i put £20 on querrey @3/1 when he broke murrays serve the first time in set 4
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i put £20 on querrey @3/1 when he broke murrays serve the first time in set 4
I went to prep some food and do a bit of gardening when Andy was 1 up and looked like cruising! On the ropes a wee bit now though
The way he's hobbling, even if he does claw it back he's never going to get past Federer or Djokovic.
new hips
Murray clearly injured. Well done to Querrey though.
Shame but fair play to Querry. Great serve.
Has he mentioned anything about being injured? He didn't look to be hitting the ball very hard and he wasn't his usual self in those last 2 sets.
Hip injury. Needs to get that sorted. He's had it all his life apparently.
In her own words
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/s...rise.html?_r=1
Quote:
The 5-foot-11 Konta appreciated the flattery, or what passed for it. “It’s a compliment for you guys to be interested in my Australian roots,” she said, “but unfortunately it’s going to be a very boring answer.”
Konta added: “I’m very happy, very pleased to be representing Great Britain. That is my home. That is where my heart is. That’s where my parents are. That’s where I grew up essentially. So when people ask where I’m from, where is home, that’s where it is.”
It's not essentially where she grew up, so in her own words...she's talking ****.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...s-with-britain
She left Australia at 14, to go to Spain for 15 months to train there. Her parents didn't want to be all the way across the other side of the world so moved to the UK. She moved to the UK after her 15 months in Spain, so she was probably 15 years old when she came to the UK. She didn't grow up here.
Also -
Quote:
Growing up in Collaroy, NSW, Konta found herself with a racquet at the tender age of eight after her Hungarian-born parents introduced her to the sport.
Up until her early teenage years, the young woman was part of the Australian tennis developmental pathway.
But in 2004, when the Australian Sports Commission reduced its budget, Konta's funding was cut because she was regarded as 'lacking the requisite talent and potential', the Herald Sun reported.
She was home-schooled from the age of 12 so she could play tennis full-time.
At the age of 14, Konta moved to Barcelona for a 15-month stint at the Sanchez Casal academy to pursue her tennis dream.
'I left because my parents felt that the travel was just too long back and forth from Australia and we wanted to find a base in Europe,' Konta said in 2015.
'I was training in Spain for 15 months and while I was there my parents didn't want to be halfway around the world away from their 14-year-old daughter.
'So they migrated to the UK because they had Hungarian passports and that's in the EU, so they could work there.'
Konta said her original plan was to stay in Spain but when 'things didn't work out' she moved back in with her folks in Britain.
In recent years, the tennis sensation was constantly pressed about whether she would ever return to her roots.
'Australia is my birth home so it will always be a home of some sort,' she said.
'But I'm very happy, very pleased to be representing Great Britain. That is my home and that is where my heart is.
Djokovic retires injured. Just give it to Federer now!
I was quite looking forward to a Djokovic-Federer semi on Friday as well!
I can't believe either Marin Cilic or Sam Querrey will be in the final.
Federer through in straight sets.
Good post, easty - my thoughts exactly :aok:
Konta is as British as those Kenyans representing Qatar at athletics or the Samoans in the English rugby team.
FWIW - I read the other day that she's now applied for residency of Monaco (sorry - can't find link and can't be arsed searching).
Don't think Andy would have played if it hadn't been Wimbledon. Even though he won the first set you could see his movement wasn't quite right even at that stage. By the third and fourth set it was sheer willpower that kept him going. He should probably have retired like Djokovic but he's a true champ as this article sums up well:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...feat-1-4502351
Hopefully he's not done himself further damage by seeing it through to the end, but I suspect we may not see him compete again this year.
I wouldn't mind a foreign born footballer playing for Scotland, as long as he had a whisky once. Our nation has been burdened by forced servitude, the clearances and economic induced migration.
Our footballing genes have been severely depleted.
We should be allowed to give rapid citizenship and nationality to anyone that can run past two men, cross a ball or curl one into the top corner. Maybe even have a chip a keeper penalty lottery for a visa.
The central similarity is, like me, Konta and Farah were born outside the UK but choose to compete for their 'adopted' country. (personally, I am ready to answer Mr Strachan's call at any time, should he have been watching my performances at fives recently, but that's another story ).
Has Hingis been hiding on The Tardis? What a fine looking woman she continues to be, as well as a great tennis player.
I totally agree.
For the avoidance of doubt, I am 100% Scottish and would not under any technicality have the opportunity to represent any other nation.
It seems that people who have similar heritage feel the need to judge others whose backgrounds are maybe a little more complicated.
Somewhere along the line, someone who is part -British, grew up mainly in Australia (but also spent a reasonable amount of time in Spain) to Hungarian parents is going to have to make a call as to which nation they represent. Whatever that person chooses to be the deciding factor behind that decision is entirely theirs.
I wish we could just leave them be, let them get on with it and if they happen to be from the same country as you, just get behind them instead of sniping about what their motivation may be.