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Arkle said:
I'm blown away by how good she is. The last teenager at Wimbledon who was this good was Boris.
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The scary thing is the improvements in like only 9/10 months. She was obviously only 14 and a half so understandable, but I was watching her in the US Open quals against Watson last year and she was beaten quite handedly and had so many double faults. It's actually quite scary how good she could be in even just a year, when she will not be long after her 16th birthday.

She's taken to one of the most famous tennis courts in the world like a duck to water, twice.
 
The Bridge Lad said:
The scary thing is the improvements in like only 9/10 months. She was obviously only 14 and a half so understandable, but I was watching her in the US Open quals against Watson last year and she was beaten quite handedly and had so many double faults. It's actually quite scary how good she could be in even just a year, when she will not be long after her 16th birthday.

She's taken to one of the most famous tennis courts in the world like a duck to water, twice.
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To early to say but it is scary how good she will be
 
The Bridge Lad said:
The scary thing is the improvements in like only 9/10 months. She was obviously only 14 and a half so understandable, but I was watching her in the US Open quals against Watson last year and she was beaten quite handedly and had so many double faults. It's actually quite scary how good she could be in even just a year, when she will not be long after her 16th birthday.

She's taken to one of the most famous tennis courts in the world like a duck to water, twice.
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This, thus far, is like watching a top 10 veteran Slam winner. Test comes when/if she serves for the match.
 
The Bridge Lad said:
Lucky you. Definitely going to do that next year, although not as handy being up here. I was on Court 1 last year and thoroughly enjoyed my day, including the outside courts in the morning.

In terms of tomorrow away from the show courts, Harriet Dart is the only one of the 5 Brits on a non show court, so that could be worth checking out, and she does have a chance of making round 3 which would be great, plus Court 12 is pretty cool. In terms of men's, Fognini-Fucsovics could be decent. Fucsovic can play well on grass, and the atmosphere between Fognini-Tiafoe sounded brilliant the other day with the fans well involved and pro Fognini, so if you can get a seat there, that could be a great experience. Tsonga is still a big name and good value on grass. Bencic-Kanepi would be a particular stand out for me, but I'm not sure if you're mainly into the men's?

A lot of other big names floating around like Isner and Cilic, although they wouldn't necessarily appeal to me, while you've also got Stephen's and the 4th seed Bertens in the women's. Looks a pretty good day to go.



Federer's not really worth it as it's 1/7 for him to win 3-0. 5/6 Kvitova 2-0 could be good added to something else, but that's probably the one where I have most doubts.
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Cheers!
First time for me, I live in Wimbledon so its not too much effort for me
 
Another thing to factor in, if Wimbledon used the seeding formula on the women's side and did what they did years ago and could bump others and not just the seeds, Rybarikova would likely be seeded as she reached the semi final here 2 years ago, was runner up in Birmingham (the equivalent of Queens) last year, and even had a grass court final this year - she can certainly play on grass.

Superb Coco!
 
Another disappointing early Wimbledon exit for Keys, so it's Hercog up next for her instead. What a chance to still be here on Monday. It's not Woznaicki next.
 
The Bridge Lad said:
Another early Wimbledon exit for Keys, so it's Hercog next instead. What a chance to still be here on Monday. It's not Woznaicki next.
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The interviewer said the Woz was next. That's her quarter final. Honestly, she could make the quarters, semis, final, maybe win. The next match is almost the biggest because she'll be favourite against Hercog.
 
Colbert said:
Got tickets for Court One tomorrow, can’t see any of them going beyond straight set wins.
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Good games to see though. Get down early and you'll probably have the Fed nutcases trying to swap centre tickets with you.

I'm court 1 on Friday can't wait. Row Z like :lol:
 
Arkle said:
The interviewer said the Woz was next. That's her quarter final. Honestly, she could make the quarters, semis, final, maybe win. The next match is almost the biggest because she'll be favourite against Hercog.
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She's probably getting the Wozniacki videos out while I type, ha, pretty poor from the interviewer. It's extremely exciting, but as you say, she'll start as a clear betting favourite, and the crowd will certainly be expecting her to win, Coco probably will as well, so it will be a bit of a different pressure. It'll be interesting to see the odds. She was around 9/4 - 3/1 against Venus, and today was very close, I can't remember if she was a very slight favourite or underdog, but there will be a general bit of disappointment if she does go out next.

Hopefully she'll be on Court 1 again and kind of make that her home.
 
Gauff was 5/4 today as I just checked and I had Rybarikova at 4/7 on my accumulator :oops::lol:

chopsfc007 said:
To early to say but it is scary how good she will be
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Yeah, it's easy to forget just how young you are at 15 and 100 odd days, so a lot can happen, but it does look like she has a good team around her, and she certainly seems to have a very mature head on her shoulders.

