
Credit: Lou
Juan-Martin Del Potro in action at Queens
Despite the rain we had another fabulous day of tennis yesterday! A match of epic proportions as Soderling defeated Lleyton Hewitt in 5 sets, a 3 set match with an emotional Sabine Lisicki knocking out the number 3 seed Na Li and of course the straight set victory of Roger Federer. Djokovic, Tsonga, Del Potro, Robson, and Serena Williams were amongst other high players to snatch a victory despite the rain.
Jamie Murray also won his double’s match yesterday with Sergiy Stakhovsky (despite hitting him on the ear with his serve) to play on court 16 for his second round match. Good luck to him!
In other Murray news, Andy is set to play today on Centre court, but who else is set to play?
Centre Court – 13:00
- Feliciano Lopez vs Andy Roddick
- Daniela Hantuchova vs Victoria Azarenka
- Andy Murray vs Ivan Ljubicic
Court 1 – 13:00
- Laura Robson vs Maria Sharapova
- Maria Joze Martinez Sanchez vs Venus Williams
- Rafael Nadal vs Gilles Muller
Court 2 – 12:00
- Caroline Wozniacki vs Virginie Razzano
- David Ferrer vs Ryan Harrison (to complete their match)
- Tsvetanna Pironkova vs Vera Zvonareva
- Juan-Martin Del Potro vs Gilles Simon
You can check out the full schedule of play here, including many of the matches that were cancelled yesterday due to the rain.
You’ll all be pleased to know that at the time of writing the only rain due to fall over SW19 today is in the late evening, lets hope it stays that way so we can have a clear day for more wonderful matches! I’ll be keeping my eye on Caroline Wozniacki’s match first. As the ladies No. 1 seed if surprised me to learn that she’s yet to win a grand slam! I’d love to see her win one soon though, so fingers crossed for Wimbledon!
Throughout the day you can keep track of all the latest news from Wimbly over on their official twitter feed, here. I’ve also been spending some time over the last few days compiling a tennis twitter list. If I’ve missed anyone please feel free to point them out, but hopefully this will help to provide another level to the coverage of this and future tournaments for you all!
Fingers crossed for another magnificent day of tennis!
Ooh, a Twitter list.
Lou, I can't believe you're missing Jamie Murray!
haha neither can i! all fixed. I knew i'd miss someone important.
for those playing at home, after queueing super early my friend was #273 in the queue, so there were #272 people sillier than her :)
She struggled to choose between Centre and Ct 1 because although the Ct 1 line up is far superior today, theres always that pesky threat of rain and ending up seeing nothing. In the end line up won over guaranteed play :)
Amy, i forgot to ask you.. it's okay to support Caroline Wozniacki? i don't want to make the same mistake i did with Ana :)
i'm sure the idea of Rafa on Court 1 helped her decision :)
Robson is doing well against Masha but it's early days yet.
Masha breaks back.
ohhh!! yaay, thank you for the updates Amy, am finding it strange watching the scores of the tennis, live timing and f1. too many different things! :)
I have practice on my laptop and tennis on my tv but I've realised I'm paying zero attention to the f1 at all
ah same with me, only with the tennis. I have the live scores, too much lovely data tho. Although i'm trying desperately to keep track of jamie's match
It does seem silly of Wimbledon to schedule Robson and Baltacha at the same time. How often do we get British women this far into the tournament, and now we have to choose!
I am shocked Robson/Sharapova isn't on CC. A Brit v an ex champ. Madness.
tie break :D
A tiebreak. Robson's holding her own. I expected to come back and find I'd missed the whole match.
we just went to a doubles match because Lleyton is playing. He just hit the ball INTO his partner. That ain't how you do it.
apparently Jamie did that yesterday.. bad times.
yay weee duh-veeeed won! I love him and his weeness.
and Roddick lost the first set to Feli. Oh Andy, just once I'd like you to win Wimbledon even though I know you won't
Uh oh. A break already.
I do not see Laura coming back
No pressure, but Baltacha has lost.
and over to the tennis :)
Terrible time for a double fault.
always good to get a match wrapped up, don't want to be too tired for brunch with Pamela tomorrow :D
You didn't say it loud enough!
I had just started thinking about how Sharapova won Wimbledon when she was younger than Laura is now. She must have heard my thoughts. Get out of my head Laura!
At this point, I don't need to watch. I can tell who won the point from the cheers.
Laura either heard me say she wasn't going to come back, or that this was going to end quickly. Bah.
or not. woot!
It seems like no one is scared of the big names anymore. Expecting all these early rounds to be a walkover but even the young/unknown people are putting up good fights.
I think I like Wimbledon because green and purple is my favourite colour combination.
Good a reason as any!
every time I see it I think 'good choice' and then I feel sorry for the ladies that they have stupid pink towels.
Roddick is two sets down now? Bad times.
