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HappyHibby
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Review of 2024 on BBC2 at 11:30...

some interesting looking matches on Monday imv...

Fearnley v Fonseca...

Fritz v Mp.Perricard...

Kartal v Ostapenko...

Lys v Yuan...

Danilovic v Zhang...

Badosa v Boulter...

Pavlyuchenkova v Tomljanovic...

Putintseva v Anisimova...

Vondrousova v Kessler...

and that's just day 1.
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Report LoyalHoncho July 12, 2025 5:21 PM BST
Get her off, somebody.
Report HappyHibby July 12, 2025 5:28 PM BST
well done Anisimova...

could easily have not done the interview and nobody would have blamed her...

showed a bit of guts doing it imv.
Report LoyalHoncho July 12, 2025 5:33 PM BST
Rambled on.
Report HappyHibby July 12, 2025 5:43 PM BST
she was upset...

probably very nervous...

lost her Dad when she was young...

i think she was thinking about him tbh.
Report LoyalHoncho July 12, 2025 5:44 PM BST
Fair enough.  Can understand that.
Report HappyHibby July 12, 2025 5:45 PM BST
just shows you how little tennis Claire Balding actually watches...

you never see Iga Swiatek doing that sort of celebration...

absolute nonsense....

she's done it in Paris Claire...

wake up ffs.
Report LoyalHoncho July 12, 2025 5:46 PM BST
Did I hear right - £3M to the winner?
Report HappyHibby July 12, 2025 5:47 PM BST
i thought it was 2 point something but if they say 3 then 3 it will be.
Report Hayden July 12, 2025 5:48 PM BST
They can thank Billie Jean King for the majority of that Honch   Grin
Report Hayden July 12, 2025 5:51 PM BST
Pretty standard prize money now tbh , US Open Ladies $3.6 million and you get half a million for reaching the QF in that one.
Report HappyHibby July 12, 2025 5:53 PM BST
GENTLEMEN'S AND LADIES' SINGLES

Winner 3,000,000 3,000,000 11.1 %

Runner-up 1,520,000 1,520,000 8.6 %

Semi-Finalists 775,000 1,550,000 8.4 %

Quarter-Finalists 400,000 1,600,000 6.7 %

Fourth Round 240,000 1,920,000 6.2 %

Third Round 152,000 2,432,000 6.3 %

Second Round 99,000 3,168,000 6.5 %

First Round 66,000 4,224,000 10.0 %

TOTAL PER EVENT 19,414,000 8.2 %
Report HappyHibby July 12, 2025 5:55 PM BST
680k for winning the ladies and gents doubles...
Report HappyHibby July 12, 2025 5:56 PM BST
total prizemoney £53.5 million...
Report LoyalHoncho July 12, 2025 5:58 PM BST
Yes, Hayden.
Report SlippyBlue July 12, 2025 10:15 PM BST
Sinner has gone favourite against Alcaraz.


Well well, I'm a bit surprised about that I must say.
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 7:21 AM BST
very slightly Slippy...

i did see Alcaraz at 1.87 on Friday night right enough...

personally i've got Alcaraz slight favourite...

i just think his touch around the net is unbelievable and we could be talking about minute details today...

i just hope we get something close to a repeat of the Paris final.
Report oneten July 13, 2025 9:00 AM BST
Should b3 a fantastic game .
I would have Alcaraz as the winner though looking at their games to the final sinner looks the stronger , hardly dropped a set all tournament and matches against seeded players , whereas Alcaraz has been playing unseeded opponents and has dropped sets in most matches.


However I dont feel that tells the whole story.
Sinner was out on the ropes and about to be out for the count when his opponent retired through injury so we know he is beatable.

Alcaraz keeps finding and warming to the task in hand and remains unbeaten on the grass at Wimbledon combined with managing to beat Sinner every time they've met over the last 2 years, means I would have to have Alcaraz as favourite.

Here's hoping we have a humdinger of a game !
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Report oneten July 13, 2025 9:04 AM BST
Sorry, I meant to say ,

"Good morning all "  Happy
Report HoratioNelson July 13, 2025 9:09 AM BST
Good morning OT.

I have both doubled up with PSG outright and also PSG within 90 mins.
Sinner for me....nothing fuels the fire like a revenge win. Enjoy Wink
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 9:46 AM BST
Hoping for a five setter! Not like yesterday’s non event!
Report leif July 13, 2025 10:14 AM BST
Beatiful weather yet the forum couch potatoes are hoping for 4 or so hours of boring Racket ballCryCrazy

Report Delashay July 13, 2025 11:02 AM BST
Can someone remind me what time the match is?
Report HoratioNelson July 13, 2025 11:14 AM BST
1600 Del
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 11:17 AM BST
Thank you Horatio Happy Yes of course it’s 4pm still groggy from last night! But  plenty of time to get out and enjoy the sun shine.  Ciao for now!Cool
Report HoratioNelson July 13, 2025 11:18 AM BST
Enjoy mate Wink
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 12:43 PM BST
Good aftie all.
Will dip in and out leif.  Most certainly won’t be glued for four hours.  Gave up yesterday at 3-0 first set.
Looking for a great match like everyone else.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 3:43 PM BST
Cheers Horatio, same as!

