Wimbledon Day 10 (2014) - Ladies Semifinals Day

Ladies' Singles - Semi-finals

Lucie Safarova (CZE) [23] v Petra Kvitova (CZE) [6]

Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) [13] v Simona Halep (ROU) [3]

Happy to see two CZE players in SF, Kvitova is a past W Champion, and may have too much power over Safarova.

Halep, with new found confidence and a good run at RG, faces young Bouchard, who seems poised for a bright future.

Predictions - Kvitova in 2 sets. Bouchard in 2 close sets.

Thanks LF

I'd rather it was a Halep v Bouchard final but I suppose we can't always get what we want. The first match shouldn't be close but Kvitova wilts on sunny days and it's 25 degrees C today. Safarova has never played on CC before so the occasion may well get to her. If it isn't a Kvitova demolition job, I'll say a horrendous 3 set battle.

The other match... I'm a fully licensed member of the Genie army so it's obvious who I want to win. I'll probably be out for an hour of it but I expect it to be a fairly high quality match with Bouchard dictating the rallies and Halep defending ferociously. Because Genie likes the grass and Halep doesn't I'll go for the Canadian but whether it's 2 or 3 nobody knows.

Ah where would we be without some trivia for the day.
 
If Bouchard and Raonic were to go on and win their respective titles, Canada would be the 5th country in the Open Era to have both Mens and Ladies champion at the same slam.
 
Can you name the other 4 countries who have done the same?

America, Germany and Czechoslovakia?

Edit: Oops, missed one. Er...let's go with Australia.

You have 3 out of 4

Virtually wild guesses, LK cracking trivia question though. How do you keep coming up with them?!

Swiss?

Scrap that.

Silver wrote:Virtually wild guesses, LK cracking trivia question though. How do you keep coming up with them?!

I try and think of weird and wonderful questions for you tennis buffs to solve

Aussies?

The Special Juan wrote:Aussies?

Already been guessed

Oh so they have. You'd think with Laver and Court they'd have done it. I'll have a think.

Spain?

Is it UK, LK?

If I am not mistaken, it is around Sir Fred Perry's time. I do not know the Ladies side though.

It is Australia, United States, Germany and Spain

Not much in the second set for Safarova v Kvitova, just tame surrender.

Come on Genie, it is your time.

I have a lovely trivia question tomorrow. Mwahahaha

Allez Genie!!

If she is Genie in a bottle I would certainly rub her the right way!

legendkillarV2 wrote:It is Australia, United States, Germany and Spain

Can you post the names and years, please?

legendkillarV2 wrote:If she is Genie in a bottle I would certainly rub her the right way!

She is the wonder women on the tour, thankfully we have a youngster in WTA at the least to excite us.

Bouchard up a set.

laverfan wrote:

legendkillarV2 wrote:It is Australia, United States, Germany and Spain

Can you post the names and years, please?

Indeed I will

Australia

1969 AO, FO, USO Laver/Court
1970 W Court/Newcombe USO Court/Rosewall
1971 AO Court/Rosewall W Goolagong Cawley/Newcombe
1973 AO Court/Newcombe USO Court/Newcombe
1975 AO Goolagong Cawley/Newcombe

2 BPs. Bouchard looks tired. Instead of a CC FH, she should try a DTL FH. DF

At Wimbledon:

1999 USA: Sampras / Davenport (latest)
1991 DEU: Stich / Graf
1971 AUS: Newcombe / Goolagong Cawley

Can't find the Spanish one!

Oh sorry lkv2 - crossposted...

Double break. Come Bouchard, see it home.

Wow so the sweetie is leading by a set and a break .

    

Genie marry me pls, I haven't see a combination of beauty, power, skill , confidence, youth, down to earth character for a very long time.     

