Board 8 > Rafael Nadal Wins Wimbledon [there's always next year, roddick] [lol not really]

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What are you talking about voltch, KA won!

And lol Verdasco...again.

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But murray also won


lemme check KA updated odds.

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Murray 6-3 6-3 7-5 Kamke

Murray: 94 points
Kamke: 76 points

Murray wins with 55.3% of the points.

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300/1, that can't be right.

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Raonic noooooooooooo :(

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Also, Verdasco is literally addicted to five setters.

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Roddick 6-3 6-3 6-4 Hanescu

Roddick: 94 points
Hanescu: 67 points

Roddick wins with 58.4% of the points.

what a beast

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Heavily biased from being a Brit but I was more disappointed at Heather Watson getting injured than Raonic. Both situations sucked though.

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It seems almost kinda sad that Murray alone carries the tourch for GB past the first round.

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Yeah but we're used to it by now. We had Henman and then Murray so it's not like it's a sudden thing. Well I suppose we had Rusedski as well but that US Open Final aside, he never really did much in slams.

I actually feel more positive about things this year.

James Ward lost in straight sets but he didn't play pathetically, he played half-decently and Llodra played well. Evans took a set off Mayer and didn't look terrible in the other sets.

On the women's side Baltacha, Keothavong and Robson all made the 2nd round. Webley-Smith fought bravely in her first round loss and wasn't that far off the upset. Heather Watson almost won whilst injured and would have certainly won if not for injuring her elbow (dropped 5 out of 7 services games after the injury).

There were plenty of 1st round losses as usual but it hasn't been completely humiliating losses where they didn't even look like they deserved to be on court at least.

I think at this time next year there could be 3 British women in the Top 100 (Possibly 1 Top 50) and James Ward pushing for Top 100 on the men's side. Not fantastic but far better than it has been for the last 15+ years.


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well, when you look at it that way then it doesn't seem too bad I guess

I do agree that the women have improved a lot with 3 of them making it to the second round

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Get in Lleyton! Just took the first set off Soderling in a tie break.

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Really impressed by Hewitt here. I thought he was pretty much done doing anything impressive in his career. Hopefully he can make another nice run like in 2009.

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Looking at the draw, if he wins here then he stands a pretty good chance of making the quarters before running into Djoker.

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Djokovic 6-3 6-4 6-2 Anderson

Djokovic: 93 points
Anderson: 66 points

Djokovic wins with 58.5% of the points.

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Woooooooooooooo Hewitt

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LET'S GO HEWITTT

COME AWN!

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lol rain

this wimbledon is never going to finish

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you expect a wimbledon to not have rain?

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Oh I expect it.

Seems like even more than usual this year, though.

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shades of Goran vs Henman

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If Centre Court had a roof back at that match then Henman would have made the final!

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hahaha, no, Henman's destiny was to never reach a slam final, he'd prolly have torn his shoulder while serving for the match.

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Who's commentating this soderling/hewitt match for you guys? We stole McEnroe for this one.

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Dunno, I'm at work.

I'd assume the usual, probably the other McEnroe, Cahill, and Gilbert.

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trading love games?

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I really don't fancy Hewitt in five here, hope he can somehow win 7-5 or via tiebreak here.

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Huh, Rusedski is commentating now, oh well.

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O_O, Soderling eeeeesh.

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COOOOOOOOME ON!

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yeaaaaaah hewitt

Just gotta hold serve.

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that net point was just a jammy point, Hewitt's fans were lol during that moment.

This is probably gonna end up being the match of the round.

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hewitt sux go ryan harrison

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hewitt more like blew it

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Li Na on deck, ZFS already creaming himself.

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Please don't self destruct Na Li.

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ryan harrison aw yeah

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Li Na loses. China cuts all funding to tennis programs.

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Federer 6-2 3-0 Mannarino *
33 minutes in and Mannarino is yet to win a point on Federer's serve. Long, netted, beaten, 40-0. Fed... netted! Manna has a point! Ah - ace to follow, and the relief is temporary.

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Federer 6-2 6-3 6-2 Mannarino

Federer: 89 points
Mannarino: 50 points

Federer wins with 64% of the points.

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Sharapova match in four hours.

She gon' crush.

Sorry, Yonex/Ayvuir.

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li na out bad news

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I think Robson will at least put up a fight Anri. She's shown she can against the top players before. She'll still lose in straight sets but I doubt it will be like 6-0/6-1/6-2 style both sets. Maybe something like 6-4, 6-3 without it being embarassing.

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Also lol at Serena complaining about being on Court 2 whilst the Top 4 Men are always on Centre or Court 1. Maybe it's because they draw bigger crowds and more people want to watch them. Geez.

Even worse than the WTA Chief says she is justified in saying it. No she isn't. Bottom line is that she already gets paid the same as the men for less work and with less people watching which is more than she deserves imo.

EDIT: Not to mention her and Venus are 7th and 22nd seed and not 1/2/3/4.

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Robson breaks Sharapova on her first service game. wat.

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UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

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Aw yeah Roddick and Sharapova both break back.

Maybe today won't be awful.

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I wish i could watch something other than text commentary which is absolutely ages behind actual events.

It's actually kinda damning of the womens game in that if Robson did pull off a shock (highly doubtful) then you could see her making the QF's.

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In other news Baltacha is a break up in the final set of her match. I'm struggling to remember the last time a Brit who wasn't Murray/Henman/Rusedski made the 3rd round. 3rd round would be winnable too.

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