Wimbledon Day 4

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Wow, after yesterday's drama the World Number One and reigning Australian Open champion takes Centre stage against "Burt" Reynolds.  Also, Britain's greatest hope in the women's side takes to court 2.

Centre Court 1.00pm

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Jesse Levine (CAN) v Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) [8]  LADIES' SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [4] v Mathilde Johansson (FRA)  GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Novak Djokovic (SRB) [1] v Bobby Reynolds (USA)

No.1 Court 1.00pm

LADIES' SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Serena Williams (USA) [1] v Caroline Garcia (FRA)  GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Richard Gasquet (FRA) [9] v Go Soeda (JPN)  GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - SECOND ROUND David Ferrer (ESP) [4] v Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)

No.2 Court 11.30am

LADIES' SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Sabine Lisicki (GER) [23] v Elena Vesnina (RUS)  GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Daniel Brands (GER) v Tomas Berdych (CZE) [7]  LADIES' SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Marina Erakovic (NZL) v Shuai Peng (CHN) [24]  LADIES' SINGLES - SECOND ROUND Laura Robson (GBR) v Mariana Duque-Marino (COL)

Source: http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/schedule/index.html

Radwanska gets the job done, next up: Djokovic...

Aggie Waltzes past Mathilde Johansson. It's a shame she's in Serena's half as it'd be nice to see her make another run to the final.

first overhead miss of the day by Djokovic

Djokovic looking a bit wobbly on the backhand side, surprisingly. Reynolds sticking with him, 4-4.

Grass under the roof.

Novak not moving like it's his natural habitat!

I could watch Novak serve all day. Absolutely beautiful action.

Djokovic has now found his rythym. Reynolds has been serving really well.

Not over yet (every other tournament I'd say that its done, but Wimbledon13 seems a new kettle of fish)

kingraf wrote:Not over yet (every other tournament I'd say that its done, but Wimbledon13 seems a new kettle of fish)

Not by a long shot.

Novak seems a bit flat and Reynolds is serving well and very intelligently.

Djokovic not so hot on the BP conversions. Come on Djoko. I wanna see Robbo!!

legendkillarV2 wrote:Djokovic not so hot on the BP conversions. Come on Djoko. I wanna see Robbo!!

I'm thinking the exact same thing.

Play cancelled, Robbo not going to be moved onto Centre (disgraceful). Poor show Wimbledon.

Disgrace yet again. Can easily get another 3 hours of play!

We've lost some play due to rain, we could have fitted Robbo under "normal" conditions with the time left. I love a late night under the roof.

At least she will be on Centre tomorrow, but yeah, should have been tonight.

If I was being cynical could it be that with Federer, Tsonga, Nadal, Sharapova, Azarenka, Errani, Wozniacki, Cilic, Hewitt, Wawrinka there's a lack of star quality about the names left tomorrow and that they would be quite pleased perhaps at getting Robson on tomorrow.

ryan86 wrote:If I was being cynical could it be that with Federer, Tsonga, Nadal, Sharapova, Azarenka, Errani, Wozniacki, Cilic, Hewitt, Wawrinka there's a lack of star quality about the names left tomorrow and that they would be quite pleased perhaps at getting Robson on tomorrow.

That actually makes sense.

ryan86 wrote:If I was being cynical could it be that with Federer, Tsonga, Nadal, Sharapova, Azarenka, Errani, Wozniacki, Cilic, Hewitt, Wawrinka there's a lack of star quality about the names left tomorrow and that they would be quite pleased perhaps at getting Robson on tomorrow.

That's a very good point. It's not like Robbo's been added on either, there's still only 3 matches on Centre tomorrow. It seems every top seed on the days Murray plays have gone out but I doubt they'll be struggling to shift tickets!! They probably put Murray on last so everyone didn't come along, watch Murray win and leave.

Yeah, I'm sure the Wimbledon organisers aren't happy about the big names leaving so early, must admit there was no real spark about today at all for me. Losing those star names from the tournament will undoubtedly have a bad effect upon this event and the overall atmosphere. There also probably ahead of schedule now with the withdrawals, so holding the games back to tomorrow is their choice and obviously keeping Murray to game three of the day is the main thinking of the organisers.

If I was to have done anything, I'd probably have put Wang/Haas as the most incomplete 2nd round match.

There is more rain due tomorrow. Got to feel for those who still have outstanding matches. More delays.

Could have played 2 more matches on there tonight...US and AO play into the night, what's the problem...

There's an 11pm curfew.

health and safety isnt it.....again. Apparently its dangerous to have spectators leaving in the dark.

I think it's all to do with the public transport in London (the tubes mainly) shutting down at 11pm and having a large number of people who've consumed Pimms wandering about looking for a bus isn't too safe.  Too many matches would ruin the court.  I still think they could have had one more on tonight (poor Daveed, number 4 seed and shafted twice).

Soon to be number 2 though, he'll be fine.

I'm obviously a fan of Novak and I love his game on a hard court.

But after Darcis, Stakhovsky and Brown, boy, a match with two players hugging the baseline seemed dull in comparison.

Dimitrov - Zmelja match who won? coz the next opponent the winner of this match gonna face is Del Potro, would love to see DImitrov - Del Potro match.

It's 9-8 to Zemlja in the 5th. Dimitrov to serve.

God Dimitrov is frustrating - some sublime play and the rest of the time he looks so laid back that he is pratically horizontal! Zemlja very solid and actually won the match but didn't challenge on the ball from Dimitrov that went long on match point. Having said that, would like to see GD come through tomorrow.

Oh so the match is not over yet, may be they are trying to break Mahut Isner record.

I was thinking after Isner's brief appearance yesterday does he now hold the shortest Wimbledon match record as well?

Maybe so

ryan86 wrote:I was thinking after Isner's brief appearance yesterday does he now hold the shortest Wimbledon match record as well?

Second shortest and longest in terms of games completed I read.

All those upsets the first three days have left me hoping we will get fresh faces at the business end of this year's tournament. But as the excitement is wearing off, I am starting to worry that we will end up with something like Nole, Ferrer, Andy and Almagro in the SF.

one of the youngs guys may come good this W!

Looking at the R3 matches, is it me or have Berdych and Anderson played each other at almost every second tournament this year?

ryan86 wrote:Looking at the R3 matches, is it me or have Berdych and Anderson played each other at almost every second tournament this year?

That's almost not an exaggeration. 4 times this year already; AO, Indian Wells, Madrid and Rome. Poor Anderson, they played four times last year as well, and always at the bigger events.