Wimbledon Day 4 - McHale to the chief. Might have to throw a Li-sicki.

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Order of play

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/22713811

First up on centre court, McHale vs Lisicki. No, seriously.

And Ivo is at 53 aces so far.
with an average of 2 aces per game in the fifth (so far) he's need at least 32 more service games to overtake Isner's record (who dares to take an ace record away from Ivo!). But can Dolgo wait long enough?

They run deep those Spaniards... Oh wow if Bedene had won today wed have as many brits through as Spaniards!!!! Judgement day!!!

Oh dear Nadal

temporary21 wrote:...

Toorrows order of play is tasty! Kygios Raonic, Dimitrov Gasquet, Wawrinka Verdasco! Cilic Isner!
Novak Tomic

Those are a bit of a treat for third round

doesn't look like a R3 line-up at all! Could reasonably be a full half with the #1 or #2 seed out

Dr Ivos done for Dolgo.

Karlovic takes it. On to the third round we go.

Karlovic does it!!! 13-11, we lucked out on that

Ivo will be a tough R3 for Tsonga, he as to keep his head cool

Brown was 71/99 serve & volley points.
That's probably more than everyone else put together!

Yes, Karlovic is boring.

Brown is a good example of what I would like to see more of.  It is not up to the players though - tennis authorities should find a way to make it more possible to succeed with that kind of game - as it used to be in the past.

Brown can serve ok, but he is certainly not server only.  I find his game all around very entertaining.  I am not saying everyone has to like his game style, but I would definitely like to see more room for that kind of style.

bogbrush wrote:For Gods sake, the BBC get worse. All we've had is how Camilla whatserface got Andys sweaty band. FFS.

And now we get James Ward when Federer played and Rafa was the shock of the tournament. Running order should have been Rafa, Federer, Murray, mop-up.

it's embarrassing isn't it.

If they refer to what players are up to on Social Media again I will scream. I can go on Social Media anytime if I'm interested enough.

Show me the piggin tennis. I've been at work all day.

Is this wimbledon2day?

Its apparently trash, soo much trash people are begging for Inverdale to come back! and just show some tennis

Thats an extraordinary stat, one he wouldnt have got away with playing any of the top 4 right now

temporary21 wrote:Is this wimbledon2day?

Its apparently trash, soo much trash people are begging for Inverdale to come back! and just show some tennis

Yeah - it's dreadful. Though I was the only one tbh. Thankfully not.

Johnyjeep wrote:

temporary21 wrote:Is this wimbledon2day?

Its apparently trash, soo much trash people are begging for Inverdale to come back! and just show some tennis

Yeah - it's dreadful. Though I was the only one tbh. Thankfully not.

Search it on google, even the guardian, of all papers is trashing it

I saw Wimbledon2day and saw Balding and realised all that was missing was Gary Lineker!

temporary21 wrote:Is this wimbledon2day?

Its apparently trash, soo much trash people are begging for Inverdale to come back! and just show some tennis

It's typical 2015 BBC; dumbed down, "accessible" and basically just shallow, cretinous garbage.

Cash & Balding, FFS.

Tennis is a very international sport - in the round of 32 we have players from 19 different countries.

No country has more than 4 players (France has 4, Australia and Spain 3 each).

That said, the tennis might of Europe is showing - 21 players are from Europe, 6 from the Americas, 3 from Australia and one each from Africa and Asia (when counting Georgia as an Asian country).

Cash telling Balding that he has to paint his fingernails if Baggy wins. Cue gasps and wonder.

Gerry Williams spins in his grave.

Cash!!! Oh god no!

Truly shocking this review show