The official Wimbledon Thread....

[matchmaker]

Viktor Troicki having a major meltdown on court 17!

[AlexRS2782]

You have to feel for Konjuh against Radwanska. 3 match points, then freakily stepping on the ball resulting in injury and ending up being beaten Fair play to her for still playing on even though you could see she was in a fair bit of pain after that.

[bexVN]

AlexRS2782 said:

You have to feel for Konjuh against Radwanska. 3 match points, then freakily stepping on the ball resulting in injury and ending up being beaten Fair play to her for still playing on even though you could see she was in a fair bit of pain after that.

I just the highlighted clip of that. Nasty sprain so impressed she continued, really harsh way to get injured in a match. Could feel her pain.

[BlackLabel]

Well it's day 5 already, Wawrinka vs Del Potro first up on centre court should be a good match. And Kyrgios vs Dustin Brown on court 2 at 11am could be really entertaining given the style (and mentality) of both players.

And of course there's Dan Evans vs Federer last up on centre court - Federer isn't playing as well as he can so it wouldn't be a surprise if Evans gets a set here.

[omgus]

BlackLabel said:

Kyrgios vs Dustin Brown

That will either be awesome or terrible.

Currently watching the court get rained on.

[BlackLabel]

Del Potro is winning here yet his backhand is not even 25% or what it was pre injury.

[bexVN]

anonymous said:

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Well neither is Wawrinka if he can be beaten by someone with reduced backhand abilities tbh

Brown and Kyrgios suspended play at the tightest time possible!!

Edited by bexVN on Friday 1st July 17:29

[omgus]

IF you have missed the action on Court 2 then Kyrgios vs Brown has been unbe-fking-lievable.

5th set before the rain and some of the shots played have been mind boggling.

[bexVN]

anonymous said:

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Maybe but I just don't think he was good enough anyway really, not looking anywhere near as good as previously. He should have been riding high playing someone with obvious limitations..

[ajprice]

Serena's lost the first set against McHale...

[bexVN]

ajprice said:

Serena's lost the first set against McHale...

And had a full on strop about it!

[ajprice]

That paddy must have worked, 5-2 to Serena in 2nd set.

And her sister is 8-7 in the 3rd set.

[bexVN]

ajprice said:

That paddy must have worked, 5-2 to Serena in 2nd set.

And her sister is 8-7 in the 3rd set.

Venus could really do without that. I respect her sheer will to continue considering her medical condition. She could have retired and everyone woukd have understood!

[ajprice]

bexVN said:

Venus could really do without that. I respect her sheer will to continue considering her medical condition. She could have retired and everyone woukd have understood!

I didn't know that she had a medical condition, so I looked it up and found that she has Sjogren's Syndrome, then I looked up what that was because I didn't know that either http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/01/what-is-sjog...

[bexVN]

ajprice said:

bexVN said:

Venus could really do without that. I respect her sheer will to continue considering her medical condition. She could have retired and everyone woukd have understood!

I didn't know that she had a medical condition, so I looked it up and found that she has Sjogren's Syndrome, then I looked up what that was because I didn't know that either http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/01/what-is-sjog...

She has changed a lot of her diet etc to reduce the symptoms, her main problem is fatigue. My guess is most people living with it aren't elite athletes where it woukd definitely have more impact. Doesn't help that she is now 36.

[BlackLabel]

just noticed that Djokovic is 2 nil down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/36691155

[bexVN]

BlackLabel said:

just noticed that Djokovic is 2 nil down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/36691155

Shame about the rain stop play, Querry was on fire and I hope he can continue, deserves to win it.

[AlexRS2782]

Yep, Djokovic has a lot of work to do tomorrow to rescue a win. Excellent shots in the Brown vs Krygios match - shame Brown lost though.

Also confirmed that, for the first time since '04, they'll be playing on Sunday due to the severe backlog in matches across all formats. Not sure how much they'll get cleared though as it seems like the next 2 days are set to be hit with intermittent rain showers again.

[bexVN]

^^i would have much preferred Dustin through, he can be a lovely player to watch

[Burwood]

Djokovic is going to lose this one and I'm glad-i don't like him at all. It's time we had some new blood come through the pack. Looks great for Murray even though i want Feds to win.