Helen40 wrote:

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Jan wrote:

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Thanks Bob for the reports.
I was appalled that the Beeb didn't mention Dan's win in their 7.35(ish) sports slot. They obviously majored on Marcus, but did find time to mention Laura and Naomi. But not Dan. He WON, BBC, did you hear???

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 I think Dan was still on court when that went out, so no result. I think there was a mention at some time that he was still on court.

 

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GBJ wrote:

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Interesting point Bob about the smaller court adding to the intimacy and thus helping Marcus. It's gonna be really interesting to see how Marcus does on the bigger court. I really hope that we get lots more of the same as today and others joining in such that centre court really doesn't know what has hit it and that Marcus manages to keep the relaxed mindset he has.

It's funny, this time last year I had dreams of all this kind of stuff happening to Evo when he nearly came through prequalies and qualies. So excited to see Marcus doing just what I daydreamed but perhaps even more so!
- I kinda wish that Willbomb had done all this on day 2 as I think it would have been great to see Evo get more of the first day plaudits after all he has done as Marcus really overshadowed him in the end. I can hardly complain really though - my two favourite players just did what I've been hoping to see them do ever since I started following them- on the same day!! Only about a week ago I was wondering what had happened to Marcus and still remembering how disappointed I was that he didn't get more out of the grass season last year like I'd thought he would.

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I was watching all of Evo's match yesterday on Court 18 and honestly spent a lot of it thinking I'd made the wrong decision, was so jealous when hearing the atmosphere on Court 18! Pleased Evo proved me wrong, the match was a very good contrast of styles and a pretty high standard after a comfortable opening set

Jan wrote:

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 Dan didn't win until gone 8pm! And by that point our footballers had already done their best to grab the headlines....

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 fair point....! Shame 

Spectator wrote:

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Well, if one of our first-time GB winners is going to be relatively ignored (which I agree is unfortunate), I'm glad it's for this reason! But congratulations also to Mr Evans.

I've enjoyed reading various countries' coverage of Marcus Willis - French, Spanish, Swiss ... and farther afield. He's clearly struck a chord. Most of the pieces are derivatives of his press conference or Ben Rothenberg's piece. But Eric Salliot has a rather lovely piece looking at things from the perspective of his French club team. No time to translate, but here it is: rmcsport.bfmtv.com/tennis/wimbledon-marcus-willis-prof-de-tennis-a-30-livres-de-l-heure-va-affronter-federer-997567.html

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 That is a lovely piece, even if the only thing it really adds is that when he arrived at the clubs first match he had only a handful of rackets, and only 2 of them were strung. And he didn't have a towel. Ignoring Ford Prefect's advice is never wise.

Jaffa wrote:

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But anyway, Marcus yesterday - just wow. The only possible word you could use to describe it. Have you ever seen a player look as bemused as Berankis did yesterday? He didn't have a clue what to do.

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I think Bernakis is more bemused at what has happened to his own game. He was winning matches for fun right up to the point where Evo beat him in the SF of the Taipei challenger. Since then his form has fallen off a cliff and he has a lost a string of matches where he was the clear favourite and suffered first round defeats in 7 of his last 8 tournaments.