Week 27/28 Wimbledon Main Draw - Singles

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RE: Week 27/28 Wimbledon Main Draw - Singles

steven · Tennis legend

Quite a few of the big GB upsets at Wimbledons past were from wild cards ranked too low (and often aged too high, as it were) to even be considered for a wild card now.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Monday's oop out with no Brits in the TBA matches. Laura opens on 18, Naomi 3rd on 14, Jo 3rd on Court 1 and Heather 4th on Ct 2

philwrig · Hall of fame

Great scheduling for once !! Jo given the maximum recovery time, appears to be practicing well this morning, and no clashes.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

philwrig wrote:
Great scheduling for once !! Jo given the maximum recovery time, appears to be practicing well this morning, and no clashes.

Yes - here's a link to a recent Guardian article which is very encouraging, finally. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/02/johanna-konta-wimbledon-heather-watson-2017?CMP=twt_gu

Julia Carrot · All-time great

philwrig wrote:
Great scheduling for once !! Jo given the maximum recovery time, appears to be practicing well this morning, and no clashes.

Yes - here's a link to a recent Guardian article which is very encouraging, finally. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/02/johanna-konta-wimbledon-heather-watson-2017?CMP=twt_gu

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Hope the brits perform well. I fear the pressure of the situation may get to some of them.

Strongbow · All-time great

Surprised to see The Grauniad going for crowd-funding - maybe they'll use it for Spellchecker biggrin

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I throughly enjoy the variety and quality of reporting across all the UK's printed press. You don't realise until you spend time elsewhere the quality of the prose used on the sporting pages, admittedly tennis is an after thought. If take crowd funding to keep the Gruniard in the mix so be it, like all the other papers it has its bias but it is essential for the UK written press to have a chip on both shoulders.

JonH · All-time great

I think I've mentioned before my friend David Conn is a investigative football writer for the Guardian. Check out his new book the "Fall of the House of Fifa" v good. Advert over

tennischamp · Intermediate Club Player

Laura playing well. 3-4*

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

tennischamp wrote:
Laura playing well. 3-4*

Really?

(Laura playing better than at the start would have been my way of putting it)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Monday 3rd of July 2017 11:19:47 AM

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Laura is not playing that well but not terribly either. Could have done without the unlucky net cord on her only break point.

murrayman650 · ATP level

Laura isn't playing very well , she just isn't reading Haddad Maia serve at all

First set Haddad Maia

6-4

murrayman650 · ATP level

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2-1

-- Edited by murrayman650 on Monday 3rd of July 2017 11:29:34 AM