The tennis...

[Legs]

Hope Tsonga wins. Isner is a stain on tennis.

Elaborate?

I'm impressed by how he uses his big service to his advantage at the crucial moments.  Granted, it often doesn't produce the most exciting tennis, but you can't deny that yesterday's match had tension in spades.  Very impressive performance from Tsonga to prevail in the end.

[TigaSefi]

Exactly what you said. I don’t like his brand of tennis and it is incredibly uninspiring! Boom boom boom! Granted a lot of players are like that so it just not him I have a huge disdain for. I like people who uses guile and athleticism. Getting rarer these days.

 Raonic is another. The man is SO BORING!

[mattc]

"stain" is a little strong - but made me smile!

Yup, very boring - but it's not his fault. He was born to serve - he's just using his natural talents. (same as Novak chose to be a multiple grand-slam winner, instead of being a mediocre accountant/plumber/teacher)

[caerau]

Hope Tsonga wins. Isner is a stain on tennis.

Elaborate?

I'm impressed by how he uses his big service to his advantage at the crucial moments.  Granted, it often doesn't produce the most exciting tennis, but you can't deny that yesterday's match had tension in spades.  Very impressive performance from Tsonga to prevail in the end.

Isn't it alleged that Isner and er... whoever it was he was playing  ... when they had that enormously famous 150 game fifth set a few years back - conspired to deliberately do that for all the publicity (and perhaps someone somewhere had a flutter on it it too).


Maybe that's what was meant?

[Legs]

Yup, very boring - but it's not his fault. He was born to serve - he's just using his natural talents. (same as Novak chose to be a multiple grand-slam winner, instead of being a mediocre accountant/plumber/teacher)

Absolutely agree.  One of the best things about tennis is that you get as much tension from the scoreline as from the rallies...

[mattc]

Yup, very boring - but it's not his fault. He was born to serve - he's just using his natural talents. (same as Novak chose to be a multiple grand-slam winner, instead of being a mediocre accountant/plumber/teacher)

Absolutely agree.  One of the best things about tennis is that you get as much tension from the scoreline as from the rallies...

Just to be clear:

Yup, very boring
...

[simonp]

Raonic is into a 5th set.

[simonp]

And just been broken.

[simonp]

Doh! I didn't read the score correctly.

It's now 2-0 to Goffin. Raonic is in real trouble.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Yup, very boring - but it's not his fault. He was born to serve - he's just using his natural talents. (same as Novak chose to be a multiple grand-slam winner, instead of being a mediocre accountant/plumber/teacher)

Absolutely agree.  One of the best things about tennis is that you get as much tension from the scoreline as from the rallies...

Isn't that golf?  Except rallies are too stressful for golfers.

[simonp]

Murray v Kyrgios was billed as an epic but in the end Kyrgios was disappointing. Murray's passage to the QF stage has expended far less energy than at the FO.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Crikey, Roger Federer.

[JenM]

Cracking game, I didn't think he was going to pull that out of the bag. What a difference the commentary made - I have been moaning all week about John McEnroe and who ever he was with filling every gap with comment.....even between the first and second serve.

[Jaded]

Come on Tim!!

[bobb]

I'm currently playing "Count Ivan Lendl's" facial expressions. It's pretty boring so far...

[spesh]

I'm currently playing "Count Ivan Lendl's" facial expressions. It's pretty boring so far...

Let me guess, it's an integer between zero and two? 

[Jaded]

Two. One when he is watching the tennis and one at the end of the match. It's the back of his head...

[Mr Larrington]

Something like this would be my guess:

[LEE]

How the hell does anyone ever beat Serena Williams?

She is, by any meaningful measure, a f***ing Tennis Beast!

[caerau]

Two. One when he is watching the tennis and one at the end of the match. It's the back of his head...

Pretty much like when he was a player then.   

[Andrew]

How the hell does anyone ever beat Serena Williams?

I think everyone else simply plays for 2nd place. They hope to hell not to meet her in the draw and simply do their best and give it a go if they do. Williams wins even when she's ill or lacking form. She's otherwise as close to unbeatable as it gets.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

How the hell does anyone ever beat Serena Williams?

She is, by any meaningful measure, a f***ing Tennis Beast!

She's not just about power though. Yes, she's powerful and athletic, but she's also smart, tactical, versatile, skillful and very hardworking.

[Jaded]

How the hell does anyone ever beat Serena Williams?

She is, by any meaningful measure, a f***ing Tennis Beast!

She's not just about power though. Yes, she's powerful and athletic, but she's also smart, tactical, versatile, skillful and very hardworking.

She reads the game and responds.

When she no longer wins we will have a greater variety of Champions, but poorer tennis overall.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Crikey, Roger Federer.

Not any more.

[Mr Larrington]

Are my ears deceiving me or are TV's John McEnroe and Lindsay Davenport referring to the underdog in this afternoon's Ladies' Single as Angelique Curborough?