WIMBLEDON 2024

sabalenka w/drawal

Nick Kyrgios is actually commentating on centre court

See that Sabalenka is out

Osaka is the one I am looking at to have a deep run and potentially win the title. Let's see.

From the men's I know its seeding but to have Alcaraz and Sinner in the same half...

C'mon Rad let's finish this

Four wins from 0-2 down already today. Kinda hoping that doesn't continue with Sinner (Hanfmann playing great suddenly) or even Paul tbh. Bublik-Mensik excellent earlier.

Raducanu got a little lucky with withdrawal of seeded r1 opponent, and that's what happened at Flushing Meadow in '21, so y'know...

I feel bad for Murray as he seems to be looking for some sort or memorable or significant way to actually retire but it was hard to watch those Queen's games knowing he was ailing badly.

Defending champ in trouble here: Vondrousova down a set and a break. Graf in '94 last women's champ to lose first round?

(Constant "this content doesn't appear to be working" and odd framing of picture on iPlayer (it's not my connection), so sadly can't slack off quite as much as I'd like for the tennis).

I work on headphones a lot of the day and the simple joys of watching the outer court games with no commentary and leaving mics up between games for a bit of ambience is bliss.

Absolutely! Or taking the stream from a showcourt (rather than the BBC1 or BBC2 feed) and you get the changeover chatter sans commentary team, as they've cut away to something else on the main channel. Sinner rather ineffectually arguing against closing the roof yesterday... "But, I have to wait eight minutes... and then serve? Eight minutes. And then I have to serve." Give it up, mate.

Champ's gone.

Not sure I can be bothered with Paul Jubb's inevitable defeat from match point up vs Seyboth Wild. His backhand to stay in the 3rd set breaker was out the same way that Danish striker was offside. He was coasting for two sets.

Oh, and belated props to the most Estonian man ever, Mark Lajal, giving Alcaraz a real workout for two sets yesterday. Sometimes you can't believe #269 can hit like that, but of course they can, all the way down into the Futures.

Also nice to see that Goffin got in as an LL, thanks to Murray. Probably doesn't entirely make up for the 2015 Davis Cup final, but still.

Oh, and I see Mpetshi Perricard also snagged a LL slot; I followed a little of his Roehampton exit, where he hit 40 aces. He's hit the same number today - 76 67 76 66 vs Korda before the rain. Whither Gasquet? Just off the bottom of the reserve list, I guess.

It has been bugging the utter crap out of me since yesterday, who Lajal reminds me of, my first thought was the guy from Human Traffic, 'any jungle in guy?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dS5gtfsKQY

mpetshi perricard gets thru korda, 51 aces in all; gets nishioka next who has said he doesn't like playing big servers iirc

Now Jubb has arrested his slide and saved five MPs himself, and broken back!

Tough loss that. I didn't see much of it, but Seyboth Wild at 16 36 02 15/40 really looked like throwing in the towel.

Djoko being fit for Wimbledon is such a downer

draper/norrie next round ! i hadnt noticed that in the draw

Catching bits of outstanding play from Fognini (was 2-0 and a double-break up vs Ruud, has somehow contrived to lose third set) and A Muller (was a point from a 2-0 lead vs Medvedev). And nice to see Draper ease so comfortably into the late-night hour-longer-than-necessary the-news-is-now-on-BBC2 Henman/Murray role so quickly. Elias Ymer played some great stuff though.

Fognini, bleach blond, gets it done eventually.

Settling in for Osaka

Man she should have pushed the umpire on that double-bounce, Navarro is a sneakster

Raducanu looking v solid

Osaka looks to be on her way out

FAA latest player to fail to convert two-set lead and multiple MPs (around 8:45pm last night). Out to Kokkinakis. Eight recoveries from 0-2 so far.

hubie looks like he just blew out an mcl or something

Yeah, weird one. Straight dive at 7-7 in the tb, didn't seem like a twist, made the volley, Fils missed the forehand. Set point for 2-2, but now HH can't walk.

After being taped up he dived on the next point too! Goes 8-9 down, retires. Shame.

i cant believe he went back out there and dove for a ball the next shot lmao

lot of 5-set matches

Quiet at work so I'm awaiting Norrie/Draper then the stereo Murrays at teatime, been a decent day so far.

