Week 26 - The Championships, Wimbledon: R1 men's singles matches

XCW4EVA · County player

RE: Week 26 - The Championships, Wimbledon: R1 men's singles matches

The Hoose · Satellite level

Yes, this one was a classic:

I feel like every year, you know, I'm getting better and stronger. I think it's just a matter of time, you know. It's just playing the bigger points. You know, I had two breakpoints to take it into the decider. You just never know.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Baker is last match on ct 11 so quite late i guess.

Brad always sits in the corners, i think its to get a better view of the court.
on the outside courts the player passes are for seats right down low behind the players chairs which dont give you a great view of the court. i think a lot of coaches sit at the ends like that, bolellis where at the other far end.

as for alex, i think he is being a little cautios in his interview. how well would it go doew if he had tried to criticse brad, no wel lat all me thinks.
alex has often followed the henman route as opposeed to murray

lol his problem if when they transcribe it it comes out word for word, you knows and all :)

-- Edited by Count Zero at 10:50, 2008-06-24

steven · Tennis legend

From the Times today (not one of their regular tennis journalists, I hasten to add):

Corruption, it's everywhere. Well, except on Monday in the outer reaches of Wimbledon on court 18 where Chris Guccione and Thomaz Belluci were toiling away in the sunshine. Patrick Foster, my esteemed colleague here in the press room, turned his investigative eye to the betting patterns following the match on Betfair, reckoning it was ripe for a bit of monkey business.

After the revelations of the weekend that Wimbledon is on red alert to seek out illegal betting, the Belluci-Guccione match-up seemed like just the sort of obscure fixture that would attract a lower class of punter. But, let's say the money didn't exactly flow. Four quid over the first hour, to be exact. To be fair, things warmed up towards the end but for this match at least, Wimbledon's investigators could relax.

The flaw? Well, I'm surprised there was any betting at all on the Guccione-Bellucci match, given that Guccione was playing Bozo and Bellucci was playing Kunitsyn! wink

Also from the Times (about Baltacha, but it could equally apply to the GB men):

"She may have been consigned to the far-flung No11 Court, so far away from the Centre Court that residents peeking from their bedroom windows in nearby houses can almost spy over Wimbledon's perimeter fence to watch. But that did not stop the crowds queueing up the stairs to the miniature grandstand to watch the host nation open its account in the All England Championships."

So much for the GB public supposedly not wanting Brits to be given WCs ...

seagull · Hall of fame

Well Andy should be on soon but Chris and Jamie not for a while yet...can't be good for the nerves.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

chris starts wel 3 aces to hold.

anyone find a stream on baker?

gazzpash · Club Coach

Baker had been broken and was 2-3* down

gazzpash · Club Coach

Eaton playing well but kind of get the feeling that Pashanski may think this is the opportunity for him to make inroads into grass

gazzpash · Club Coach

Baker has broken back and its now 4-3*

Eaton is serving a treat with huge % of 1st serves in and plenty of aces. He's pushing Pashanski more on his serve.

4-3* and 15-30