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Yep! I totally agree. The coverage is so slunted.I wish I could get Eurosport
It bugs me that I cannot watch Baghy on TV... he is been playing great and has flown under the radar in court #13.
Well, even Nadal (beat Youzhny in five sets) played on Court 2 today.... poor Nadal will play a second-full match in-a-row tomorrow vs. Berdych.
About biased TV coverage, it's really too bad, but it's perfectly understandable. Similar to what happens at the US Open (all the Americans get the show courts, regardless of how they are playing!). _________________ "Satan is behind Illegal Immigration."- Don Larson, Utah County Republican Tennis Wallpapers, presented by leftys_rock and myself
Yep! I totally agree. The coverage is so slunted.I wish I could get Eurosport
It bugs me that I cannot watch Baghy on TV... he is been playing great and has flown under the radar in court #13.
Well, even Nadal (beat Youzhny in five sets) played on Court 2 today.... poor Nadal will play a second-full match in-a-row tomorrow vs. Berdych.
About biased TV coverage, it's really too bad, but it's perfectly understandable. Similar to what happens at the US Open (all the Americans get the show courts, regardless of how they are playing!).
That could be said about all Slams. All four Slams (The Aussie less than the other three, IMO) put better players on secondary courts so their nobody players can be on the show courts. I find that obnoxious. _________________
Absolutely amazing. Marion Bartoli stunned Justine Henin, ending her streak of 5 straight Major finals, 1-6 7-5 6-1. I'm so elated for her! She is always being put down for being "fat". Amazing win.
She will play Venus Williams in the final. Marion will be ranked at least #11 Monday, she wil be top 10 if she wins the title. _________________
Absolutely amazing. Marion Bartoli stunned Justine Henin, ending her streak of 5 straight Major finals, 1-6 7-5 6-1. I'm so elated for her! She is always being put down for being "fat". Amazing win.
She will play Venus Williams in the final. Marion will be ranked at least #11 Monday, she wil be top 10 if she wins the title.
I was not expecting this... 6-1 in the final set!
Venus, obviously, is the heavy favourite (can't believe Richard Williams's original prediction might actually turnout to be true), but, I guess, who really knows? Bartoli has just put her name on the map.... _________________ "Satan is behind Illegal Immigration."- Don Larson, Utah County Republican Tennis Wallpapers, presented by leftys_rock and myself
It definitely was French day with both Gasquet and Bartoli.
I heard on TV that when Venus won in 2005 and was ranked #14 it was the lowest ranked champion. By having Bartoli #18 and Venus #23 in the final we are guaranteed a new record. I am very happy for bartoli. She has got a cool attitude. Here is what she said when she beat Jankovic: "It’s not a big surprise for me. I’m a top 20 player. I’m not 200 in the world. I think I could be in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam. It’s not that big a surprise.”
With regards to TV coverage, I was so happy when I realised that ESPN2 was going to continue with the Djokovic -Baghdatis match and not swicth to Venus-Ivanovic match. That match was on tape delay on NBC later.
How difficult would it be for the TV to have two simultaneous live matches?
Today was a strange day....
I was bummed about Bahgdatis (he deserved to win), Roddick and Ana, but then I was happy about Venus, Djokovic and Bartoli and Gasguet.
Donald Young is in the Boys finals. This is his last year on the juniors tour as he turns 18 this month. Hope he wins!
Djokovic retired; Federer easy over Gasquet..... another Nadal - Federer final - both chasing history and Borg's records.
Venus and Bartoli getting ready to start. While I do want Venus to win, Bartoli kind of grows on you. She is very likeable
I guess Richard Williams prediction will come true, even though he probably just said it out of arrogance.
Borg, Martina, Billy Jean and the iron lady all in the stands watching... only 007 missing...
Venus is a Wimby champ again with a 6-4 6-1 win over Bartoli. BTW, who is Young playing in the final? The mens starts at in about 20 minutes. _________________
The final was AMAZING!
Nadal deserved to win, but hats off to Federer for going deep inside to turn the game around and save those 4 break points in the fifth. I was also please to hear him say that luck was on his side, instead of him making another arrogant comment after winning.
Johny Mac said that Nadal must now use this as a motivator to come back more determined next year and win, just like he hid after loosing to Bjorg in 1980. I thought that was a great analogy.
The final was great. Nadal really hung in there after Federer took the 3 set in a tiebreaker. It started off real slow but then the match picked up it's pace and turned out to be a good one.
Donald Young ended up winning his Wimbledon final also. Congrats to him. _________________
Wow!....a match like the men's final today is exactly what the sport needs to grow the game. A great match that no matter who won I was still gonna be totally satisfied with watching the entire match....both players deserved it, and both brought their "A" game in the finals.....Easily the best match of the year....so far.
How scarry is Nadal that he showed no signs of fatigue after playing so much tennis leading up to the final?
What a great rivalry we as tennis fans have to enjoy...Fed wants the Roland Garros title but Rafa is standing in the way...and Nadal wants the Wimbly title.....but Mr. Fed has dismissed him twice.....it will be very interesting to see which player will get what they want first.
I know Fed's chances of getting the Roland Garros title are growing slimmer with each passing year....realistically he has next year and maybe 2009 at the outside.
Rafa....on the other hand is sitting pretty at Wimbly he has many years to challenge for the title.....he will one year win Wimbly....I'd love to see him take the Roland Garros and Wimbly back-to-back...but I'd also like to see Roger get the ever elusive Grand Slam though....
(Edit) The only thing that remains to be seen is will Rafa disappear (mostly) for the rest of this year?...as is his pattern, or will he challenge at the U.S. Open?.....I'm guessing we will not see Rafa firing on all pistons until Dubai next year.
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I'm so elated for her! She is always being put down for being "fat". Amazing win.
I was not expecting this... 6-1 in the final set!
