WIMBLEDON 2014- The sun is shining, the Pimms is chilling- First service!

[Raahh]

Sparkly new thread ready for Monday.

MONDAY ORDER OF PLAY from other thread.

even though Nadal is not in action on the first day, I'm looking forward to this.

And to get us in the mood...

Quite agree Juan.

Mind you, ITV4 were just as bad this year. No way was Rafa going to win, too old, too injured etc...till the Final. And still they kept on it was Novaks 'turn'.

Till Rafa won. For the 9th time. Ffs. Makes me rage.

I think everyone will struggle a bit. They are all older, had injury etc...

Who said winning a Slam was easy ?

I saw my mother because she runs the after school club at school- and told her how annoyed I was that i couldn't get a signal for the scores. She thought I was talking about the football. This is the woman who introduced me to the joys of tennis. I am am

His first serve has never been brilliant but its getting worse. All that effort to slam it into the net.

Murray does it a lot too.

Raahh that is shocking.

I forgot the football was on.

Don't see the point in watching to be honest.

Gosh Raahh I hope you gave your mum short shrift.

oh ffs. They couldn't wait for that, could they?

Time fault ? Really ?

Funny how its always Rafa.

Oooh. Rafa will be pissed off now.

John is quite right. Let them play ffs.

Ridiculous.

Oh rafa is not looking a happy bunny right now

Call me stupid but why do we say 'his first serve' as if it was a thing?

For once, Mac is on Rafa's side it seems.

Don't worry. This match is Rafa's. Time violation will just urge him to the finish line faster.

John just sees the unfairness when there are long rallies, hot weather etc. Tennis is so physical nowadays. Some umpires are like little robots and it always seems to be they choose the wrong moment in a match to penalise a player, usually Rafa.

VAMOS RAFA !

Come on Rafa!

Vamos!

Serve !

Even Toni is shouting !

Edberg, due to how he stood at the line to serve, was always in danger of being 'foot faulted'. And they always seemed to come at the worst times too.

Castle just made the first "next he plays Rosol" comment.

Shrieky, during her final at RG was taking AGES between points. How often was it penalised?

Juan

Castle is a predictable twit.

Quite, Raahh.

I think there needs to be some common sense employed at times.

Think the umpire knew he was wrong. Just over-ruled a dubious call in Rafa's favour !

Oh blimey! VAMOS !!!

I do like the word "twit". It's contemptuous without being offensive. :)

Castle is a prat. More annoying will be how much the bbc make of it.

Bet that is a late match on Weds to ensure maximum viewing.

It was well out.

VAMOS !

Let the games begin !

Oh, NOW he looks good ?!