Wimbledon 2025...

Get her off, somebody.

well done Anisimova...

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

showed a bit of guts doing it imv.

Rambled on.

she was upset...

probably very nervous...

lost her Dad when she was young...

i think she was thinking about him tbh.

Fair enough.  Can understand that.

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.

Did I hear right - £3M to the winner?

i thought it was 2 point something but if they say 3 then 3 it will be.

They can thank Billie Jean King for the majority of that Honch   

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.

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 %

680k for winning the ladies and gents doubles...

total prizemoney £53.5 million...

Yes, Hayden.

Sinner has gone favourite against Alcaraz.


Well well, I'm a bit surprised about that I must say.

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.

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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Sorry, I meant to say ,

"Good morning all " 

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

Hoping for a five setter! Not like yesterday’s non event!

Beatiful weather yet the forum couch potatoes are hoping for 4 or so hours of boring Racket ball

Can someone remind me what time the match is?

1600 Del

Thank you Horatio 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!

Enjoy mate

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.

Cheers Horatio, same as!

Great photoshop work Leif, loved the touch of the bibs! Very funny!
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!
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!

i'd have had the betting the other way around personally...

anyway hope it's a cracker.

Never had a penny on Yesterdays Racing....Saved it for Sinner.

Alcaraz for me...would prefer Cotter on commentary..

Thank God he is absent.  Verbal tosh imo.
Enjoy the game.

Andre's got a seat in the Royal Box ?

pity he ain't in the commentary box imv.

that forehand from Alcaraz is a brilliant shot...

sliding away to Sinner's backhand...

right in the corner...

cracking shot imv.

Yes he got a tie and jacket! I’d hoped that he would be too!

Sinner looks tense to me.

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

Sinner’s serve out wide is lethal! Agassi too cool to play that geeks game!

I see Sadiq Khan is in attendance.....Lets hope he doesn't forget his ULEZ payment the horrible little smurf

Wish i could change my bet Alcaraz looks good.

Glad I never saw, “My dad was a bus driver!”

I was just going to ask Acey how’s the nerves?

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.)

This a real test now the nerves and it’s all on red or black in this one for Sinner.

just go in again acey...?

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

the athleticism of Alcaraz is pretty amazing at times...

strikes me as the sort of lad who would be good at most sports.

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!

1-1...

bubbling up nicely now after a slowish start imv.

That serve outside! Couldn’t believe he’d only had 3 aces!

This must be torture Acey!

Alcaraz needs some magic here...

a bit flat imv.

Stop wobbling acey. Think positive.

Stop wobbling acey. Think positive.

It’s the constant pressure on his serve he’s almost been broken more times than he has, but it builds.

Sinner is better playing on instinct, when he thinks he trucks it!

Hibbs and Loyal you for Alcaraz?

i was hoping Sinner would win Delshay...

i don't really like the same folk winning all the time.

I’m the same only for that, he’s young and will win loads more. Body language isn’t good for the Spaniard now.

Leif it’s 2 hours plus! And we’re here with beers, bibs and ribs! Can you add that in the next photoshop edition?!

looking bleak for Alcaraz fans now imv.

looks like Alcaraz is going to try and hit his way out of trouble here...

He’s like a darts player speeding up

Sinner is more measured and patient; Alcaraz is rushed and impatient. As such, made a few bad decisions with his shots.

Hi impossible enjoying? Acey is your jam tart ok?!

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

massive hold for Sinner that....

Go acey, GO!

Alcaraz looked dispirited, almost beaten even.

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

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

Fingers crossed!

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!

What you cooking  up?!

Who shouts out on championship point?

Great match and I’d thought you’d be collecting Acey hope you kept your nerve.

Brilliant.  Well played son.  You beat him and the crowd!

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   

I’m sick of seeing another celeb Seal trying to get the limelight back

Well deserved Sinner! You're the better player throughout.

Various things.  Chicken dinner, Sinner winner!

Pat Cash has a lot to answer for.  Climbing Mount Wimbledon is now de rigour.

Hah enjoy and seeing Chelsea get rooted!

lol.  You would think so but funnier things have happened.  Well done Team Alcaraz - class and dignity.

Why are they cheering a drugs cheat at Wimbledon?

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.

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.

Mo Fareh was in the royal box yesterday!

Poor Kate.  She’s like a matchstick.

Oh and the po-lak that won yesterday WAS done for drugs!

Sinner is the perfect specimen of what enhancing drugs can do!

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?!

'I hope we see you back here...???'

Jeez, where do they get these interviewers? He's 23 ffs.

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

Nice one!

Acey nose his Tennis.

Oh dear a few infidel PSG followers were scuttled here. Stick to the Wiff Waff imo.

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! Still it’s better when your own teams shoves the Blue flag!

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

lol.

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!

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.

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.

Not sure what match your dad watched, Honcho.

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.

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."