Ship of Fools: New balls, please

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

Now that the strawberry season is underway (albeit in a rather soggy way), what do people think about events so far in SW19?

Am I alone in thinking/hoping that Mr. Willis is going to be someone to watch in future? From the part of his match against Federer that I saw* he seemed to be putting up more of a fight than perhaps the score-line would suggest. I thought he played some beautiful shots, and he looked as if he was thoroughly enjoying himself, which I found very uplifting.

* we had to go out part way through the second set, as someone was coming to view our house. [Frown]

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

I'm exhausted after watching Andy Murray v. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - what a roller-coaster!

Well done Andy! [Yipee]

Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :

Go Milos Raonic! My wife is recording all his games. We're not very interested in any of the others. He's the Canadian in the field.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

Federer came back from 2-0 down, Cilic froze when he had the big chance. Great try from Tsonga, but Murray won through. Every time I eat a strawberry, my favourite player wins a game. Have now run out and need to buy some more punnets to last through the weekend.

Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :

Raonic in the semis!

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
... Every time I eat a strawberry, my favourite player wins a game ...

There's a thought - I'm not really wild about strawberries (although I will make an exception during Wimbledon fortnight), but if I thought it helped ... [Big Grin]

I'll happily cheer for Raonic as long as he's not playing Murray. [Smile]

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

Very subdued games today by comparison to yesterday - particularly the S. Williams v. Vasnini match, where Vasnini mostly stood and watched Williams pull all the power shots. Fortunately, Kerber was more interesting, having to work hard to stop Venus making a comeback in the 2nd set. I'm much happier to have Kerber in the final, rather than it being a Williams v. Williams family duel.

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

Well done Andy! [Yipee]

And also well done to Milos Raonic - it's not everyone who can get past Roger Federer.

Obviously I'd like Murray to win, but it's nice to see a Canadian doing so well, and as they both seem to playing the tennis of their lives, the final should be good.

Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :

No no Piglet. Raonic is the one people resident in Canada should be cheering for. No Canadian has ever been in a final at Wimbledon.

Posted by Mr Clingford (# 7961) on :

Yeah!

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
No no Piglet. Raonic is the one people resident in Canada should be cheering for. No Canadian has ever been in a final at Wimbledon.

I find that hard to believe. Sure *some* of the Americans that have made it to the final are actually Canadians? It seems to be so in every other walk of life.

Milos Raonic should be proud. I don't think he could have done more especially with most of the crowd behind Murray.

Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
No no Piglet. Raonic is the one people resident in Canada should be cheering for. No Canadian has ever been in a final at Wimbledon.
I find that hard to believe. Sure *some* of the Americans that have made it to the final are actually Canadians? It seems to be so in every other walk of life.

Milos Raonic should be proud. I don't think he could have done more especially with most of the crowd behind Murray.

Actually Milos is the first Canadian man to make it to a final of any grand slam tennis event.

Tennis is hard to play 5-9 months of the year outside in Canada, depending on where you live.

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

I didn't see all of it (church intervened in the morning here - I'll try and catch the earlier sets on Primetime later) and when I finally sat down to it (at the beginning of the third set) the only channel I could find it on was in French. I don't speak French, but was becoming very irritated that the lady commentator said, "bravo, bravo, bravo" every time Raonic served an ace.

TSN (Rogers channel 23) were promising it yesterday, so I was very disappointed that they seemed to have moved on to the British Grand Prix before the tennis was finished.

From what I could tell, although it was a straight-sets win, Raonic really had nothing to be ashamed of: two of the sets went to tie-breaks and could have gone either way.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

A good day for British Tennis - Reid, Whiley, Murray and Watson. Just the tonic we needed!

Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on :

Raonic (which my iPhone autocorrect changed to Rabid!) played very well, Murray played an inspired match. Very close, only one service break in the entire match, and it might well have been different if Raonic had converted one of those two third set break points. Murray snuffed that out, was awesome in the tie breakers. Playing at that level of consistency both on serve and return of serve, I think he would have beaten anyone yesterday. Hats off to Andy. He's special.

[ 11. July 2016, 06:49: Message edited by: Barnabas62 ]

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

posted by no prophet's flag is set so...

quote:
No Canadian has ever been in a final at Wimbledon.

Err ???

Eugenie Bouchard contested the Ladies' Singles final in 2014, and she won the Girls' title at Wimbledon in 2012.

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

Well, in a gentlemen's singles final anyway.

The boys' singles was also won by a Canadian, so maybe we'll be the next nation to look out for ... [Smile]

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

The GB tennis team have proved they can win a Davis Cup tie without Andy Murray and beaten Serbia.

Played on horrible clay courts Kyle Edmund managed to win both of his singles matches and Dom Inglot and Jamie Murray won their doubles. (Poor James Ward had a nightmare in his match, he doesn't have the game for clay and his form at the moment isn't good.)

And Croatia have beated the USA in Oregon! Semi-Finalists are GB, France, Croatia and Argentina.

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

Feeling rather jaded this morning because I was up far too late watching Johanna Konta beat Venus Williams in the final of the Stanford Bank of the West WTA final.

JK has now climbed to number 14 in the WTA world rankings.

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

Am I the only person on board to be excited at the news that Andy Murray is world number 1 and won the ATP end of year Masters Final, beating Djokovic in two comfortable sets. [Overused]

So the world number 1 doubles pairing includes Jamie Murray and singles is his younger brother - both brought up in the part of the UK with perhaps the worst climate for tennis.

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Am I the only person on board to be excited at the news that Andy Murray is world number 1 and won the ATP end of year Masters Final, beating Djokovic in two comfortable sets?

No, you most certainly aren't. [Overused]

Well done Mr. Murray - the last time a British bloke was number one in the world was probably Fred Perry in the 1930s.
[Killing me]

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