peasy23 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 2 minutes ago, TheScarf said: The folk in the comments are spot on. This isn't 1981, grass court matches aren't over in 2 hours now because they aren't serve and volley fests. Matches now last over 3 hours regularly, even straight setters, and squeezing 2 men's and 1 women's match in during the 9 hour window is difficult, especially as they have to close the roof. Get all courts starting at 12. I watched the end of the Azarenka/Svitolina match just to see what would happen. Azarenka waved at Svitolina, who immediately put her racket up at her in acknowledgement, and that was it. I don't think the crowd saw that and booed Azarenka off, when it was well documented before hand that there wouldn't be a handshake at the end of the match. Azarenka was spot on in her press conference, she respected Svitolina's decision, still acknowledged each other at the end, and reckoned by that time of night all the crowd were pissed and didn't know what was going on. I don't see why they can't do what other slams do, start at 12 and schedule 3 matches, but say that the 3rd one won't start before 6pm or so. As they said last night during Djokovic v Hurkacz, it must be very frustrating for the players having no real idea when they will start, and then by the time they did start they are already thinking this match won't get finished tonight. I watched that match and it was clear that Azarenka waved her racket, commentary team all spotted it too. I did see one tweet from someone who saw Azarenka wave, but didn't see Svitolina respond due to the umpire's chair being in the way. Obviously the whole crowd weren't unsighted like that though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 1 minute ago, peasy23 said: I don't see why they can't do what other slams do, start at 12 and schedule 3 matches, but say that the 3rd one won't start before 6pm or so. As they said last night during Djokovic v Hurkacz, it must be very frustrating for the players having no real idea when they will start, and then by the time they did start they are already thinking this match won't get finished tonight. I watched that match and it was clear that Azarenka waved her racket, commentary team all spotted it too. I did see one tweet from someone who saw Azarenka wave, but didn't see Svitolina respond due to the umpire's chair being in the way. Obviously the whole crowd weren't unsighted like that though. Aye she definitely waved which was immediately returned by Svitolina. The press conference was the usual from the Nigels, trying to rile the player up with daft questions after they've had the situation explained to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Heliums Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 15 hours ago, Savage Henry said: Anyone been to Wimbledon? Savage Henrietta, having never once expressed an interest in tennis at all, has suggested going. I assume it’s a Glastonbury style clusterfuck? Anyone with experience? IMO it's way, way better than you think it's going to be. If you're queuing, it's really well organised. We went down on the train, camped overnight – and got tickets for a show court the next day. Definitely worth doing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 16 hours ago, Savage Henry said: Anyone been to Wimbledon? Savage Henrietta, having never once expressed an interest in tennis at all, has suggested going. I assume it’s a Glastonbury style clusterfuck? Anyone with experience? I am not sure you mean by Glastonbury clusterfuck - but to get tickets you need to register for the ballot. You are then randomly picked for tickets and you then have a three day time window to purchase your allocated tickets. Tickets that aren't sold get re-allocated to the queue, so even without tickets you can join the queue and you may end up with something better than the grounds pass. The grounds pass will get you access to every court apart from the show courts - Centre, 1 and 2. A grounds pass is good in the first few days as you will have plenty opportunity to see top players, later on in the tournament you're only likely to see doubles jobbers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 2 hours ago, peasy23 said: I don't see why they can't do what other slams do, start at 12 and schedule 3 matches, but say that the 3rd one won't start before 6pm or so. As they said last night during Djokovic v Hurkacz, it must be very frustrating for the players having no real idea when they will start, and then by the time they did start they are already thinking this match won't get finished tonight. Even starting at 1pm would have seen the third set likely to have finished, Novak would have rolled him over 6-3 in the third set. None of the other slams have a curfew. Night sessions in Australia don't start until 7:30pm and matches are regularly finishing at 2am. The tennis players generate the money for Wimbledon but here they are catering for their hospitality customers to get their champagne brunches so they don't start Centre until 1:30pm. