2018 Wimbledon

[spystud13 2,371]

Draws are out, play begins Monday @ 6 am on ESPN with the bottom halfs in action. 

 

Men's pdf

Cilic/Dimitrov/Isner on top with Fed, Zverev/del Po/Thiem down with Rafa. 

Women's pdf

Top half looks tougher with Simona/Garbine/Petra/Angie/Ostapenko/Konta/Maria sprinkled throughout. Caroline gets Sloane/Svitolina/Karolina/Keys/CoCo/Serena (#25) in her half. 

 

[satyanash 14,633]

Good draw for Fed, tough one for Nadal. Fed gets Coric again in the 4th round and Cilic in the semifinals. Everyone else seems to be in Nadal's half - del Potro, Kyrgios, Djokovic, etc.

[spystud13 2,371]

Correction, top half for the men Monday. 

 

 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Dimitrov v. Wawrinka first round. Wawrinka has never been a good grass court player so Dimitrov should win comfortably 

Edited June 29, 2018 by perfectchaos007

[spystud13 2,371]

Karolina/Vika possible R2 also. 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

That Special seeding exemption really helped Serena. She's guaranteed not to play anyone in the top 100 until at least round 3

[spystud13 2,371]

Yeah, Svitolina ain't real pumped about that. 

[spystud13 2,371]

Full day 1 OoP. 

http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/schedule/index.html

 

[spystud13 2,371]

ESPN’s picks... 

 

Drysdale - Fed/Kvitova

Evert - Fed/Keys

Gilbert - Nadal/Kvitova 

McEnroe - del Po/Osaka

Shriver - Fed/Muguruza 

 

http://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/23955489/wimbledon-experts-picks-roger-federer-serena-williams-hardly-guarantees-win

 

Edited July 1, 2018 by spystud13

[The Dog 44,140]

Murray withdraws

[satyanash 14,633]

On 6/29/2018 at 10:51 AM, perfectchaos007 said:

Dimitrov v. Wawrinka first round. Wawrinka has never been a good grass court player so Dimitrov should win comfortably 

On the other hand, Dimitrov has a habit of losing matches he should win. 

Faster surfaces should be good for him though.

[satyanash 14,633]

37 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Murray withdraws

That's a shame. This ends his run of 10 consecutive Wimbledon QFs starting from 2008.

[The Dog 44,140]

Sloane Stephens is getting blown out by this chick: http://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/318516/title/donna-vekic

Her claim to fame is being boned by Stan Wawrinka. 

[The Dog 44,140]

correction: past tense now. Been blown out. 6-1, 6-3. 

[satyanash 14,633]

Federer looking good to start things off. Also, it looks like the UNI QLO rumours were true...

[Mileslong 4,728]

Good start for THE GOAT

[The Dog 44,140]

2 minutes ago, Mileslong said:

Good start for THE GOAT

someone needs to beat that old codger. it's time for someone new. (nothing against Fed he's cool but I'm sick of the same guys)

Edited July 2, 2018 by The Dog

[Mileslong 4,728]

someone needs to beat that old codger. 

How could you possibly not like Fed? Most beautiful game ever, total class act , seriously what’s not to like?

[The Dog 44,140]

28 minutes ago, Mileslong said:

 

How could you possibly not like Fed? Most beautiful game ever, total class act , seriously what’s not to like?

 

got nothing to do with dislike. got everything to do with boredom and wanting something new. 

[spystud13 2,371]

2 hours ago, The Dog said:

Sloane Stephens is getting blown out by this chick: http://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/318516/title/donna-vekic

Her claim to fame is being boned by Stan Wawrinka. 

 

More than just Stan, she's extremely popular with the ATP. 

 

 

[satyanash 14,633]

25 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

 

More than just Stan, she's extremely popular with the ATP. 

 

 

"Sorry to tell you that, mate..."

Edited July 2, 2018 by satyanash

[spystud13 2,371]

3 hours ago, satyanash said:

Also, it looks like the UNI QLO rumours were true...

