Wimbledon 2022

gmisk · 29-06-2022 09:23PM

Isner wins...he was really terrific.

Xander10 · 29-06-2022 09:27PM

Isner very gracious in victory

HeidiHeidi · 29-06-2022 09:28PM

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He really was.

He's so calm and understated, what a blessed relief from some of the histrionics.

Denny61 · 29-06-2022 09:38PM

Fantastic match ..puts murray back in his box ..and his arrogance too . Thinks he Can show up and alll fall in to place..BBC Were bigging up isner when they knew Murray was jst whistling in the wind...Isner is 37 ..cmon .and you rarely hear of him ..bbc telling us he's at the top .lol .ya at the top as regards..tallest player..lol.and same with Emma radancu today..another one trick pony .won the us open last year. Brits bigging her up as nxt best thing in tennis .the girl she beat hasn't been heard of either ..one pillock has suggested that even if she never wins again. She will be Regarded as one of the best lol lol .ah ya the British on their wacky backy again lol

Furze99 · 29-06-2022 09:56PM

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It's great to watch a player with a simple game plan but who executes it very well. Had more than Murray to beat tonight and played his service games with great consistency and ruthlessness. If he could only improve his own return of serve a bit!

Had to laugh when he observed that he hasn't got to play on centre court much because he's not very good - kinda showed up where his opponent is at!

30-06-2022 12:07AM

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Only turned pro at 22 having obtained a degree from the University of Georgia

fryup · 30-06-2022 11:10AM

Isner is currently @ 50/1 to win the tournament - worth a punt?😶

30-06-2022 11:24AM

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A small punt for interest only I would argue.

The man is a class act but a servebot hasn't won Wimbledon since 2001 and the grass blend of the courts changed after that very final to make the courts more durable over the 2 weeks which works against the Isner type player, especially over 5 sets.

He's also 37, even though his sort of game is less of a toll on the body and he turned pro late after college.

His own serve is never going to fire 100% all match every match and when he comes up against a guy who is on his return game and holding his own serve he'll be beaten, even if every set has to go to a tie-break.

That's the way that it has always gone so far anyways!

Furze99 · 30-06-2022 11:25AM

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If he can keep banging in serves like last night and follow up with deft volleys and half volleys, who knows?

You'd need to be looking at who are good at dealing with that serve, both Djok and Nadal are pretty good in that dept. But they have to progress as well.

Other parts of Isners game seem pretty suspect, needs a deal of luck to break serve.

Pussyhands · 30-06-2022 11:48AM

Can't believe the Isner - Mahut match was 12 years ago.

Wimbledon would always be on back then in my house but I wasn't working then so had much more free time.

30-06-2022 12:02PM

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That match was a servebot squidgame

Record length etc but it did go on too long...

Don't remember watching much of it tbh

The BBC did a short podcast piece recently on the "Sporting Witness" podcast with the match umpire

One interesting thing that he said was that the Wimbledon blazers wanted him to announce to the crowd when the previous match record length had been broken.

But the umpire wouldn't do it no matter how he was pushed as he felt that the announcement and the probable crowd reaction might well disturb the rhythm of one or both of the players (obviously locked in an over-an-back serve-game cadence at the time)

HeidiHeidi · 30-06-2022 12:05PM

Batista-Agut gone with covid now.

Girly Gal · 30-06-2022 01:19PM

Kvitova was lucky to hold on against Bogdan, only saw the last few games of the second set, Bogdan apparently came back from 5-1 down in the second set (she lost first set 6-1). Kvitova was really struggling, doesn't look fully fit to me, had it gone to a third, I think she'd have lost, Bogdan looked much fresher and was playing better. I had Kvitova as a decent chance of winning it out, but, don't think she'll last the full two weeks now, doesn't look like she'd be able to last a long 3 setter. I'd say Bogdan is kicking herself right now for letting her off the hook.

gmisk · 30-06-2022 01:56PM

Liam Broady has taken the first set 6-2 against Diego Schwartzman...

30-06-2022 02:13PM

Kyrgios absolutely batters Krajinovic.