It's also good how she's American IMO, because the WTA tour is starting to head more and more towards China with the tour finals over there from this year and having more events there than any country (including USA), this will surely mean interest in the sport remains in the States long after the Williams retire which can only be good from a Western perspective and keeping the true heart beat at a time you can actually watch the sport than in the early hours.
 
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LewisLad said:
Good games to see though. Get down early and you'll probably have the Fed nutcases trying to swap centre tickets with you.

I'm court 1 on Friday can't wait. Row Z like :lol:
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I was on row Z last year on Court 1 as well and view was fine. They have added a couple of thousand extra seats this year with the new roof, but I doubt that will affect things, and you could see the view on the website which was good.

Just having a look at the matches on Friday to see what the potential line up could be. No British interest that day now with Edmund and Watson both going out toay. I'd think something like:

Centre
Djokovic - very likely
Halep-Azarenka - pretty much nailed on as 2 big names

Court 1
Medvedev-Goffin
Pliskova-Hsieh

Kevin Anderson hasn't been on one of the 2 big courts yet and he is the runner up and #4 seed, so I'd imagine he will be on one of them, and either Gauff or Wozniacki making up the 6 matches across the 2 show courts. It really should be Gauff after all the attention she is rightly getting.
 
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The Bridge Lad said:
I was on row Z last year on Court 1 as well and view was fine. They have added a couple of thousand extra seats this year with the new roof, but I doubt that will affect things, and you could see the view on the website which was good.

Just having a look at the matches on Friday to see what the potential line up could be. No British interest that day now with Edmund and Watson both going out toay. I'd think something like:

Centre
Djokovic - very likely
Halep-Azarenka - pretty much nailed on as 2 big names

Court 1
Medvedev-Goffin
Pliskova-Hsieh

Kevin Anderson hasn't been on one of the 2 big courts yet and he is the runner up and #4 seed, so I'd imagine he will be on one of them, and either Gauff or Wozniacki making up the 6 matches across the 2 show courts. It really should be Gauff after all the attention she is rightly getting.
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I'm ZB so I just wonder if that's the extras? Best I've had before is court 3 but got lucky in the ballot this year so thoroughly looking forward to it.

I've been thinking a lot about the games. Anderson was my thought too. What do you think about possibility of Serena and Andy if their first game is Friday?
 
LewisLad said:
I'm ZB so I just wonder if that's the extras? Best I've had before is court 3 but got lucky in the ballot this year so thoroughly looking forward to it.

I've been thinking a lot about the games. Anderson was my thought too. What do you think about possibility of Serena and Andy if their first game is Friday?
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I thought they were definitely playing tomorrow for some reason, but looking online, it does look like it will be Friday. It's really hard to say. It would be a bit strange if a mixed doubles was one of the designated 6 show court matches at the expense of a singles match, but then it is 2 of the 5 biggest names in the sport, certainly from a British perspective anyway, so it'll be interesting. It will probably get most attention out of all the matches that day and I doubt many with a CC or C1 ticket would complain if it there schedule was 2 singles matches with that as the 3rd match.

I suspect it'll still be TBA and it'll go on whichever of the main courts finishes first, possibly under the roof. An 8pm or so start on Friday night would be fantastic UK TV.

Ah, it's his men's singles match that is TBA tomorrow. That's like an afterthought now, ha. Both Serena and Andy could be playing on Saturday if they win their respective singles and doubles match tomorrow, so I suspect they'd be pushing for Friday if either of them won tomorrow.
 
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The Bridge Lad said:
I thought they were definitely playing tomorrow for some reason, but looking online, it does look like it will be Friday. It's really hard to say. It would be a bit strange if a mixed doubles was one of the designated 6 show court matches at the expense of a singles match, but then it is 2 of the 5 biggest names in the sport, certainly from a British perspective anyway, so it'll be interesting. It will probably get most attention out of all the matches that day and I doubt many with a CC or C1 ticket would complain if it there schedule was 2 singles matches with that as the 3rd match.

I suspect it'll still be TBA and it'll go on whichever of the main courts finishes first, possibly under the roof. An 8pm or so start on Friday night would be fantastic UK TV.

Ah, it's his men's singles match that is TBA tomorrow. That's like an afterthought now, ha. Both Serena and Andy could be playing on Saturday if they win their respective singles and doubles match tomorrow, so I suspect they'd be pushing for Friday if either of them won tomorrow.
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I did think mixed doubles on either centre or 1 would be unorthodox but like you say surely there'd be lots of interest given who it is!

Thanks mate good info on this thread
 
Good to see both Vesely and Fabiano backing up their great 1st round win a with another win today as do many times they'll crash out at the next hurdle and someone else will profit.
 
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