Working from home this week has been great, currently enjoying Jake Fearnley giving Djokovic a right old unexpected fright.

Helpfully finished just in time for me to turn over to Norrie/Draper.

Man, my back is hurting just watching him

Not seen much tennis but I am spotting Paolini dusting off her disappointment at the French Open and quietly making her way through the round

Q. It was a great exchange at the net at the end of the match. Are you able to share what was said between each other?
FRANCES TIAFOE: Just ultimate respect. Him just saying, It's good to see you play like that. Me just saying, I can't stand you.

— Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim) July 5, 2024

wow raducanu pulls out of mixed

Not surprised, amazed she agreed to it

Love these Russian born Kazakhs lol

2 20 yr old frenchmen in the 4th rd —tho mpetshi perricard turns 21 in 2 days

wimbledon again with the worst highlight vids available. like 6 per day, and they're just the set points essentially. frustrating!

2 20 yr old frenchmen in the 4th rd —tho mpetshi perricard turns 21 in 2 days

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 6 July 2024 bookmarkflaglink

A lot of Frenchmen got through to the latter part of the week.

Of all the four grand slam owning nations they seem to produce a lot of fairly good players in numbers, though none do it at the business end of slams

Big hole in the men's doubles draw thanks to Ben Shelton's singles progress and the weather. He and Mackenzie McDonald have been stuck at one set all in the 1st round since... Wednesday? Half of the last sixteen is already filled in. Shelton is second on court 1 today vs Sinner. His doubles resumption is "not before 4pm, court tbc". If he beats Sinner (and he might), he does at least get a couple of days off (off = poss playing non-stop doubles between showers). Ah, he's young.

Swiatek will figure out grass one day, but she had no answers yesterday. Zverev, sad to say, is the form player in the men's draw, marathon breaker notwithstanding.

Swiatek:

“My tank of really pushing myself to the limits became suddenly empty,” she admitted. “I was kind of surprised. But I know what I did wrong after Roland Garros. I didn’t really rest properly. I’m not going to make this mistake again."

But idk if its just that, she will need to get better at the net, perhaps

She did win a US open so she can do more than well outside a clay court

really do not see shelton beating sinner

Really hoping Paoloni gets through here

she’s so spunky

Me too, she's so enjoyable to watch

Haha one of the guys from Djoko’s team literally looks like he is biting his nails

4-4...so tense.

this is a bit of a hole to dig himself out of all of a sudden

this game crazy

Alcaraz is just itching for that three-set win

That was extraordinary

Djoko already off his chair lol

he is done

Ripping out the bandaid

Hell yes

Sinner had already started that xp

Here we go

Three mps!!

Df then a return. One more

fucks sake

Damn Carlos, lets go

That was rude

Bp lol

ridiculous

Bollocks

What

Fuck

Never seen that

Whoever called that out needs to get thrown out of the stadium

Alcaraz has now to serve to stay in the set

Seriously he has three mps..fuck sake

What a dig at the net there. Tb.

Man should've won that 1st point

Fuck..3-3

a cm here or there..

Alcaraz: “Vaaamosss”

Just incredible rally

Alcaraz has the advantage again

Drop shot!! 3 mps

Come onnnnn

Sorry two

YESSSSSS

Yes!!

First round to Spain.

I really didn’t need that last 20min, good grief. Thank goodness.

Well-deserved win!

Even if I wasn't in the tank for Alcaraz I'd still be tense, what a game tho

BBC so hilariously wanted Djokovic to win

That ruled

xp Kyrgios and Djokovic are friends. Its terrible

I think this is the score by which ND beat Anderson six years ago, day of the WCf, to kick start the second dozen of his Slam haul. Hopefully this draws a line under all that.

Djokovic was made to look ordinary and hopefully between Alcaraz and Sinner Djoko won't win another of these xp

Whooee, Alcaraz is so good. That was brutal, and I actually kinda liked that he got the yips on the one game, shows he's human. Barely. Some of his shots were Federer-level geometry.

Sketchy adjective but nm

'Hot' I mean lol