I think it was just physical exhaustion for Bartoli. At one point in the third set, they showed she had logged around 50 percent more court time during the tournament than Lisicki - something like 10:20 to 7:20, which means Bartoli spent around 50 percent more time playing. Lisicki got tight late in the second set, but she served well, had a lot of power, and mixed in that slice drop shot nicely. That’s a big win for her. Against Sharapova she would need to continue to serve well, keep her moving, return aggressively and maybe hope for a few extra double faults.
Sharapova is playing very, very well - in this form, she will be tough to stop. She’s utterly dominated Cibulkova, winning 6-1, 6-1 in a little over an hour.
It will take a big effort to knock her out - she looked like she was moving around the court OK to me - though Cibulkova didn’t bring her to the net loads, it has to be said.
Bernard Tomic won the 2nd set and is up a break in the 3rd set. Could he beat Djoker?
By the way, how is his name pronounced? Bernard like Benard on LOST or Bernard like Bernard Hill(the British way I mean)?
Don’t look now, but Tomic is giving Djokovic a run for his money. Djokovic won the first set easily and Tomic took the second, and he’s now leading 2-0 in the third.
The Bryan brothers just won their match in the fifth set, 16-14. Came back two sets down to win three straight.
Federer is 178-0 when up 2 sets to none. It says “at majors”, anyway. Do they play best 3 of 5 anywhere else, and has Fed. ever lost when up 2-0 at those?
Tomic has just disintegrated. He was a break up in the 3rd set, before he handed it back with 4 unforced errors. He’s now lost 5 games in a row and with it the 3rd set. Oh well, he is only 18.
Davis Cup? The year-end thing?
There are a few other major events where they play best of five. At the 2005 year end championship in Shanghai, Nalbandian came back to beat Federer 6-7, 6-7, 6-2, 6-1, 7-6.
Also, 2003 Davis Cup semis, Hewitt beat him 5-7 2-6 7-6 7-5 6-1.
Tsonga has really caught fire here. He’s up 5-3 in the fourth.
Some great men’s quarters so far!
Tsonga is a break up in the 5th and looks like he could knock Federer out here. The power game has worked really well for him. Federer actually doesn’t look like he is hitting his topspin forehand out of the middle of the raquet anymore - as he is having to chase the ball to get it back and can’t get into position to get a good shot off. Tsonga will deserve this win if it comes his way.
It’s 5-3 in the final set, Federer to serve.
I swear when I wrote that 178-0 thing about Fed, he was up 2-0. I had no idea Tsonga was going to come back like this.
Amazing.
And that’s it.
Tsonga becomes the first guy to come back in a major from 2 sets down against Fed.
Not a good Wimbledon for the heads that wear the crowns!
Neither did ESPN. 
Tsonga just closed out an amazing comeback. It didn’t feel to me like Federer’s level of play declined that much. Tsonga just did an incredibly job of stepping up. His serve was huge and the Triple match point for Tsonga right now. He’s been serving very well and the forehand was amazing. I thought Federer won the first set pretty easily, but he didn’t even get to break point in the last four sets.
Tomic staged a nice rally in the fourth set to get to 5-5, but Djokovic got another break to escape with the match. Nadal is already up a break to start the match against Fish and I don’t expect that one to be very competitive.
Was it on ESPN where you live? It was on NBC here.
ESPN2 had the match through the end while NBC carried the end of Djokovic-Tomic. From what I’ve seen, during the week ESPN2 shows the matches until maybe 10 a.m. Eastern and then NBC takes over.
Didn’t watch the game but read the news a few minutes back. Poor Fed. You have to wonder if he will ever win another slam again.