Tennis!

[Cymbols]

How do Wimbledon players eat Strawberries?

[Lineker]

Nadal could well be facing early elimination here. Dustin Brown wins as long as he doesn't lose his serve.

[Cymbols]

Shit. Rafa's out.

[Adam]

I'm watching Nick Kyrgios against Richard Gasquet at the minute, Kyrgios loses the first set and goes a break down early in the second. Gets a code violation from the umpire and has then come out and basically intentionally lost every point on a service return game. What the hell is wrong with him? A 20-year-old man acting like a 2-year-old. It's pathetic.

[Lineker]

Uncomfortable moments for Djok here against Kevin Anderson.

[Cymbols]

Let's go Ando! S'affrican is two sets up.

[Lineker]

Djokovic pulled it back in the end.

 

Murray looking good, two sets up in the quarters.

[Bobfoc]

Federer's through too. A semi-final against Djokovic could be a real stormer.

 

EDIT: Actually, it's Murray vs Federer. Still a stormer.

Edited July 8, 2015 by Bobfoc

[Whisper]

Pretty sure Federer is cheating at this point...

[Bobfoc]

This is prime Federer material. Murray's actually making a good account of himself in the circumstances.

[Arjen Robben]

God I hate Federer, hope Djokovic makes him cry.

[Whisper]

Really? Of the two, Federer is the one you hate? Djokovic is insufferable on court sometimes.

[Arjen Robben]

Yep. I hate the whole "oh he's so humble and nice and lovely" everyone says when fawning over Federer all the time.

It's easy to be humble when you're winning constantly and going "he was really unlucky today, I thought he played a great match and could easily have won it on another day" or whatever, the second the cracks started showing and he began losing more frequently that humbleness and humility quickly fucked right off.

I don't care how they act on court, if they're shouting or getting angry with themselves or whatever. They're competing at a level of competition and athleticism I couldn't even dream of approaching in any sport, in the heat of that I'm fine with the way any of them act, by and large (obvious exceptions being if they start directing it towards the opponent or whatever). Here's an example, from the 2011 US Open, near the end of a season for Djokovic that's considered one of, if not the best season all time, and someone regarded as, again, one of, if not the best returner of all time, saves a match point with a return winner and goes on to win the match. Here's Federer post-match:

"It's awkward having to explain this loss, because I feel like I should be doing the other press conference. But it's just the way he returns that. It's just not -- a guy who believes much, you know, anymore in winning. Then to lose against someone like that, it's very disappointing, because you feel like he was mentally out of it already.  Just gets the lucky shot at the end, and off you go."

"Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please.  Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5-2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots. It all goes in for some reason, because that's the kind of way they grew up playing when they were down. I never played that way. I believe in hard work's gonna pay off kinda thing, because early on maybe I didn't always work at my hardest. So for me, this is very hard to understand how can you play a shot like that on match point. But, look, maybe he's been doing it for 20 years, so for him it was very normal. You've got to ask him."

Humility Humble

[Lineker]

Djokovic wins. And Lewis Hamilton had an invitation for the Royal Box but was refused entry because he came dressed like a knob. 

[Rainiac]

Djokovic wins. And Lewis Hamilton had an invitation for the Royal Box but was refused entry because he came dressed like a knob. 

Edited July 13, 2015 by Rainiac

[Cymbols]

Fucking hell Nick Kyrgios  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/11800167/Nick-Kyrgios-sparks-fury-by-sledging-Stan-Wawrinka-over-his-girlfriend.html

[Bobfoc]

It seems to me that Australia has two very good young players in Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic, but both of them get as much attention for their controversial off-court antics than they do for their promise on the court. I could just as easily see either of them win a Grand Slam as I could see them spiralling into career self-destruction.

[Arjen Robben]

I don't think either of them are that great really. Tomic hasn't looked like being anything other than just a top 30 player for quite some time. I can't stand Kyrgios, just a horrible little prick that thinks he's better and bigger than he is.

[Berober]

Great Britain Andy Murray is into the Davis Cup final, for the first time since 1978

[Bobfoc]

It's great to see Britain in the final, but it really does highlight how flawed the Davis Cup format is. You only need one really good player to win a tie, and you can then put your 300th-ranked player in the other singles rubbers because you have nothing to lose.