WIMBLEDON: Day 5

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I watched as much tennis as I could tonight, choosing the Roddick match over 'Today at Wimbledon', because despite the presence of Stich, they seemed to have gone pun-crazy and harping on about the name of the hill (I've been there on my one visit to Wimbledon, which I'd love to repeat). I came home in time to see Gonzalez losing, watched two seconds of Serena Williams hammering the other player, got bored, so I saw on the multiscreen that Murray and Butarec were volleying away and stuck with that until Federer began. He served well, his an occasional sweet stop and contained Safin well in the first two sets and then the third set got really close with good rallies. Roddick won his match by grit (again) rather than the quality of his game - there's no wonder people are focusing on Federer and Nadal, although I'm curious to see how Djokovic is doing on the grass. I watched a lot of his matches in the French and at Queen's, but have yet to watch him at Wimbledon.

There was a lot of digressing about shortbread from the commentators of the doubles match.

I'll probably watch a lot tomorrow too, weather allowing. I am irrationally convinced that watching sports is fitter than watching any other TV, although all the exercise I do is to sit on the edge of my seat for the occasional tiebreak or go fetch strawberries.