The fabulous Wimbledon tournament kicks off today with the ladies and gentlemen, all dressed in white, participating in their inaugural matches to try and make it through to the second round. Coming up on court today, we'll see Maria Sharapova in action, along with Kim Clijsters in a tough first match against Jankovic. We've also got Roger Federer on Court 1, whilst Djokovic kicks things off on Centre Court at 1pm.
Day 1 at Wimbledon
Published by Christine Blachford on
Handy order of play: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/9731435.stm
i approve of sport that doesn't start until 1pm. what time does it end this evening?
Depends on the weather!
very excited for these next two weeks :) even happier that for once the final doesn't clash with Goodwood Sunday :)
Yay Cheesy! They've only gone and switched the summer on for Day 1 of #Wimbledon. I'm live blogging. And I'm Official at last http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/log/2012-06-25/201206251340613548522.html
right, my sleeping patterns are broken enough for this to be a good weekend.
and the whole tournament is on FTA telly here for the first time in about 20 years, as well as pay tv. choice of matches ftw.
weekend? fortnight.
That's perfect!
i imagine fta will be all tomic tomic stosur stosur tomic hewitt.
We are lucky in some ways to have so few decent Brit players :)
i will be ok as long as bernie doesn't make the quarter finals again. plus, he'll lose a ton of ranking points if that happens which is nice.
hello tennis fans, who is everyone hoping to see win, me stosur (although i dont think she will get past the li na in 4th round) and on the male side i dont mind if nadal or djokovic wins. i think bernard tomic is a few years away from being a real threat.
Watching the BBC's 2011 review, I'd forgotten about Lisicki.
didnt you like her last year?
I did!
you're going to have to read through all the old threads for a refresher on who your favourites are
Good thinking. I am both forgetful and fickle, it's a terrible combination :)
clijsters! so not going to happen though. stosur would be nice too. I'd like to see Erakovic win a few matches.
and roger!
I also am going to apologise for the amount of squeeing I do each day about how soon it will be til I am on the very same grass seeing the very same people. I set todays countdown at.....33 days!
clijsters v jankovic will be a tough first round, also one of my favourites lisicki v martic might be a tough way to start the tourney
here is a relevant story
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/tennis/9352944/London-2012-Olympics-race-against-time-to-get-Wimbledon-courts-ready-for-Games-after-Championships.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The groundsmen will also be making a little bit of history on a smaller scale on the hallowed courts this year – by trying out their first ever electric lawnmower.
Oh, Wimbledon.
ooh christine, pat rafter is on my telly
Him, I definitely remember.
he still looks very good. and oddly, younger than he did last year.
its on 7 two tonight aswell amy, double the coverage times have changed
if only they'd do it all the time, not just when they expect big things of aussies!
Didn't Clijsters retire a second time, making this her second comeback?
no but shes been injured for most of the last two years
yeah might be alright for the first couple of rounds, dont think we wil have any left at about friday
they were going to put the french open final on tv if sam made it but since she didn't they didn't. so fickle. i don't like it.
yeah its complete rubbish. at least fox show everything in full
foxtel don't have live rights from the quarters onwards this year so i hope 7 do them justice.
nalbandian :)
i'm watching every game he plays from now on in case he tries to break another umpire.
oh i didnt know that, thats not good channel 7 will find a way to butcher the coverage like they do everything else
yeah that was pretty funny, a throwback to the good old superbrat mcenroe days
He's up at 1pm on Court 1 against Tipsarevic. I'll keep an eye on him for you.
yay!
51st consecutive grand slam for Roger. He's such a grandpa.
Tim's on telly. Come on Tim!
I'm going to put you on Judy watch for me. How can you not love her when she tweets things like this
What is this crazy statue outside Wimbledon station? No idea........ok tell me u get that? No eye deer. Comedy gold. http://pic.twitter.com/9uGkFdAs
I didn't realise Lleyton had drawn Tsonga for the first round. That's a bit rough on the old cripple.
yeah its all over for lleyton
aw the wimbledon security guards have such jaunty wee hats
She is pretty awesome.
