Tennis

[leicsmac]

Knife edge match, this. 

[foxes_rule1978]

Excellent game to get out of, great on those second serves there after the first serve just totally disappeared 

[Super_horns]

.Credit to Lehečka - played well and made Draper for poor serving .

Edited 21 June 2025 by Super_horns

[leicsmac]

Poor way for it to end, really. Evidently a little more work to be done regarding mentality at the business end of big matches. 

[foxes_rule1978]

unlucky there, he can take a lot of positives from this though. Lehecka played well above himself and got a superb break to go 6-5 up. Tough to take no doubt but got Wimbledon coming and that was a good workout going into that tournament 

[Super_horns]

Alcaraz the man to beat for Wimbledon and probably wide open as ever for the ladies ?

[Super_horns]

Tough looking draw for Draper at Wimbledon from round 3.

R3: Bublik
R4: Men*ik
QF: Novak
SF: Sinner
F: Alcaraz

Do well to get far .

[leicsmac]

Bloody awful draw for GB players all round tbh. 

[Izzy]

I'm only a tennis casual but Andy Roddick's channel popped up on my YT feed.

 

He's a brilliant listen and if you want to hear an American absolutely drool over Wimbledon for 20 mins , watch this.

 

 

[Super_horns]

Be more like the US open heat wise next week .

[purpleronnie]

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

I'm only a tennis casual but Andy Roddick's channel popped up on my YT feed.

 

He's a brilliant listen and if you want to hear an American absolutely drool over Wimbledon for 20 mins , watch this.

 

 

Interesting.  I have to say I find wimbledon the dullest of the GS, I was all for changing the stuffy traditions and getting wimbledon to move with the times, I thought it would it more interesting, especially to a younger audience.  But it's nice to hear an American lauding over wimbledon.

[Super_horns]

Excellent performance by Kartal   and great win v Ostapenko

 

Also congratulations to Oliver Tarvet.

 

A win in straight sets v someone ranked 200 place higher .

[StanSP]

Medveded and Rune both out

 

Tsitsipas retired injured too. 

 

3 big players out already. 

[leicsmac]

Hopefully GB will have at least some representatives still in the second week. 

[EastAnglianFox]

Gutted for Harriet Dart….said nobody 

[The Bear]

Why is it in women's tennis there's so many 6-1 and 6-2 set scorelines? It's as if they get broken and then collapse for the rest of the set. And it happens to some of the best players too.

[Super_horns]

Excellent win for Katie Boulter v a top 10 player 

[Paninistickers]

2 hours ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Gutted for Harriet Dart….said nobody 

Strange girl, int she? Spoilt brat or on the spectrum? 

 

Hottie tho

[Fear Of The Fox]

I don't quite understand the postponing of ongoing games because it's late. It seems very unfair. Certain players and coaches have time now to study opposition tactics, any momentum is killed especially for outsiders, fatigue factor is thrown out of the window. 

Is it just me I find it unfair? Just have all late evening games start at around 6:30 or 7pm? Worse case scenario they'll finish around 12pm? 

[Super_horns]

There is an 11pm curfew from the local council so not to upset neighbours but suppose if it’s in the 5th set the match won’t last that long .

[StanSP]

More seeds losing. 

Musetti, Pegula, Zheng, Bublik, Shapovalov. 

 

And potentially Zverev... 

[Fear Of The Fox]

17 hours ago, Super_horns said:

There is an 11pm curfew from the local council so not to upset neighbours but suppose if it’s in the 5th set the match won’t last that long .

Ridiculous. Spain, Greece and Italy don't have any of these stupid curfews and they all have football and basketball games finishing many times after 12am. Then fans go to bars that stay open until 2 or even 3am and most of these bars are inside neighbourhoods. Nobody is complaining. What's the point having a curfew for a tennis match? Tennis hooligans will go rampage? 

[leicsmac]

Very straightforward first up for Jack the Ripper.

[Jimothy]

Zverev losing isn't a big shock. He's seeded third but doesn't have a great Wimbledon record. Never gone past R4. Bit like Wawrinka, awful record at Wimbledon compared to his ranking. Grass is such a unique surface and the grass season is so short, its why it brings up these kind of results. 

[The Bear]

18 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Zverev losing isn't a big shock. He's seeded third but doesn't have a great Wimbledon record. Never gone past R4. Bit like Wawrinka, awful record at Wimbledon compared to his ranking. Grass is such a unique surface and the grass season is so short, its why it brings up these kind of results. 

His opponent had never beaten a top 5 seeded player in his career though. Zverev still should have been beating him. Especially in R1.