Wimbledon

[Seshmeister]

GO ANDY!


100 degree heat may be a problem, we're not used to that at all...

[Seshmeister]

Looks like this is going to be a long final...

[vandeleur]

Murray is playing for the right to be British

[Seshmeister]

He's up at 96%, highest I've seen since he won the olympics...

http://andymurrayometer.com/

[vandeleur]

Did we not do this last year

[Seshmeister]

There is definitely still some English anti-Murray stuff on twitter but less than there used to be.

I don't know what more he has to do, he's even shagging a nice English bird for fuck sake.

[vandeleur]

Splitter

[Anonymous]

Splitter

He HAS been doing that, didn't you read Sesh's post?

Cheers!

[vandeleur]

He HAS been doing that, didn't you read Sesh's post?

Cheers!

[ashstralia]

disappointed. no grunting blonde eastern european girls???

wtf?

[envy_me]

Who is he playing against? I hope it's not Djokovic, cause then I have to root for him

[Seshmeister]

WTF?

I thought you would support anyone against a Serb?

[envy_me]

WTF?

I thought you would support anyone against a Serb?

Lol, my mom is a Serb My dad is Croat, I was born in Bosnia. I don't have a problem with anybody, really.
He is extremely charming and funny, check him out on Jay Leno.

[Seshmeister]

The two players are very good friends off the court apparently.

[vandeleur]

I wouldn't play poker with Lendl

[ashstralia]

whoooo!!!


whooo!

whoooo!!!


whoo.

[Seshmeister]

I wouldn't play poker with Lendl

Or charades, can you imagine?

"Ok is it something to do with the holocaust? No? Cancer? No? Is it something by Sammy Hagar?"

[vandeleur]

2 nowt looking canny

[Seshmeister]

2 - 0

[vandeleur]

@WelshIrvine: TIT RIDE MURRAY!!! HAWK EYE THE NOO, SEE U JOCKY!!!!!


Hawkeye the noo ..... Fucking classic

[Seshmeister]

Even seeing that twat Gerard Butler in the crowd can't spoil this.

Getting stressful...

[vandeleur]

A proud moment for British sport lol .
Good on him I say

[Seshmeister]

Fucking Awesome!

Funny thing is I'm just leaving to go to a wedding (filthy atheist Sunday wedding), so about to unleash the kilt!

[vandeleur]

Lol ... You mean you don't wear one all the time .... I doff my cloth cap to ya

[vandeleur]

@NUFC_US: Nice job by Andy Murray, but he still needs two titles to catch Joe Kinnear.

Sorry a footy joke

[envy_me]

Damn! But good for you guys!

[Hardrock69]

Just watched the last bit there....one guy won the title.....imagine that.....those fuckers have to WORK!

I am sure a cat would love watching something like that.

[vandeleur]

Just watched the last bit there....one guy won the title.....imagine that.....those fuckers have to WORK!

I am sure a cat would love watching something like that.

Now now hr ... I love your left field posts but you do support a sport that is rugby with armour case you get hurt .
HR "you a big man but your in bad shape "
Your a clever bloke your gonna laugh and get the quote .. Fingers xd
:

[Jérôme Frenchise]

I wouldn't play poker with Lendl

One night in NYC in the early 80s, at the Madison Square Garden, in the middle of a McEnroe-Lendl match.

A McEnroe fan yells "dead rat face" at the Czech... The Union in favor of dead rat faces, who felt insulted,
lodged a complaint against the guy who shouted that,

[sadaist]

Tennis is very underrated. I always played in my youth, got pretty decent at it too. One time me and Mom went to the Sports Arena for a charity/fun match between Andre Agassi & Jimmy Conners. It was all for fun and they were totally hamming it up for the crowd, laughing, enjoying themselves.....and playing some incredible tennis. Really hard fought & well played matches can be great fun to watch. Much more so than golf.


Do tennis balls still come in those aluminum cans? I remember saving coins in one. And nothing smells better than opening a fresh can. Thought I was a hot shot when I first bought a can of the orange ones lol.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Do tennis balls still come in those aluminum cans? I remember saving coins in one. And nothing smells better than opening a fresh can. Thought I was a hot shot when I first bought a can of the orange ones lol.

They still do. Or in plastic tubes. You could buy pressureless Tretorn balls by four in cardboard boxes too, I remember from when I started in the early 1980s - I was a competitor for 20 years, stopped when I turned 30 and changed regions - I was attached to my club and team, didn't feel like competing anymore then.

I was crazy about international chamionships in the late 70s, through the 80s and the mid-90s. I would stay awake till 4 in the morning to watch the McEnroe-Borg US Open finals on TV right from the age of 10. I was fond of the game, and the best players of that time, Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Gerulaitis...
I followed the ladies too, Chris Evert, Tracy Austin, Hana Mandlikova...
That sport was much more appealing back then IMO. Shots were much more varied and players were not as stereotyped as they are today.
Rackets and balls were slower, today's champions can sure play faster, but it's been getting more and more boring...

Here's the match point for McEnroe against Lendl, 1984 Dallas final - 7/6 in the 5th set, McEnroe won the tie-break 7/0.
Lendl won't accept his defeat after McEnroe concluded the (somptuous) final rallye with a shot that passed between the net and the net pole:

[envy_me]

I think I was watching the game when Monica Selesh was stabbed.

[Seshmeister]

Here's the match point for McEnroe against Lendl, 1984 Dallas final - 7/6 in the 5th set, McEnroe won the tie-break 7/0.
Lendl won't accept his defeat after McEnroe concluded the (somptuous) final rallye with a shot that passed between the net and the net pole:

Murray did something similar a few years ago but legally.




Nuts that McEnroe won a match like that.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Murray did something similar a few years ago but legally.




Nuts that McEnroe won a match like that.

Shots like Murray's are rare, but not exceptional. Enormous, anyway!

McEnroe was leading 6/0 in the final tie-break, so there wasn't much suspense left.

Lendl could be a total prick sometimes, like he is after that huge point.

I remember reading a piece of post-match interview by McEnroe, where he was asked to explain
how he did that incredible forehand. He said something like "I saw the gap [between the net and the pole],
I aimed at it, and it passed through it"

I wonder how Lendl could know the ball had passed through there, because he was at the opposite of the net
when it occurred.

[ODShowtime]

Congrats GB. Now you're not the cleveland of tennis anymore.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Virginia Wade (England) won the ladies' 100th anniversary edition in 1977 though.

[VHscraps]

Virginia Wade is / was South African. She probably became a British subject (nae citizens here, pal) at some point, but it was the only way she could play tennis internationally as there was a sporting boycott of South Africa (and playing against teams / athletes representing it) at the time

[katina]

I was crazy about international chamionships in the late 70s, through the 80s and the mid-90s. I would stay awake till 4 in the morning to watch the McEnroe-Borg US Open finals on TV right from the age of 10. I was fond of the game, and the best players of that time, Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Gerulaitis...

And Guillermo Vilas, a very cool and humble guy.

[Seshmeister]

Virginia Wade is / was South African. She probably became a British subject (nae citizens here, pal) at some point, but it was the only way she could play tennis internationally as there was a sporting boycott of South Africa (and playing against teams / athletes representing it) at the time

I'm not sure that's true I think you may have got mixed up.

She was born in England and then her English parents emigrated to South Africa when she was 1 year old. She then came back when she was 15.

I think that makes her English/British despite her accent.

Gerard Butler still counts as Scottish(I'm afraid) even with his new asshole accent.