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TENNIS: A smattering
Jun. 25th, 2016 04:42 pmLast week
I only saw smatterings of Queen’s: part of Young against Batista-Agut, which you couldn’t call enthralling; part of Tomic’s quarter final against Muller, which was more interesting; and Raonic then beating Tomic. I know that Murray won a record five times, but Raonic seems to be backing up the form that got him to the semis at Wimbledon last year. It’s good to see that he’s improved – she wrote, having not watched the finals which might have left me all nerves.
It was surprising that Federer and Thiem both lost to German players you wouldn’t expect them to in the semis at Halle.
And there was a story that suggested that the BBC wasn’t giving enough prominence to the ladies singles at Wimbledon, by which I mean, the figures backed it up. I can understand the ‘editorial judgement’ a little, because the top male players, one of whom is a Scot, are more consistent, and either Serena Williams gets into massive trouble (entertaining) or she bulldozes her opponents and there’s no telling what other ladies will get through (no Sharapova this year, expect Muguruza to get a lot of attention and Jo Konta, as she only really did well after Wimbledon last year, and for most of the British public, the rest of the tennis year counts for significantly less). I think that best of five makes for a more interesting dynamic – best of three can be over in three quarters of an hour if its an unequal meet.
This week
I hadn't seen any of Eastbourne until most of the first set of the final between Cibulkova, Pliskova and the wind, and then I had to go out so I have nothing to say about that.
I only saw smatterings of Queen’s: part of Young against Batista-Agut, which you couldn’t call enthralling; part of Tomic’s quarter final against Muller, which was more interesting; and Raonic then beating Tomic. I know that Murray won a record five times, but Raonic seems to be backing up the form that got him to the semis at Wimbledon last year. It’s good to see that he’s improved – she wrote, having not watched the finals which might have left me all nerves.
It was surprising that Federer and Thiem both lost to German players you wouldn’t expect them to in the semis at Halle.
And there was a story that suggested that the BBC wasn’t giving enough prominence to the ladies singles at Wimbledon, by which I mean, the figures backed it up. I can understand the ‘editorial judgement’ a little, because the top male players, one of whom is a Scot, are more consistent, and either Serena Williams gets into massive trouble (entertaining) or she bulldozes her opponents and there’s no telling what other ladies will get through (no Sharapova this year, expect Muguruza to get a lot of attention and Jo Konta, as she only really did well after Wimbledon last year, and for most of the British public, the rest of the tennis year counts for significantly less). I think that best of five makes for a more interesting dynamic – best of three can be over in three quarters of an hour if its an unequal meet.
This week
I hadn't seen any of Eastbourne until most of the first set of the final between Cibulkova, Pliskova and the wind, and then I had to go out so I have nothing to say about that.