They've just shown Tim Henman's hitting the ball girl with the ball, á la Nalbandian. Baby Tim!
here is a good site if you want to have a quick look at all the scores
http://www.xscores.com/tennis/tennis.jsp?sports=tennis&flag=sportData
Ooh, Judy segment.
Is it okay if I play F1 2011 instead of watching, as long as I listen on the radio?
Hehehe, oh, go on then, we'll let you.
I have the Stosur match now, but the full-court camera is at a really weird angle.
It's angled to one side. Really weird.
Sweepstake- how many of the seven Brits will make it through to the second round? I'm going for two.
We have seven??
According to the BBC page, yes.
Let's see, Watson and Robson and Baltacha and Keothovang and Murray and... that young boy wotsisname. Ooh, that's six. Hmm.
Wrong on so many. Altogether we have:
Josh Goodall, Oliver Golding, Jamie Baker, Andy Murray, James Ward.
Johanna Konta, Heather Watson, Naomi Broady, Anne Keothavong, Laura Robson, Elena Baltacha.
We're taking over!
Maybe it meant seven Brits playing today then. Still, my prediction for all those is still two.
Hehehe. I say maybe four, but then just the one going any further.
i just want to say i really really really really hate the wimbledon website this year
and stosur goes through and my tv gets confused about who to show now
"Getting use to how green the courts are." Is grass a different colour in Australia?
its normally brown and dead ;)
Anything specific? I haven't looked at it too much this year, but it's never been particularly good.
yay lisicki won
Woohoo!
other aussie not doing so well, medical time out for jarka
"always gruesome sight of a knee buckling beneath an athlete."
They have three minutes to do the treatment, it'd take me that long to find the end of the tape.
:D
Ooh, Djokovic time.
It's amazing Becker ever played tennis because his eyes don't appear to be open at any time.
youzhny needs to go away. hes just awful.
Ohh, Nalbandian is on the red button, I'll have to switch over for Mr C :)
Isn't Mr C capable of doing it himself?
Gajdosova was so much easier to refer to when she was a Groth
Novak holds to love. Useful start.
yeah that didnt last too long
Wimbly live blog: On No.1 Court, I'm hearing there is no truth to the rumours that all the linespeople are wearing shinpads as David Nalbandian takes on Janko Tipsarevic.
I saw them lining up for the photo earlier: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BsF3I6AVdjU/TfpK7FBfpmI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/sbaKd16Fy6I/s1600/riot-police.jpg
SIR JACKIE STEWART!
Nalbandian already a break down. Tension is mounting.
:)
First set to Tipsarevic.
Venus is about to be bagelled
Oh dear!
vesnina..... nice
oh yes and sorana cirstea won too, another of my favourites
oi!
app any better?
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wimbledon/id319284643
i also really really really really hate iphone sized apps on ipads :D
Is there an app to make them full screen?
you can make them full screen but then they look rubbish.
Mobile phone interruption. V. naughty.
Ooh, Nalbandian is arguing. Look out ump.
here he goes, starting to warm up
I wonder if horoscopes predicted Venus falling today.
6-1 6-3 to vesnina, big surprise
Okay, there may be too much choice. I can't cope.
oh oh there is an aussie up against maria, this might be a quick match
It's very one-sided at the moment!
You're lucky they haven't added their version of the pitlane coverage. Actually, I've no idea how that would work.
i've stopped concentrating on the tennis because i cant stop thinking about crepes. bad things happen to me after midnight.
Amy Fulton- Crepe Devourer.
it all started when i found out there is a crepe place mere metres from my house, but its on the uni campus, and its open uni hours, aka, while i'm at work. i felt like the crepes had been cruelly ripped away from me.
then i started researching and i found a new crepe place in the city too and now im trying to bend time to make it lunchtime tomorrow.
