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WIMBLEDON: Rain, rain, go away
Jul. 3rd, 2007 08:24 pmAnd so week 2 begins...
There had been too many rain delays for me to take it personally yesterday that, within minutes of me coming home from work, the rain fell and play was stopped. Today, I walked home in sunshine, and came home to see that there was thunder and lightning at Wimbledon, though, once they announced there'd be no more play for the day, of course, the sun came out.
But back to yesterday, I arrived during Serena Williams and Nadal's on-off-on tie breaks. Cue replays, clips of the 'dramatic scenes on Centre Court' - they'd be Serena In Agony rather than tennis, and random people being asked about the state of British tennis in filler interviews. Instead of making snoring noises, they answered politely, either because they were being paid by the BBC or they were Roger Federer and life was treating them kindly.
Hantchuchova (?) just couldn't push it, in the end, and whatever other play I watched didn't leave much of an impression, oh, but Venus's fringe did, seeing it without the visor. It's a semi circle of wrong (what will it be for her next hair-cut? The full monastic doughnut fringe?)
Even less tennis for me to see today. I saw Nadal/Soderberg live, all fifteen minutes of it, and got caught up on the results. At least the interviews were about the mental toughness needed in this weather and not the LTA.
There had been too many rain delays for me to take it personally yesterday that, within minutes of me coming home from work, the rain fell and play was stopped. Today, I walked home in sunshine, and came home to see that there was thunder and lightning at Wimbledon, though, once they announced there'd be no more play for the day, of course, the sun came out.
But back to yesterday, I arrived during Serena Williams and Nadal's on-off-on tie breaks. Cue replays, clips of the 'dramatic scenes on Centre Court' - they'd be Serena In Agony rather than tennis, and random people being asked about the state of British tennis in filler interviews. Instead of making snoring noises, they answered politely, either because they were being paid by the BBC or they were Roger Federer and life was treating them kindly.
Hantchuchova (?) just couldn't push it, in the end, and whatever other play I watched didn't leave much of an impression, oh, but Venus's fringe did, seeing it without the visor. It's a semi circle of wrong (what will it be for her next hair-cut? The full monastic doughnut fringe?)
Even less tennis for me to see today. I saw Nadal/Soderberg live, all fifteen minutes of it, and got caught up on the results. At least the interviews were about the mental toughness needed in this weather and not the LTA.