 

Sheesh, nice gig. 

Quote

Sources say the deal is worth more than $300 million guaranteed over 10 years and has an unprecedented clause that says that Federer will collect the money even if he doesn't play.

To put Federer's $300 million Uniqlo deal in perspective, his career on-court earnings are $116.6 million.

Sources say the deal could be even more lucrative for Federer, as it includes the right for his team to sell some patches on his shirt. Nike did not allow him to do so.

 

[Jive Turkey 12,644]

Serena had a bit more of a struggle than I'm sure she'd like in the first round.  But she made it through.  I do like Rus.  I like watching lefties play.  And she purty.

[Bodowned 763]

dimitrov is awful.

[Napoleon 8,700]

On 6/29/2018 at 8:51 AM, perfectchaos007 said:

Dimitrov v. Wawrinka first round. Wawrinka has never been a good grass court player so Dimitrov should win comfortably 

 

On 7/1/2018 at 10:11 AM, satyanash said:

On the other hand, Dimitrov has a habit of losing matches he should win. 

Faster surfaces should be good for him though.

Uh... I'm thinking that Dimitrov is a little annoyed with this draw. They are on serve in the 4th set, but the first sets went:

Spoiler

STAN: 1 7 7
DIMIT: 6 6 6

 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Yeah I'm not looking too good with that prediction. 

[spystud13 2,371]

Stan wins. 

[satyanash 14,633]

The gulf between Dimitrov's physical and mental talent is insane. He has all the technique and tools to succeed but none of the mental toughness.

[satyanash 14,633]

Also Coric was just upset in straight sets by Daniil Medvedev, so Federer's path just became a little easier.

[spystud13 2,371]

Granted I generally only watch the women, but these courts are playing EXTREMELY slow today. 

[spystud13 2,371]

CoCo out, rolled her ankle late in first. 

[spystud13 2,371]

This Ruse kid playing Aga just won a game in which she had 7 DFs. 

[spystud13 2,371]

Aga has to save 6 MPs as a -1000 favorite. 

 

Women. 

[spystud13 2,371]

#5 Svitolina can now join Sloane at the airport bar. 

[spystud13 2,371]

And that REALLY opens up Serena's draw. 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

 Serenas draw opened up wider than Donna Vekić legs in an ATP players bedroom! 

 

Edit: sorry about that

Edited July 2, 2018 by perfectchaos007

[spystud13 2,371]

Genie threw down a first set bagel, that’s rather rare of late. 

[spystud13 2,371]

And promptly loses the second, that’s not as rare. 

[spystud13 2,371]

Genie wins, Petra drops the first. 

[spystud13 2,371]

This sounds decent. 

 

 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Kyrgios lowkey has the best serve in tennis right now and he's even playing more tiebreakers than Isner

Edited July 3, 2018 by perfectchaos007

[Bodowned 763]

Kyrgios will be dangerous all tournament as long as he's motivated. It's when his first serve % goes down and he starts horsing around in rallies that he loses steam. If he loses the first set against somebody decent, I can see him tanking the match out of frustration. 

In other news, it looks like just about every successful clay court player outside of Rafa is losing or has lost already today.

[WBT 20,669]

1 hour ago, spystud13 said:

Genie wins

was there ever any doubt?

[spystud13 2,371]

Petra down a double break @ 0-3. 

[Aleemay 304]

Petra in danger of being bageled this last set

[spystud13 2,371]

Pre-tourney betting favorite bageled, great. 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

So I guess now Serena is the odds on favorite to win?

[spystud13 2,371]

Since ESPN+ has fucked us out of all the free matches, 705 on DirecTV will have an amazing match for the eyes in about 5 minutes. Maria v. 27-year old hot Rooskie Vitalia Diatchenko, who isn’t good. 

Edited July 3, 2018 by spystud13
Make that 705

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

I remember Diatchenko for that shitty match against Serena at the US Open. Diatchenko ended up retiring from it, but it was God awful.

[spystud13 2,371]

Shit, looks like it’s pushed back to noon.