TENNIS: The bulk of week one at Wimbledon
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feather_ghyllOn Tuesday, I was dependent on (the end of) Today at Wimbledon to find out what had happened. On Wednesday, I did get to see the end of the fourth set between Djokovic and Stepanek, and Broady go out. Jankovic, Ferrer and Gulbis going out was somewhat surprising, if not to the degree of recent Wimbledon upsets and the French (Azarenka’s loss was less of a surprise as she was coming back from injury).
But on Thursday night I got to see Watson take her match with Kerber to a third set, where there were too many unforced errors, even though there were glimpses of Watson not being so very far below Kerber in quality in some points, but only some.
Then there was Federer’s serving clinic, where he played very well outdoors and indoors.
It also seems that Rosol is almost one of ‘those’ players for Nadal, but he came through it.
Tonight, I saw the third close set between Petra ‘When she’s good, she’s very good’ Kvitova and a revitalised Venus Williams. Until the final game, it was very hard to call it, although like the crowd (I think; and unlike Tracy Austin, I also think) I wanted Kvitova to win. If she can play consistently well (a big IF and I think the commentators' critiques were valid) it sounds as if she’s got a good run to the semis.
Then there was Murray and after a game and a half, he settled down, worked out how to play his opponent and was soon outplaying him. Hardly worthy of being on BBC One - and I think it would be perverse of Wimbledon watchers to want another five set nail-biter. After all, they may come.
It seems as if there were a lot of other good matches today, with Li Na going out early (again).
I hope to watch a lot tomorrow – I plan to do some ironing as well.
But on Thursday night I got to see Watson take her match with Kerber to a third set, where there were too many unforced errors, even though there were glimpses of Watson not being so very far below Kerber in quality in some points, but only some.
Then there was Federer’s serving clinic, where he played very well outdoors and indoors.
It also seems that Rosol is almost one of ‘those’ players for Nadal, but he came through it.
Tonight, I saw the third close set between Petra ‘When she’s good, she’s very good’ Kvitova and a revitalised Venus Williams. Until the final game, it was very hard to call it, although like the crowd (I think; and unlike Tracy Austin, I also think) I wanted Kvitova to win. If she can play consistently well (a big IF and I think the commentators' critiques were valid) it sounds as if she’s got a good run to the semis.
Then there was Murray and after a game and a half, he settled down, worked out how to play his opponent and was soon outplaying him. Hardly worthy of being on BBC One - and I think it would be perverse of Wimbledon watchers to want another five set nail-biter. After all, they may come.
It seems as if there were a lot of other good matches today, with Li Na going out early (again).
I hope to watch a lot tomorrow – I plan to do some ironing as well.
