Day 5@

[Grarliner]

Damn, people. No Day Five thread yet?

Zheng, Pavlyunchenkova, Rodina and Mattek. How many seeds will they beat?

[sasha]

5₧.

[Traveling Man]

Is Ree-Momo today?

[sasha]

Yes.

[Maeby Fünke]

I take back what I said about Barb0ra wanting to win against A-Bond, apparently shes like that all the time. Which probably explains why she blows. Funny, though.

[R. Black]

I don't know if this is old news but

www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=195135&in_page_id=34

[Maeby Fünke]

Gimelgob being a tit is certainly pld news.

[DBBN]

LOL...that was on Howard Stern last week

Not that I've ever listened to him...but he certainly has a knack for getting other people in trouble.

[Traveling Man]

It's 9pm and I'm still at work....doesn't look like it will end soon. Everyone else is gone, so the tv is on and Roger's being interviewed. So, all is not lost.

Also, Allez Amelie. Please avoid a bagel....I feel like asking her to avoid a breadstick might be a bit too much.

[lexpretend]

I heard about that Gimelstob thing, but I assumed it was just going a bit OTT with the publicity - it seemed so cartoonishly fratboy, and I thought he and Kournikova got on? If it was serious, he...has issues, is a dick, I'm not surprised.

Saw Chak v E-Rod after the rain delay - Chak was initially immaculate, winning six games in a row with the loss of nary a point. Really beautiful, smart tennis - those DTL shots were Myskina-esque. Then we fell apart, couldn't get a ball in court, and only crawled over the finish line on out 5th MP through Rodina UEs

[lexpretend]

Don't know what to think about her chances against Vaidisova - on the one hand, Vaidisova recently = bye, but Chak hasn't been much better, and Vaidisova's beaten two good grass courters here.

[DBBN]

Jun 27, 2008 10:11:13 GMT -5 lexpretend said:

I heard about that Gimelstob thing, but I assumed it was just going a bit OTT with the publicity - it seemed so cartoonishly fratboy, and I thought he and Kournikova got on? If it was serious, he...has issues, is a dick, I'm not surprised.

I'm sorry, this was on the Sports Junkies' show. Their handlers usually amp guests up before the show, telling them to be "outrageous" and play up sexual aspects, and that it's all in good fun...and then they say stupid things they don't necessarily mean with the assumption it will be taken not as gospel but as "entertainment." This is like the eight trillionth time someone has gotten in hot water because of things they say on that show, Junkies themselves by no means excepted.

[DBBN]

Some interesting tight matches going on at the moment...Szavay-AMG, CAKE-Mattek, and A-Pav-A-Rad are all close and each could go either way...

[Traveling Man]

I'm torn between Cake and Mattek. I love Beth's trampy clothes which expose cleavage. But, Cake is Cake. Who can not love that?

[lexpretend]

Watching A-Pav and A-Rad. It's good! A-Pav keeps tremendous depth on her shots but is too slow to react to some of A-Rad's switch-ups, and when out of position usually makes an error.

Pretending Silliams v Maumau is not happening, I see Silliams is 10 games away from the double bagel already

[Maeby Fünke]

Mattek is dressed disappointingly normal.

[lexpretend]

LOL perfect dropshot off an A-Pav first serve

[sasha]

Chak vs Niki in the chalk 4R nobody expected.

Stuff like this always happens on the lazy grass. Grar.

[sasha]

Ah, ESPN trying to raise any hope that Hewitt can beat Roger. Lolz.

[lexpretend]

Amelie, please don't tease me by making this close!

[DBBN]

Jun 27, 2008 10:46:52 GMT -5 @sasha said:

Ah, ESPN trying to raise any hope that Hewitt can beat Roger. Lolz.

LOL!

CAKE lost the first set to CLEAVE

[Maeby Fünke]

Marion actually threw her racquet in the first set. She looks really pissed off.

[R. Black]

Cake.

Mauresmo could win the match. All she needs is Serena missing a lot of first serves.

[sasha]

Serena is hitting hundreds of errors and is still winning. There's no doubt who wins.

[R. Black]

Jun 27, 2008 11:01:14 GMT -5 @sasha said:

Serena is hitting hundreds of errors and is still winning. There's no doubt who wins.

She isn't winning, they are on serve since a while.

[R. Black]

Now a tie-break, Serena leads 4-3. Amelie is serving well.

[R. Black]

Stupid miss from Momo at 4-4. Ugh.

[lexpretend]

Mauresmo dumping a BH into the net on SP was so inevitable.

[Traveling Man]

Amelie could have won the tie-break. She didn't though.

I can't decide if this bodes well for Momo, keeping it so close with Ree, or whether this just shows how unimpressive both champions are today. I fear it's the latter, except Silliams can still bullshit her way to the title, theatrics and all.

[DBBN]

Cleavage def. Cake 4 and 1 :red:

Um. Zheng leads World #1 4-1