Wimblenod

vilkrang wrote:Challenging on match point, that was awesome haha.

Now then Fed, annihilate this jock and the hopes of a nation, please.

Sorry vilks, no farkin chance. The Scot will melt in the bright London sun*.


































* As much as I hope otherwise.

Dissolve in the London rain, you mean.

Oi! We've got a roof!

tricycle wrote:Dissolve in the London rain, you mean.

Brass Monkey wrote:Oi! We've got a roof!

Point and counterpoint.

I'll make it emphatic as say we've probably got Cliff Richard as well!

Brass Monkey wrote:Oi! We've got a roof!

Fair enough. Still well better than the Frogs and Seppos.

It'd be grouse in the Olympic year if a Brit (well, we'll call him that for these purposes ) took out Wimblenod.

skully wrote:It'd be grouse in the Olympic year if a Brit (well, we'll call him that for these purposes ) took out Wimblenod.

You have to for Olympic purposes.

He's a Brit. For now.

Saw a quiz question yesterday which surprised me, in terms of how long it's been since a home winner in all the men's Grand Slams. Last one was Roddick winning the US in 2003, obviously Sampras won a fair few, but the French you have to go back to the 80s for a home winner and the Aussie, even more surprisingly I think was the 60s or 70s?

Anyway, our last women's champion was in Silver Jubilee year...

beamer wrote:Saw a quiz question yesterday which surprised me, in terms of how long it's been since a home winner in all the men's Grand Slams. Last one was Roddick winning the US in 2003, obviously Sampras won a fair few, but the French you have to go back to the 80s for a home winner and the Aussie, even more surprisingly I think was the 60s or 70s?

Anyway, our last women's champion was in Silver Jubilee year...

Aussie was 1976

Aussie women's was in 1978 by Chris O'Neil.

Who?

Well, after looking like a potential double-bagel early on, that somehow turned into a contest for a while. Serena is first over 30 winner since Navratilova, will Federer make it a double for the "oldies"?

Still, shows again it's a pretty poor era for women's tennis, a decade ago when the Williams sisters were at their peak they had Henin, Clijsters, Davenport, Mauresmo, Hingis etc. to challenge them, then Sharapova came along a bit later. Now it's just a procession of majorless false world number ones and one-Slam wonders.

Brass Monkey wrote:He's a Brit. For now.

Aye, seems a bit strange to have to even query it tbh.

Typical. You wait 76 years for a bus and two come along at once.

Well i'll be cheering for our Brit Murray. Until he becomes a sulking, swearing, drama queen Scot, at least.

JKLever wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:He's a Brit. For now.

Aye, seems a bit strange to have to even query it tbh.

Well yeah. I'm a Brit, we're all Brits. We're basically interchangeable.

I just hope they don't have plenty of close ups of Alex Salmond cheering him on in the crowd.

Well I shall be be cheering for Fed. If a Scot ends the wait for a British winner then it is massively tainted.

Come on Fed.

beamer wrote:Well, after looking like a potential double-bagel early on, that somehow turned into a contest for a while. Serena is first over 30 winner since Navratilova, will Federer make it a double for the "oldies"?

Still, shows again it's a pretty poor era for women's tennis, a decade ago when the Williams sisters were at their peak they had Henin, Clijsters, Davenport, Mauresmo, Hingis etc. to challenge them, then Sharapova came along a bit later. Now it's just a procession of majorless false world number ones and one-Slam wonders.

And robotic manufactured baseliners ending in ova who blend into one another.

What's being Russian got to do with it? At least most of them are pretty hot. It could be worse. They could all be English.....

Federer showing his saffie side in the opening game...

Henry wrote:What's being Russian got to do with it? At least most of them are pretty hot. It could be worse. They could all be English.....

Or even worse, they could all be Safina.

Red wrote:

beamer wrote:Well, after looking like a potential double-bagel early on, that somehow turned into a contest for a while. Serena is first over 30 winner since Navratilova, will Federer make it a double for the "oldies"?

Still, shows again it's a pretty poor era for women's tennis, a decade ago when the Williams sisters were at their peak they had Henin, Clijsters, Davenport, Mauresmo, Hingis etc. to challenge them, then Sharapova came along a bit later. Now it's just a procession of majorless false world number ones and one-Slam wonders.

And robotic manufactured baseliners ending in ova who blend into one another.

Don't most of the top Aissies finish in ic?

Henry wrote:What's being Russian got to do with it? At least most of them are pretty hot. It could be worse. They could all be English.....

Wasn't aware I implied Russian; perhaps Eastern European might be more on the mark.