guess I'll be watching on-line at the Wimbledon.com.

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Sloane Stephens lost, as did Verdasco..some notable upsets already...was hoping David would beat the gloomy petulant Brit.

Edited because I thought Tomas had lost...not so.

She just can't seem to get it together...we'll have to pin our hopes on another American woman...the American men are hopeless and will continue to be so for many, many years.

really, I'm just rooting for ANY American, except you know, the "screamer" ha ha.... hope it's going to be a good championships.

First for both...maybe a turning point for them.

won again today. Maybe we have another American lady to watch! She is young and obviously talented

But I'm pretty sure it was someone ranked higher than she is.

of course against Dimitrov there wasn't much of a chance

Wish he were in Rafroid's quarter...

6 - 4, 4 - 6, 6 - 2,

you know where.

Roger breezed through, as did Stan, and Lleyton Hewitt won a tough match...lots of interesting matches today.

He's always been my fave.

Nadal playing now. He does not look very good to me, off somehow? S'OK with me, I would like to see him out early.

Pick butt
Adjust crotch
Pull up shoulders of shirt
Wipe nose to ear, nose to ear

Jesus he makes Marion Bartolli and her little things that she did look like nothing.

Sorry Nadal fans, he just creeps me out and I don't care much for his style of play either.

Ugh.....

He loses it totally once that happens...why haven't more players figured this out????

is to get the ball in play very quickly or to wait long enough that he starts to repeat it and then serve.

I had never noticed that he loses it when disrupted. I guess I was too busy looking away in disgust.

Watching the Ferrer match right now, no spoilers, it is a very good match.

Rafroid was livid...he's a d*ck!

I was thinking that one of them should pay off one of those kids always on the sides and have them just move his little line of drinks around so that he is totally confused when something is a 1/4 inch off the line or the order is messed up. Then put one back in his pack. Just to screw with him. But that would be mean wouldn't it. MmmmHummmm.

Djokovic match is very good today. I missed a lot of it but at this point it is really exciting.

Ferrer match was good, did not care for the outcome but I did like the guy he was playing. Someone to watch for in the future?

bet he could have gone farther...when I win Powerball, I will pay the ballboys/girls to do what you suggested!

I promise I won't tell and I really want to see the crazy happen in real time.

Stepanek was playing a huge game. Too bad for him but it probably wore Djoker out a bit. Long way to go.

I hear Fed's next match could be touchy. I don't remember this guy so I will put on my RF hat and sit through it no matter what happens.

I'm waiting until tomorrow...don't want to worry too much!

I haven't had time to watch this week. Lots of chauffering the kids around to their summer activities. Next week everyone's home and the matches should be good

Ernst Gulbis and David Ferrer lost...surprises...used to like both, found out Ernst is a sexist tool, and David didn't even try against Rafroid in the semis so the Fraud was fresh against Djoker...f both of them.

There's been an upset on No.3 Court. Victoria Azarenka is OUT after a three-set defeat to Bojana Jovanovski -

All that time off really hurt...oh well, the decibel level on the women's side just went down...A LOT!

It's after 1:00 pm London time. Raonic defeated Jack Sock. Rafa is playing. Fed up a little later on Center Court against Muller. Serena is cruising ...

RAFA WINS!!!

Rafael Nadal survives big scare to see off Lukas Rosol

by Alix Ramsay
Thursday 26 June 2014

The scream of delight could be heard all the way back to Manacor: the spectre of Centre Court had been banished.

Rafael Nadal had overcome the man-mountain that is Lukas Rosol and made it through to the third round.

It may seem a bit odd to be celebrating the 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-4, 6-4 win of the nine-time French Open champion and 14-time Grand Slam winner over the world No.52, a bloke who splits his time between main tour events and the Challenger circuit, but Nadal and Rosol had previous. Nadal had cause to be wary of the big Czech with the pounding serve.

Two years ago, on a late, dark night on Centre Court, Rosol had caused the upset of all upsets by beating the Spaniard in the second round here ...

http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/articles/2014-06-26/rafa_nadal_taken_to_four_sets_by_lukas_rosol.html

Roger won in straight sets...they were tight sets, though.

thought he might be a little too into world soccer!

