Wimbledon 2013

[Mendoza]

He'll be on after Lisicki vs Ste Williams then.

[Stickman]

Lisicki having a great go here ....williams gotta show some bollocks here.

 

Lisicki serving for the match

[Mendoza]

Lisicki serving for match! She'll fuck it up!

[Red Banjo]

Go on Sabine! 2 points away now

[Mendoza]

Yep, fucking it up big time.

[Mendoza]

YES!!!

[TheBitch]

(I'd love to) Get in Lisicki.

[Carradona]

I'd walk the length of the earth just to chew on that Lisicki's sweat band.

[Mendoza]

[Guest LFD]

Robson is much nicer.

[Stickman]

I'd draw the line at getting a chew off her with those gnashers

[Red Banjo]

Itchy neg finger here.

 

Lots of wrongness

 

Lisicki is boner-tastic

[Trumo]

As you lot are clearly also tennis fans, I've added a couple of tennis-based games on Sporcle. I suppose I'd better explain the concept here first:

 

These games are based on the same principle as the unofficial f******l world championship. It starts with the original actual Grand Slam tournament champion. The first player to beat them in that tournament becomes the next unofficial champion, and so on and so on. If any listed player retired after becoming an unofficial champion, the sequence starts again with the actual champion for the following year (marked with a W). If the listed player was absent from the next tournament(s), the sequence continues from the next time they appeared and were defeated.

 

If you have time, click on the following links and have a go. There are links to Facebook and Twitter etc so I'd also appreciate it if you could spread the word. IF you think they're any good of course!

 

Unofficial Mens' grand slam tennis champions Quiz by iDom - Sporcle Games & Trivia

 

Unofficial womens' grand slam tennis champions? Quiz by iDom - Sporcle Games & Trivia

[Trumo]

Pleased for Lisicki, and it's about time the bludgeoning machine that is Serena Williams got knocked out. I thought Robson fucked up when serving out the first set, and she never recovered from it. She also seems to want to smash absolutely every shot. There were loads of time when Kanepi was well behind the baseline yet Robson never tried any deft little shots over the net to make Kanepi start chasing. Murray used to do this a while back - keeping rallies going when the point could have been won a lot sooner.

[RedinSweden]

That Lisicki v Williams match was ace.

[Mendoza]

Itchy neg finger here.

 

Lots of wrongness

 

Lisicki is boner-tastic

 

This.

 

[moof]

I'd like to Sabone Lisicki, not into Robson at all.

[sir roger]

Sad to see Robson go, but couldn't see her upsetting Lisicki anyway. Kanepi deserved it over the piece, but Robson was very unlucky with a bad call in the second set that cost her a break which could have made a massive difference.

 

Looking at Robson going forward, she could go a long way depending on whether she is prepared to graft. As the co-commentator said during the Kanepi match, she has a lot of tennis gifts that you can't manufacture & her weaknesses are all recoverable with hard work & good coaching. In the 'English girl in the 2nd week' hysteria, it can be lost that she is the youngest girl in the top 50 and has barely started her career.

[Red Banjo]

Agree to a point Sir Rog, but then i tell myself that many womens players make the big breakthrough as teenagers. Sharapova was regularly in major finals when she was Robson's age, and indeed was much younger having won one already.

 

She's a good player - but i think having Murray in the mens game will have an adverse effect as people will just expect her to be on par with him - which is unfair. She's capable of being a top 10 player IMO, but i've not seen anything to suggest she isn't just the female equivalent of Tim Henman, good but not quite good enough.

 

Look forward to being proved wrong though. The little minx

[sir roger]

Agree to a point Sir Rog, but then i tell myself that many womens players make the big breakthrough as teenagers. Sharapova was regularly in major finals when she was Robson's age, and indeed was much younger having won one already.

 

She's a good player - but i think having Murray in the mens game will have an adverse effect as people will just expect her to be on par with him - which is unfair. She's capable of being a top 10 player IMO, but i've not seen anything to suggest she isn't just the female equivalent of Tim Henman, good but not quite good enough.

 

Look forward to being proved wrong though. The little minx

 

I agree to a degree RB.

 

To me, the crunch is going to be her flexibility as I think the service problems, mental frailty & slightly wild forehands should be sortable by a decent coach. The big problem to me is that her legs seem a bit like stone at times & she is very slow around the court ( although better than last year ) and I'm not sure how much better she can get on this ( maybe yoga or whatever might help ). The other players are already picking up on this & I noticed Kanepi moving her around deliberately.

 

Looking on the bright side, judging from this thread it would seem that she wouldn't struggle for forumites to help her work on her flexibility.

[Remmie]

I would Lisicki her Sabine all day long.

[Captain]

I see the Williams brother has been knocked out.

 

What a shame.

[Mendoza]

Looks like Scot Andy Murray is having his first wobble of the tournament.

[Mendoza]

After a slight wobble in the second set Britain's Andy Murray is now 'pissing it.'

[Champ]

After a slight wobble in the second set Britain's Andy Murray is now 'pissing it.'

 

Now serving for the match at 5-1