TENNIS THREAD - Wimbledon starts tomorrow!!

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Am most excited & thought the grass needs a new thread.

I'll stick my neck out & say Fed to win the mens' & Carolina Plisshkova (sp?) for the womens'.

Bollocks. Gulbis has a break 5-3.

I didn't know about Delpo's sister- I knew she died, but not so young.

First set Gulbis, crap.

Sue still waffling about Darcis beating Nadal, I see.

She never mentions that Darcis pulled out of his next match before it even started that year, though does she? . Or that the defending champion Federer, lost in in the second round that year to Stakhovsky?No... always Rafa.

Am a bit worried about DelPo. John Lloyd is more positive

Gulbis, to be fair, is playing better than I've seen him play for a while. But he has been injured a lot. He has a massive serve though.

I had to disappear, and in the meantime, something has happened, and it is 24 minutes since the last point, according, to the screen.

Oh, someone in the crowd??

Someone was taken ill. Del Potro looked to be feeling slightly less than sympathetic after a while...

Not sure if he's going to rescue this match. He doesn't seem quite in the mood.

It's a funny tournament this year: the Big Four storming through and the others all a bit discombobulated!

By the way, Gulbis's beard is all kinds of wrong. Just no.

On the school run now, and on the radio, someone had just likened poor Juan to a sloth.

He doesn't really look himself, but Gulbis is taking the chances. They are due to play Djok next I think...maybe Delpo doesn't want to do that.

Just tuned in. DelPotro doesn't look great, is he injured? I love Gulbis, he makes me laugh with his devilment.

There was a whispering about hips, earlier, Jane...

Why do they keep moving matches around? Just when Drama kindly sorted my red button they started to say press the blue button!! During Rafa's match yesterday I finally found they had put it back on BBC1. I wish they would stick with them from start to finish.

I wonder if the hip thing is contagious? Mine's feeling a bit dodgy too...

Not the hips

Ok I found it on one of the red buttons, phew!

I got very grumpy yesterday when they suddenly abandoned Rafa's match to show some random match somewhere - I suddenly had to scrabble around on the red button hunting it down.

I do find that Sue Barker has the kind of voice that makes me want to punch her something. Especially when she's chirpily abandoning Rafa's match to "just head over the watch the action on court 75".

Only

Mmm I love the beard! Not looking good for DelPotro.

only Sue is Voice of Doom.
I think she came on to move to the Kvitova match. I feel sorry for Kvitova. But I wanted to watch Rafa.

I hope Juan can at least get a set here.

I have had a Busy Day. Doubt I'll get to watch tennis; have had to let the children have the TV after an early bath. I want them to sit still so they don't get filthy again.

I see that Monfils beat Edmund, which isn't a surprise.

Had to take dd2 to Rainbows. Noticed Juan lost.

Poor Juan

just arrived back from a trip out - - anything happened ?- well apart from Del Potro out - I wanted to be back to see Federer :)

Just sat in the car ( again) and hearing that Mattek-sands is being taken off court on a having had a pretty nasty accident. Can hear her screaming.

Bad knee injury apparently. I've just got back in, waiting patiently for Federer. Dipping into Raonic/Youzhny at the moment.