It’s day 6 at Wimbledon already! Hasn’t it been a great tournament already? There’s been some upsets for both the men and the women, which is always nice to see as long as it’s not one of your favourites.
Credit: Amy Fulton
The rain has been causing havoc in typical British fashion after staying away the last couple of years, so lots of matches today are half-finished matches from yesterday and some players such as poor Juan Martin Del Potro are about to play for the fifth day in a row. Hopefully we catch up to schedule and middle Sunday can give him and all the others a bit of a break! There are a few showers scheduled early today but with play not starting until 12pm we should see plenty of sun and plenty of matches completed.
The boys and girls matches kick off today but it’s fair to say that winning a junior Grand Slam is no guarantee of future success. The last junior girl who then went on to win the senior title was Amelie Mauresmo who won in 1996 and then ten years later in 2006. On the men’s side it was good old Roger Federer who was junior champ in 1998 and of course he has been senior champ six times since then. Since their victories there have been some junior champions who have become big names on the senior tour and just as many that I’ve literally never heard of. Did you know Nicolas Mahut was junior champ in 2000? He hasn’t quite reached the career heights of the winner from two years before him, but of course his name is definitely in the Wimbledon history books.
Today I can go as far as saying the Wimbledon schedule actually makes sense which is rare! All the matches on Centre Court are definitely worthy of being there. Here is your show court line up for today:
| Court | Ladies/Men | Player 1 | vs Player 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre | L | Caroline Wozniacki | Jarmila Gadjosova |
| M | David Nalbandian | Roger Federer | |
| M | Marcos Baghdatis | Novak Djokovic | |
| No. 1 Court | M | Rafael Nadal | Gilles Muller to finish |
| L | Maria Kirilenko | Serena Williams | |
| M | Robin Soderling | Bernard Tomic | |
| No. 2 Court | L | Klara Zakopalova | Maria Sharapova |
| M | Juan Martin del Potro | Gilles Simon to finish | |
| M | Fernando Gonzalez | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga |
royal box is chocca with English sporting royalty today.
Roger Bannister! It's like they're practicing filling up the box for the Olympics.
oh apparently its tradition on middle saturday to fill up the box with sports champions. I didn't know that :)
Picture added, love it.
I would definitely recommend the tour and museum to everyone :)
I would also like to watch tennis for 1 shilling.
What a fab picture!
I love the way back in the day they were just like 'oh the championship match will probably be played on this day, no promises though'
It'll probably happen, we guess. :)
love the pic amy!
yaay that Caroline is doing well!
I want Jarka to win, I like her :)
She won't though.
Today I spoke to my parents for the last time before they go to London, I told mum to say hi to Roger if she sees him, she said she doesn't know what he looks like. Oh mum.
:D
i don't know whether to watch Rafa's or Caroline's match...
I've got Nadal on mute. Not really watching because he is bound to win it.
i have to go out soon so am trying to soak up as much tennis as i can. : )
wozzy wins. bye bye aussie
:D
Nadal wins, and still manages to squeeze in an opportunity to take his top off.
Delpo is defending no points for the rest of the year. He's going to monster up the rankings
the red button woman is annoying. she doesn't know what she's doing.
and now to Fed's match.
I just realised I wasn't watching Roger because he's on pay tv, not fta. Yay for not missing anything.
Ooh, do I see that Ivanovic lady has lost the first set?
*fistpump*
11.60 for that! http://twitpic.com/5gnis7
!!! what?!
they must know your license fee will be paying for it so they jack up their prices :D
right, time to go out now. good luck fed!
Rog is doing well :)
ooh Roger just looked like I do when I play tennis
Impressed that Serena took the first set from Kirilenko, I was worried now that she is playing a seed.
I ♥ the Williams sisters.
What did he look like?
he went to hit quite an easy ball and missed it completely by about a foot
Ohh, that's embarrassing.
at least this time it wasn't on match point, he did that when he lost the 2010 madrid masters final. It's probably quite jarring to your shoulders to expect to hit something but hitting nothing but air.
here is a whole page of gifs of embarrassing shots in tennis :D http://yourvolleyssuck.wordpress.com/greatest-hits/
Wow. Sharapova features more than anyone else!
the Federer backhand is my favourite :D
It's amazing :D
Match point.
match point already, that was quick
overhead fail.
Another one to add to the page.
Oh dear.
forehand fail. come onnnn.
woot
could be an early night tonight :D
he's sweaty! are we in opposite land?
Fed giving credit to an opponent from a year ago. How self centred and arrogant.
"Roger Federer perspiring, I'm starting to think he's human afterall"
My commies think we're in opposite land too.
