Weeks 27 & 28 - The Championships, Wimbledon (grass) - main draw

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Weeks 27 & 28 - The Championships, Wimbledon (grass) - main draw

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

nicofrance wrote:
Cant see Murray coming back here . A horrible draw given who he could have played .

There's stiill hope... wink

KK · Club Coach

JonH comes home wrote:
Wow - completely missed all this! What a win for Liam!

Two questions - just be his career high win?

I have to ask as i havent seen a thing - was Ruud injured ? What turned it to a 6-0 final set ?

Ruud didn't appear injured. Liam was just playing incredible tennis.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

KK wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Wow - completely missed all this! What a win for Liam!

Two questions - just be his career high win?

I have to ask as i havent seen a thing - was Ruud injured ? What turned it to a 6-0 final set ?
Ruud didn't appear injured. Liam was just playing incredible tennis.

Great to hear! Liam is back on court tomorrrow - court 2- versus Shapo. Lets hope hes got a decent recovery !

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I managed to watch the 3rd set of Andy, my second match of the week, or part match after Evo earlier. I mean, that was drama, it really was. We take Andy for granted and, boy, does he know how to remind us he is still the King of British tennis. He dominates that court, the crowd - the drama, the drama queen as well, that fall where he screamed, more in concern maybe that he pulled his groin although there must be a worry it will stiffen up overnight - let's hope not.

That was some match though, and it gets continued. Centre court fans tomorrow have the world numbers ones, and Andy - Djokovic, Swiatek, Alcaraz, Murray - I mean that is a card and a half, isnt it?!

Anyone going to Centre Court tomorrow?!

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 6th of July 2023 09:48:10 PM

Jajon · Club Coach

Why so they start play on centre court so late? Not being able to finish your schedule when its only three matches is pretty dreadful.

But come on muzza. Let us pray the groin is fine

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

For me the bigger question is why London can not find a way to accommodate late night matches like the US and Australia. I understand the transportation issue but it is 2023! I would like to see a late night match played until the finish

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

thegingerlightbulb wrote:
For me the bigger question is why London can not find a way to accommodate late night matches like the US and Australia. I understand the transportation issue but it is 2023! I would like to see a late night match played until the finish

hmmm, well the thing is for me, is that it's grass, and I already hate that it's so worn and not like it used to be in the final since the roof has gone on.

Then the schedulers would plan for 4 30 finishes, and that just wouldn't be Wimbledon for me, it's already odd that it finishes as late as it does. Call me stuck in the past, but that's the way I feel.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I agree with Jajon and ginger

I thought the curfew was to do with local residents, not transport - not wanting to have noise after bedtime.....

But surely they could put up with it for one or two days in the year ....

Real shame not to continue the match, with the crowd all gee-ed up, TV viewers after work wanting some 'real' Wimbledon to watch... I wouldn't have a 'night' match, so most would be done normally, and I know what you mean Helen about crazy finished, but just allow the odd one that runs on - to run on

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 6th of July 2023 10:22:06 PM

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

I agree Helen, the 4.30 am finishes are nuts and unfair to the players. But that happens when the night match starts at 12.30 a m. If a match starts at 8 p.m. just play until the end

Densher · Intermediate Club Player

One of the disappointments of London is that isn't really a late night city like New York (I had a flavour of this recently when I stayed in Pimlico, right in the centre of the city, and found the local Tesco Express was only open until 10pm and all kinds of other shops and many of the takeaways shut their doors at 11pm).

So in that context the continued existence of the curfew at Wimbledon is not a surprise, which is a real shame given the sudden interruption to the drama of the match (as CD says, what is the harm in allowing it to run on a little longer?). You'd hope someday it might change but I'm not counting on it.

-- Edited by Densher on Thursday 6th of July 2023 10:34:05 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

more important is Andys performance - if he wins this, and he can, he plays Djere. And then Cam or Eubanks. Andy has a chance of doing something special here - he wont win it, that would be silly, but week 2 is on the cards for sure.

Go Andy!

indiana · Tennis legend

I hadn't quite appreciated when the original sraw was made quite what a harsh deal our non seeeds had with the seeded players in their section.

OK, only 2 of the 6 ( George and Arthur ) had to play them in R1 but in the first 2 rounds out of 32 possible seeds, for the 5 that the Brits were in with ( Andy and Ryan clearly in the same section ) to be seeds 3, 4, 5, 6 and 17 is remarkably tough, on seeding number anyway ( and while they may have varyingly good grass court games, the top 7 are quite well clear in the current rankings ).

The flip side of course is we have been getting so many Brits vs high seed matches on big courts and big occasions for the players. And best of all, Liam won and Andy could!

Strongbow · All-time great

Densher wrote:
One of the disappointments of London is that isn't really a late night city like New York (I had a flavour of this recently when I stayed in Pimlico, right in the centre of the city, and found the local Tesco Express was only open until 10pm and all kinds of other shops and many of the takeaways shut their doors at 11pm).

So in that context the continued existence of the curfew at Wimbledon is not a surprise, which is a real shame given the sudden interruption to the drama of the match (as CD says, what is the harm in allowing it to run on a little longer?). You'd hope someday it might change but I'm not counting on it.

-- Edited by Densher on Thursday 6th of July 2023 10:34:05 PM

I was living in London near Lords when they wanted to have floodlights for T20 games. Not my kind of cricket but the row went on for years.

Also people who bought a house opposite a pub were complaining about the noise after 10pm despite the fact the pub had been there over 100 years.

The world is mad - no sign of it changing.

indiana · Tennis legend

It's a real pity that a best of 5 sets match gets interrupted, arguably unnecessarily. It takes away from the ethos and possibly integrity of that big difference in Slams, in having to produce over possibly 5 sets which should be on the same day.

Certainly I see the argument for trying to negotiate a less strict curfew. Don't stretch schedules to invite very late finishes, don't put on an additional singles match too late, but this was a 3 match schedule which just went very long ( although yes they could start earlier? ).

Needs some give and take.