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Originally Posted by Aquarius:

Spot on Fluffy.  Never thought this statement would come out of my mouth ~ but nobody does it like the BBC.  It goes without saying that Virginia Wade got right up my nose.

Oh yes, Wade is terrible.

I do miss some aspects of the BBC commentary, but on ITV, the absence of Andrew Castle is a blessing. Sometimes I have to mute the TV when he's in the commentary box at Wimbledon.

Jim Courier and Mark Petchey can at least give the viewer a sense of the tennis world, and the technicalities of play without needing a screen in front of them feeding them statistics to fill dead air.

 

Just checked the order of play for tomorrow, looking forward to Djokovic and Tsonga respectively(they're not playing each other).

Katerina
Originally Posted by Cold Sweat:

I follow Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki at all the Grand Slams.

 

Still hopeful that one of them will eventually win one........

I think Murray definitely will at some stage, he's gained a lot in mentality in the past year or so and Lendl has been good for him as well.

 

Not sure about Wozniacki though.

Katerina
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:

Oh, by the way, once BB gets underway we can have this thread moved to the Sports Forum, if it looks like it's getting lost amongst the BB associated threads.

Thanks Fluffy, when does BB start? I'm not up to speed with it anymore. Maybe I'll take a look but the lack of live feed has stunted my interest in it.

 

I'm watching Djokovic, he's having a shocker at the moment, 2 sets to 1 down against 22nd seed Seppi.

Just caught a glimpse of the Fed match, his opponent does look like a kid, but seems fearless against the great Federer!

Katerina

Yep, bad light stops play in the Tsonga/Wawrinka match too.

 

Why do we constantly go through this potential scenario every year in every tournament?

If they just started each day's play a bit earlier, maybe about 2 hours earlier, then there would be little likelyhood of the last match running out of light.

 

If all matches were to go to full distance then we might still occasionally have the last one running out of light, but the occurrence of these interrupted matches would be fewer and further between.

Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing