Wimbledon 2019

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 12:27 PM

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Strongly fancy Rafa to win today, should be some match - both have been brilliant so far.

He's slight favourite, but I'm sticking with The Fed on grass.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 03:17 PM

Men's semi-final day. Quite comfortable dor Djokovic in the end, though he was pushed for a while at one set all.

Really looking forward to this Federer-Nadal match.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 03:48 PM

Suprised to learn that Nadal leads Federer 10-3 in Grand Slam head to heads. Six of them have come at the French Open of course, where Nadal leads 6-0, but the Spaniard also leads Federer 3-1 on cement.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 04:38 PM

Magnificent first set goes to Federer on tie-break. It's living up to expectations.

**HUTCHYHIBBY** · 12-07-2019 04:48 PM

Amazing standard so far.

**heretoday** · 12-07-2019 04:49 PM

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Magnificent first set goes to Federer on tie-break. It's living up to expectations.

Rolls Royce v Ferrari.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 04:55 PM

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Rolls Royce v Ferrari.

Good analogy, mate

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 05:09 PM

Second set Nadal 6-1, as Federer's game went to pieces. He needs a big response now, in order to swing the momentum back his way.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 05:51 PM

Third set Federer. What a great champions to compose himself like that after a disastrous set.

**Sir David Gray** · 12-07-2019 06:09 PM

Federer a break up in set four - 3-1.

I must admit I didn't see this coming but you can't help but admire his longevity. To still be playing at this standard at almost 38 years of age is simply incredible.

100% the GOAT.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 06:13 PM

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Federer a break up in set four - 3-1.

I must admit I didn't see this coming but you can't help but admire his longevity. To still be playing at this standard at almost 38 years of age is simply incredible.

100% the GOAT.

I thought the match was slipping away from him second set, when he folded. Using all his experience to come through. I'd love to see him win the tournament again.

**Sir David Gray** · 12-07-2019 06:42 PM

Federer wins 7-6 1-6 6-3 6-4.

Federer v Djokovic on Sunday!

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 06:45 PM

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Federer wins 7-6 1-6 6-3 6-4.

Federer v Djokovic on Sunday!

That was tennis from the Gods. It's a privilege to be around when they play, in addition to Djokovic and Murray. It's a golden era of men's tennis, though it's coming to an end.

**HUTCHYHIBBY** · 12-07-2019 06:46 PM

Good of them to finish just in time for The Jambo kick off! ☺

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 06:47 PM

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Good of them to finish just in time for The Jambo kick off! ☺

They know their place in the sporting hierarchy

**heretoday** · 12-07-2019 06:52 PM

Great tennis match. We won't have these guys around too much longer, sadly.

I fancy Novak in the final. He'll wear down Fed in these endless rallies.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 12-07-2019 06:59 PM

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Great tennis match. We won't have these guys around too much longer, sadly.

I fancy Novak in the final. He'll wear down Fed in these endless rallies.

I think Fed needs to get ahead. Djokovic wobbled under pressure today, and Federer needs to be in a position to turn the screw. Rodger to win!

**Sir David Gray** · 12-07-2019 07:29 PM

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Great tennis match. We won't have these guys around too much longer, sadly.

I fancy Novak in the final. He'll wear down Fed in these endless rallies.

I fancy him as well but the one thing that's for sure is that the majority of the crowd will be behind Federer and Djokovic doesn't like it when the crowd's against him, he's fairly thin skinned at times so that may get under his skin which may help Federer.

Should be a cracker hopefully.

***Diclonius*** · 13-07-2019 01:04 AM

I suspect it isn't just me that's a wee bit jealous that Federer, Nadal and Djokovic - who have already won an exhaustive number of titles - seem to be almost superhuman in their ability to play seemingly forever without an ability-limiting injury, while our once-in-a-century player gets one at almost the exact moment he hits his peak (through no fault of his own, I might add). It's sickening.

**Sir David Gray** · 13-07-2019 06:56 AM

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I suspect it isn't just me that's a wee bit jealous that Federer, Nadal and Djokovic - who have already won an exhaustive number of titles - seem to be almost superhuman in their ability to play seemingly forever without an ability-limiting injury, while our once-in-a-century player gets one at almost the exact moment he hits his peak (through no fault of his own, I might add). It's sickening.