Victoria Duval lost to Belinda Bencic 6 - 4, 7 - 5 Oh well, she's young, and will learn.

we can still cheer for her!

She's a 19-yr old from Rock Island, Ill. If you're from the midwest you know that Rock Island is not Lake Forest - she's just an ordinary kid with a lot of talent (as opposed to some of the wealthy privileged brats on the tour).

Three close sets but Petra wins...did not surprise me...Venus has been plaing well, Petra, I think, should have about 6 wimbeldons by now but she's a headcase and always makes thing tougher than they need be. Bummed to see Lauren Davis lose...she really was in control.

but was not really disappointed that much. Both played well, it was a pleasure to watch. I like Petra, just wanted to see Venus get a little further along.

Serena......d*mn. Just lost her serve in the third set....she's down 4 - 2.

I turned on the TV to watch Federer but they didn't even show much because he was beating the other guy so badly.

Serena may not be able to pull this one out. The other girl is hitting hard and she has nothing to lose.

Keeping an eye on that match via ipad. Come on Madison...... would love to have Serena rally and for Madison to win.

D*mn

definitely rooting for her!

Wow.

WTG Alizé Cornet! Impressive

I saw Fed, easy match. This I came to in the 3rd set. Wow, Alize is very fun to watch. I am also impressed.

THERE ARE SOME AMERICANS STILL PLAYING......do ya think we could watch some of them AND not listen to your points of view? Dang it..... I really dispose the blabbing......PLEASE show some more tennis. JMHO. Ok they've switched to Madison's game.

I often have to mute the TV and just watch!

(who I have a like/hate thing with) was talking with one of the British commentators about Djoker. The British man kept pronouncing it 'Djahkovich' and McEnroe kept saying 'Djoohkovich'. McEnroe asked him if his way was the correct way since he always though it was with an 'ooh' sound. The other guy said he though he was right is was an "ahh" sound. McEnroe waited a second and then said, "I'll just call him Novak from now on." The way he said it sounded like he would not be caught dead saying it the way the other guy did. He can be such an ass.

The only thing I liked about all the blabbing today was that they really really all were all about Nadal taking so much time and annoying everyone with his long time between points. They got on about the bathroom breaks after losing a set, the clothes changing that seems to be happening much more and all of that but they really hit Nadal hard about this.

Madison withdrew from her match......that sore thigh. It's up to John Isner now to carry the American flag. Wow only one American left standing..... whew.

You spoke too soon...Isner's out.

And then there were NONE.

The nasty brat of a Brit and Dmitrov both won, so Murray will finally have to play a decent player...gotta hand it to the seeding committee...they did their best to make it easy for him, but now he'll have his hands full.

last week. He seems to have changed or at least that particular interview was quite nice. I came away thinking maybe he has learned some lessons and grown up a bit. Anyway, after that I find myself not disliking him so much.

I love his choice of Amelie Mauresmo. I also love that he was a little surprised that some did not like it.

On we go. Still pulling for Fed and wondering with all the talk about Nadal and his timing if he won't be thrown off and lose it.

Becaus I'll attribute his success to her!

I always liked her too.

Roger Federer with my Federer cap on.

Just saying hello! So nice to come here when you miss things and so nice to be here when you get to watch.

Enjoy the last week friends. I have found this Wimbledon to be entertaining and interesting. Glad to read all your thoughts.

but this week should allow for some tennis watching. Good stuff coming up - seeds still in on the men's draw and new talent for the women. Looking forward to the rest of the week and watching some high quality tennis!

And, yes, go Federer!!!! (looks like he's wrapping it up now w/Robredo!)

Sharapova and Kerber. Wow, been some incredible women's matches this tournament. So so happy to see more of that. I was getting so I paid no attention to most of them. I don't care who they play for I just want good women's tennis. I have sure been enjoying Bouchard (I hope that is how you spell it, I don't have time to check right now). She is fun.

I hope you get to watch. I was lucky that my boys played tennis so at least from 6th grade on they watched with me.

Nadal up.

Pretty easy for him today..I guess Stan and Fed next round...I think Roger will win...he's really playing well...Let's hope Rafroid loses today!

will get him flustered. I saw a bit where they are talking about the toweling off as well. He could be catching some pressure before long if not already. Talk about clocks to time them between points, restricting those who abuse bathroom breaks and trainer calls, restricting towel time and I think I saw one of the feeds talking about possibly changing the men to 3 set matches. I did not see that last one come up again so don't worry about that. I don't know how I feel about that myself. Whatever, they are not going to ask me lol!