Great photoshop work Leif, loved the touch of the bibs! Very funny! Laugh
Can I just say that you have the same lack consistency as referees and Var with how you point out threads being on the wrong forum! As pointed out yesterday! Grin
Shame you’d be worried about upsetting the in crowd!

Like the chilled out horse  too but maybe time to get off your screen (computer) and out the house!

This threads goi g to be popping up again!
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 4:09 PM BST
i'd have had the betting the other way around personally...

anyway hope it's a cracker.
Report acey deucy July 13, 2025 4:11 PM BST
Never had a penny on Yesterdays Racing....Saved it for Sinner.WinkCool
Report lead on July 13, 2025 4:19 PM BST
Alcaraz for me...would prefer Cotter on commentary..
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 4:20 PM BST
Thank God he is absent.  Verbal tosh imo.
Enjoy the game.
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 4:25 PM BST
Andre's got a seat in the Royal Box ?

pity he ain't in the commentary box imv.
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 4:28 PM BST
that forehand from Alcaraz is a brilliant shot...

sliding away to Sinner's backhand...

right in the corner...

cracking shot imv.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 4:32 PM BST
Yes he got a tie and jacket! I’d hoped that he would be too!

Sinner looks tense to me.
Report lead on July 13, 2025 4:33 PM BST
Loved Agassi's gentle admonition of Castle's fussing over the contents of the Royal box...agree with hibby .pity he's not on today
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 4:49 PM BST
Sinner’s serve out wide is lethal! Agassi too cool to play that geeks game! Grin
Report HoratioNelson July 13, 2025 4:51 PM BST
I see Sadiq Khan is in attendance.....Lets hope he doesn't forget his ULEZ payment the horrible little smurf
Report acey deucy July 13, 2025 4:54 PM BST
Wish i could change my bet Alcaraz looks good.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 4:54 PM BST
Glad I never saw, “My dad was a bus driver!”

I was just going to ask Acey how’s the nerves?
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 4:56 PM BST
Sinner did look tight until he broke and then that point on his serve took him back. Was playing far too short to the Spaniards forehand (inside the serve line.)
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 4:58 PM BST
This a real test now the nerves and it’s all on red or black in this one for Sinner.
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 4:58 PM BST
just go in again acey...?
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 5:06 PM BST
Some last point that, he’s gotta forget that or he’s screwed, go again. Never seen him phased but putting that one shot long after admiring his serve Sad
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 5:08 PM BST
the athleticism of Alcaraz is pretty amazing at times...

strikes me as the sort of lad who would be good at most sports.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 5:23 PM BST
Sinner was 30-0 up again on Alcaraz’s serve that has to give him confidence that he can be broke having done so twice already.
He’s deffo messing up any shots where he thinks too long.

Alcaraz is finding some mad angles and lovely drop touches to wind Sinner up!
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 5:54 PM BST
1-1...

bubbling up nicely now after a slowish start imv.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:31 PM BST
That serve outside! Couldn’t believe he’d only had 3 aces!
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:34 PM BST
This must be torture Acey!
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 6:40 PM BST
Alcaraz needs some magic here...

a bit flat imv.
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 6:41 PM BST
Stop wobbling acey. Think positive.
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 6:41 PM BST
Stop wobbling acey. Think positive.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:41 PM BST
It’s the constant pressure on his serve he’s almost been broken more times than he has, but it builds.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:42 PM BST
Sinner is better playing on instinct, when he thinks he trucks it!
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:44 PM BST
Hibbs and Loyal you for Alcaraz?
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 6:45 PM BST
i was hoping Sinner would win Delshay...

i don't really like the same folk winning all the time.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:46 PM BST
I’m the same only for that, he’s young and will win loads more. Body language isn’t good for the Spaniard now.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:48 PM BST
Leif it’s 2 hours plus! And we’re here with beers, bibs and ribs! Laugh Can you add that in the next photoshop edition?!
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 6:51 PM BST
looking bleak for Alcaraz fans now imv.
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 6:55 PM BST
looks like Alcaraz is going to try and hit his way out of trouble here...
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 6:56 PM BST
He’s like a darts player speeding up
Report impossible123 July 13, 2025 6:59 PM BST
Sinner is more measured and patient; Alcaraz is rushed and impatient. As such, made a few bad decisions with his shots.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:01 PM BST
Hi impossible enjoying? Acey is your jam tart ok?!
Report impossible123 July 13, 2025 7:10 PM BST
Ya, this is a prelude to the annihilation of Chelsea by PSG (hopefully).
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 7:16 PM BST
massive hold for Sinner that....
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:16 PM BST
Go acey, GO!
Report impossible123 July 13, 2025 7:18 PM BST
Alcaraz looked dispirited, almost beaten even.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:19 PM BST

Jul 13, 2025 -- 7:10PM, impossible123 wrote:


Ya, this is a prelude to the annihilation of Chelsea by PSG (hopefully).


