Tennis Talk 2024: Vol 21 (Wimbledon)

25% 1st serve points won, that's scary

Fritz been playing like he's never rallied against slice before. Fabrice Santoro could beat him the way he's playing right now !

SamuelMertensBertens • July 10, 2024 5:07 PM BST
JM will be so excited about Musetti here.

He's going all the way. The Illusionist is conjuring up a sensational run.

Whenever he goes home he's faced with massive Billboards of Sinner sipping espresso etc. It's his time to shine!

so many ATP mugs. it was Zverev on Monday (sub 1.1), Sinner yesterday (1.13ish) and now Claylor Fritz today

all the mugs reside in the ATP. all the mental giants reside in the WTA!

Jul 10, 2024 -- 2:35PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

wisey would be loving this Osty match !

I wasn't loving it. BK neutralised Osty's big game and dictated much of the match

BK always beating your faves

Jul 10, 2024 -- 5:50PM, Journeyman wrote:

SamuelMertensBertens • July 10, 2024 5:07 PM BSTJM will be so excited about Musetti here. He's going all the way. The Illusionist is conjuring up a sensational run.Whenever he goes home he's faced with massive Billboards of Sinner sipping espresso etc. It's his time to shine!

and it was Berrettini before that. Musetti as handsome as Berrettini and way more handsome than Sinner.

Sinner looks like Plug from the bash streek kids

we get Musetti vs Djokovic again!

30 to win the whole thing.

Musetti has been top 20 before, but it feels like this is the first time he's a top 20 player for real. And with potential for more. I see no reason why he can't learn how to play on hardcourts.

Clare trying to stir. Saying Djoko plays Muuuuuusetti next.

He was 20/1 to win his quarter

Jul 9, 2024 -- 7:08PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

Paolini also says WIMB-LE-DON

is Pao Pao going to win WIMB-LE-DON????????

FFS! BBC interviewer asking BK about Jana now. Rishi must be taking notes so he can make BK cry should she win today.

Marion Bartoli in the Wimbledon studio

At what point does Vekic self implode ?

what a miss

she's had a few now.

that point was huge

crumbling under pressure with that serve

this is drama. Don't think Rybakina is losing sleep over these two though.

What a hold by Donna Kebab, that drop shot at 0-15 showed big balls, and then being MP down!

Rybakina is losing sleep over these two though.

funny I was thinking exactly the same

epic game

Donna crying, she's got nothing leg, keeps leaning in her racquet

fitting way to end it.

nothing left not leg

I think she's alright physically, but Paolinis is better mentally so I give her a slight advantage.

oh wow

SCENES

both are out of challenges!

Donna too tired to celebrate winners!

TBOTAJ for a spot in the Wimbledon final!

Donna made that last challenge just to get a rest, was not even looking at the screen

So bad from Donna, she's absolutely knackered

Donna, you're getting easy 2nd serves and still mugging

this is going to haunt Donna if she doesn't get over the line here.

will there be muggy celebrations before 10 pts?

Paolini just laughing and smilling all the way

Donna with that out of nowhere!

two more Donna!

Has Donna really hit 7 aces, hasn't felt like it

Df coming?

Nice collection of lesbian discussion just on beeb

Gigi & Marion on R5Live is my own personal hell. I tried really heard because they have a faster feed than elsewhere, but I just couldn't take it anymore.

*hard

Rybakina looks painfully thin

BK so nervous.

there's a big POJD coming. ww better cover his ears.

her random loud shouting is irritaiting and forcing me to take my ear phones out, hoping Elena wins

she's pretty annoying. but my outright could do with her taking Elena out, so go BK!

although BK vs Paolini would be the most random final I can think of.

*Wimbledon final

I red all over with Babora in the outright, one of only 3  quarter finalists along with Sun and De Minaur I was facing a loss with, did not consider Krejcikova at all, don't know why, as Pat Cash said at the beginning she has a perfect game for grass. Once Fernandez went out I saw the light again and wondered why I thought Leyla could have beaten Ryba in my projected draw, didn't even meet, got carried away by her form at Eastbourne.

