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Jun 27, 2008 11:23:12 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 11:23:12 GMT -5
And BBCi has inexplicably stopped working I am stuck watching Mauresmo and Silliams try to out-error each other, aagh.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:27:57 GMT -5
Post by Traveling Man on Jun 27, 2008 11:27:57 GMT -5
LMAO. I'm disappointed for CAKE, but Cleavage. Ajde Zheng! MauMau calls for the trainer. The way Ree keeps collapsing after each shot, I was half expecting her to beat MauMau to the punch!
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Jun 27, 2008 11:31:12 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 11:31:12 GMT -5
Very sad about Cake Very happy about Zheng breadsticking BAG!
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Jun 27, 2008 11:35:10 GMT -5
Post by Traveling Man on Jun 27, 2008 11:35:10 GMT -5
With Sharapova gone and Ivanovic all over the place, this tournament has Williams written all over it. The real question is: Ree or Pee?
JJ is my only hope of salvaging this tournament - or some random scrub. But, I'd prefer JJ.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:36:30 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 11:36:30 GMT -5
Haha, JJ is going to come out of this as the No 1! Um I don't know the actual maths though.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:51:10 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 11:51:10 GMT -5
Haha, JJ is going to come out of this as the No 1! Um I don't know the actual maths though. [opens up rankings spreadsheet kept on flash drive and brought to work daily] If Ivanovic loses today, JJ will have to make SF. QF is not enough.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:53:09 GMT -5
Post by sasha on Jun 27, 2008 11:53:09 GMT -5
When BAG isn't blasting FH's, she becomes immediately useless.
She's about the worst option the WTA could have had to replace Justine as #1.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:54:10 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 11:54:10 GMT -5
Amazing hustle from Zheng there! Another break.
So...yeah. JJ Vs Venus will be quite something. And if JJ loses it, an all-Williams final probably ensues.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:54:38 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 11:54:38 GMT -5
Jeepers, Zheng has a set and a break If Zheng can get through this...she just might make the semis, given the form of the other players left in that quarter.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:56:10 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 11:56:10 GMT -5
Zheng had a break before, but her own service isn't all that secure.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:56:59 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 11:56:59 GMT -5
From the wimbledon.org "Fan Log":
17:36 Come on Ana, you are too beautiful to lose! Andy, UK
Thanks.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:58:45 GMT -5
Post by Traveling Man on Jun 27, 2008 11:58:45 GMT -5
Zheng sure is proving worthy of her WC. JJ must win Wimbledon and become #1. Please lose Vee and Ree. Please?
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Jun 27, 2008 11:59:16 GMT -5
Post by Traveling Man on Jun 27, 2008 11:59:16 GMT -5
From the wimbledon.org "Fan Log": 17:36 Come on Ana, you are too beautiful to lose! Andy, UK Thanks.
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Jun 27, 2008 11:59:40 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 11:59:40 GMT -5
Justine could totally have won this Wimbledon
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Jun 27, 2008 12:00:53 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:00:53 GMT -5
Justine could totally have won this Wimbledon Yeah, this makes two Slams in a row she probably would have won. And she's allowing for the possibility of a Slamless #1. Justine and I are NOT on good terms right now.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:01:28 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 12:01:28 GMT -5
BBC commentators: "Ana needs to dredge up all those memories of how she got to where she is now - No 1."
So...she needs to cast her mind back to Justine Henin's retirement press conference, then.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:08:44 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:08:44 GMT -5
Q. Justin Gimelstob, in some comments a couple days ago, described you as a very well developed young lady. He wasn't talking about your backhand. Do you have any sort of comment on what he said?
NICOLE VAIDISOVA: I have briefly seen it. I mean, I know Justin. He's a very nice guy. I heard he apologized for it. I think it's just you say something and you don't really mean it. It happens.
