WIMBLEDON 2014

Smitkova is GREAT. Saw her in qualies, she absolutely smacks the ball. Should be ranked a lot higher than she is.

She took the first set against Coco, thank god

I pretty much blame Muguruza entirely for making Coco happen. Two losses within one week smh

Meanwhile, Ana Konjuh has taken the second set off Wickmayer 6-2 :D And she's dominating it tbh. Wickmayer can't touch her serve.

stepanek giving djokovic a scare here. novak looking like he's getting he yips almost

haha stepanek with the demonstrative challenge

whoa did djokovic concede the point to stepanek after the challenge??

classy move. takes the game anyway

Christ. Ten deuces, seven break points, Konjuh finally breaks back. Wickmayer looks livid

haha hawkeye shows stepanek's serve to be out after chalk clearly flew up

wow there have been some real sitters missed by both players

Konjuh never looked back after that epic game. Banging down aces and return winners like it was nothing, especially if it was a big point.

Vandeweghe lost to Smitkova, thank god. Yet again, she refused to shake the umpire's hand - how many times in her career is this now? I feel like I hear about this at least three times per month. God, her rise is so regrettable *stares at Garbiñe*

today was amazing. felt about 10 years old again.
someone lent us centre court tickets for Djokovic match (right at the back in almost complete darkness) and that was great but also kind of the worst bit of the day cos it felt so claustrophobic and detached from the rest of Wimbledon. I'm just gonna come down to London and queue next year if I don't tickets, not sure why I haven't done that before

:)

slightly surprised that between the ATP Young Prospect vs French Headcase match-ups, Vesely's repping youth better. Great TB from him whereas Kyrgios/Gasquet is a damp squib

(I am all prepared for today's big REMATCHES of past glorious Wim upsets, Rosol/Nadal and Zheng/Ivanovic, to also fall flat)

OK, Monfils tanking now, lol

Rosol can't possibly beat Rafa again.

I don't think so either but we can hope, for the next 10 mins or so

An "explanation" of sorts from Monfils: http://sport360.com/article/international/22701/nadal-banishes-wimbledon-ghosts-en-route-700th-tour-win

French No24 seed Gael Monfils won a bizarre match against Arab No1 Malek Jaziri where the Frenchman continuously made conversation with his box, moaning about his shots, joking with them as well as with umpire Mohamed Lahyani, before advancing 7-6 (5), 7-5, 6-4.

The former world No7 gave an inconsistent performance where he would tank several points before hitting four aces in a row. Jaziri was up 3-1 in the first set and 4-1 in the second but was unable to bring his best serving when it mattered.

“I was just talking about some stuff, like funny stuff,” said Monfils of the conversations he was having during the match. “On grass it is never easy for me. I'm very relaxed. I'm just the coolest than ever on grass.

“Then it’s hard for me to play like solid tennis because I can't move. I don't feel comfortable. So I try to play just some part of the match. It was fun, so it's good for me.”

Rosol started ok, couple of dumb approach shots allowing Rafa to make an easy pass.

lmao, Vesely choked and let Monfils back into the match anyway

0-30 with a thundering FH on Nadal's serve.

what a challenge..

DF, two BPs

Breaks in the end!!

!!!!!!

a long way to go but !!!!!!!

this rematch is not falling flat..

Rosol should play Nadal in all the slams ever.

Peak rosoling to serve it out :DDDD

Dismissive of Nadal's serve straight away in the 2nd.

lol at that netcord past the baseline.

This is monstrous so far - can he keep this up?

He can - 3BPs

Broken to love.

C'MONNNN

I mean, only the sliced serve to Rosol's BH gives nadal a chance - nowhere near enough right now.

Reasonable chance for Rafa to make Rosol hit a volley - in the net

Rosol not finding 1st serves so interesting.

I'm guessing this is what 2012 was like? I missed that - v appreciative of this little reprise so far

Rafa doing everything..

Breaks back with some really good play.

It was nice while it lasted :(

Rosol can still string 'em so if he can get that serve working again and in a tie break..

Tie break.

Nadal favourite no doubt. He is now more into the Rosol serve.

COME ON!

Winner on the run

6-6. Can't believe Rafa can't lose this..

can lose I mean..

DF man

welp

why couldn't he play like thrash from the start instead of raising our hopes like this!