Olympic Day 4 Thread

[The Special Juan]

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Centre Court: Venus Williams v Wozniak then Nieminen v Murray then Roddick v Djokovic then Robson v Sharapova

Court 1: Tsonga v Raonic then Kirilenko v Watson then Azarenka v Martinez Sanchez then Ferrer v Kavcic

Court 2: Lisicki v Shvedova then Cilic v Hewitt then Kerber/Lisicki v Williams/Williams then Elrich/Ram v Federer v Wawrinka

Court 12: Klepac/Srebotnik v Errani/Vinci then Lepchanko v Goerges then ? v Melo/Soares then Goerges/Gronefeld v Makarova/Vesnina

Court 14: Babos v Kerber then Davydenko v Nishikori then Huber/Raymond v Radwanska/Radwanska then Brunstrom/Lindstedt v Cilic/Dodig

Court 15: Berdych/Stepanek v Bracciali/Seppi then Hlavackova/Hredecka v Li/Zhang then Benneteau/Gasquet v Bhupathi/Bopanna then Paes/Vardan v Llodra/Tsonga

Court 17: Medina Garrigues/Parra Santonja v Pennetta/Schiavone then Tipsarevic/Zimonjic v Nestor/Pospisil then Chuang/Hsieh v ?

Court 18: Gasquet v Baghdatis then Tatishvili v Petrova then Lopez v Monaco then Bryan/Bryan v Davydenko/Youzhny

[lags72]

And meanwhile the Tsonga / Raonic marathon goes on .....

[The Special Juan]

17-16?

[The Special Juan]

I bet The Fed is enjoying this one.

[lags72]

At least these two aren't hanging around between points. Just over 3 hours with that scoreline is pretty swift stuff...

[invisiblecoolers]

Finalist will be decided on one side of the draw and on otherside players will wait for QF matches since Tsonga- Raonic not gonna end any time sooner.

[The Special Juan]

Most other BO3 matches and it would have been a tie breaker.

[lags72]

Laura put in a very respectable effort in Team GB colours here

Just look at the match-up stats ....

- 0 titles versus 27 titles - inc. the Career Grand Slam !!

- Best ranking 91 versus former World Number 1

[polished_man]

Robson, nice strike at the ball, barely moves on. I'd say most of puppy fat she ain't got rid of.

[laverfan]

0-30. Come on Tsonga. iC.

[laverfan]

Hewitt 5-5 Deuce. Come on.

[lags72]

Exact same scoreline as Wimbledon last year ....

She had a fair few chances, Sharapova was far from sparkling but the experience told in the end.

[laverfan]

Cilic DF at BP.

[laverfan]

Hewitt wins.

[The Special Juan]

Hewitt beat Cilic?

[reckoner]

22-22 in the final set... good grief

[reckoner]

I wonder if Tsonga's playing a waiting game, hoping the younger man will get impatient and flub a game.

[The Special Juan]

I don't put Tsonga down as the patient type if I'm honest.

[reckoner]

It's not much of a theory tbh just trying to find reasons why this set is up to silly numbers!

[Guest]

One of them should tank this match.

If it goes to 50-50 or even more (a distinct possibility) that will end both their seasons. It's just not worth it. Both are also quite prone to injury so the recovery may be even more prolonged. If I was Tsonga in particular (because he's older, heavy set, and very injury prone) I would give this match up to the 5 hr 30 min mark, after that I would just tank.

It's not worth it. Oh minions I tell you it is suicide.



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[Guest]

Oh yeah

[reckoner]

Bingo Bango, Tsongers gets it!

[The Special Juan]

Did he do the dance?

[Guest]

He did a truncated version.

[The Special Juan]

Ah that's no good. I'd like the full thing please Jo! Longest Olympic tennis match ever. There's a surprise.

[invisiblecoolers]

OMG finally it comes to an end, GOD save tennis.

[laverfan]

OMG finally it comes to an end, GOD save tennis.

Should it be AELTC instead?

[invisiblecoolers]

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