Wimbledon Day 2

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Centre Court

Julia Glushko v Sabine Lisicki [19]
Martin Klizan v Rafael Nadal [2]
Serena Williams [1] v Anna Tatishvili (USA)

No.1 Court

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) [14] vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT) To Finish 6-1 3-6 3-6 6-2 *5-4
Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) v Roger Federer (SUI) [4]
Samantha Murray (GBR) v Maria Sharapova (RUS) [5]
Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) v Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) [13]

No.2 Court

Stan Wawrinka (SUI) [5] v Joao Sousa (POR)
Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [4] vs Andreea Mitu (ROU) To Finish 4-2
Milos Raonic (CAN) [8] v Matthew Ebden (AUS)
Angelique Kerber (GER) [9] v Urszula Radwanska (POL)
Kaia Kanepi (EST) v Jelena Jankovic (SRB) [7]

Day 2! After Dandy Andy and Djokovic's wins yesterday, today the 2nd and 4th seeds step up to the plate looking to get further than and match last year's dismal performances respectively. Away from the biggest names however, we also have the number 5 seed in action and everybody's favourite left-handed Spaniard F. Lopez looking to win yet another grass court match this year.

"Upsets?", I hear you ask. Well Granollers v Mahut should really be a no contest with Mahut a grass court specialist and Granollers just being terrible. On the women's side Caroline Garcia and Sara Errani are poised at one set apiece and if the French player plays well she should beat the clay courter. A couple of grass courters could spring a surprise v their seeded opponent: Daniela Hantuchova is playing Eugenie Bouchard (although the Canadian is my pick to win the tournament) and Tamira Paszek is playing last year's semi-finalist Kirsten Flipkens. Last but not least, Heather Watson will be looking to spring a mini-surprise on Tomljanovic but grass is Heather's worst surface (IMO) and I don't see it.

laverfan wrote:Nadal first round jitters out of the way.

It was very expected result,

1]Klizan showed he can play better than Nadal

2]Nadal replied not over best of 5 sets Kid.

DirectView2 wrote:

laverfan wrote:Nadal first round jitters out of the way.

It was very expected result,

1]Klizan showed he can play better than Nadal

2]Nadal replied not over best of 5 sets Kid.

Klizan could not keep his errors in check. W/UE 35/32 (+3) v Nadal at 36/25 (+11). Klizan had 3/13 for BPs.

SFs? I mean F!!

important win for nadal

next rosol. of course not any match given what happened.

lets take a look at rosol grass game

rosol is 8-11 on grass if we count qualifying matches
and 6-5 without those

since he beat nadal and lost next match to kohlschreiber, he is 2-3 on grass in the last 2 seasons (2013 and this 2014 so far)

having beat ranked players 232 and 71 (paire right today)
and losing to 105, 121 and last time 65 (week ago)

falzy21 wrote:Put your money on Klizan i reckon gents, Nadal doesnt look like hes hitting it well at all

Go for it   

2014 Wimbledon Round 1: Nadal def. Klizan 46 63 63 63

2013 French Open Round 2: Nadal def. Klizan 46 63 63 63

DirectView2 wrote:

laverfan wrote:Nadal first round jitters out of the way.

It was very expected result,

1]Klizan showed he can play better than Nadal

2]Nadal replied not over best of 5 sets Kid.

Nadal donated the 1st set with a poor volley and then a double-fault on set point. Klizan only showed he could play better than the most error-prone version of Nadal   

Oh wow, 2015 US Open then?

He played much better in sets 2 to 4 but at the start of the second he was hitting everything late and it didnt look good. He got it together just in time

Nadal starts slowly and Djokovic comes flying out of the blocks.

Is it safe to assume that Rafa will build up a head of steam over the fortnight, while Novak's form will fizzle out out in week 2?

HM Murdoch wrote:Nadal starts slowly and Djokovic comes flying out of the blocks.

Is it safe to assume that Rafa will build up a head of steam over the fortnight, while Novak's form will fizzle out out in week 2?

Nadal is out of the blocks slowly quite often at Wimbledon (stretched to 5 sets twice in 2010 week one) and sometimes Roland Garros (2011 and 2013).

Fizzle or not, I think Murray is simply better than Djokovic. Plus I think Djokovic has the most difficult draw of the top 4, so he may not even reach SF. Djokovic has become a non-slam specialist   

kneel_before_nadal wrote:Djokovic has become a non-slam specialist   

Sad but true.

He's the anti-Sampras.

HM Murdoch wrote:
He's the anti-Sampras.

Exactly the case   

6 spaniards go through (nadal, ferrer, granollers, robredo, bautista and feliciano)
5 spaniards out (verdasco, andujar, pablo carreño, pere riba, guillermo g. lopez)

Swap Verdasco and Granollers and that would be the expected results. Still, they're doing than the Brits!

so as bad a 6/11 sounds in first round, its still better than spanish average grass performance prior to 2008

boring 2nd day so far, neither Fed nor Rafa tested properly nor they played their best, but excited for Rosol vs Rafa 2.

Nadal showed enough form to suggest he'll beat Federer if they meet in the semi. Nadal just needed to prove that he can keep the ball in play on grass here in 2014.....and he did......because that alone will be enough to beat Federer.