Wimbledon, Day 7, 6 July, Order of Play

[Kirijax]

Sometimes the reporters not even know who has won the match and they are paid.....:snicker :nono

http://media.fyre.co/PXeXj929SL66qJPTfXDQ_1111.jpg

:laydownlaughing Is this for real? Nice find Carol!

 

[Carol]

Sometimes the reporters not even know who has won the match and they are paid.....:snicker :nono

http://media.fyre.co/PXeXj929SL66qJPTfXDQ_1111.jpg

:laydownlaughing Is this for real? Nice find Carol!

Yep, incredible but real :cover

 

[Moxie]

I guess I'm too American. We will play on and on until there is a winner. Americans hear about "curfews" and giggle. We will play 20 innings until 3 a.m. even though everyone in the stands has gone home dagnabbit. We want a winner! I've never understood how teams can practice for hours and hours, stadiums prepared, thousands of people take off from work, people pay for high-priced tickets, the game is advertised and televised, teams play the game and then everyone goes home satisfied after a 0-0 game. This is one of the reasons I don't care for soccer much. But that's another topic. Ending a game without a conclusion is very un-American but they have their reasons I suppose.

For some reason I'm thinking this break favors Anderson. But no tiebreak so...

You can complain about Wimbledon and it's traditions all you want, but I don't think it'll make a dent. And it's not like the USO doesn't have its own scheduling issues.

TBH, I have always wondered, even though the houses are very close to the All-England Club, and it's very high-income bracket, why the residents might not embrace their very famous fortnight and allow matches to go late. Like Carnival, or any other festival, sometimes you get less sleep. So what? Do that many of them live so close to the AEC and actually dislike tennis? That would seem odd. Is it just the Brits and their traditions? Are they too polite to ask the neighbors?

I had originally thought that sleeping on it wouldn't favor Kevin, if Novak won the next 2 sets. But I hadn't anticipated that Anderson would get tired. In that sense, it helps him to get to start fresh tomorrow, when almost surely Novak would have taken care of him, had they finished this evening. I wouldn't call it an advantage, though it gives him a better opportunity, most likely, than he had, playing on. I think he has to serve great and break early, then try to hold on. If they go 5-5, 6-6, as you said with no TBs, the chances are better that Novak finds the break, then the hold. Also, Djokovic began reading the KA serve better in the last 2 sets. He won't forget how to do that tomorrow.

Not complaining, just explaining this mindset us Americans have when it comes to closure. And don't get me started on the U.S. Open and their travesty of a scheduling system, if one exists. :dodgy:

Well, personally, I like soccer, and I'm American. "Closure" is a complicated issue when it come to tennis. It can rain, and you can be held over. Or the light fades, or you can have crabby neighbors. I really kind of like the fact that tennis is one-on-one, and weather and light dependent, to some extent. And that it's not just because the TV or fans would have it done in their time-frame. Tennis allows for a certain ebb-and-flow of momentum. We're getting roofs and lights, which I suppose is good. But there will always be the various issues of wind and weather and the swings of momentum, set-to-set that is what really makes it compelling. Because only 2 people can play it, and because it is open-ended, it can't always be fitted into one day. That's the real beauty of it.

 

[I.Haychew]

As an Anderson fan, I suppose that I should be happy that he took two sets off of Djokovic. I guess his only hope is that he's lucky enough to get to a 5th set tiebreak and that he blasts every one of his 1st serves. I won't be too terribly disappointed if he loses (expected, and I like Djokovic), but I'd like to see him make it competitive.

 

[Kirijax]

As an Anderson fan, I suppose that I should be happy that he took two sets off of Djokovic. I guess his only hope is that he's lucky enough to get to a 5th set tiebreak and that he blasts every one of his 1st serves. I won't be too terribly disappointed if he loses (expected, and I like Djokovic), but I'd like to see him make it competitive.

I think your boy caught a break. Djokovic probably would have run away with the fifth set. Now, Anderson gets a chance to reload the arm and blast away and hope for the best. Still think Djokovic will win, but it's more interesting now.

 

[Moxie]

As an Anderson fan, I suppose that I should be happy that he took two sets off of Djokovic. I guess his only hope is that he's lucky enough to get to a 5th set tiebreak and that he blasts every one of his 1st serves. I won't be too terribly disappointed if he loses (expected, and I like Djokovic), but I'd like to see him make it competitive.

I think your boy caught a break. Djokovic probably would have run away with the fifth set. Now, Anderson gets a chance to reload the arm and blast away and hope for the best. Still think Djokovic will win, but it's more interesting now.

Anderson does get his next best shot. But remember, no TB in the 5th.

 

[I.Haychew]

As an Anderson fan, I suppose that I should be happy that he took two sets off of Djokovic. I guess his only hope is that he's lucky enough to get to a 5th set tiebreak and that he blasts every one of his 1st serves. I won't be too terribly disappointed if he loses (expected, and I like Djokovic), but I'd like to see him make it competitive.

I think your boy caught a break. Djokovic probably would have run away with the fifth set. Now, Anderson gets a chance to reload the arm and blast away and hope for the best. Still think Djokovic will win, but it's more interesting now.

Anderson does get his next best shot. But remember, no TB in the 5th.

Oh, yeah...Good point. I phorgot about the "no tiebreak" thing. Then I guess Anderson is pretty well eph worded.

 

[Kirijax]

As an Anderson fan, I suppose that I should be happy that he took two sets off of Djokovic. I guess his only hope is that he's lucky enough to get to a 5th set tiebreak and that he blasts every one of his 1st serves. I won't be too terribly disappointed if he loses (expected, and I like Djokovic), but I'd like to see him make it competitive.

I think your boy caught a break. Djokovic probably would have run away with the fifth set. Now, Anderson gets a chance to reload the arm and blast away and hope for the best. Still think Djokovic will win, but it's more interesting now.

Anderson does get his next best shot. But remember, no TB in the 5th.

That's the unfortunate part of this whole senario. From an Anderson point of view that is. But he serves first so there's that.

 

[Moxie]

I think your boy caught a break. Djokovic probably would have run away with the fifth set. Now, Anderson gets a chance to reload the arm and blast away and hope for the best. Still think Djokovic will win, but it's more interesting now.

Anderson does get his next best shot. But remember, no TB in the 5th.

That's the unfortunate part of this whole senario. From an Anderson point of view that is. But he serves first so there's that.

The service pressure is his best hope.