Nadal up next. What a match previous.

Roger looks terrific. I do hope he can beat Stan however I would be happy to be for Stan at the end.

Get him unnerved...not sure why more haven't figured this out...if he wins today he looks like he'll play Raonic, who is looking good.

I will skip it. Blech.

I see Nadal did drop one of his little things. Now he is leaving out the crotch adjustment out of his pre serve routine. Butt pull, shoulder shoulder, nose ear, nose tap nose ear. The two newest additions to his pre serve were the crotch adjustment and the double tap on the second nose ear. I would say, whatever works for someone but he is just peculiar and it disrupts play.

Kyrgios is a fast player.

I am looking forward to seeing this young man play for a long time!

thank goodness now I'll have someone to watch when Roger inevitably retires (he's only 19). Here's his profile:

Nick Kyrgios

Country: Australia
Birth Date: 27 April 1995
Birth Place: Canberra, ACT, Australia
Residence: Canberra and Melbourne, Austra
Height: 6 ft. 4 in. (1.93 metres)
Weight: 171 lbs. (77.7 kilos)
Plays: Right

LOL.

On my phone. Those are supposed to be hearts

Ding Dong and all.

I think I heard Nadal was warned or penalized for taking too much time? I had to work (poor starving animals) during part of it so I never heard what happened.

Don't care, he is out of there!

because when I think he's going to lose he ends up winning! I saw the crawler on CNN by accident and cheered! I'll have to read and see if he was warned or if he's complaining now.

at his interview. I was heading out so I did not hear much, he was speaking rather muted I thought.

Catch a replay if you can.

Woohoo,so happy she's out. Now it's the "Oh Canada" song I'll be singing.

I have actually been OK watching the screamer hoping she was actually going to do well. Making a comeback on her skill not her modeling. Still, when she does start that shrill, sighing, shriek I have to turn her off. I am certainly OK with the outcome. I will, however, join you with a round of Oh Canada. I am really liking this young woman.

Serena Williams blamed her disoriented performance in Tuesday’s Wimbledon doubles match on a “bug” and “viral illness.” Martina Navratilova isn’t buying it.

The nine-time Wimbledon champion gave her thoughts about Serena’s odd on-court behavior to Melissa Isaacson of ESPNW.

“I find it distressing. I think virus, whatever they’re saying it was, I don’t think that was it. I think it’s clear that’s not the case. I don’t know what it is, but I hope Serena will be OK.

Serena was unable to catch, toss or hit a ball in warmups. Then, after a 13-minute medical break before the start of the match, she barely moved during points and hit eight consecutive service faults. She finally retired while she and her sister Venus were down 0-3 in the opening set.

But Navratilova had a more practical problem than just Serena’s post-match excuse. Why was she playing in the first place?

“I’ve never seen anything like it and hopefully never will again. Everybody was put in such a difficult position, including the WTA. It’s not right. It defies logic on so many fronts. The coach said he hadn’t seen her for two days. He didn’t know anything. How can you be a coach and not know anything? That’s wrong. And Venus was just kind of there. You don’t know what’s going on, but virus was not it, that much is clear.”

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/07/serena-williams-wimbledon-what-happened-martina-navratilova-bizarre

Rafroid: OUT!

que lastima, no?

Even better: Hingis makes a triumphant return to mixed doubles, winning 1 and 1

The infamous comment maker? The one who called the Williams sisters girly men or manly girls and then said they played "Gorilla tennis"? THAT Hingis? Jesus, I had hoped she was gone forever. Wasn't she the person who outted Mauresmo? Maybe she outted herself but she was taunted by the oh so cute Swiss Miss. Yichhhhh. No thank you.

but she and the Williams sisters certainly traded barbs back in the day*. She didn't out Mauresmo, but she did make a homophobic comment about her. When she was like 17.

i just think she plays tennis with a transcendent amount of wit, nerve, and verve.