Yeah it is disappointing, I can only imagine how Murray himself feels!

He was world number one, two years ago,
when the seriousness of his problems first surfaced against Sam Querrey at Wimbledon.

He's hardly played a singles match since then and it's unclear if he ever will play competitive singles again.

Meanwhile Roger Federer is looking like he's possibly going to enter into his 40s whilst still competing at the very top of the game which is just ridiculous really.

**heretoday** · 13-07-2019 01:04 PM

Why are there so many members of the armed forces around at Wimbledon?
Are they expecting the mob to rise up and attack the royal box?
Dashed sinister I call it.

***Scouse Hibee*** · 13-07-2019 02:07 PM

Master class from Halep, blew Serena Williams away inside an hour to win the championship.

**Sir David Gray** · 14-07-2019 08:45 AM

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Why are there so many members of the armed forces around at Wimbledon?
Are they expecting the mob to rise up and attack the royal box?
Dashed sinister I call it.

Wimbledon recruits members of the Armed Forces (and also members of the Fire Brigade) to act as stewards during The Championships. They basically volunteer.

**Sir David Gray** · 14-07-2019 08:47 AM

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Master class from Halep, blew Serena Williams away inside an hour to win the championship.

I didn't watch it as I was at the football yesterday but it appears to have been a devastating performance by Halep. Sounds like the pressure of equalling the record got to Serena Williams.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 14-07-2019 08:59 AM

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I didn't watch it as I was at the football yesterday but it appears to have been a devastating performance by Halep. Sounds like the pressure of equalling the record got to Serena Williams.

Same here and I haven't seen the highlights yet. Perhaps Serena just ran out of steam, after two weeks of tennis without any real preparation? Perhaps Halep was just tremendous on the day. What the reasons, it was a surprisingly one-sided result.

I'd love to see Federer do it today.

**~~G B Young~~** · 14-07-2019 12:20 PM

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Same here and I haven't seen the highlights yet. Perhaps Serena just ran out of steam, after two weeks of tennis without any real preparation? Perhaps Halep was just tremendous on the day. What the reasons, it was a surprisingly one-sided result.

I'd love to see Federer do it today.

I watched it on catch-up last night and it was definitely the cast that Halep was simply tremendous on the day. It was probably the finest individual performance I've ever seen in a women's final. Virtually flawless. She has fantastic pace around the court and simply demoralised Williams with some of the returns she made. You could argue that a final that lasts less than an hour leaves the crowd short changed (which has certainly been the case in a number of one-sided women's finals) but anyone who was there will not have felt that way about Halep's display. Well worth a watch if you get a chance.

I'd also love to see Federer win today. He'll have the crowd on his side but I imagine the five-year age gap will play a part and the younger, machine-like Djokovic will simply grind him down.

Djokovic must be one of the least-loved champions in the game. His robotic style is never easy on the eye and there's an arrogant air about him that makes it hard to warm to him.

**~~G B Young~~** · 14-07-2019 12:28 PM

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I suspect it isn't just me that's a wee bit jealous that Federer, Nadal and Djokovic - who have already won an exhaustive number of titles - seem to be almost superhuman in their ability to play seemingly forever without an ability-limiting injury, while our once-in-a-century player gets one at almost the exact moment he hits his peak (through no fault of his own, I might add). It's sickening.

Nadal has seemingly overcome career-threatening knee problems which have plagued him for years (a fair few rumours do the rounds about how he has managed this) and it was only his near invincibility on clay that kept him in the top ten a while back. Until a couple of years ago he was crashing regularly out of Wimbledon in the early rounds. Djokovic also failed to win a slam for a couple of years after an elbow injury but overall you're right about their longevity.

Murray has been especially unlucky to have found himself competing in this era because if you look at how few challengers have emerged to topple these guys you'd imagine Andy could have dominated the game if he'd been born a few years later. On the other hand, you could argue that having to compete with these three helped him to reach the levels he did.