Wimbledon 2022 [tennis]

[magimedi]

Just so lovely to think we wake up tomorrow to the best 2 weeks of the year.

ABD for the mens & Kivitova for the women!

But Juan wasn’t grumpy, quite the reverse, so maybe my tastes have matured! Thank

Lendl has broken MN

I always thought he would keep those cheekbones River - but I also had cheekbones back in the 80s!

Magi I was going to say a belated merci for the new thread but I see you are up to your old tricks!! Covid is not over so there is no excuse for posting that photo again!!!

Saw the last hour or so of Andy. He's got the overgrown school boy next, who apparently served 54 aces today

Good win for Emma. Sad that lost and I didn't even get to see him. Sorry to hear about Marin.

The good old BBC already bolloxing up the schedules. Today at Wimbledon cancelled and BBC1 schedule moved to BBC2, because clearly the great viewing public are unable to change channels

Also not sure about the ball kids and officials uniforms. Certainly no traditional Wimbledon colours anymore!

Are we all cheering for Dan tomorrow

I see Iga has been given the opener on Centre Court tomorrow. I like Iga but I don’t think she should be opening play - I think it should have been either Halep or Pliskova.

It would have been nice if they had let Simona do it seeing as she missed out because of the pandemic.

Eurosport 2 have the highlights on at the moment.

@kazzaD66 yes, why not the traditional colours?

They interviewed some people from the Wimbledon queue on breakfast telly this morning.

Someone had a Rafa tattoo but when the interviewer asked some people if they were hoping to see Rafa - they said no we want to see Kyrgios .

Really hope that he doesn’t go any further today - at least they’ve not put him in one of the show courts!

Is the ballboy kit not green or purple?

Fizzy that's a bit random I hope Kyrgios gets dumped in the first round. Bit of a big ask for Paul Jubb though.

The Rafa match might clash a bit with Matteo on court 1- if Iga plays at Wimbledon the way she's been playing all season. I will probably miss parts of it anyway due to the school run.

There are some good matches today- mostly men's though. Felix AA against Cressy might even provide an upset, or at least be close, since Cressy seems to be having a moment.

Can't say any of the women's matches excite me- Halep might have a tricky opener against Muchova. (I'm annoyed they haven't at least put her first match on centre court, even if she wasn't going to be the 'opening' match). The Jil Teichmann/Tomljanovic could be a tight one though, Jil has had a good year.

LIZS I think it's just navy and white stripes, with navy shorts, that have a white trim. .You can buy it on the Wimbledon website - there is purple binding where the buttons are. (there is probably a technical sewing term for this, but I've forgotten it).Placket?

Not a great picture- you can just about see the purple at the collar.

I’m a bit worried about my tennis viewing today - I’ve arranged to meet a friend for lunch - I tried to arrange it for last week but they couldn’t make it and I gambled on Rafa not playing today

I hope that I’m back in time for Rafa - I wonder if they might want to meet for breakfast instead . Hopefully Iga’s match will last a bit longer than they usually do! I also wanted to watch Berrettini … oh well never mind

Also DH and DS1 are both working from home today which is not good!

Berrettini’s tested positive for Covid

Blimey - hope they don’t all come down with it - we could end up with a really random winner!

What??! Oh that is really rubbish news.
Rafa had better not get it.

Borna Coric has dropped out. I wonder what's up with him.

Surprised Stef is scheduled so late. I'm looking forward to seeing him.

There are one or two I wouldn't mind getting it, Fizzy but they will avoid it.

So unlucky- I really thought Cilic had a chance this year of a good run, and Matteo could easily have made another final.

It's very disappointing. Hope they are ok.

Blimey- they are dropping like flies.

Katie's playing today. Go Katie!

I’m really hoping that Rafa doesn’t get it - he did have it over Christmas I think so not sure if he can get it again? I think there’s a new strain that’s going around

Bet Tim’s worried - there might not be any players left!

Oh God I hope not Fizzy apart from selfish reasons I'm thinking about Xisca.

Who is choosing the matches for the main channel?

Ryan Peniston is in action (match that should have been on yesterday). Grigor has also just started his match, and Goffin.
They are all on early today.

Goffin's hair never moves.

Talking of hair, where is Raonic these days, I know he got married, but he's not played for ages - think he had a heel injury?