*I looked it up. As far as I can tell, the Hingis-"gorilla tennis" connection is purely an invention in this thread. Sort of like reports from a few months ago alleging that Lindsay Davenport is a BIG TIME republican. Which would be interesting, had her only political donations ever not gone to Obama

I remember that exchange - I had commented that I thought she grew up as a repug and thanked you for correcting the misconception.

And you turn it into "Sort of like reports from a few months ago alleging that Lindsay Davenport is a BIG TIME republican. Which would be interesting, had her only political donations ever not gone to Obama"

Is that how you always handle discussion because it's really disingenuous.

Wow.

I understand how it seems that way. My point was really about apocryphal stuff that comes to be understood as truth. That incident, because it also involved tennis, immediately flashed in my brain.

Anyhow, I do apologize wholeheartedly.

She shouldered one of the sisters out of the way knocking into her at change of sides. When interviewed later about how she plans to compete with the power game brought by the Williams sisters she said something like she was not interested in trying to play gorilla tennis. I heard it and forever wrote her off. I don't care if she was a teenager. My kids and most kids who are not racists learn and do better than that by the age of 10. Transcendent tennis? Blech. Sorry, I think she is creepy. I heard this interview and heard her refer to Mauresmo as a she male. I hope she transcends her game all the way out of the spotlight.

You'd think there'd be tons of google results. But nope. Nada. And that would be FAR more explosive than Hewitt's remarks regarding James Blake, that's for sure

Hingis is worse. I don't care if it is on the net or not. She was such a delicate little loved princess there are bound to be lots of things not on the Internet from those early years. Lots of stuff is and is not on the net. The term Gorilla tennis was used by Hingis when she was talking about the Williams sister. I heard it and saw it after she shouldered one of them into the chairs during court turnover. One of my sons asked me if she had really just said that and I said, yes she sure did.

She explained she had no plans to work out to beat the power with power because she did not want to "look" like that, men look like that. A true champ that is.


"She's here with her girlfriend. Well she is half man already." Yup that is pretty disgusting.

I don't care who you support. I personally just hope she disappears as quickly as possible. Maybe more white powder? Maybe crossing lines again and sobbing when she looses and coming out to the court for the ceremony in her Mommies arms? Lots of teenagers out there do not act as she has. I cannot stand the thought of that woman winning. She is certainly talented but she is also certainly a horrible person. If she were not she would have made news apologizing for all those things.

As I said, I don't care who you support and nothing you say is going to make me support her or change what I know about her, what I saw and what I heard. I was merely making the comment that she is a horrible person and I have no plans to ever watch or support her.

but I do remember her saying hateful things about Mauresmo and anyone can find those quotes on Google. She's really a nasty person.

Stunning to me, like I said, even one of my sons caught it. Her comments about muscled women were priceless as she was photographed hanging upside down from a tree in her tennis skirt like a little girl on the playground. Awwww, the little Swiss Miss. That was about the time I was really starting to understand tennis. I was already a mother, in my 30's. I had not been allowed to do sports (get this, my dad did not want me to get muscles because then no man would marry me...HA!). My kids were learning with friends so I started taking lessons with the friends mothers. We had a blast, just an ever loving blast. I got pretty serious about it, knowing I would never really play but serious because it was a whole lot of fun. I watched those matches and slams like they were text books so I caught a lot of stuff that would pass me by these days.

She constantly commented that her "smart game" would never be able to beat those girls with all the muscles (said with a little sneer). She really is a piece of work.

Anyway, if the other poster loves her that is fine. Lots of people do, they can let this other stuff go. I can let some things go but never that, never. We are all different.

That French Open was one to never forget though. Man oh man.

(Google is my friend), terrible, terrible match, and it was against my favorite, Steffi Graf. Loser.....in my book, wow, I'm being quite catty eh?? I better grow up.

http://tennis-buzz.com/

Crying in her mothers arms as she was led to the final ceremony.

Crossing the line to point out to all the judges how wrong they were. Didn't she also start serving underhanded that match? Pretty amazing.

My 2nd new favorite player: Grigor Dimitrov blasts the defending champion off Centre Court. Andy Murray’s defence of his Wimbledon title is over with a 6-1, 7-6, 6-2 defeat.

It was in the tie-break last I checked...glad to see the Limey Bastard gone...still want Roger to win it all, though.

gives him a better chance!

we could have all 4 top seeds out by lunch. C'mon Roger!

