WIMBLEDON 2014

I wonder if this will have a knock-on effect on their singles careers, Pospisil has been terrible since the injury in Australia and Sock hasn't done much notable this year. Then again I'm always surprised at how doubles success and singles slumps can happen at the same time, I know it's a different game blah blah blah but you'd think the confidence of winning would carry over at least? Hsieh ascended to doubles No 1 this year but fell out of the singles top 100...

Watched the highlights again - v sweet and moving how K wished hbday to her dad.

Great watching some of the faces: Martina (you think she must've found it moving), Bartoli (maybe glad she wasn't on the other end of it), the bloke from the big bang theory (er lol)

First para of the paper: she won 32 K per minute! Well, maybe she was worth every minute?! Pigs should be tied to a chair and made to watch re-runs of this again!

As for Bouchard she was made to look like champion. A girls singles champion, that is. She actually played as well as she could, which is frightening.

Given all that the it was an amazing speech, the blandness and flat-ness was good in its own way. Incredibly mature and aware that she is unlikely to meet someone on the other side of the net who is that good and all time, on the day.

shocked that Djokovic is the bookies' favourite...

Not really - bookies are going on facts, not the tennis.

He is no 1 seed.

The reality is Djoko-loco: game is a disorganised affair, and so yes its a great chance for Fed.

Hadn't really noticed the Edberg-Becker sideline at all until it was mentioned in the highlights yesterday.

Even aside from form so far, Federer leads their h2h this year (and on grass).

Well Djoko beat Nadal in their one clay final before the French Open so I don't know whether that matters so much.

Pretty good start!

So bizarre when a crowd goes "ooooh" at rallies like that as if they've never seen a sliced shot before

Djokovic was totally in control of that rally aargh!

Really well-played set in an efficient kind of way, only a couple of minor incursions into each other's serves. Thus, TB

TB is a bit more nervy from both of them

Fed FHs to save SP on Nole's serve

fed can dial the serve when he needs to

Peak Bullshiterer! But dat serve.

Another BH DTL error to hand the set to Fed :(

And yeah Novak looks really really nervous

both of them seem really tense actually, but Nole more so.

anyway GO FED. need to take away one last Sampras record.

Felt like Fed really needed to win that set to stay in it. Djoko just a tad sharper through most of the 1st.

Break point D now.

V poor on the next BP.

Aaaand the footing's gone

Finally a BH DTL!

Fed wins it tho'.

Another opportunity gone for Nole, then. He's not even playing badly...so much better than in the QF and SF, anyway

Massive game.

After all the SPs and BPs...pulls that long.

Djokovic calls trainer. So let's dwell on James Keothavong's immaculate hair for a minute.

(it would be v women's tennis for him to break right here)

So he holds by serving...now 0-30

df...another BP Djoko

Fed DF to bring up another BP...

Finally breaks!

FINALLY!

Lol

I feel like Djokovic has been hitting out more in the past few mins, which is a good sign for him

V poor set of UEs

Big, big rally..

Fed FH resurfaces: deuce

another massive game

That was a v poor volley from Fed

Interesting that this set already feels attritional where the first felt efficient

Holds in the end...Djoko did as much as he could to help Fed break back

Ouch!

hes ok.

Djoko having the best of the rallies now.

For the set.

30-30. Careless UE