TENNIS: A weird Wednesday at Wimbledon
Jun. 27th, 2013 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllGood grief! To come home again to the shock of finding Federer one set down, battling in the third against an opponent who was serving big, coming into the net despite the fact that Federer was hitting at him and that Federer was making errors! The Ukraninan* surely played the match of his life – if you were to choose where you’d want to beat Federer, it would be Centre Court at Wimbledon, wouldn't it!? And Federer? This was more like Nadal against Rosol than Nadal against Darcis, because it wasn’t as if there was a physical weakness, exactly. It seemed more in the head, that Federer hadn’t worked out a way, especially to consistently return serve, and where he should be exerting pressure in the fourth, couldn’t do so for long enough. I am almost reduced to punctuation marks. Of course, the closing tie-breaker was intense, because you felt the Ukranian had to win it if he was to win. And he did.
And then the curtailed Today at Wimbledon** informed me of the list of injuries, with Azarenka and Tsonga’s names jumping out, although the sheer volume was striking – and made the club send out a statement that was basically saying ‘No, we didn’t fix the grass to be just like it was at the Olympics for Andy Murray to win, thank you. How very dare you imply it. We refute you with science!’
And a tiny little thing matched Maria Sharapova for power and screeching on the graveyard of champions (see also Hewitt, L). The seedings now say Williams vs Kvitova and Djokovic vs Murray. But, who knows?
*Sorry. Laziness.
**Sometimes too silly for its own good, and definitely so today when there was so much to digest and discuss.
And then the curtailed Today at Wimbledon** informed me of the list of injuries, with Azarenka and Tsonga’s names jumping out, although the sheer volume was striking – and made the club send out a statement that was basically saying ‘No, we didn’t fix the grass to be just like it was at the Olympics for Andy Murray to win, thank you. How very dare you imply it. We refute you with science!’
And a tiny little thing matched Maria Sharapova for power and screeching on the graveyard of champions (see also Hewitt, L). The seedings now say Williams vs Kvitova and Djokovic vs Murray. But, who knows?
*Sorry. Laziness.
**Sometimes too silly for its own good, and definitely so today when there was so much to digest and discuss.