That Lisicki woman is through another round. Intriguing.
crazy lady must have forgotten shes supposed to be injured all the time
Schiavone getting mad that shes failing at serving for her match.
coaching warning for schiavone. naughty naughty
They said Bartoli had that yesterday too. Tricksy little players.
woohoo, i love baghdatis :D
Woo, Pat Rafer: http://twitpic.com/5gpiaf
Although he doesn't look the same anymore.
Rafter, even.
Home just for the start of the djokjovic match. Excellent.
ooh schiavone fail
11-9!
woah! just showing it now on the bbc. 11-9!
she served for that at least twice
I mean, it's no 70-68, but still :)
almost!
Oooh, BBC fail!
what'd they do?
Pictures gone, problem with the power apparently. Listening to snazzy lift music whilst they try and fix it.
ah yes thats no good. i can confirm novak is bouncing the ball...bouncing...bouncing....bouncing.....SERVE!
Hehehe.
We're back!
Oops, just as I went over the shop, I must;ve stepped on a wire
Oh, you missed the music.
Noooooooooo. Awkward lift music is the best for confusing moments!
It might even have been a saxophone.
Baghdatis is wearing the same green and blue as Murray.
Set point for Novak.
they really don't treat Murray like their top player
Roar!
Ooh bagdhatis got the break and has gone ahead. intruiging.
Tsonga beat Gonzo but oh gosh its nice to see Gonzo back. I missed him :)
oh nooooooo, just noticed Monfils lost. Boo :(
the guy who beat him does a weird high kick can-can move when he wins
How very extragavant :)
how is Tomic beating Soderling, hooooow
Isn't tomic something like 120 in the world?
They said Soderling was feeling sick and dizzy earlier. Doctors and stuff.
158. and hes an awful awful boy
ahh that makes sense then
maybe as christine says it's the sickness thing... would be quite an upset elsewise!
Looks like a lovely day in sw19 :)
What a billiant rally!!
Calm down dear.
He actually broke his racket!
smashy smashy.
I bet they like that even less here than they do at other tournaments, it's probably far more damaging to the turf than the racket
he's been so cool all year and now he's just losing his mind in a murray like way
is he going to hulk out do you think?
that'd be awesome. turn the same colour as the grass for competitive advantage :D
I just remembered I put money on Rog to win this waaay back in April. Gooo Rog!
1-1 then, Blimey this could be interesting!
they're keeping me from that early night i mentioned
whats the punishment? cost a game?
Fine.
they get a warning, if they do it again they lose a point if they do it again a game, if they're dumb enough to do it 4 times they forfeit the match
Oops, my comment disappeared. I did say, 1-1, could be an interesting match from here :D
Really?? Crazy.
Is that just for one match or carried over the whole tournement?
just for the match. It covers all code violations, not just racket abuse
not really, if you're dumb enough to break the rules of your sport 4 times in one match you deserve to lose it :D
Yeah. I'm surprised you get so many chances tbh.
ah :D
Awww why don't they love Novak?
Hes always struck me as being a bit big headed
I think its more everyone loves Baggy. Baggy rules.
Umm.. can anyone see my comments at all as I can't see anything I'm posting O.O
I can :)
Awww yes we can see you.
Ohhh that one came up.. the last two absolutely nothing. Just my name and blankness, very wierd.
Have you typed in some kind of filter maybe??
You exist!
Is he sick? He looks like he's about to give up. Needs to get his head together.
Perhaps you are using a white font?
Hehehe. Have told mr c on twitter anyways just in case, you can see what was happening here:
http://twitpic.com/5gr614
Tomic won!
I'm really enjoying watching Baghdatis today :)
he's so smiley, I love him. He's super awesome with fans in Melbourne too since all the Greeks come out for him
right I am going to turn the computer off and watch the rest of this in an almost-asleep manner. Night all :)
G'night amy!
Stop bullying the line judge!!
Hehehe, love the mexican waves,
I'm not watching anymore, how's it going?
Novak was a lot more like his normal self in the third set and won it but it's been even again in the fourth. Can;t help but notice how frustrated Djokovic has seemed today too
He must have thought it was going to be easier.
Yeah I reckon so. He's 4-2 up in the fourth set and I think he'll take it from here to be honest but Bahgdatis has done alright :)
I say that and baghdatis takes another game, he's not giving in :D
Also the crowd seem to love the other guy and he's used to being the popular one.
come on marco! :)
*marcos, even
match point to novak..
YAY, goes to deuce!
oh my god!!
What what what!
Bagdhatos kept getting a break point and it looked like he'd won the game but it was out before the shot that novak hit was out! Aaahhhh!!!
Now novak has just lost another match point *booooooooom*
Djokovic has been trying to serve for the match for 10 minutes now
Awwwwwwwww... djokovic wins. What a match!
I was just about to put it on. Figures it'd be over before I could find the stream :)
Well I blame novak ;)