As said, the actual test is when he comes up against some adversity as he loses the looseness of game style that he thrives on and may well lose the plot.

but even Kyrgios knows that he may never get a better chance to go deep

Furze99 · 30-06-2022 02:43PM

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Long 3 setter? Been said before but these grand slams should 5 setters for men & women. Equality and all that.

30-06-2022 03:04PM

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God no.

That would produce some absolutely horrific spectacles doing that for rounds 1 to the final.

Serena Williams could barely put one foot in front of the other after 3 sets the other night for example and Tan could barely tap her 2nd serve over the net and had to cancel her doubles the next day as she was not up to it.

That would have been a real Blxxk-and-Tan horror show

Also the scheduling of the slams would be thrown up in the air.

Keep it at 3.

"maybe" have the final best of 5 - to try to give the punters some value for their final ticket and throw the tv companies a bone for a return on their tv rights.

gmisk · 30-06-2022 03:05PM

Katie Boulter has taken pliskova to a third set.

Harriet Dart has taken first set against Jessica Pegula

Liam broady lost second set and down a double break in third....

Watson also through to third round...with winnable looking match

gmisk · 30-06-2022 03:10PM

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I don't think it is 100 percent their choice. They did have them in the past but they were got rid off due to poor ratings and scheduling issues they caused seemingly.

30-06-2022 03:28PM

All is well between Tan and her doubles partner

"Harmony" is restored

gmisk · 30-06-2022 03:35PM

Katie Boulter knocks out Pliskova! I know she beat her at Eastbourne but still a cracking result for her on centre court and with all the pressure that entails!

30-06-2022 03:40PM

Boulter takes out a Top 10 player (world number 7) and last year's finalist to boot- hope that she gets some proper recognition for that.

That's an excellent result even though she hadn't been getting much of a mention compared to some others even on the BBC (others who have never beaten anyone in the Top 10)

gmisk · 30-06-2022 03:50PM

Harmony Tan backs up her win over Williams beating Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-3, 6-4...maybe made the right choice giving the doubles a swerve!

30-06-2022 03:57PM

Completely the correct decision by Tan to dump the doubles, even if she had lost today.

All first-round likely losers (low-rankers) sign up to doubles as they know that the likelihood of going out is high.

Tan would have had to have made the doubles final (of which there was no chance having never made it past the first round in doubles in a slam) to approach the cash she now has guaranteed for the singles third round.

Pretty much a career-defining run with the exposure that she got getting past Williams and her furthest at any slam

gmisk · 30-06-2022 04:18PM

Liam Broady has some how managed to take Schwartzman to a 5th set...despite losing 11 games in a row at one stage...mad stuff

gmisk · 30-06-2022 04:49PM

Liam Broady now up a double break...5-1 and serving for the match...what an insane turnaround!...and he is through!

gmisk · 30-06-2022 05:10PM

Swiatek has lost the second set against Kerkhove (world number 138 and a lucky loser)....wow now that is a surprise! In truth her opponent has done very little.

I would expect she will kick things up a gear in the third, but she has been very flat.

yerwanthere123 · 30-06-2022 05:11PM

Jesus, Swiatek drops the second set to lucky loser Kerkhove. Hitting a lot of unforced errors.

gmisk · 30-06-2022 05:34PM

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She has been poor.

But clicked into gear a tad and has broke.

6-3 final set. Tougher than it should have been.

Shapovalov out.

The Golden Miller · 30-06-2022 05:51PM

Great to see Murray competitive again, always liked his personality and dry humour. Gets ridiculed as being dry but I think that's unfair, he's just genuinely modest and down to earth.

Looking at him play, it's hard not to feel sad for him, what could of been. Fanboys for the big 3 like to rewrite history for their main man, but the reality is Murray toppled them. And for a period, before injuries really plagued him, had a peak Djokovics' number. For about a year, he was the undisputed best player in the world.

Recalling off memory, beat Djokovic in several majors and won an Olympics, and straight setted him once or twice over this period if I'm not mistaken.

If we consider the big 3 were the best ever, where does that leave Murray? Seeing as he got the better of the lot of them only for injury to derail it? I'd argue when he put his game together, he may not have been the greatest in any one department, but had the most complete game of the lot.

At his peak, I think he surpassed the peak of any of the big 3. Only for injury, he was on the brink of being the dominant player! Shame to see how it turned out for him

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