I've stopped watching and paying attention...I'll find out later...although Stan should be #3 seed...the seeding committee bastards flipped him and the Limey Bastard.

Hope for a good outcome, Stan is ill apparently?

Will be back later to see what happened and to see how the Raonic match went (not wanting Raonic to win that).

Interesting tournament. Bye Bye Murray!

See y'all after the days matches are all over.

But I think he'll beat Djoker mainly because Roger believes he can...he doens't believe he can beat Rafroid, but it's completely different with Djoker.

On edit: I have to say, that while I'm thrilled Roger won, I wish Stan was on the other side of the draw...I think he could have gone farther...I want to see him get a few more Slams, but this is Roger's best chance to get #18.

I wouldn't have guessed this at the start of the tournament. Will be a major miracle if Roger survives (despite beating him in previous meetings Raonic is due for a breakthrough) but it sure is exciting to see him in the semi-finals again!!
Djokovic/Dimitrov could go either way as well.


Novak Djokovic (SRB) [1]

Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) [11]


Roger Federer (SUI) [4]

Milos Raonic (CAN) [8]

Raonic so I do not know a lot about his game. What I have seen is his power. After yesterdays match I worry about that. Roger seemed unable to deal with the power part of Stan's game. Not sure if he was conserving energy at first or not but he seemed unable to respond to a lot of what Stan threw at him if it was done with a lot of power. Now of course he won in the end and he won well, but it just seemed harder for him than it used to be when faced with awesome shot making loaded with a lot of power. But...what do I know? NOTHING! LOL, tomorrow will tell.

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Looks like we can sing Oh Canada today. IF she can manage to close out what she totally screwed up this last game Nerves? Did not know she had them. I do like her. Keep having to edit!

Surprised she won so easily...at least the second set...I think Petra will win Saturday, but you never know!

but I do sure like Eugenie. I will not be upset if Petra wins however. Nice to have a final that won't make you feel bad when someone eventually loses!

And whoever loses is still young, and I'm sure there'll be other opportunities...espcially for Eugenie because she is having a great year.

I had forgotten what I had posted when I saw this on "My Posts" and thought you were talking about Raonic and the guy Djokovic is playing (I can't remember his name) and I had a bit of a freak because I did not think you cared for Raonic. I don't like him much and will "hate his ass" if he beats Federer, lol.

OK I gotcha. It is nice to be able to feel that way. I will be pulling for Eugenie but happy if it is Petra.

but Djoker will be a much tougher opponent. Hope he gets his rest over the next 36 hours or so ...

Djoker will be tough, but Roger matches up better against him than Rafa or even Murray, and Novak hasn't looked his sharpest for a while now. It won't be a cakewalk by any means, but I like Roger's chances. Plus, the crowd is gonna be very much in Fed's corner.

I WANT THAT! It would look good with my RF ^^ that logo^^ hat.

Wow Kvitova is just crusing to this win.

the favorite. I know the crowd loves Eugenie as well (and she is certainly a candidate for future champ) but it's really not a surprise.

Not that Kvitova won (although I was rooting for Bouchard. I just like her, nothing against Kvitova) I had thought it might be more competitive, though.

Congrats to Kvitova- she played really, really well. And I still believe we'll see Bouchard win her first major at some point soon.

but after her display at the doubles tournament it is more understandable. Wonder what is going on with her? She's 33 - maybe she's had enough and is ready to retire.

I get annoyed with Serena/Venus sometimes but they are amazing athletes despite the other issues through the years. Their father also has been criticized but he got those girls out of Compton and now they enjoy a huge spread in Palm Beach. Maybe the two of them are ready to hang it up and enjoy their well-earned retirement.

and still proud of Rog for getting to the final

Congratulations to Novak on the win -

Great match, bummer of an ending. Really wanted this for Federer. Congrats to Djokovic on the win. He earned it.

incredible tennis today...

I don't think I saw a real stinky match at all. Maybe I missed them but I think they were all very high level tennis, the kind of games that were fun to watch and a pleasure to see.

Really was pulling for Federer. Even my husband who really does not care about tennis was hooting and hollering with me when he made those points.

Thrilled that Federerererer lost!