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

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

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

Count Zero · Tennis legend

unfortunetaly i will be watching on a 'fuzzy laptop' hopefully tho the bbc streams will be much better than last year. the stream from queens was very good which gives some hope.
hopefully they will have court 11 on the iplayer thingymajig.

steven · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:
And Ross Hutchins is in action tomorrow as well as he can Huss take on Phillips/Hippensteel 4th on court 5

I noticed that too. Do they normally put some double on court on day 1? I thought it usually didn't start until day 3 at the earliest.

Re. Court 11 - I know which one you mean now, just hadn't heard of it being referred to as a show court before for some reason. Anyway, it's good news that there is plenty of capacity there. I wonder if it'll be more of a crush this year with C13 (and 12) out of action or if they'll be selling less ground tickets.

I must admit, with C1, I saw Numpty's name there and that probably skewed my view of how good or bad the programme was wink

DUSTY DICK · Club Coach

I saw Boggo at Nottingham Last weekend in the quali's and he looked to be playing well so i really hope he gets a first round win at long last. Gilbert was courtside last weekend fully supporting his charge so Boggo has to be getting something out of the set up surely. He'll do it this year i think, i hope, well pray like everyone else then.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i just hope alex can play well tomorrow. i think he needs to get into his head that he can only gain from the match, but if he loses it isnt the end of the world, he wont lose any points, and he still has half of the season ahead, with very few points to defend.
despite not having a good grass record bolelli is still a good player, despite alex wins at nottingham ihe cant be fav for this match and he needs to think like that.

mjd · Challenger qualifying

There has been a change to schedule, Doubles WAS due to start Tuesday - Strange?

Start Dates: Competition:
Mon 23 June Men's and Ladies' Singles Start
Tue 24 June Men's and Ladies' Doubles Start
Thu 26 June Mixed Doubles Start

http://aeltc.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/guide/schedule.html

Isnt this a sexist statement?
quote: "Undue preference must not be shown for mens matches, although certain days are regarded as ladies days."
When is 'Mens Days' ?

-- Edited by mjd at 23:42, 2008-06-22

Bladetiger · Pro player

Count Zero wrote:

i just hope alex can play well tomorrow. i think he needs to get into his head that he can only gain from the match, but if he loses it isnt the end of the world, he wont lose any points, and he still has half of the season ahead, with very few points to defend.
despite not having a good grass record bolelli is still a good player, despite alex wins at nottingham ihe cant be fav for this match and he needs to think like that.

I think Boggo's got masses to lose. It's the best draw he's ever had and really for a player with his ability on grass it is a game he should win pretty comfortably. All the pressure and expectation is on him, and if he blows this chance to finally get a win at wimbledon it will be very bad for him.

Having said that I think he will win and look forward to celebrating a win that could be a launchpad for him tomorrow.

COME ON BOGGO!! smile

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Bladetiger wrote:

I think Boggo's got masses to lose. It's the best draw he's ever had and really for a player with his ability on grass it is a game he should win pretty comfortably. All the pressure and expectation is on him, and if he blows this chance to finally get a win at wimbledon it will be very bad for him.

but if he thinks like that he will be more likely to lose

steven · Tennis legend

mjd wrote:
There has been a change to schedule, Doubles WAS due to start Tuesday - Strange?

Isnt this a sexist statement?
quote: "Undue preference must not be shown for mens matches, although certain days are regarded as ladies days."
When is 'Mens Days' ?

Perhaps an excuse to get another Brit on court on Monday, since most of the Brits are playing singles on the even days, unfortunately.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

harman has an article in todays times, pointing out that only 2 popele have worse slam records than alex, and no invitee has a worse record! i gues the other slam nations have a lot more tennis players to give them too. he does however get alex's ranking wrong - obviuosly forgot he played nottingham

murrayman650 · ATP level

we have begun
it is sunny biggrin

Count Zero · Tennis legend

from bbc:
1232: "I just got jostled by someone trying to get to Bogdanovic for an autograph. Ugly. Meanwhile, world number five David Ferrer wanders past unnoticed. Wimbledon is strange."
BBC Sport's Caroline Cheese

i think thats why they want brits at the event!
plus baltacha's court is packed!

steven · Tennis legend

LOL good stuff!

On the weird side though - Spadea won the 1st two sets against ToJo (tiebreaks) and Dabul has won a set! Erk ...

murrayman650 · ATP level

boggo is on

Count Zero · Tennis legend

some nice aces from alex there :)