Yes, you simply can't stop a point or play a let for a noise from the crowd or essentially any non tennis official noise because these can be so many and varied hence players are told from a very young age to keep playing whatever.

And actually if a shriek can stop a point what's to stop a supporter of a player in trouble in a point letting out a shriek. No, it's just a road that can't be gone down, and Halep will know this, hence not the slightest appeal after her brain fade.

It was still of couse very unfortunate though ( Jaggy ! ) who knows the background at all of the female shrieker and again, while very unfortunate, it is fairly clear that she thought Halep's shot was going out and I suppose in the general excitement got too caught up and ahead of herself. It certainly wasn't say to put anyone off and as Jo herself and others have said could have seriously put Jo off.

No pressure on Ms Konta, then, with Mr Murray out. Hope that Kontinen/Watson and Murray/Hingis also get through so that she doesn't have to bear the full brunt of the attention.

Good point!

I really hope the press concentrate on celebrating Kontas success and not Britains most successful
Woman in 30 years. I said earlier I do find it cringeworthy, and it's getting worse. I actually feel sorry for Jo she's constantly got it shoved in her face, The Aussies don't make as a big a deal out of it when she went far over there.

It may sound a big strange, especially as this is a British tennis forum and we talk about British players, but I've never been a fan of flag waving. The Union Jack is a bit of a colonial throwback and is often used in the wrong way. Maybe I'm biased as in Scotland it's used in a sectarian way.

I know I'll get shot down on here for saying this again, but I'd love Jo to win Wimbledon, we just don't need to take the success from her for The United Kingdom empire and sporting achievements. Hope that makes sense.

I don't mind the way the press seem to be covering Jo's successes (so far at least) although I do agree that the 'first time in Lord-knows-how-many years bit' gets rather irksome.
The Britishness bit is OK (although not a flag-waving person either).

But what annoyed me is that if you're going to do ultra British media coverage, then I expect every British victory to be mentioned - every one. Just briefly maybe, in a round-up. Or maybe just results on the screen. But EVERY ONE. It's Wimbledon, it's Britain, and they're British victories for God's sake.

The fact that the Skupskis hardly made the BBC round-up is criminal. But I want two minutes to cover R1 mixed doubles, wheelchair matches, juniors, the whole shebang. It doesn't seem much to ask.

Coup Droit wrote:

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I'm sure everyone's read it but it's a very interesting article:

www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/40589390

In particular:

Smiled: "I was pretty serious from about nine," Konta says. "I came home and said, 'Dad, I want to be the best in the world.' So I woke him up every morning at 5am to go running."

Interesting: "Aged 12, she was ranked as merely the 388th best junior in Australia".

Never a truer word said, Sam: "the level of effort and daily diligence that she has put in is an exceptional talent in its own right."

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 We could all learn from the Edison quote.

'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.'

 

Well done Jo on all those years of perspiration.

 

Is it my imagination, or does Venus play better in tournaments when Serena isn't entered? I don't know if it is simply that she gets overshadowed when her younger sister is playing, but from my (admittedly limited) viewing she seems to have much more success when she is the lone Williams.

Has anyone got the stats for this obscure case?