ATP weeks 26-27 - Wimbledon

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RE: ATP weeks 26-27 - Wimbledon

KK · Club Coach

I agree. An unbelievable lack of logic there.

indiana · Tennis legend

Really good stuff from Andy today and great to see him hitting the freaking ball as Johnny Mac would no doubt say ( and probably Ivan ).

Now, Andy, don't you dare go back to that passive rubbish from the Baghdatis match when in your words you were trying to "hustle" through the first couple of sets. Play positively !!!

And some ruddy good serving too ! Serve consistently strongly ( and pretty accurately ! ) like that and pick up a lot of free points and his chances improve so much. Very good smile

Helped a bit by Cilic's poor movement ( no doubt partly still a bit due to that ridiculous 5th set vs Querrey - again as Johnny Mac says, play final set tiebreaks ! ). But still very good, particularly in Andy's positive intentions.

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 3rd of July 2012 07:54:59 PM

Portsey · Intermediate Club Player

Ratty wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
I agree, and we'd still be watching some good tennis now.
And of course, what conceivable reason is there for having the middle Sunday as a rest day?
Everybody would be better off. Another 35,000 people would have the pleasure of a day at Wimbledon. A global TV audience would have the option of a few hours of enjoyment. All the staff at Wimbledon would earn some more money. Britain's GDP would be increased.
The arguments against? Religion? Giving the grass a rest? Tradition? COBBLERS!

I have to agree with this. Why in 2012 do we still have a break on a Sunday? It really can't be religious reasons - we've moved on. It can't be local residents complaining - Wimbledon's been around a long time and I can't believe you're going to choose to live near the Wimbledon complex and then wonder about a couple of Sundays' disruption a year. It can't be to give the grass breathing time - do it on the Monday. It can't be anything other than tradition unless i've missed something?

If that's the case it's crazy, as Ratty infers, people work and are only able to enjoy going to Wimbledon on the weekend and can not watch the tennis on tv during working hours. Despite the middle Sunday existing, why did they not open the schedule to Sunday this year? With all the disruptions it would have made sense I'd have thought. Put an early cap on finishing times if there's a local reason for having no play on Sunday. Do Wimbledon residents really feel so agrieved about Sunday play?

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

67, 61, 63, 68 - Andy's first serve percentages in his 4 matches. Thought he was excellent today. Even when Cilic had some break points at the start of the 3rd set, he came up with super serves to save all 4.

Ballavong · Lower Club Player

Excellent stuff!!

On a side note. I can't believe court 3 is being used for oap doubles when there are other matches that need catching up with!!

RJA · Hall of fame

I didn't watch more of this today because I was confident that Andy had the match in the bag and so was watching Marray's doubles match instead. However from what I saw it seemed that Andy played very well.

Tomorrow he is second match on centre, following on from the Fed. I wonder how Nole feels about being exiled to court 1?

Armchair · County player

I just think there needs to be complete clarity as to what brings the roof on Centre into use and what happens thereafter.
Because at the moment it seems fairly random as to what happens (although there may be a cunning plan) and that's why
there is endless debate.

I've always enjoyed the way that tennis doesn't suffer the endless 'offside' discussions, but it looks like Wimby has
decided we could do with them !

Oh and well done Andy : ))))

Armchair · County player

It was a treat wasn't it, effing good stuff (smug smile).

Armchair · County player

By the way I'm trying to compose my excuses for tomorrow so can we please have the OOP ASAP TA

Jan · Hall of fame

Wimbledon tweet:
"Order of play for tomorrow CC Federer v Youzhny & Murray v Ferrer - No.1 Djokovic v Mayer & Tsonga v Kohischreiber"
(play starts at 1pm)

indiana · Tennis legend

Armchair wrote:
I just think there needs to be complete clarity as to what brings the roof on Centre into use and what happens thereafter.
Because at the moment it seems fairly random as to what happens (although there may be a cunning plan) and that's why
there is endless debate.

I've always enjoyed the way that tennis doesn't suffer the endless 'offside' discussions, but it looks like Wimby has
decided we could do with them !

Oh and well done Andy : ))))

I thought the strangest one ( and in my view wrong one ) was when the roof remained closed all day when apart from right at the start there was play basically all day on the outside courts.

If Wimbledon wishes to stick to its declaration ( when the roof was first put in place ) that Wimbledon remains in essence an outdoor tournament then when it becomes pretty clear the threat of rain has retreated they must open the roof, most certainly when a new match is due on.

Yes, that may hold up play a bit, but the principle of it being an outdoor tournament to me is much more important.

Where there remains a serious threat of rain or darkness is going to stop completion of a centre court match then I have no problem with the roof remaining / being closed.

RJA · Hall of fame

Agree with Indiana. It was clearly sensible to keep the roof closed today as the next rain shower never seemed far away. When the did it last week it was wrong.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Impressive is the only word, Andy does seem to benefit when he has something else to focus on. Ferrer will be tough and I wouldn't be surprised to see that go the distance. Tsonga hasn't looked that good so far, so I am reasonably positive about his chances of reaching the final.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I think Delpo made Ferrer look better than he actually was today. I have seen some people describe the Argentinian's movement on grass as like a cow on ice. Actually I disagree.

To me he moves more like a pregnant elephant in a bog.

Anyway Andy should win unless he has a VERY bad day - the H2H may be 5:5, but nearly all Ferrer's wins have come on clay - Andy's worst surface - and the only one on hard was last year's WTF when Andy was injured and pulled out of the tournament before the next match. They have never met on grass.