Fingers crossed! GrinLaughLaugh

Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:21 PM BST
I’ve been in the kitchen cooking.  Don’t need to watch it.  I know from the response of the crowd who wins every point!
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:22 PM BST
What you cooking  up?!
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:23 PM BST
Who shouts out on championship point?
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:24 PM BST
Great match and I’d thought you’d be collecting Acey hope you kept your nerve.
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:24 PM BST
Brilliant.  Well played son.  You beat him and the crowd!
Report Hayden July 13, 2025 7:24 PM BST
Wouldn't mind guessing that French final loss will be freshened up in Sinner's head for a few seconds at least , remembering he was matched at 1.01 in at Roland Garros so after winning in Australia he knows he should be going to America in search of the calendar slam.

Couldn't be expected to match the French final but top notch sport all the same   Happy
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:25 PM BST
I’m sick of seeing another celeb Seal trying to get the limelight back
Report impossible123 July 13, 2025 7:25 PM BST
Well deserved Sinner! You're the better player throughout.
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:25 PM BST
Various things.  Chicken dinner, Sinner winner!
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:27 PM BST
Pat Cash has a lot to answer for.  Climbing Mount Wimbledon is now de rigour.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:27 PM BST
Hah enjoy and seeing Chelsea get rooted! Laugh
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:29 PM BST
lol.  You would think so but funnier things have happened.  Well done Team Alcaraz - class and dignity.
Report Clerkmore July 13, 2025 7:29 PM BST
Why are they cheering a drugs cheat at Wimbledon?
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:31 PM BST
Oh dear.  A wet blanket has joined the fray.
I wish this crowd would shut up!  They can’t help but shout out their drivel.
Report HappyHibby July 13, 2025 7:31 PM BST
full credit to Sinner there...

Alcaraz looked a bit flat to me...

as Andrew Castle said it's good for the rivalry that Sinner won today...

didn't match the Paris match but as Hayden said that would be pretty impossible tbh...

the clay makes a huge difference when it comes to rally length...

enjoyed it all the same...

tennis is the winner.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:32 PM BST
Mo Fareh was in the royal box yesterday! LaughLaughLaugh
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:32 PM BST
Poor Kate.  She’s like a matchstick.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:33 PM BST
Oh and the po-lak that won yesterday WAS done for drugs! LaughLaughLaugh
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:36 PM BST
Sinner is the perfect specimen of what enhancing drugs can do! Laugh

Matchstick man has benefits for steroids! I’d read an article about how scientist's have discovered a link between no calf muscles and old timers, maybe Sinner was doing leg lifts?!
Report swiftynifty July 13, 2025 7:39 PM BST
'I hope we see you back here...???'

Jeez, where do they get these interviewers? He's 23 ffs.
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:41 PM BST
Have a good evening all enjoy your dinner Loyal and winnings Acey ;) and anyone else who’s looking to see Chekscum get pummelled Laugh
Report LoyalHoncho July 13, 2025 7:47 PM BST
Nice one!
Report Delashay July 13, 2025 7:53 PM BST
HappyGrin
Report acey deucy July 13, 2025 11:01 PM BST
Acey nose his Tennis.Cool
Report GLASGOWCALLING July 13, 2025 11:19 PM BST
Oh dear a few infidel PSG followers were scuttled here. Stick to the Wiff Waff imo.
Report Delashay July 14, 2025 10:33 AM BST

Jul 13, 2025 -- 7:41PM, Delashay wrote:


Have a good evening all enjoy your dinner Loyal and winnings Acey ;) and anyone else who’s looking to see Chekscum get pummelled


That went well! LaughLaughLaugh Still it’s better when your own teams shoves the Blue flag!

Report Delashay July 14, 2025 10:34 AM BST

Jul 13, 2025 -- 7:29PM, LoyalHoncho wrote:


lol.

Report Delashay July 14, 2025 10:35 AM BST
LoyalHoncho • July 13, 2025 7:29 PM BST
lol.  You would think so but funnier things have happened.  Well done Team Alcaraz - class and dignity.

