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By Simi, in General Football and Sport

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purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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On 25/06/2023 at 18:55, Super_horns said:

Been looking at the long range weather forecast when Wimbledon is on and it doesn’t look great but hopefully they are wrong about the rain as usual !!

We should make all our courts roofed.

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lcfcben76

lcfcben76

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33 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

All British clash for Murray then .

 

Will that be on a show court ?

Surely there’s no way that they don’t put Murray on C1 or Centre? Wonder when the last time he didn’t play on either of those courts was.

 

Saying that, his side of the draw is absolutely stacked.

 

Alcaraz v Chardy

Rune v Loffhagen

Tsitsipas v Thiem

Norrie v Machac

Medvedev v Fery

Zverev v Brouwer 

 

I’m going with 

 

Centre - Alcaraz/Tsitsipas

C1 - Murray/Medvedev 

C2 - Rune/Norrie

 

Outside Courts - Zverev/Tiafoe/Berrettini/Dimitrov/Paul/Raonic & more…

 

Incredible day

rachhere

rachhere

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Pretty confident Tuesdays order of play on centre will be:

Rybakina as defending champ 

Alcaraz - the debenture holders will demand the chance to see ‘the next big thing’

Murray 

trabuch

trabuch

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I'm quite enjoying this Harriet Dart match, from what little I've seen of it so far.  Got to get behind the brits in the early rounds (whilst they are still there)

rachhere

rachhere

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Sounds like the queue was complete carnage today. Lots of regulars really unhappy with the reduced number of security lanes and ticket purchase facilities. One to keep an eye on if you are thinking of going down...

PhillippaT

PhillippaT

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5 hours ago, trabuch said:

I'm quite enjoying this Harriet Dart match, from what little I've seen of it so far.  Got to get behind the brits in the early rounds (whilst they are still there)

2 through so far :D (Liam Broady/Jode Burrage)

 

(I have a confession to make - tennis is my first love (sport wise), not football :ph34r:.  (My earliest sporting memory is playing tennis with my Mum in my uncles (her Dad's) back garden (in Amiens, France))).

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trabuch

trabuch

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25 minutes ago, PhillippaT said:

2 through so far :D (Liam Broady/Jode Burrage)

 

(I have a confession to make - tennis is my first love (sport wise), not football :ph34r:.  (My earliest sporting memory is playing tennis with my Mum in my uncles (her Dad's) back garden (in Amiens, France))).

Nice. I really only follow the majors these days. And Wimbledon always brings back very happy memories. (Listening on the way back from school, let's all go to the rec and play tennis, soon be Summer holidays,... etc.)

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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12 minutes ago, trabuch said:

Nice. I really only follow the majors these days. And Wimbledon always brings back very happy memories. (Listening on the way back from school, let's all go to the rec and play tennis, soon be Summer holidays,... etc.)

Yeah I dont watch as much now as back in the 80's/early 90's, I loved all the serve and volley players from back then edberg, becker, sampras, stich etc...  Spent a lot of time at playing at the local tennis club back then.

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trabuch

trabuch

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5 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Yeah I dont watch as much now as back in the 80's/early 90's, I loved all the serve and volley players from back then edberg, becker, sampras, stich etc...  Spent a lot of time at playing at the local tennis club back then.

I'm old enough to be a McEnroe fan - great to watch, and a nice contrast to Borg. Good to have differing styles at the top. He also had the added advantage of winding up my Dad, and was no doubt a terrible role model for the young Trabuch.. 

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Super_horns

Super_horns

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7 minutes ago, PhillippaT said:

We got another winner :D (Jan Choinski -- who's he? Exactly... ;) )

 

(Go Evans! :englandsmile4wf: )

Born in Germany .

 

Not sure what some of our media will think of that!

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PhillippaT

PhillippaT

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3 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Born in Germany .

 

Not sure what some of our media will think of that!

English parentage is a wildcard, I guess? :P  (Evans not looking too great atm :( )

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Super_horns

Super_horns

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44 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Is Dan Evans always this moany?

Seems so .

 

Isn’t he the one who got banned for taking drugs ?

 

Coco Gauff beaten by Kenin.


Always looked like a 1st round blockbuster .

lcfcben76

lcfcben76

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2 hours ago, PhillippaT said:

We got another winner :D (Jan Choinski -- who's he? Exactly... ;) )

 

(Go Evans! :englandsmile4wf: )

Well done to Choinski, good for him. Must say though, it was an incredibly poor standard of match and I’m surprised that Jan got a wildcard to be honest; very fortunate with that draw.

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leicsmac

leicsmac

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https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/65902263

 

"On a cold, crisp February evening under the cover of darkness, a woman stealthily creeps towards Wimbledon's empty grandstands and pristine grass courts.

 

She climbs the hedge, carrying in her bag five tins of paraffin oil, a bundle of firelighters, a package of wood shavings and two boxes of matches.

She picks her spot, places her bag on the court and readies the ingredients - preparing to decimate one of Britain's most famous sporting venues.

It is just one incident in a year of protests at major sporting events; the latest attempt to win hearts and minds on an issue that divides the country and provokes anger on both sides of the argument.

But the year in question is 1913.

There is one final item in the woman's bag - a piece of paper. On it is written 'No peace until women get the vote'."

 

....."Between 1912-1914 the suffragettes were the largest threat to domestic peace in the country, with cells across the country.

They carried out hundreds of attacks aimed at causing as much destruction and disruption as possible to everyday life.

Pankhurst said the WSPU's aim was "to make England and every department of English life insecure and unsafe" by creating a "reign of terror"."

 

 

....who was it who said that violent protest, at sporting events elsewhere, was neither justifiable or productive?

 

I wonder how history will see such things happening now in a hundred years time.

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