Andy, don't you know Feli isn't actually that good and people just like him because he should be a model?
grr the matches I can choose between on telly are Tomic or Zvonareva. One I actively don't like and one I don't care about at all. I'd rather watch Roddick.
We have Roddick or Venus Williams. I don't think I can bear to look at that outfit anymore.
Tomic and Andreev are going to a 5th. Chop chop boys.
Andy is done.
nooooooo :(
Oh, now we've gone to Venus. Can't escape it.
we're heading for venus. ...venus.
Hehehe!
Ooh, Mr C, you'll like this post: http://anygivensurface.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/fashion-wimbledon-2011
Yeah baby, you've got it! I'm your venus, I'm your fire, your desire.
What the heck does that mean anyway?
ooh yay.
I'm impressed that you know my friends are blogging before I do!
Perhaps I'm slacking because she's in New Zealand at the moment :)
now i see the cardigan.
I subscribed to the feed last time you linked it. And I am not procrastinating.
Amy, are you doing the post for tomorrow?
heheh
correct. what time would you like it?
Whenever, no rush.
hooray! That means I can do it tomorrow rather than tonight :)
As long as it goes up before they start hitting balls tomorrow, I'm happy :)
thats like, 9pm my time. awesome.
lady seeds are dropping like flies
Bit easy for Venus there.
I feel like del potro has been on court every day so far
oh he almost has, his match on day 1 got cancelled and so far has played on day 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Awesome scheduling work there, Wimbledon folk :D
The weather is screwing things up more than ever. On, off, on, off, who knows.
roofs for every court, hooray!
I am actually very happy about the one roof you do have, no one is taking my Olympic medal day away from me, not even you, British rainyness!
he's gonna be shattered by next week.
theres probably 20 guys very happy about that
I am watching Del Potro v Simon and I CAN HEAR SCHIAVONE.
No way!
i can hear her from here. :)
I've only heard it three times so they must have been super-hard hits or something, I even consulted the wimbledon map to find out how close court 12 is to court 2 in case i'm imagining things. Nope, right next door :D
ooh there she goes again, it's happening when shes on serve.
uh oh, she lost the second set. i think that means she'll get louder.
Hehe.
oooh strawberries. I want some
For a minute there, I thought someone was going to break Nadal. Silly idea.
How come Nadal is allowed to leave?
love watching them running. :D
bathroom? I aint watching him :D
medical time out i think..
He had a medical time out off court.
Never seen that before.
i think someone did it last year.. not sure who it was but i remember thinking 'where is he going?!' and then the commentators said something about privacy while they sort out the injury?..or something *shrugs*
Hmm. Doesn't seem very fair.
no it doesn't really :(
ah yes he does that quite often
It started raining anyway, so it didn't matter. But it seems to me that if you have to go off court to be mended, you shouldn't come back.
Hiya guys. Time for some tennis :)
Ooooh it's ron.
while i wait for the resumtion of either Rafa's match or the start of Murrays, whichever is first i'm off to the shops to get some ice tea. silly rain. Azarenka's shouts are annoying me so much.
I've only just turned it on and I am most concerned for her shrieks.
Also, can you get me a twix :)
Is she bad? I heart the mute button :)
I can hear them from here!
Weird that tennis players throw their towels into the crowd. Last thing on earth I'd actually want as a souvenir, a sweaty towel.
Or a shoe if you're Del Potro. Basically, anything sweaty.
Maybe Andy Murray should just rename his name to Tim.
Worked for Jaime.
but didn't you hear? calling him Tim is Not Funny! It's front page news!
I am going to call him Harry.
that works for Prince Harry, so why not
Oooh I meant to say, thanks lou for including that twitter list in the post. Very very useful :)
Go Murray!
oh come on Murray! :)
Christine!!! be mean about Murray before he's broken!
Too late :(
too late.
I'm not worried yet, it's only the first set. He's come back from worse than one break.
wonderful. good stuff. a nice break back :)
i'm always amazed at how quickly and subtly players challenge.. i never notice until the umpire says.
seems to jump straight to the eagle eye out of nowhere!
2 set points :)
hehehe every time i see or hear eagle eye i will always think of Crofty after this morning's 'Eagle eared' comments :D
yaaaaaayyy!
WOO!
Judy going from striking green to alarming pink.
Oops, I went to make dinner. Was I needed?
you were, but he recovered from his break point, immediately breaking back and then going on to win the set.. :)
He knew you were there to make him win the set so he gave you the benefit of the doubt and went ahead and won it anyways, nice of him i reckon
come on Murray, time to break back now.
Hehe at the shushing on the mics. Shhh!!
I am saying bye bye to tennis since its 5am. Night all :)
woaah!! crazy amy, night!
Is that simon fuller?
Amy you crazy. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
Night!
oh my goodness me! *claps*
Christine....
