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Lol BBC are a joke, are they showing the ladies QF on court 1? Nope they are showing old man doubles
 The sooner this corporation lose all live sport the better it will be for everyone! |
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you all have a choice what to watch ffs
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In fairness, I don't mind the court switching thing. If they're showing something on the main channels, it makes little sense to show the same something on the red button as well. The 'variety' reason is actually a pretty good one.
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'Who would have thought it,' says Sue. 'A game that started at 2.10, gets called off at 7.45pm' - err, anyone bother to check the weather forecast. Dry all morning too. An utter insult to the people who paid fortunes for Court 1 tickets today - not only do they not see the game finished, but the other game scheduled for Court 1 moves to Centre Court. Why do we accept it as a nation?
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Well that is the risk you take if you buy tickets to Wimbledon. In olden days, none of the Court 1 matches would have been played anywhere, so they haven't exactly lost out. I think asking 'why do we accept it as a nation' is perhaps a touch OTT....
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You've clearly never camped overnight, Cooee, and queued all morning for showcourt tickets, and got a Court 1 ticket. It could easily be resolved by starting the matches earlier. Time and again, they seem to disregard the weather forecast which today would have showed them, dry in the morning, rain on and off for remainder of day. Court 1 ticket holders from today should have their storming of the Bastille moment after yet another day of farcical scheduling by bumbling official-dom.
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Ther's a quarter final going on and there showing farkin highlights !!!
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I do agree on earlier starting times. Although it probably wouldn't have helped today - wasn't it pouring it down for at least an hour before play started? As I understood it, people were quite shocked that it suddenly stopped raining just in time for the tennis to start, as many had expected the start of play to be delayed considerably. (That guffle with the CC roof not having been closed beforehand was a complete joke though.)
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The Beeb are unbelievably incompetent. Do tennis fans want to listen to Inverdale chatting about the day's highlights, or watch a live quarter final?
Theyn should play on the middle Sunday, and morning starts when bad weather around. It was certainly dry at 10am. Would make it a much fairer Slam for players and spectators alike. Would modernise the whole tournament. |
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Well most of the slams have a certain amount of 'unfairness'. How many times in the US Open does one of the finalists have to play a final and a SF on consecutive days, while the other finalist gets a day off. It's just the luck of the draw.
And this has been a very bad year in terms of rainfall in this country. Usually the CC roof would be enough to sort out the backlog. They could certainly relax the starting times, but there are more important things happening in the world. It's not like they haven't got through virtually all of the games today. |
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Yes, but not in a remotely sensible or convenient way. Radwanska match will now re-start for what, the 5th or 6th time today... and now finishing on a different court.
Put a roof on Court 1 ffs - it turns the whole thing into a farce, which is dfitting given the Beeb's coverage. |
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they are going to build one
ffs you seem a right **** you'll be moaning when they've built that, that the other courts don't have one  |
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and you must be about 12 if these rain delays are new to you
the weather can't be controlled |
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Well they do have plans to put in a roof. These things do cost money though, Johnny, and even putting on the CC roof wasn't without controversy. Wimbledon is still quite unusual for being a slam venue that has a roof - the French Open got into quite a backlog this year, due to its lack of a roof, and the US Open always has problems with matches rained off - usually very important ones. How many years now have we seen Monday finals in the US?
One problem with having the roof, is that constantly putting it up becomes too much of a temptation. And, presumably, when Court 1 has a roof, people will complain because matches played on Court 2 etc. have to be rain-delayed, so the whole thing will escalate. This is supposed to be an outdoors tournament, but it could easily become a rather crappy indoors one by default. It's been a very rainy season. That's all. Today hasn't exactly been the end of the world. |
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Ooh, 'Has this ever happened before' beat me to the punch... I like ironically named forum posters!
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Has this ever happened before? 03 Jul 12 21:28
and you must be about 12 if these rain delays are new to you the weather can't be controlled And you must be a total c*ck to throw out insults so happily without offering any semblance of an argument. Of course they are not new - it is a strong argument for the very reason it has gone on for 20+ years there. A roof on Court 1 is a no-brainer. F*ck the cost. It is a far greater cost by turning Wimbledon into a nonsene tourno on years when there is rain about. |
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It's *not* a nonsense tourno! The games went ahead today. They're not back on schedule. And nobody was really disadvantaged. Wimbledon is still advanced in this regard compared to most of the other slam venues.
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Classic matches have been ruined time and time again because they started too late and the light goes by about 9pm. To ask players to complete matches in this stop/start fashion is a nonsense and makes a mockery of Slam tennis. Yes, it's grass, yes, grass gets wet when it rains but a simple solution is a roof on Court 1, and playing on the middle Sunday. Not sure Kirilenko will consider that q/f particularly fair.
At least we no longer have finals completed on a Monday but the scheduling is still outdated and an embarrassment which, as stated previously, is perfectly in keeping with the BBC's coverage. |
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Well in a few years time we will have a roof over court 1, and you can change your name and stop posting these rants. There'll still be unfairnesses, because that's always the case with tournaments - scheduling quirks and mishaps often cause these problems. There'll still be matches postponed because the earlier matches went on too long. And we, the audience, will have to put up with more indoor matches in an outdoor tournament, and with more good matches going on at the same time as other good matches, rather than being able to watch almost everything - as has largely been the case today, since there's often only been one match on at a time.
There are advantages and disadvantages to every situation. You, though, seem to be the sort of person who likes to have a good rage, as though everything has been done on purpose, just to spite tennis players or the audience. (Oh, while we're at it, are you going to make a sizeable contribution to the costs of the roof for Court 1? Saying f*ck the cost is all very well, but somebody does have to pay for these things, and well-run sports clubs do generally have to budget for expensive features - would you rather they borrowed all the money and then raised the ticket prices in order to pay for the interest payments???) |
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I actually agree on the light issue. That Goerges match in the French Open, for instance, was very unsatisfactory. They should have a light meter (as they do in cricket), and when it gets below a certain level, it should be possible for the match to be suspended if either player (or the ump) objects. It would have to be quite a low light level, obviously, but that would get rid of those unfair situations where the players are forced to carry on just in order to finish the day's schedule.
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Yes, of course that was sad to see in the Paris final but Wimbledon is consistently the biggest culprit.
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The US is the biggest culprit. There're so many unfair scheduling issues towards the end of the US Open. And they virtually never finish on the Sunday. If Wimbledon can afford one roof (with plans to fit a second), you'd think the US Open, with all the money sloshing around in that country, could have at least one covered court.
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1988 and 2001 are the only 2 times i can remember the mens final being played on monday
the us open is by the far the worst culprit. ludicrous scheduling which leaves no margin if error if it rains and when it does no court covers and a handful of blokes with tea towels mopping up the courts |
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Well we all seem agreed then - the Yanks are useless ****s. Let's parachute in Johnnyrant to force them to sort it all out...
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this self indulgent sh1t is embarrassing.
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Was that supposed to be dramatic?
Pile of old cack |
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there's absolutely no need to invent some ridiculous narrative when the real one is more interesting.
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