Damn, sounds like I’m missing a lot of damn fine tennis today!
Biggest single day of tennis in the year. Every top player played.
Fed wins relatively easily.
Nadal wins, but looks hurt.
Djoker wins and looks strong.
Tsonga still looks good.
I still give the edge to Roger.
With the men off tomorrow and resuming Wednesday, the draw looks like this:
Nadal (1) vs.
Fish (10)
Murray (4) vs.
Lopez
Tsonga (12) vs.
Federer (3)
Tomic vs.
Djokovic (2)
The Tennis Channel has an 8 hour recap beginning at 7pm if you happen to get that channel.
Sadly, I do not.
Rory McIlroy, the US Open (golf) winner a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to be in the Royal Box with Will and Kate. I only saw one shot of Will and Kate in the Royal Box, but the only other person I recognized was Billie Jean King. Did anyone see Rory?
Um… Kim didn’t make it.
& as a side note - Erakovic is through to the quarter finals of the ladies’ doubles. So nice to see her back in form & uninjured. Sorry - but other than the perpetually injured Sacha Jones & one promising young girl named Katherine Westbury, erakovic is pretty much all NZ tennis has got!
What?
Tis true - foot injury.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/sports/tennis/wimbledon-foot-injury-sidelines-kim-clijsters.html
Bummer. My cable provider bundles it in a Sports package for $2.95/month. Best $3 I’ve ever spent. We have TTC on most nights. They offer extended coverage of all the major ATP events and complementary coverage of the Grand Slams. The recap last night didn’t show the matches in their entirety, of course, but rather a 30 or 40 minute sample of each match.
I really wish I’d have remembered to set my DVR yesterday. I’d have loved to have seen the Bartoli/Williams match. I love Bartoli because she’s so unconventional.
Latest on the Nadal injury is that it isn’t too serious. A scan has shown nothing, and he says it was actually improving during the Del Potro match.
Women’s quarter final day and the weather has broken here in London (it’s just been throwing hailstones down outside my office in West London), so everything will be happening on Centre Court for the time being.
Bartoli is a break down against Lisicki.
It’s bloody typical that we have a good spell of weather that includes the middle Sunday at Wimbledon - an entire day of decent weather lost to tennis for archane reasons. I understand this may well be “the charm of Wimbledon” for some but they should just get themselves together and start playing on the middle Sunday - especially in years like this, where the weather forecast was threatening this as early as the middle of last week.
Lisicki wins the first set. I’d heard she had a very powerful serve, and right now she’s serving much better and harder than Bartoli and just outhitting her. And I agree that they should at least start scheduling tennis on the middle Sunday if the forecast shows there will be a lot of reain the following week.
My DVD recorder is set on “stun” today. Now I can watch all the junk they’ll put on if it rains! Which may be some of yesterday’s matches!
Bartoli has saved three match points so far in this game. Lisicki just hit an amazing lob to set up the second match one, but Bartoli fought back to win best point of the match that I’ve seen. Lisicki just doubled-faulted to give the braek to Bartoli, so it’s now 5-5 in the second set.
Looks like Bartoli is finally waking up! Although Lisicki has certainly played a smart match. I think it is anyone’s match at this point.
Bartoli comes through in the second set tie break and has levelled this up… It’s not half bad this match. Bartoli is pretty gritty and Lisicki has played some pretty decent shots.
After saying that Bartoli has capitulated in the final set. Maybe getting back into the match via the tie break has just taken it out of her - she’s made a few errors in this final set.
Lisicki goes through 6-4, 6-7, 6-1
I hope Lisicki employs the drop shot that worked so well today against Maria. Maria is not known for being an exceptional mover on the court, I think the droppers will frustrate the heck out of her!
Bartoli was absolutely gassed in the third set. She sat down on a linesman chair between service games when it was NOT a changeover. Lisicki could almost win a point at will with a drop shot because Bartoli was playing too far behind the baseline and she simply did not have enough speed to get to a drop shot. Bartoli might have been emotionally spent after beating Serena (and playing so well).