WIMBLEDON 2012

Does Radwanska seriously have set points lololololololol

WOW! go radwanska!

well okay. can't say i saw that coming.

Hmm...

My housemate and his girlfriend and I are watching this and our neighbours have just banged on our adjoining wall, most probably because the laughing is keeping them awake. Sorry, Joe and Brittney (sic), you might have another hour of this.

I can't believe Radwanska WON A SET. I can't believe it'll last but I'm just going to revel in it right now. LOL @ Serena choking!

Last set will be 6-1 but I have no idea who will win

ugh

i really want radwanska to win this now but i wish williams had already won it

unexpected comeback followed by capitulation is the worst sport narrative

Just got home and wow Aga! Well done!

*shocked*

*and awe*

Ruh-roh, Aga's first serve has disappeared

Can't really believe Aga somehow got out of that game given the UEs, DFs and lack of 1st serves.

HOLDS. The last time I checked the scores on my phone, Serena was a break up in the second... This is awesome.

She's hitting some accurate ground strokes under pressure.

at the second break point she barely even /hit/ the net

but she played the next point perfectly....

haaaa

Haha. Peak Serverena. 4 aces

Could this calm her down?

a-rad has hit 14 aces ALL TOURNAMENT

That is about 14 more than I'd have guessed

wow, what an angle serena

That was awesome from Serena

There we go. Those 10 minutes where it was close were fun.

Serena kind of hulked out, huh

doesn't look any bigger to me?

this thing a-rad does where she holds still for a couple seconds after she's aced is so annoying

why? she's taking stock in about the least dramatic fashion possible. compare to the hammed-up C'MAWWWWWWNs that everyone else does off their opponents' errors, their hysterical fighting modes etc

it's just very lame. everything about her seems similarly meek

undemonstrative and introverted is not the same as meek

Ah well. Just glad I got home before it ended.

Aga's game obvs isn't built on power, but personality-wise she's the opposite of meek imo.

And done. But more of a match than we all guessed!

There we go! Well done Serena, glad we had a somewhat competitive & interesting final. Radwanska did so much better than everyone predicted including the haters who can't appreciate tactical/finesse tennis.

lex OTM, <3 A-Rad

You definitely saw A-Rad put into place a game-plan that could have beaten a sub-par Serena. There were enough vintage cat-and-mouse points that made it one of the better finals of recent times actually. But Serena was not sub-par. New world #2 acquits herself decently!

nearly died little over a year ago. didn't know if i'd see her play again. really happy right now

i love serena so much

A-Rad played some great points in the second set and really made Serena earn that, and Serena rose to the occasion superbly - that four-aces game was such a huge way to seize control of the match but it wasn't just Serverena winning it.

Awwwww Aga, she did that despite being ill, I almost forgot - had to suck on a lozenge just to get through the post-match interview.

Bet both men's finalists will cry more tmr.

no wonder serena lost the 2nd set if venus was giving advice during the rain delay

So Serena served more aces in this event than Sampras did in winning his first Slam at USO '90 (100 in 7 best-of-fives - there was a big fuss at the time about that).

Oh no, an awful person wins the mixed doubles either way. Who is a worse human being out of Paes and Huber?

I guess I'll support Paes/Vesnina since Vesnina is the only player on court I like.

I admit to liking this shot since it seems she's going 'eh, another championship, what are you going to do?'

http://i1.nyt.com/images/2012/07/08/sports/tennis/08set-1/08set-1-hpMedium-v2.jpg

Oh no, an awful person wins the mixed doubles either way. Who is a worse human being out of Paes and Huber?

lindstedt in the doubles final is a bigger cunt than both of them put together

Yay Vesnina won. Brad Gilbert says that last night she went into the ESPN studio to have him sign a Russian copy of his Winning Ugly book, and it was all highlighted and footnoted. You could make many sarky comments but bless her <3 <3 <3

It wasn't the final, that's against Lisa R and the other Bryan. Always a joy to see Huber lose though!

What did Lindstedt do?

my friend's a professional racket stringer and said he's horrible to everyone etc etc

and it shows in this match. grumpy demeanour and really rude to ballboys

marray admits he hit the net during a point even though neither the opponents nor the umpire saw it! nice to see sportsmanship like that. except now it's 4-0 in the TB to 4-3...

Pretty great sportsmanship from Marray there.

*looks meaningfully at Liezel*

xp

Yesss they get the set despite the sportsmanship!