-be-finished-on-the-same-court-they-started thing, that could be Pony/Ferrer and/or Baker/Kohlschreiber...but NOT Murray, who weirdly may end up being the player most screwed by the schedule.

that's a rule? i recall sharapova/venus 07 starting on court 2 and being on centre the nex

...

next day that is

I think they've broken it in exceptional circs? But that was the reason Nadal/Soderling took like a week in 2009. Anyway, Ferrer/Pony cancelled, so I guess the only possibility they're keeping open is to move Gasquet and Mayer to CC after Djokovic, which would complete the top half of the draw. Or just go home afterwards because since when has sense had anything to do with the Wim schedule.

DavidLaw ‏@DavidLawTennis

Line of the day on @bbc5live 'So Goran, what do you want to say to Cilic to get him to play better?' Goran: 'Nothing. I want to smack him'.

bahahahah Goran otm. I watch the last bit of that set, and he should've won it about three games before Murray finally broke - Moron Cilic more like.

watched*

Hang on, what...NO more play on CC tonight?

???????

YOU HAVE THREE SPARE HOURS TO PLAY WITH AND MANY MATCHES UNFINISHED WTF WTF WTF