Bartoli - Lisicki was a bit of random final

Raducanu-Fernandez and Vinci-Pennetta has to be the two most random finals ever in slams, Emma's probably number 1 given she was a qualifier and no qualifier had ever won a slam before

150th v 73rd - Emma v Leyla - that has to be the highest combined rankings of two slam finalists ever
26th v 43rd - Flavia v Vinci

Bartoli vs Lisicki the closest I could think of, but Lisicki a former semifinalist and Bartoli a former finalist. If you include other slams it has to be Emma vs Leylah.

oh boy!

outright market making Ryba 1.13 to win against Paolini

might be a few empty seats for a Krejcikova - Paolini final, the final the broadcasters didn't want.

or ticket scalpers.

Would be peak WTA again though, like Vondrousova coming from nowhere to win Wimbledon, now Krejcikova losing round 1 Eastbourne then winning Wimbledon.

BK keeping her composure, Rybakina not so much.

vs Jasmine "never won a grass match" Paolini

Bet the Czech tennis chief whoever that is, isn't on 500k a year like the LTA chiefs past and present who can't produce a Wimbledon finalists for the life of them, yet the Czechs churn them out

Annabel starting to dress her age, looking like a granny

Jana mentioned.
1.01 landed.

that question landed the money shot, tears down the cheeks

Rishi seething Annabel made her cry when he couldn't.

AELTC should get a hologram of Jana ready for Saturday, in case BK wins.

little did Krejcikova and Paolini know when they were nobodies when they met in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open in 2018 when they were 128th and  156th in the world, that one day they'd met in the Wimbledon final. Bet there was 1 man and his dog watching that match, and even the dog was probably having a kip

Donna

Forum very silent for a men's wimbledon semis..? I think there are forum issues?

novak's time-off before wimbledon was clearly productive

Jul 12, 2024 -- 4:17PM, stu wrote:

Forum very silent for a men's wimbledon semis..? I think there are forum issues?

Been down for ages for most of us. Not sure what the issue was !

Musetti holds to save off 3 MPs Nole !

has there ever been a player more hated than djokovic? even jimmy connors was loved at the end of his career

Crowd are very dumb and thought the violin was for them

We're back. But the Illusionist is gone

Log in problems solved?

Novak's crime was refusing to read the script in 2019 and not letting King Roger pull off an epic win in front of Kate Middleton.
They'll never ever forgive him for that.

I was going to post an updated most famous players in the UK list, but all the big names have flopped so there is no need for one. Will give it another try next year when a healthy Sabalenka wins the whole thing and KT makes semis and wins everyone's heart.

Novak's crime was refusing to read the script in 2019 and not letting King Roger pull off an epic win in front of Kate Middleton.

no he's always been unpopular

yeah, the bigger problem is that he demands the love and that's not how he's going to get it. If he wasn't so thin skinned and accepted there will always be some haters out there instead of going on attack because everyone doesn't love him, he would get more of the love he so deeply wants. The RUUUUUUUUNE stuff was nothing, and could have easily have been ignored, but oh no he had to go and make a big deal of it because he felt disrespected.

Forum working again , hooray,I had plenty to say on poor Donna ,but I'm over it now .Her probably only chance of slam success .Keys must be thinking the same.Donna stayed classy at the end and in post match press ,one of the good girls.

Jul 13, 2024 -- 1:26PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

yeah, the bigger problem is that he demands the love and that's not how he's going to get it. If he wasn't so thin skinned and accepted there will always be some haters out there instead of going on attack because everyone doesn't love him, he would get more of the love he so deeply wants. The RUUUUUUUUNE stuff was nothing, and could have easily have been ignored, but oh no he had to go and make a big deal of it because he felt disrespected.

That was the best moment of the tournament for me though !

" Have a gooooood night ! "

" Can' touch me ! "

it was hilarious and I agree, but not in his best interest if love is what he wants.

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Rafa in Båstad (don't hate on me for the long URL)

OMG, Nadal vs Borg!
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deleted, but https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSXw2nFWEAE2sLR?format=jpg&name=small

Hantuchova is guest today on German Prime Video. She does speak very passable German.

Interestingly she speaks German much more with an American accent than a classical slavic/Eastern European one.

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Purcell/Thompson beaten !!

Everything Daniela does is lasor guided and amazing so I'm not surprised her German is gut

Paolini is really pretty glammed up!
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