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Four interesting looking mens last 16 ties coming up this afternoon/evening: Eubanks been the story of the tournament so far. I assumed he was a youngster when I seen he had beat Norrie as had never heard the name before, he is not, he's 27. He had never done anything on the tour before this season and was travelling with Donald Young as his hitting partner before turning into a grass court specialist a couple of months ago. I fancy him to upset Tsitsipas today. Medvedev normally sulks his way through the clay and grass court season before getting back to his hard court happy place, but he looks to be playing well and seems unusually happy with himself, looks a cert for the quarter finals at least. Dimitrov and Rune will be fantastic. Doesn't seem that long ago that Dimitrov was the next big thing, he won Junior Wimbledon in 2008 and got to the Wimbledon semis in 2014. Seemed like he was a certain major winner at some point, it never quite happened. He's 32 now, but playing very well and smacked Tiafoe off the court in the last round. I think he will beat one of the current next big things, Rune. No question the match of the day is last up on centre, I think the winner of that will play Djokovic in the final. Berrettini reached the final in 2021 but has been struggling so badly with fitness and form for the last 18 months that he's not even seeded here. What a tough route as a result, he has beaten both De Minaur and Zverev in straight sets for the right have a go at the number 1 seed in the last 16. He's the only person in this half of the draw good enough to beat Alcaraz IMO. I think the Spaniard will beat him in five sets, probably finishing some time tomorrow afternoon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 What a match that was. The big American Chris Eubanks has beaten Tsitsipas in five sets. Came into this a virtual unknown and will now play Medvedev in the quarter final. No reason he can't beat him too, his big serving game is built for grass. Tsitsipas proving again what we knew already, he's just not very good on grass. French Open finalist, Australian open finalist, never even made it to the quarters at Wimbledon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 I like Kvitova but she is honking today. On going to Wimbers, go if you can. It's great. We queued one year, got in, and a bloke leaving gave us his Centre Court tickets. We've got Court One tickets for Friday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 It's a right pain in the tits that the BBC can't just put a game on BBC2 then leave it there all the way through, instead of having to switch channels a few times. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 1 minute ago, peasy23 said: It's a right pain in the tits that the BBC can't just put a game on BBC2 then leave it there all the way through, instead of having to switch channels a few times. Even when doing it through iPlayer they can’t show a smooth broadcast, pretty poor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Berrettini took the first set but Alcaraz came back to level it and has just broke to go 2-1 ahead in the 3rd. Very good game so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Alcaraz well on top now and goes 2-1 ahead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, peasy23 said: It's a right pain in the tits that the BBC can't just put a game on BBC2 then leave it there all the way through, instead of having to switch channels a few times. Aye it’s becoming annoying. Noticed myself doing it loads yesterday. Edit - and when they do switch channels, it goes to fucking Clare Balding in the studio instead of the live fucking tennis match we’re trying to watch. Edited July 10, 2023 by TheScarf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 On 09/07/2023 at 17:29, Savage Henry said: Anyone been to Wimbledon? Savage Henrietta, having never once expressed an interest in tennis at all, has suggested going. I assume it’s a Glastonbury style clusterfuck? Anyone with experience? I happened to be in London at time Wimbledon 10 years ago with my son meeting up with friends from US. We joined the queue later in in the day, watched a bit on the hill and got some resale court one tickets. Watched the end of a woman's match with the would be winner that year. I wouldn't go out of my way to go but was nice enough way spend few hours. It's the one thing I wish I could've arranged for my granny to go to while she was still fit and able. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Comfortable win in 4 sets for Alcaraz despite a couple of wobbles when serving for the match. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 2 hours ago, peasy23 said: It's a right pain in the tits that the BBC can't just put a game on BBC2 then leave it there all the way through, instead of having to switch channels a few times. The BBC are hopeless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Aye the BBC’s coverage of live sport is so shite. Constantly having to jump between BBC1/2/iPlayer/Red button. Fuck off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Rublev takes the first set against Djokovic. It couldn’t be, could it? Probably not but at least we have a match on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Lex said: Rublev takes the first set against Djokovic. It couldn’t be, could it? Probably not but at least we have a match on. Feel dirty having to root for Djokovic here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 A pair of c***s imo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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