Wise words! Head in hands man! Laugh
Report LoyalHoncho July 14, 2025 2:49 PM BST
Astonishing really.  I always remember my old man telling me how Germany had lost 6 or 7-1 to Hungary in a World Cup Finals group game? Then beat them in the final 4 or 5-1.
Report Delashay July 14, 2025 3:07 PM BST
It is and it’s why I don’t bet on it. See it often. The year Germany slaughtered England 5-1 I was looking at odds saying to my dad we will get stuffed.  He said can’t bet against my team.  OST of us are like that I think. The odds were crazy something like 150, 200/1.
I didn’t do it and was more sick at missing the opportunity! 

If I think a team is being hyped then I’ll still look at the odds but they are seldom like that. But always better than the win odds offered.
Report brandyontherocks July 14, 2025 4:47 PM BST
Not sure what match your dad watched, Honcho.
Report LoyalHoncho July 14, 2025 5:16 PM BST
I got the scores wrong but the story is the same.  Having looked it up Hungary won 8-3 then lost the final 2-3.
Report HappyHibby July 22, 2025 6:30 AM BST
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyr7e394p0o

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Plans to almost triple the size of the Wimbledon tennis site are set to proceed after a campaign group's legal challenge against the decision to grant planning permission was dismissed by a High Court judge.

The proposal which had been approved by the Greater London Authority (GLA) includes thirty-eight new tennis courts and an 8-thousand seat stadium.

Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) had argued in court the development on the former Wimbledon Park Golf Club in west London was unlawful as the proposed land was protected.

Deborah Jevans, chairwoman of the All England Club, said she was "delighted" with the decision while the SWP indicated it may challenge the ruling.

Barristers for SWP told the High Court earlier this month that the decision to approve the plans was "irrational" and should be quashed, as Wimbledon Park - a Grade II*-listed heritage site partly designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown - was covered by restrictions on how it could be used.

The GLA and the All England Club defended the challenge, with the court told that the decision was a "planning judgment properly exercised" and that the restrictions were not "material".

Dismissing the challenge, Mr Justice Saini said: "In short, the defendant's decision on the relevance of deliverability, applying to both the statutory trust and the restrictive covenants, was a planning judgment rationally exercised and having regard to appropriate and relevant factors."

The proposals would see seven maintenance buildings, access points, and an area of parkland with permissive public access constructed, in addition to the courts and associated infrastructure.

It would also allow the club to host Wimbledon qualifiers on site.

Following the ruling on Monday, SWP said it has been "advised that it should" seek to challenge the decision, and that it believed the GLA "did make a significant legal error in the way it dealt with the special legal status of the park".

After Merton Council approved the plans, but Wandsworth Council rejected them, City Hall took charge of the application.

Sir Sadiq Khan recused himself from the process after previously expressing public support for the development and planning permission for the scheme was granted by Jules Pipe, London's deputy mayor for planning.

He said that the proposals "would facilitate very significant benefits" which "clearly outweigh the harm".

Ms Jevans said at the time that the proposals would deliver 27 acres (11 hectares) of "newly accessible parkland for the community".

In written submissions, Sasha White KC said that the All England Club acquired the freehold for the golf course in 1993 and the leasehold in 2021.

The barrister told the two-day hearing that the land was subject to a "statutory trust requiring it to be kept available for public recreation use" and that when the freehold was acquired, the club entered into "restrictive covenants" governing its use.

He said this meant any plans could not "restrict its use so as not to impair the appreciation of the general public of the extent or openness of the golf course land".

He continued that separate High Court proceedings were ongoing over whether a statutory trust existed, and that if it does, the All England Club has "accepted" that this is "incompatible with the development of the proposal".

A hearing in that case is due to take place in January 2026.

In court, he said: "You could not have a more protected piece of land within the planning system, frankly."

Mark Westmoreland Smith KC, for the GLA, said in written submissions that Mr Pipe received "detailed advice" over the "relevance" of the "alleged" trust and covenants, and made his decision on the assumption that they existed.

The barrister said that the decision was a "planning judgment properly exercised and having regard to the appropriate and relevant factors".

He said that planning officers "advised that the alleged obstacle" that the restrictions would present "was not itself a material consideration".

In his written arguments, Russell Harris KC, for the All England Club, said that planning officers "acknowledged and had regard to" the trust and covenants.

In his 31-page ruling, Mr Justice Saini said that the authority "properly considered the implications of the development on public open space".

Christopher Coombe, director of SWP, said following the judgment: "This judgment would, if it stands, set a worrying precedent for the unwanted development of protected green belt and public open spaces around London and across the country."

Sir Sadiq said the ruling was "welcome news" that will "cement Wimbledon's reputation as the greatest tennis competition in the world".

Ms Jevans said: "It is clear that we have a robust planning permission that enables us to create a permanent home for the Wimbledon qualifying competition as well as delivering 27 acres of beautiful new parkland for local people, providing public access to land that has been a private golf course for over 100 years."
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