Wimbledon 2022

Jabeur is extremely tricky to be fair, lots of slices, keeping ball low. This set looks to be more of a contest!

I'd love it if Rybakina could win this . The perfect way to round out the tournament after the all england club banned russian/belarussian players to have another former russian take it home

I got confused with a story and one post about who the Australian number one was in relation to a really fast moving COVID vaccine/tennis conversation....

No need to bring it up again and again...but you know what, I knew you would...it's a dick move but entirely predictable from you.

I didn't say I didn't know who she was absolute nonsense. I admitted I didn't follow woman's tennis closely I didn't know she was world number 1.

I am not going to derail this thread, but you could maybe try being less of a nasty presence on here. I don't enjoy engaging with you so we are done, to ignore you go.

Bit of a turnaround!

Kinda gutted for Jabeur she has come apart really :(...hopefully the crowd can lift her!

Both first time finalists in a grand slam. Its natural that things would be a bit scrappy at times

So Wimbledon ban Russian and Belarusian players from the tournament and a Russian born player wins the woman's title ? That’s funny stuff.

Coupled with Medvedev becoming #1 because of no ranking points being awarded.

Pretty much spot on for me too. Bit gutted for Jabeur but hey she will still have other chances I am sure.

And has Wimbledon banning Russian and Belarusian players made a blind bit of difference to the war in Ukraine ? What turned me off the whole punishing sports people for something outside their control was how the IOC handled the paralympians from Russia and Belarusia after they’d arrived there. It was **** rotten to do that to athletes who had prepared for those games.

"So Wimbledon ban Russian and Belarusian players from the tournament and a Russian born resident player wins the woman's title?"

That's what I've read anyway. Moscow born and resident. The Russian media will make great hay out of this.

Well, I've just finished watching back, and I'm very disappointed 😞

I really hoped and thought Jabeur would do it.

But while her tail was up in the first set, when she went the break down early in the second, her body language changed unbelievably. She just looked beaten, long before she ever was.

Rybakina was like a robot in comparison, it was hard to know what she was thinking or feeling at any stage - including when she'd just won, or doing her interview with the trophy! She's young, and I'd say moderately shocked to find herself holding the Wimbledon trophy, and English isn't her first language, but I'd say her reaction after the win won't have endeared her to many!

But hats off to her, she was beaten soundly in the first set, but adapted and held her nerve to get through the next two.

But my money is on Jabeur to get to a final again first of the two of them.

Most downbeat match/tournament/slam win I've ever seen!

Quite bizarre.