United States

1972 W King/Smith
1974 W Connors/Evert USO Connors/King
1975 W Ashe/King
1976 USO Evert/King
1978 USO Evert/McEnroe
1979 USO Austin/McEnroe
1980 USO Evert/McEnroe
1981 W Evert/McEnroe USO Austin/McEnroe
1982 W Navratilova/Connors USO Evert/Connors
1983 W Navratilova/McEnroe USO Navratilova/Connors
1984 W Navratilova/McEnroe USO Navratilova/McEnroe
1999 W Sampras/Davenport USO Agassi/S.Williams
2000 AO Davenport/Agassi W Sampras/V.Williams
2001 AO Agassi/Capriatti
2002 USO S.Williams/Sampras
2003 AO S.Williams/Agassi

legendkillarV2 wrote:United States

1972 W King/Smith
1974 W Connors/Evert USO Connors/King
1975 W Ashe/King
1976 USO Evert/King
1978 USO Evert/McEnroe
1979 USO Austin/McEnroe
1980 USO Evert/McEnroe
1981 W Evert/McEnroe USO Austin/McEnroe
1982 W Navratilova/Connors USO Evert/Connors
1983 W Navratilova/McEnroe USO Navratilova/Connors
1984 W Navratilova/McEnroe USO Navratilova/McEnroe
1999 W Sampras/Davenport USO Agassi/S.Williams
2000 AO Davenport/Agassi W Sampras/V.Williams
2001 AO Agassi/Capriatti
2002 USO S.Williams/Sampras
2003 AO S.Williams/Agassi

I'm in awe of your info retrieval skillz.

DirectView2 wrote:Genie marry me pls, I haven't see a combination of beauty, power, skill , confidence, youth, down to earth character for a very long time.     

Hello Justin Bieber, welcome to 606v2.

She's starting to choke. Needs Halep errors!

Genie!!! Well done Please take down Kvitova, it'll be a crime if she wins another Wimbledon.

2 MPs for Bouchard. Wayward BH on one. DF on the other. Relax Genie! BP. Deuce on an FH error. BH long. MP. Good serve and error.

Well done Genie!.

Two years ago, I think the commie said, Bouchard was junior Wimbledon champ, and now she's in the final of the main ladies event.

That should be a lesson to Laura Robson. She needs to learn from Bouchard's example.

I'm sure she'd prefer to be against Safarova.. but you have to beat the best  

I believe Laura and Genie used to be best pals, but have read that their friendship has cooled somewhat.

Perhaps a new icon for Women's Tennis.

AFCWomble42 wrote:I believe Laura and Genie used to be best pals, but have read that their friendship has cooled somewhat.

I'm not surprised. They've gone in opposite directions.

Genieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee               

laverfan wrote:

DirectView2 wrote:Genie marry me pls, I haven't see a combination of beauty, power, skill , confidence, youth, down to earth character for a very long time.     

Hello Justin Bieber, welcome to 606v2.

so u found me out.   

Germany

1989 W Graf/Becker USO Graf/Becker
1991 W Graf/Stich

Spain

1998 FO Arantxia Sanchez Vicario/Moya

I have just found out (you may already know this) but Eugenie has a twin sister (boys !!!!)
called Beatrice named after Prince Andrew's two girls...

The Canadians are huge Royalists !!!

Good for Genie, she's the real deal. Sharapova without the flakiness and with more variety.

She has a twin sister? Identical, one hopes. I have two sons, one of very appropriate age, the other if she's a cradle snatcher. Obvious solution.

shivfan wrote:Two years ago, I think the commie said, Bouchard was junior Wimbledon champ, and now she's in the final of the main ladies event.

That should be a lesson to Laura Robson.  She needs to learn from Bouchard's example.

I think there's a fairly enormous talent gap.

Laura's problem (aside from the wrist obvs) is movement/fitness and nerve (double faulting at crunch points).

Genie seems to be taking the route that she is not on the circuit to make friends, which is fine in someways if you are ultra-ambitious, but life still has to be lived (rather than living and breathing tennis).

bogbrush wrote:Good for Genie, she's the real deal. Sharapova without the flakiness and with more variety.

She has a twin sister? Identical, one hopes. I have two sons, one of very appropriate age, the other if she's a cradle snatcher.  Obvious solution.

Some people will try anything for publicity     Dont forget you might have to help pay for the weddings