5-0 in fourteen minutes. Ouch.
only 2 points so far i think, not loooking good for the aussie
maybe maria hates her for not being russian anymore
maria is in almost career best form right now, i think she might make it back to back grand slams,
i wouldnt be surprised in the slightest
just noticed a tweet from the son of a supercoach in darren cahill, 'colours will be permitted during the olympics'. it will be strange to see players not in all white on centre court at wimbledon while the olympics is on
yeah and all the hoardings and stuff will apparently be purple instead of green. its going to be weird and awesome.
purple, that wil be strange.
hang about, the aussie is on the board
Did she just break?
i believe she did..... its game on
no not really
yay tipsy!
i see roger, i certainly can't sleep now!
i wonder what mirka does with all the photos she takes
these commentators couldn't be further up roger if they tried
Sharapova loses her serve but she's not far away from the win now.
i am taking a break to do a load of washing because thats how i roll at 1.08am
i demand nothing happen while i'm gone.
must be on the east coast, still 12:40 here in adelaide
Sharapova wins.
I love the umpire that is Anne's brother. Fun!
melbourne :)
i just got back to see him win that, hooray
nicely done. 6 more matches like that would be great ;)
i guess i'd better stay up for kim just in case its her last wimbledon match
i love iplayer rewind. get home, scrub back two hours and it's sharipova's first set.
this is the future.
that is very cool. like pvr for the internet?
yeah, but you can't choose things, it's just 2 hours back on any channel at any time.
i may be in tuesday but britain is in the future.
Hello, I dislike tennis but after a week of watching sport and none else on tonight I feel deprived without anything, so I have put this on.
Just BBC though?
even if you dislike tennis you have to pretend to be an expert for the next two weeks. Its the British way!
Managed it for the football!
wooohoo, go mrs clijsters
Why are the people I've heard of on the red button, and the people I haven't heard of on BBC1
it's iplayer, so yeah.
i am.
gooo thingy.
Don't watch it, her feet will just upset you again.
grr, weirdo woman.
sharipova... not you ;)
berdych v gulbis got centre court ahead of roger + clijsters because berdych was the finalist last year. i assume. i can think of no other reason to put them there.
hello tennis fans!
hello lukeh! i was just looking at you #creepy
BBC1 (BBC2 now, moved for the news) are showing Andreev v Golding who I have never heard of..
Evening
just catching up with results from today so far, although I understand why it's still really odd seeing venus williams go out on the first day.
British, innit.
It's sad, but it's also kinda nice to see other people getting to finals and stuff!
yay one set to Kim. Even after being injured forever and ranked nowhere, seeds had better watch out
Ah of course
and i just clicked that last year was not 2010 so berdych was not the finalist. where did 2011 go in my memory bank?
i like how the ball can be in from the tiniest little mark on the line..
far better than RG woman getting out of her seat to have a look.
*gets down*
*runs over*
...
*can't make mind up*
IT'S THE FUTURE!
:)
hehe, john isner's in his 5th set now including two tie breaks. when will he learn?
and uh oh mahut won his first set, if they both win they'll play each other next round :(
you'll get to see the final set by the time you come to the uk!
woohoo!
whenever I see 'andreev' i keep thinking of giggles
my favourite tennis name is Potito Starace because I can't help but call him Potato Star-Ace.
hehehe.
i like ernests gulbis. it's just fun to say
dammit kim you were winning!
yaaaay!
bye jj.
Awww, isner lost.
He keeps doing that when he has long games.
eejit.
now i just need to stay up and see if ernie can win this set/match. if he loses this set, i'm out
It hasn't quite clicked with him yet!
hes probably still recovering from that one time that it worked
Ooh, maybe it's that they aren't long enough!
yaaaaaaaaaay ernie!
bye tomas.
deary me mr berdych!
yay for the man with the awesome name though.
ernie is so crazy, hes the heir to some sort of massive fortune and somehow manages says things like 'i never really ever tried hard to win because i dont need prize money' without coming off as a jerk
this article sums him up nicely http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/atptour/7737319/Ernests-Gulbis-see-the-ATP-Tour-as-just-fun-and-games.html
:D
That second paragraph says it all I think
those were some wonderful times to be a tennis fan
I think he really does have a helicopter, submarine and spaceship.
he also makes tennis balls float looking at the photo
Oliver Golding lost then, he looked absolutely shattered by the end.
On the plus side he should be excellent in the press conferences.