Kirijax said:
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.
