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🎾Calling all Wimbledon watchers🏆! Views and Comments?

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ixion Mon 01-Jul-24 08:58:01

A platform for news, views and comments this Wimbledon fortnight.

Andy - how far will he get?
Who will be the most annoying presenter(s)?
Any Brits to look out for?
Anyone here going?

And not forgetting Lucca, who loved the game and the Championship🌻.

Sparklefizz Fri 05-Jul-24 10:46:24

I can recommend the documentary on ilPlayer about Andy Murray, and the one on Federer on Amazon Prime.
Kleenex will be needed !

LauraNorderr Fri 05-Jul-24 16:26:41

Watching Alcaraz and Tiafoe.
Love Tiafoe’s story. He’s playing so well and I’m torn as to who I hope wins.

DamaskRose Fri 05-Jul-24 16:30:28

Sparklefizz

I can recommend the documentary on ilPlayer about Andy Murray, and the one on Federer on Amazon Prime.
Kleenex will be needed !

Thankyou Sparklefizz, didn’t know about the Federer one. I’ve never been his biggest fan but he was a fantastic, and beautiful, tennis player. Could never really understand the blazer and flannels or the cardi.

Sparklefizz Fri 05-Jul-24 17:20:10

LauraNorderr

Watching Alcaraz and Tiafoe.
Love Tiafoe’s story. He’s playing so well and I’m torn as to who I hope wins.

Terrific match. Very exciting. Hoping for Tiafoe.

LauraNorderr Fri 05-Jul-24 17:26:15

Well I seem to have jinxed that!

LauraNorderr Fri 05-Jul-24 17:28:50

Match point

LauraNorderr Fri 05-Jul-24 17:29:49

Oh well. Both played so well. What a match.

TillyTrotter Fri 05-Jul-24 18:38:36

I am an unashamed Alcaraz fan and he had me worried today for a whole 4 sets.
Tiafoe, his opponent, played a darned good match. I hope the fierce challenge woke Alcaraz up as he can’t afford to coast in any matches.
The standard of opponents is just so high.

TillyTrotter Fri 05-Jul-24 18:40:20

Emma R is playing well against a Greek opponent called Sakkari. I love watching all the matches that I can but sometimes I have to do it through my fingers.

Rekarie Fri 05-Jul-24 18:49:23

Very good afternoon of tennis! All my favourites got through, even though Alcaraz caused a bit of stress! Coco did well, Emma's doing grand. Great first week so far

glammagran Fri 05-Jul-24 19:09:29

Watched Alcaraz and Tiafoe this afternoon. What a match. I started off hoping the former would win but then was rooting for Tiafoe.

The vacuous commentary in Emma Raducanu’s match is doing my head in.

NanKate Fri 05-Jul-24 19:33:03

Come on Sinner you are the new kid on the block. You have humility and good manners, like the one and only Rafa Nadal. Neither of you ask the spectators to clap and cheer for you. 👍

I will be sad when the likes of Wawrinka and Monfils hang up their rackets.

ixion Fri 05-Jul-24 19:38:19

Well done, Emma🥇

tickingbird Fri 05-Jul-24 19:43:41

Andy’s been a credit to GB tennis and has done us proud. Emma seems to be back on form and Cam Norris played very well against Jack Draper.

As for Andrew Castle, I do like him but hate his commentary and every tennis fan I know feels the same. He comes out with the most inane comments. He just needs to shut up. Annabelle great and Tim Henman is good too. McEnroe talks too much and I hate the way he says jokervitch when speaking about Novak.

I’m a big Nadal fan and miss him. I’d like Sinner to win.

Callistemon213 Fri 05-Jul-24 19:51:44

McEnroe talks too much and I hate the way he says jokervitch when speaking about Novak

McEnroe knows perfectly well how to pronounce Djokovic; he sounds as if he's saying Jokervich as a matter of disrespect.
Please don't invite him back BBC.

Rekarie Fri 05-Jul-24 19:54:08

Oh dear, Andrew Castle. He's been driving me mad for years. I can get very loud and unruly when the tennis is on. Many a time I'd yell, 'shut up, Andrew'.

I learned to control my commenting when my 2 year old daughter began stomping around, muttering 'shut up Andrew' every now and then.

Callistemon213 Fri 05-Jul-24 20:09:51

Rekarie

Oh dear, Andrew Castle. He's been driving me mad for years. I can get very loud and unruly when the tennis is on. Many a time I'd yell, 'shut up, Andrew'.

I learned to control my commenting when my 2 year old daughter began stomping around, muttering 'shut up Andrew' every now and then.

😂😂😂

Well said, that girl!!

NanKate Fri 05-Jul-24 20:21:43

Andrew Castle 👎 😏

Callistemon213 Sat 06-Jul-24 14:34:28

Emma Radacanu has withdrawn from the mixed doubles with Andy Murray tonight, citing a stiff wrist.

She is very sorry to have to do so but has another singles match tomorrow.

merlotgran Sat 06-Jul-24 16:35:46

That’s a shame but I guess she can’t take any chances.

Callistemon213 Sat 06-Jul-24 17:35:14

We're becoming rather annoyed by the BBC coverage of Wimbledon.

Just as a match reaches a critical point, Clare Balding will announce that it will be continued on another channel or even on iPlayer. By the time we've found the match on iPlayer (which is very erratic) the match is sometimes over. If it switches from BBC1 to BBC2 there is sometimes a hiccup in coverage.

Why not use a dedicated channel as well eg the little-watched BBC3?

NotAGran55 Sat 06-Jul-24 18:04:31

Sad to see Ons going out 😞

Urmstongran Sat 06-Jul-24 18:04:56

Callistemon213

Emma Radacanu has withdrawn from the mixed doubles with Andy Murray tonight, citing a stiff wrist.

She is very sorry to have to do so but has another singles match tomorrow.

Emma did what Andy would have done - put her singles career ahead of a 'show' match.

Callistemon213 Sat 06-Jul-24 18:05:23

Oh no, has she?

DH has the football on now.

Callistemon213 Sat 06-Jul-24 18:06:14

Callistemon213

Oh no, has she?

DH has the football on now.

I meant Ons.