Q. You don't find it disrespectful at all?
NICOLE VAIDISOVA: Well, the thing, Justin, I know his sense of humor a little bit. I know he kind of talks like that a little bit. So I can cut him some slack.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:09:38 GMT -5
Post by Traveling Man on Jun 27, 2008 12:09:38 GMT -5
"The beautiful statuesque figure of Ana Ivanovic can't seem to handle the balls at her knees." - my commentators.
That just sounds wrong.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:10:53 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:10:53 GMT -5
The match was ambling along quite uneventfully in the first set - with neither player performing particularly well - until the sixth game when Zahlavova [Strycova] conceded a break point for a third time. After that, one of the line judges spoke to the umpire, who issued a warning against her for an audible obscenity.
Whatever the original comment was, the Czech was incensed by what she felt was an unfair decision. She reasoned and remonstrated with umpire Adel Aref and cried out: "My God, this is unbelievable."
A clearly rattled Zahlavova went on to concede the break and reacted by swiping her racket a few times towards the ground to release her anger before finding something new to annoy her - the drizzle which was starting to fall a little harder on to Court 2.
After dropping 0-30 behind, she urged the umpire to check the surface of the court, which he did at various points while Kuznetsova decided to wait in her chair. Zahlavova eventually joined her on the sidelines but showed her frustration by hurling her racket against her own chair, earning her a whistling reception from the Court 2 crowd.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:12:19 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:12:19 GMT -5
Q. Were you put off by her fury, if we can call it that, in the first set?SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA: Well, it was weird, because I was just looking to the fans, and then I see one linesman coming to the chair and saying something that was weird, and then her reaction was even more weird to me. But I know she was like this since juniors, so that's fine.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:13:06 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 12:13:06 GMT -5
Zheng did it!
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Jun 27, 2008 12:13:30 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:13:30 GMT -5
"The beautiful statuesque figure of Ana Ivanovic can't seem to handle the balls at her knees." - my commentators. That just sounds wrong. Zheng wins with the balls at her knees. "There goes her social life." ("Clueless.")
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Jun 27, 2008 12:16:05 GMT -5
Post by sasha on Jun 27, 2008 12:16:05 GMT -5
Justin is a predator.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:17:58 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:17:58 GMT -5
Justin is a predator. :lmao:
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Jun 27, 2008 12:48:30 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:48:30 GMT -5
Bartoli, the 11th seeded Frenchwoman, did not look in trouble early on as she took a 4-2 lead against the tall American [Mattek].
Is this the same guy who wrote in a Wimbledon preview about the new face Agnieszka Radwanska, "a powerful hitter in the Sharapova mould"?
Why are the 15 posters here not holding a monopoly of the tennis press? Because REALLY?
BETHANIE MATTEK IS FIVE FEET FOUR INCHES TALL.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:56:46 GMT -5
Post by lexpretend on Jun 27, 2008 12:56:46 GMT -5
I saw a report the other day which referred to Gulbis as the first Latvian to play Wimbledon, ever. Larisa Neiland's doubles finals, forgotten so soon.
I've also been annoyed by the various reports which are all "OMG!!!" about how low Kudryavtseva and Zheng are ranked...when surely any Wimbledon reporter would be fully aware of Alla from last year, and therefore know how good she is, and also be aware that the only reason Zheng is ranked so low is because she sat out most of 2007.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:57:33 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 27, 2008 12:57:33 GMT -5
Jie Zheng, well done! I saw a few minutes of this.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:58:14 GMT -5
Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2008 12:58:14 GMT -5
Janie!
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Jun 27, 2008 12:58:45 GMT -5
Post by sasha on Jun 27, 2008 12:58:45 GMT -5
I'd love to create a blog that simply mocks all tennis media, but I'm lazy and nobody would read it.
I know it's a bit deceiving with how fat Marion is, but she's actually taller according to the WTA. 5'6 3/4 compared to 5'6.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:58:58 GMT -5
Post by janie on Jun 27, 2008 12:58:58 GMT -5
I am at the library again!
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