*Official* Tennis Thread

[Jono]

Venus cannot hold her serve for ****.

Amazing how fit Date-Krumm is considering her age.

 

[vcs]

Would be amazing if Date could pull this off.

Just saw Devvarman is in the 2nd round, first time he's passed a Slam first round, I think. He has Youzhny next.

 

[_Ed_]

Fantastic first set from the 40-year-old, but Williams has fought back amazingly well.

 

[Jono]

Truly ridiculous how the William sisters do this so often.

1-5 to 5-5, saving three or four set points.

Poor Date-Krum, has played some damn good tennis. But on set point Williams brought the goods.

 

[Jono]

Fabulous tennis. Date-Krum played amazing tennis serving to stay in the set, especially when set point down herself.

 

[_Ed_]

And now she's powered her way to three set points in the tie break.

 

[Jono]

Has to take one of these, surely.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Truly ridiculous how the William sisters do this so often.

Ridiculous how well-timed their 'wrong' ball tosses are too.

 

[_Ed_]

Williams fights back again. 6-6. Unbelievable.

 

[vcs]

FFS. Four more set points wasted.

 

[Jono]

WOW! Venus saves 3 and then an epic point from Krum has landed in!

 

[_Ed_]

Haha, jeez. Was that in?

Edit: ****ing hell.

 

[Jono]

Well done Krum!

Awesome set of tennis

 

[_Ed_]

Possibly the best set of women's tennis I've seen - definitely the best in a long time.

 

[Jono]

Commentators saying in the 38 years of him following Wimbledon he's never seen a better set of women's tennis

 

[vcs]

Woo-hoo! Would have been heartbreaking if she'd lost that.

 

[vcs]

Commentators saying in the 38 years of him following Wimbledon he's never seen a better set of women's tennis

The Serena-Dementieva match a couple of years back was pretty good. This was incredible though, in terms of the twists and turns, and the feel-good story of a 40-year old giving a five-time Champion everything she could handle. Her game is such a throwback.

 

[Jono]

Key point set I reckon. Purely from a set perspective it was amazing.

I was saying the same thing about the Federer vs. Novak 1st set in this year's French semi. Sometimes one set can just have everything.

 

[vcs]

Fourth set was better in the Federer-Novak match from a quality point of view IMO. In the final, the first set was pretty much decisive (from Federer's side, not Nadal's).

 

[shivfan]

Date played really well, and deserved taht first set....

Venus leads 3-1 in the second, with a break....