Yeah, this might go four sets.I don't know if you're watching Centre Court, but Andy Murray was serving for the match at 5-0 in the third against #26 seed Nikolosz Basilashvili...and he's now serving at 5-6.
If he'd have won the third set 6-0, I wouldn't have missed the thrilling France v Switzerland match at Euro 2020. (I chose poorly-ish.)Well, Murray made it through the first round. But, it wasn't pretty.
Yup. I'm blaming his movement, he looks half a step slow/unsure of his footingIt’s started again. Roger has shanked so many forehands this match. Even for winners, a lot of them haven’t been clean.
Carreno Busto has never won a match in main draw at Wimby so not a huge surprise Querrey beat him. Nice opening for Sam here with 91st ranked Duckworth next, and then lines up with 23rd seeded Lorenzo Sonego in 3rd round, who has had the bulk of his success on clay.And #11 Carreno Busto and #28 Isner out on the men's side.
Sabalenka comes through 6-3 in third after a 12 minute hold up 4-3, saving multiple break points. Really entertaining match.Sabalenka loses the 1st set to 219th ranked Katie Boulter from Leicester.
Kenin, Andreescu and Bencic all eliminated today, Williams yesterday, so this list is already thinning out.On the women's side , not that we' won't see a bunch of upsets, but the quarters set up as
Barty - Andreescu (Azerenka could be an option here)
Svitolina - Williams (Williams could face Kerber in 3rd round, and winner of Gauf/Bencic in 4th round)
Kenin - Pliskova
Sabalenka - Swiatek (The always unpredictable and Dangerous Muguruzu could be waiting in 4th round for Swiatek )
And Barty has her hands full at 4-4 in first set against 89th ranked Anna BlinkovaKenin, Andreescu and Bencic all eliminated today, Williams yesterday, so this list is already thinning out.
Coco through with relative ease over Vesnina 4&3. She seems to be handling the pressure that comes with expectations pretty well so far. And now onto Fed vs Gasquet...I could watch these two trade one handers all day...#3 Svitolina is out though, that is Coco’s quarter if she can keep going.
Not a Brit, but I think you (and no doubt I) look at the honor as something far higher than it is. But Murray is almost certainly the greatest British tennis play of at least the past 50+ years, if not all time.Sir Andy Murray is the Mo Cheeks of knighthood.
(Seriously, when was he knighted? Seems like the sort of honor you’d reserve for your country’s equivalent of Jackie Robinson or Roberto Clemente.)
I didn't take it as questioning his integrity...at the opening of the broadcast they showed a Kyrgios interview from earlier in the week where is he was pretty up front about him not loving the sport, and wanting to spend the bulk of these years with his family. With that in mind, the commentators were stressing that training for two weeks for a 3/5 set major and adding on mixed dubs, was always going to lead to this kind of result. I, and I don't think the commentators, are questioning the actual injury so much as his commitment to fulfilling his potential. That said, he's been open about not really caring about that, so as frustrating as it is as a fan I can't get too upset about Kyrgios being Kyrgios, so to speak.Any takes on the Kyrgios retirement? The ESPN broadcast presenters a sharp contrast between the crowd’s sympathy for Kyrgios, and the commentators questioning his heart, if not his integrity.
He pulled it out but he was very vulnerable in the 4th setNo trouble. He pulled out.