WIMBLEDON 2012

omfggggggggg that backhand slice winner from mayer hit from behind the baseline. faking dropshot <3 so good

Ferrer playing the perfect match, all these changes of direction and wrong-footers exposing Pony's movement. Pony wasn't even playing that badly until he got broken at 2-2 in the second - since then it's been a bit of an implosion.

Mayer up a break in the 4th :D

Funky Flo into his second Wim QF, eight years after making his first as a qualifier, with a BH winner. Straightforward in the end, lovely to see.

thought this might happen after Ferrer took out Roddick but was hoping Pony would put up more of a fight. ;_; sort of glad i'm not watching this after all.

Some of Pony's misses are just OUCH and CLANK now.

Sam Smith one of the few commentators I don't have to facepalm at constantly - she's right that umpires should wear tennis shoes if they're going to check the dampness of the court.

She loses points for saying that Aga/Discount isn't going to have an excess of grunting, have you LISTENED to Kirilenko? To be fair, her puffballs are landing closer to the baseline than I'm accustomed to seeing, and Radwanska is being an idiot so far, so, she's not looking that bad. But soon!

Kirilenko's yelp is a wretched, wretched noise.

KVITTY-SILLIAMS TIME! This should be over in about an hour.

BTW Ferrer has a great shot at beating Murray for the second Slam running

my 3 favourite commentators for the serena/kvitova match yay

A-Rad's lobbing is terrible so far. First point she's won trying it, and it really shouldn't have worked.

kvitova is going to win :)

there is literally no way I can see HOW Kvitova would win

well she's lost 1 indoor match in the last 2 years

all it takes is one poor service game from serena. she had two of those against shvedova.

Kvitova is slightly more likely to throw in a poor service game or several, and her BP conversion rate in big matches this year is torture to me. Even against Fran it was like 1-9349348394 in the first two sets.

And Serena's serve is on siiiiiiiigh

ugh could be 0-30 right now :@

god help me if this goes to a tiebreak

a TB is about the best I'm hoping for but it'll be more like 3 and 4

OK downgrade that to 2 and 2 now

this is so fucking beautiful right now

serena i beg you, please keep this up

that dropshot!

OK, so, Petra is mostly trying to avoid her shit mode by hitting loopy, mid-paced balls to the centre, and whenever she tries to go for a winner she misses wildly. Bye then.

serena hitting groundstrokes in the court? wtf is this

No bagels in either set :)

Parallels to Sharapova actually. Wins Wimbledon as underdog playing a flawless final against a former champ. Flop in the USO series but get it together in the autumn, and back it up at the YEC. As the favourite going into the AO, play a three-setter against that same former champ in the SF that you really, really should have won but didn't. Spend the rest of the year having "respectable" showings in the Slams but losing to any real contenders.

speaking of schedule hosing, are they ever going to finish the Williams sisters' 2nd round doubles match against Kirilenko/Petrova

k kvitova some errors now please. i need a break right about now

30-30 cmon cmon cmon plz plz plz

ugh why hit a winner petraaaa :(

deuce cmon cmon cmon plz plz plzzzz

UGH WHY HIT A WINNER PETRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :(

deuce cmon cmon cmon plz plz plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

UGH WHY SUCH A GOOD SERVE

clearly i'm jinxing this :(

dunno how you can think that with this kind of serving Serena is anything but NID for the title, she's had like an ace in every game

Oh here we go. Break, hold, GSM. Seen this before.

Uberweiss, I know you love Serena but can you not be a wee bit more gracious about when her opponents play well?

what are you talking about

hahahhahaaaaa at serena of course having to hit it RIGHT AT kvitova

don't think I even got excited about that SP, so NID that Petra wouldn't take it

THANK YOU PETRA xoxo

LOL. NID that Petra would do that on BP compared to what Serena did.

i'm so happy

weird, I looked away from the scoreline for like 15 seconds and suddenly Serena had won? I'm guessing the Wimbledon site is just super slow at updating?

anyway WOOT

Well done Petra, one more game than I thought you'd win! Respectable performance! Now go away and work on yourself.

okay, now this is difficult

I really really REALLY want Paszek to beat Azarenka, which seems unlikely, but I don't want her to lose to Serena in the semis, but I also want Serena in the final

can we just shuffle the draw so Serena gets Kerber/Lisicki/Kirilenko instead, I'd love to see her beat any of them

Can we agree Kerber would do the best against Serena in the final?

Would Kirilenko get a game? Feel like Lisicki would be doing well to do any better than 6-2 6-2 and A-Rad would probably get one or two breaks and win about 10% of the points on her own serve.

Yes, Kerber scares me far more than anyone else left in the draw.

Really starting to enjoy watching Kerber. Still don't know how she transformed herself into this from the player who lost 1R to Robson last year.

LOL. Lisicki concludes the set with two consecutive DFs.