I like how christine has become your emergency route of getting Andy back into a set :)
i'm not too worried about him holding serve, i just want him to break back now..
Christine, help a murray fan out? :)
Perfect opportunity now to break ljubicic in this game and bring it level.
McEnroe is bringing out all kinds of crazy stats. WOOOSSSH is the sound it makes as it passes my head!
3 set points...
gonna be a loooonnggg game.
match even.
I suppose it wouldn't be a brit at wimbledon without plenty of drama :)
Blimey, didn't realise Roddick lost in straight sets..
he usually looses the first set of late, he's just trying to make it normal :)
Murray, don't you dare get broken this early in this set.
Lou your bff is letting you down
http://twitter.com/hollysamos/status/84341134826020864
Oooh that was nice.
yaaayy! 2 more to go!
Well, all I can say is that I stopped watching because he's blatantly going to lose today.
Hope that helps ;)
thank you! i may need you later.. :)
standing ovation from Judy, i hope that helps Murray.
and thank you Christine, he broke the other guy :)
This is better.
Sue Barker is taking over the BBC for half an hour :)
secure the set Andy.. double break.. please oh please oh please..
yay for the double break!
*claps* am very impressed. He usually recovers after loosing the first set but today he seems to be doing things a bit different.
5-0!
They should have their own mini glastonbury whilst waiting.
Murray finish this set!
Woop! :D
woot woot!!! :D
You're welcome.
:D *hugs*
I can't they closed Henman Hill the other day in case someone might slip. Health and Safety gone mad!
Ljubicic does have one hell of a serve.
well the good thing is Murray will have till monday to recover when/if he gets through.
Plenty of time to go watch Scream 2 on sunday :)
am sure he'll be watching the Grand prix! :)
I want hair like Kim's. it's so nice.
WOHOOO!
Woah!
*jumps up and down clapping* brilliant!!! hehehehe!!! love that shot!! :D
How cool was that?!
that's a 2/3 success rate for that under leg shot.
Shame he couldn't break him in the end but daaaaaamn. what a show off.
he did that at queens twice too <3
Only got to see it in photo form but in motion, damn! Very cool.
In person I can only imagine how even more awesome it mustve looked!
My friend and i almost exploded when he did it first :D
So thats what that loud eeking was last monday... :)
calm down Murray. now is not the time to be broken. not is the time to serve for the match.
Lubjicic definitely hasn't given in..
THE FIRST SERVE WAS IN!!!! BAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
Umpire fail?
linesman fail. murray fail for not challenging.
Murray fail for no appeal?
this is going to go to a tiebreak.. :(
ahh true.
i hate to do this... but Christine have you got any spare murray insults?
Fair weather friend!! :D
he plays like a tall tim henman.
ouch!
'Come on Tim!' is harsh enough :)
this comment saddens me but i understand that it may be necessary so do not hold it against you :)
i hope tennis doesn't wreck the glasto coverage...
tell that to andy! he could have wrapped this up 10mins ago!
#sorryany
he has 5 mins.
right, get this tie break won nice qnd quick andy.
i hate tiebreaks :( when they possibly decide the match they're waaaay too tense.
Mini break!
I always find it odd how close the line can be between winning and a draw.
no more mini break. come on andy.. another one please.
Andy has to win this, i can't cope with another set.
*sobs*
I don't think my mind can take a fifth set.
ahh, tennis isn't on bbc 2. tennis can carry right on. as you were.
time for a mini break Andy!
Come on!!!
yaaaaayyy! now.. murray... hold the mini break!!!
Is a romantic getaway on the cards?
haha no. mini break is a break of serve in a tiebreak.
Another one!!! Hold your serve and you get it Andy!!
3 match points! surely!!
One more Murray....
Hehe silly crowd.
Murray!!!!!!
Arrgghh.
WIN THIS POINT ANDY!
WOOOOOO!!!
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! AT LAST!!!!!
Jesus, that was beyond tense to watch.
Unlucky Ljubicic. Played really well.
it's Ron and Fred Weasley!!
lights are off on centre court.. i'm sure there are nicer ways to kick people out...
'right, you've had your fun, now sod off'
Spurs and Sauber fan too, making him awesome.
i love that they went together :)
Maybe they started taking the film too literally?
i love that they think 24 is old.. that means in 4 years i'm going to be old! :(
oh no! Caroline plays at 12!! it's going to clash with F1.
Hehehe all things relative eh. Men's tennis players are normally about that age when they're properly successful aren't they?I thought it was the women that were all teenagers.
they are all around that age now. Roger is 29 tho.
Over the hill :P
That 40 year old lady was intense!
oh my goodness!
there was meant to be a yes there.
How awesome was that though? 40 years old and still kicking ass!
So Wimbledon was on for 10 hours today, and if i hadn't of gone out i probably would have seen most of it.
and not even a red flag in sight. Crazy.