Wimbledon 2010 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em contest

LadyTigress · County player

RE: Wimbledon 2010 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em contest

steven · Tennis legend

eblunt wrote:

Looks like Isner is feeling the effects ! He's 4-0 in the first set. Don't mind that since I have Youzny to beat him in the next round

That'll be the Youzhny who managed to out-muppet the deputy head GEM (PHM) after being 2 sets to 1 up and then a break up in the 5th. furious

LadyTigress · County player

steven wrote:

eblunt wrote:

Looks like Isner is feeling the effects ! He's 4-0 in the first set. Don't mind that since I have Youzny to beat him in the next round
That'll be the Youzhny who managed to out-muppet the deputy head GEM (PHM) after being 2 sets to 1 up and then a break up in the 5th.

furious And that'll be the match that, when I came to pick for, I remembered the standard PHM grass-reaction-phrase... as in, "Oh no, it's the green stuff, I'd better lose in the first round." *shakes fist* Damn you, PHM, and the same to Youzhny! evileye

-- Edited by LadyTigress on Friday 25th of June 2010 04:17:04 PM

steven · Tennis legend

47% pick Melzer wins the swing match from a set down! biggrin

If you thought Hewitt's celebration was big, you should have seen me when I sorted the table after adding that result! ashamed

SMC1809 · All-time great

7th place - I have a nose bleed and feel dizzy. Never been this high. Steven, you must have severe haemorrhaging and be close to passing out!

SMC1809 · All-time great

I suspect further updates may be seriously delayed! wink

steven · Tennis legend

LOL no (well apart from me having to have a lie down to get over the shock!) - even if I was that naughty, it would need both Hanescu and Istomin to win to knock me off the top before the end of the day.

Talking of which, that muppet Berdbrain seems to be doing his best to hand Istomin a 2 sets to 1 lead after serving for the 3rd set.

Silver · County player

I actually MATCH my ranking... 197 in the rankings and 197 in this competition!

BOOYA.

LadyTigress · County player

steven wrote:

LOL no (well apart from me having to have a lie down to get over the shock!) - even if I was that naughty, it would need both Hanescu and Istomin to win to knock me off the top before the end of the day.

Talking of which, that muppet Berdbrain seems to be doing his best to hand Istomin a 2 sets to 1 lead after serving for the 3rd set.

Speaking of Hanescu... hmm

He chose to retire at 0-3 down in the fifth... but it looks like he might also be in trouble as well for some sort of altercation with a spectator which ended up in Hanescu spitting at the spectator - BBC examined a slow-mo close up angle and apparently there can be no mistaking that Hanescu did it.

indiana · Tennis legend

So that's my top 10 at the end of the day gone for a burton with my wildcard 12% pick, yeah wild in the wrong way

Hanescu ??!

I'm telling you I'm never watching another Count Dracula film !

Silver · County player

Hanescu acted like an absolute douche in that match. Apparently purposely foot faulting four times on second serves to give Brands a 3-0 lead. APPARENTLY.

If that's true, no wonder they're investigating it. Silly bastard.

LadyTigress · County player

Yes. I stress "apparently" for the time being since Hanescu has not yet been called up on anything. The BBC footage seemed rather clear though. The BBC didn't have any comment about any purported deliberate foot faulting.

disbelief

I expect there will be consequences. Of course nothing reported yet as it was only a short while ago.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn7xv959Un0

That's a video of the 5th set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G6EYg21PnU

That's a video of the "spitting incident"

Be surprised if there wasn't some kind of punishment for Hanescu after this. He obviously was affected by the crowd and in the first video you can here someone call out "you're weak" as he is about to serve, but also partly it's because he served for the match and blew at least 3 match points in the 3rd set.

LadyTigress · County player

That explains a few things. On the BBC highlights show they showed the handshake at the net and then a very short clip of footage of the spitting - but nobody seemed to have any idea what caused this behaviour.

I have no idea why a few people in the crowd decided to heckle Hanescu, but I'm surprised that Wimbledon security didn't remove them.

It's unacceptable that Hanescu decided to retaliate by spitting at them, no matter what the provocation, and I agree with FD that it seems likely some penalty will be imposed on Hanescu.

Silver · County player

I'm perplexed by that footage. Victor seemed to be physically OK, yes he was getting some undue heckling from a WIMBLEDON crowd (seriously? It's not RG?), but seriously, rise above it dude.

I'm just perplexed at his behaviour.