Wimbledon Day 7 - Blow a Gasquet & Bust Agut

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Order of play
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/22713811

It's pretty poor so far. Such is the disadvantage of youth, he needs to work on keeping his on court demeanour fiery buy in check. He's judy deflating now

I could care less about Anderson's taxes... It's his ambivalent, "I don't play Davis Cup unless I need ranking points" attitude that stinks high up to heaven. On reflection, I hope Djokovic demolishes him.

LuvSports! wrote:Pathetic from Kyrgios.

This is why I believe players like Kyrgios are not slam winning material. Mind you after he beat Nadal I thought he could have a future as he handled the situation well but he is just good headlines and nothing else. The only one who seems to be mature of that generation is Raonic.

Raonic isn't of that generation. He's 4-5 years younger. 

I think K will win majors.

Jahu wrote:HMM, by Taxes I mean a general contribution back to your country, not just taxes, but financial/sponsorship help with a million others things that a rich sportsman can do to help their own country. Not saying go and burn it all back home, but a million here and there annually, wont bankrupt any of them.

Like founding an organisation designed to help Serbian children?
http://novakdjokovicfoundation.org/our-work/strategy-of-support/

Or donating EUR 549,000 to help flood victims?

Or acting as a UNICEF ambassador for Serbia?

I don't think he does too badly.

kingraf wrote:I could care less about Anderson's taxes... It's his ambivalent, "I don't play Davis Cup unless I need ranking points" attitude that stinks high up to heaven. On reflection, I hope Djokovic demolishes him.

I can understand that being annoying

Although Federer has historically only dabbled in DC, and always on his own terms. Do you look as unfavourably on that? (genuine question)

I think we mean Kevin here.  Novak has done much for his country

I don't personally look unfavourably at Rogers dc record.  It's his career and he doesn't  feel it worth it.  Thought it was a bit odd when he u turned that last year, maybe he's just getting old I also hate this autocorrect

temporary21 wrote:I found my personally look unfavourably at Rogers dc record.  It's his career and he doesn't  feel it worth it.  Thought it was a bit odd when he u turned that last year, maybe he's just getting old

A blank spot on the CV that, with Stan's improvement, he probably felt he had a good chance of filling.

(I think this despite his rather PseudoFed-esque claim that he "didn’t need this to tick off the boxes...this one was for the boys"!)

HM Murdoch wrote:

Jahu wrote:HMM, by Taxes I mean a general contribution back to your country, not just taxes, but financial/sponsorship help with a million others things that a rich sportsman can do to help their own country. Not saying go and burn it all back home, but a million here and there annually, wont bankrupt any of them.

Like founding an organisation designed to help Serbian children?
http://novakdjokovicfoundation.org/our-work/strategy-of-support/

Or donating EUR 549,000 to help flood victims?

Or acting as a UNICEF ambassador for Serbia?

I don't think he does too badly.

Come on, these are peanuts and a reaction to a tragedy, not a continuous help in a more sustainable way.

Don't sugar coat it

kingraf wrote:On reflection, I hope Djokovic demolishes him.

behave yourself, Monday's ain't good for anything

Ok, no more nationalism.

let's enjoy tennis

Pospisil breaks and serves for the third set, down 2 sets to Troicki at the moment

Indeed. Let's not get racial on this too much. Kyrgiios 2 points from the set

Has Federer really needed DC points though? And more over, with a 17-time slam champion in Roger. And Martina Hingis, Suisse tennis hardly needed anything extra to market itself for kids. By comparison, at various stages in his career, KA has needed the points from DC, not so much to get into a slam, but sometimes to get seeding, etc. Now that he's firmly ensconced in the Top 20, suddenly realises that South Africa is a rather long flight from home, and that Tennis South Africa doesn't pay him for DC services. While I could empathise with that from a guy ranked 100+... the idea that he genuinely finds it unfair that an organisation which has (had?) its head offices on the second floor of a cricket ground can't afford to pay a multi millionaire some cash for him to beat down a few guys ranked >100 is untenable. I mean, really, I'd venture TSA makes less in a year than KA made for this Wimbledon.

That's probably the same thinking federer had though. I do understand the annoyance. Switzerland doesn't need the money nor the inspiration, whilst sa definitely does. I think maybe SA need to talk with him to get him on board

Well Korgi was harsh to Aussie Tennis guys (for not helping him after the surgery, blla blla) and they reprimanded him nicely yesterday.

Kyrgios' major problem, is his return game can be nonexistent. Even when he beat Rafa, it was more on the back of a superlative serving performance than a great all round game. Playing like that can get you through the odd upset, but over the course of a grand slam... you can't really get to the business end consistently if you can't break consistently.

Jahu wrote:Well Korgi was harsh to Aussie Tennis guys (for not helping him after the surgery, blla blla) and they reprimanded him nicely yesterday.

That was Tomic you fool!

Pospisil now a break up in the fourth, getting very interesting

2 MP saved for Kyrgios so far

Now how has he done that one? third set Kyrgios

Gasquet has 2 match points but Kyrgios wins the third set...is this the start of the annual Gasquet choke?

If you're gonna pick a player to be multiple match points down against, Gasquet is not the worst draw.

4th set.

Nick talks to himself more than Nadal picks his butthole. Bloody drama queen

Posposil and Trociki going 5. Either Muzz or the doctor will be happy people

Pospisil breaks again to take the 4th set and will serve first in the 5th

Pospisil beat Troicki, great comeback, that is now two 5-setters in a row he has won. Will go on to face Murray or Karlovic next

legendkillarV2 wrote:

Jahu wrote:Well Korgi was harsh to Aussie Tennis guys (for not helping him after the surgery, blla blla) and they reprimanded him nicely yesterday.

That was Tomic you fool!

Oh yes, my mistake, you sexy boy

Come on Gasquet, knock him outtttt

Tiebreak it is for K vs G.

Posp completes a superb comeback!

Pity Invisiblecoolers doesn't post much no more. He'd have loved Popsicle outstripping Raonic.

Gasquet deservedly through.

Great win for Gasquet.

Korgi needs to grow up a little and leave the flashy VIP crap off court.

Gasquet beats Kyrgios in four sets.

Though not even watching I can almost here the rifle going off that is the serve of Dr Ivo :-))) any aces yet to report?

Incidentally, this will please people here:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33410692

So I checked the Wimbledon website about an hour ago and was informed that, and I quote "Williams defeated Williams"....

The person responsible for updates had to be taking the mickey, surely...

CaledonianCraig wrote:Incidentally, this will please people here:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33410692

New location, same awful presenter.

Have they dropped the home videos?

bogbrush wrote:

CaledonianCraig wrote:Incidentally, this will please people here:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33410692

New location, same awful presenter.

Have they dropped the home videos?

No idea. I preferred it when it was called Match of the Day - I think it once was called. Just raw tennis. Okay allot five minutes at the end for a brief overview of the day's play.

They Have dropped the silly crowd, its now basically today at Wimby with Balding, which I think is the right thing

Karlovic saving 3 set points: Smash, fored error, ace...

And then 2 more aces to reach a TB

Murray gets his lobs working in the return game and forges three set points but Karlovic big serve bailed him out of a huge hole and it is 6-6 and we go to a tie-break.

set point Murray, the 4th one in this set....

Saved by Ivo with a winner!

5th set point for Andy, on Ivo's serve now.. saved with an ace

6th set point, this time should be the good one for Murray, on his serve..

Murray takes the first set tie-breaker. This is going to be a hard day's work still though for Murray.