Fish just won the 3rd set from Nadal.
If Fish comes back to win, then I give up. 
Meanwhile Murray is up two sets to love on Lopez.
I wish I’d seen the Fed match.
& Erakovic won her doubles. She & her partner are through to the semis - her best ever Grand Slam result!
She was always a better doubles than singles player. From memory she won 1 junior Grand Slam title & was runner up in two. Unfortunately her next opponent will be either Petrova & her partner or my tournament picks Lisicki/Stosur
Edit; & Tomic getting a set off Novak at only 18 - well, thats doing well! As someone who gets the Australian coverage of the Aussie Open I’m glad they are getting a decent male player. The first round of the Aussie Open is painful watching the bunnies with wild cards get flattened. Wimbledon used to be pretty bad too.
I watched the 45 minute highlights of each of the matches on Wimbledon PrimeTime. Really wished I would have been able to see the entire Federer match, but who has 4-5 hours to commit to watching tennis on a weekday?
Anyway, it looked like a fantastic match. It was funny because when I turned it on, they were in the middle of playing. And I thought, “Why is Mohammed Ali playing tennis?” I know he’s gotten that before, but the resemblance is striking. Though Ali was more handsome, IMO. Or should I say he was prettier? 
Didn’t get to see Tomic when he was on fire. They started the match when Djokovic was up 2-1 already. So basically I got to see him break Djokovic and the collapse. I mean, he didn’t even try to put out a racquet, which is always painful to watch. You’re in the semis at Wimbledon, dude, at least GUESS a side a la Agassi. If you’re wrong, you’re no worse off. But letting a guy shoot 3 aces in one game without moving from your spot is just empowering him. Anyway, good run for the Aussie, and I was especially thankful because Pat Rafter was there watching and I love me some Rafter even though he’s put on 25 or 30 pounds.
Lopez’s match was painful to watch. Shame because he played great leading up to this. Murray has game and I can’t wait for him to put it all together and finally win a major. His game is best suited to grass of all the players remaining, IMO, so I’m rooting for him to win his first major. Plus, it’ll get the monkey off the back of all the Brits who are pining for a Big Win. Lopez had moments of greatness but not many. I do think it’s hysterical that Andy Murray’s mom has a Twitter crush on him and calls him Delicioso Lopez. (Though, honestly, I think Feliciano plays for the other team, so she’d be out of luck even if he liked older women.)
I fell asleep in the middle of the Nadal match, but I’m assuming Nadal won. Fish is having a fantastic run but he’s outclassed by the men remaining.
It should be a great semi-final. If Tsonga is on and getting that first serve hammer in, he’s going to be tough to beat. Murray is hungry for a win, especially at home. Nadal will fight until they drag his twitching body off the court. And Djokovic’s biggest threat, Federer, has been taken down.
Good stuff.
Kvitove through 6-1 3-6 6-2
Sharapova has lost her first service game and is currently 3-0 down in the 1st against Lisicki
ESPN2 is showing a repeat of he Fed/Tsonga match. and NBC doesn’t come on until 11 am CT here in the midwest. So I guess I will have to watch the Sharapova match on tape delay. :mad:
Sharapova has come back in the 1st set and is now serving for it. She’s not lost a set all champinoship and only been taken to a tie break once and after an early wobble, she looks like she is righting the ship here. Obviously, Lisicki or Kvitova could do a Tsonga and really bring their A game but it’s very hard to see Sharapova coming away from Wimbledon without the championship at the minute.
I wonder what kind of drugs Nadal is hopped up on right now? Not saying he’s taking illegal drugs mind you, just that his docs probably have him hopped up on something or other for that injury.
East coast had it delayed too.
They better show the men’s live tomorrow.
One of the commentators asked him yesterday or the day before if he was on pain medications. He laughed and said that he’s ALWAYS on pain medications.
I play tennis at about 1/10 the intensity of Nadal. And I pop Ibuprofen like they’re candy. Otherwise it takes ten minutes to convince my knees to straighten enough so that I can stand upright.
So I’ve got Wimbledon on and Mrs. Evil Captor comes in and she’s laughing her ass off at the improbable sounds being made by one of the contestants in Azatoth vs. Shub-Niggurath (or maybe it was Azerenka vs. Kvitova, all those Cthulhu Mythos names are confusing) and suddenly she says, “I know that sound! It’s a turkey call! She’s calling turkeys!”
So now YOU know!
Well, I wish she’d finally get her Tom so that the rest of us can watch in peace!
(Did you see the ladies in the stands at the Sharapova match wearing their “Ladies, Please No Grunting” t-shirts? Personally, I think they should say, “Ladies, Quit the F-ing Shrieking!” but I suppose they have to be more civilized at Wimbledon.
I did see those shirts! And although Azatoth may or may not have gotten her Tom, she lost the match, so no more of her. Not that Sharapova is a treat to listen to when she plays.
She’s better though. To me. It might be a tad louder according to the decibel counters, but it least it doesn’t have that trailing hoot Azarenka adds to hers. Sharapova’s shrieks I can tolerate with poor grace, but Azarenka’s weird hooting is so bizarre and long that I find her matches borderline unwatchable. I’m glad she lost because a potential Sharapova + Azarenka match would have been horrific.
Still neither is bad as that one freakish orgasmic shriek from a lower-ranked player that somebody linked to here once. Can’t remember the name, but it was so insanely, comically awful you literally expected it to usher in the rise of the Old Ones.
Michelle Larcher de Brito. She’s still only 18, but I’m not sorry that her career hasn’t taken off.
I’d agree with all that. I personally find the vocal sounds in tennis so laughable that I just keep channel surfing. Especially from the women. It sounds like a porn film audio track gone all wrong. Other’s will have opinions which vary of course, and that’s cool.
I agree with you Boo Foo Foo. I hardly watch tennis much these days but I did catch part of a Sharapova match the other night. It surprises me that none of her opponents have smacked her in the gob for those grunts.
The grunting makes the ladies game even more unwatchable. I’m not a fan.
I love watching the men’s game but if the women’s final was being played in my garden I wouldn’t open the curtains. (but I would have to shut the fucking windows to block out the horrendous noise…and they’d better steer clear of my rhubarb patch!).
The men are far more skillfull, powerful and inventive. The women are so far below in overall ability as to be laughable. It is a different game, less entertaining and on court for less time and yet they get the same money for winning as the men do. They don’t earn it in my opinion.
Roll on the Mens semi’s. Would like to see Murray do it but to be honest you can flip a coin between him, Djokovic and Nadal. Each would be worthy.
I do like Tsonga though, I just reckon he is a slight level down from those three on his day and even then he has to find another three sets like he did against Federer and I’m not sure he can do that. A great story if he can though.
Gonna be Nadal, for it not to be, either Murray or Djokovic have toplay out of their skins and he has to be less then 100%.
Incidentally anyone think that grass courts at Wimbledon have changed? I do not think Nadal’s style of play could have been successful in the kind of courts that existed in the Samapras or Becker eras.
Yes and I think the balls are slower as well. The differences now between the different surfaces are less marked than they used to be.
No bad thing either. The quality we see on regular basis is far higher than in the past.
Any of the current top 4, dropped into any other tennis era, would be a multi-grand slam winner. (though earlier grass would be the alien surface for most of them, Federer might the one would could adapt to pure serve-volleying the best)
I don’t think Becker or Sampras would do nearly so well were they active now.