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Can I just say that not knowing an awful lot about tennis, this Mandy Minella currently on the tellybox is rather nice 
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Cor. Yeah, she's nice. Sadly her stay in SW19 looks to be a short one with a rather large and muscly obstacle in the way of her progress.
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On court now warming up.
Robson is actually good GOOD, isn't she?
Doubt she'll beat the lovely Maria, but impressive so far. Fair play.
Doubt she'll beat the lovely Maria, but impressive so far. Fair play.
The LTA have got away with murder if you ask me. I'm 41, and we have been absolute gash at tennis ever since I've known of the game, especially women's tennis. The FA get pilloried for all sorts of things, but how the LTA gets away with letting down the nation's tennis legacy quite so badly is really beyond me. I'm sure it doesn't matter so long as the posh, famous and wealthy get grandstand seats at the big matches. Between foreigners.
Ooh. Robson serving for the first set.
Wow. First set Robson, 6 games to 3
Wow. First set Robson, 6 games to 3
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Not only is Laura bloody good but she is very easy on the eye. Excellent combination.
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Loving this Dustin Brown on at the moment. Giving Hewitt a lesson in tennis, with some flair shots. And shutting up the loud mouthed Aussies in the crowd 
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You're not wrong !
Victoria Azerenko has pulled out... thanks goodness for that... no more GRUNTING and SQUEALING.
Loving this Dustin Brown on at the moment. Giving Hewitt a lesson in tennis, with some flair shots. And shutting up the loud mouthed Aussies in the crowd
I watched that game, it was cracking, Brown looked very unorthodox, not the best tennis you will ever see, but very entertaining.
My first day ever at Wimbledon yesterday. Watched Robson and then two foreign blokes until I got bored. Tennis is really not my cup of tea ... or my outrageously expensive glass of champagne.
A few comments:
- The grunting drove me mad. The spectators should keep shouting their objections until they're forced to stop it.
- What is thing with the three balls? Before each serve the player is given three balls, looks at them for 10 seconds and then hits one back to the ball-boy. What the hell is that all about? He/she only needs two, so give them two. Someone said it is so they can select the best two. That's just plain stupid. They're all practically brand new anyway. And how can you "select" the best two from a 10 second cursory glance?
- The prancing around of the ball boys/girls is like a comedy routine. Why can't they act like normal people?
On the positive side - always like to be fair - the place itself is nice (apart from the cost of everything) - so clean it's like Disneyland.
A few comments:
- The grunting drove me mad. The spectators should keep shouting their objections until they're forced to stop it.
- What is thing with the three balls? Before each serve the player is given three balls, looks at them for 10 seconds and then hits one back to the ball-boy. What the hell is that all about? He/she only needs two, so give them two. Someone said it is so they can select the best two. That's just plain stupid. They're all practically brand new anyway. And how can you "select" the best two from a 10 second cursory glance?
- The prancing around of the ball boys/girls is like a comedy routine. Why can't they act like normal people?
On the positive side - always like to be fair - the place itself is nice (apart from the cost of everything) - so clean it's like Disneyland.
pasty
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Right, here goes Mr Murray again. Scottish or British in a couple of hours time? 
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Murray 2 sets up.
7 players have pulled out todayincluding Tsonga.
So is that both Nadal and Tsonga out of Murrays half of the draw?
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Both of the most likely quarter-final opponents for Murray should he get that far have gone out of the tournament due to injury today, Tsonga and Cilic, as well as John Isner who once played in a 138 game 5th set, today lasted only 5 minutes. The bottom half of the draw has opened up as a result of the withdrawals as well as Nadal and Hewitt having gone out, so there will be 1 or 2 surprise names that make it to the second week of the tournament. Murray is too strong for Lu who has faded a bit after a good start.