Wimbledon Day 6

Too lazy to copy and paste the schedule but surely we need a thread for day 6, so here it is.

Oh look, the schedule appears on its own, what a nice automatic forum we have here .  Thx. (It updates the scores too).


Centre Court - 1.00pm

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Bernard Tomic (AUS)
def.
Richard Gasquet (FRA) [9] 7-6(7) 5-7 7-5 7-6(5)

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Sabine Lisicki (GER) [23]
def.
Samantha Stosur (AUS) [14] 4-6 6-2 6-1

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Novak Djokovic (SRB) [1]
def.
Jeremy Chardy (FRA) [28] 6-3 6-2 6-2

No.1 Court - 1.00pm

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Petra Kvitova (CZE) [8]
def.
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) [25] 6-3 2-6 6-3

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Tomas Berdych (CZE) [7]
def.
Kevin Anderson (RSA) [27] 3-6 6-3 6-4 7-5

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
David Ferrer (ESP) [4]
def.
Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) [26] 6-7(6) 7-6(2) 2-6 6-1 6-2

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Serena Williams (USA) [1]
v
Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

No.2 Court - 11.30am

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) [20]
def.
Viktor Troicki (SRB) 6-3 6-4 7-5

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Laura Robson (GBR)
def.
Marina Erakovic (NZL) 1-6 7-5 6-3

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Tommy Haas (GER) [13]
def.
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 4-6 6-2 7-5 6-4

LADIES' DOUBLES - SECOND ROUND
Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) [7] /
 Kveta Peschke (CZE) [7]
def.
Lisa Raymond (USA) /
 Laura Robson (GBR) 6-4 6-4

No.3 Court - 11.30am

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Fernando Verdasco (ESP)
def.
Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 6-2 6-4 6-4

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Sloane Stephens (USA) [17]
def.
Petra Cetkovska (CZE) 7-6(3) 0-6 6-4

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [4]
def.
Madison Keys (USA) 7-5 4-6 6-3

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Na Li (CHN) [6]
def.
Klara Zakopalova (CZE) [32] 4-6 6-0 8-6

MIXED DOUBLES - FIRST ROUND
Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) /
 Vera Dushevina (RUS)
v
Jamie Murray (GBR) /
 Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)

GENTLEMEN'S DOUBLES - SECOND ROUND
Bob Bryan (USA) [1] /
 Mike Bryan (USA) [1]
v
David Marrero (ESP) /
 Andreas Seppi (ITA)

Court 12 - 11.30am

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Kenny De Schepper (FRA)
def
Juan Monaco (ARG) [22] 6-4 7-6(8) 6-4

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Monica Puig (PUR)
def.
Eva Birnerova (CZE) 4-6 6-3 6-4

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) [8]
def.
Grega Zemlja (SLO) 7-5 7-6(3) 6-0

MIXED DOUBLES - FIRST ROUND
Dominic Inglot (GBR) /
 Johanna Konta (GBR)
def.
Nicolas Almagro (ESP) /
 Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP) 4-6 6-3 19-17

Court 14 - 11.30am

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Andreas Seppi (ITA) [23]
def.
Kei Nishikori (JPN) [12] 3-6 6-2 6-7(4) 6-1 6-4

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)
def.
Petra Martic (CRO) 6-1 4-6 6-2

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Kaia Kanepi (EST)
def.
Alison Riske (USA) 6-2 6-3

GENTLEMEN'S DOUBLES - SECOND ROUND
Bob Bryan (USA) [1] /
 Mike Bryan (USA) [1]
def.
David Marrero (ESP) /
 Andreas Seppi (ITA) 6-3 7-5 6-4

Court 18 - 11.30am

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Lukasz Kubot (POL)
def.
Benoit Paire (FRA) [25] 6-1 6-3 6-4

LADIES' SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Roberta Vinci (ITA) [11]
def.
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) [18] 6-1 6-4

GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES - THIRD ROUND
Ivan Dodig (CRO)
def.
Igor Sijsling (NED) 6-0 6-1 1-0 Ret.

LADIES' DOUBLES - SECOND ROUND
Liezel Huber (USA) [6] /
 Sania Mirza (IND) [6]
def.
Flavia Pennetta (ITA) /
 Andrea Petkovic (GER) 7-6(6) 3-6 6-2

MIXED DOUBLES - FIRST ROUND
Fabio Fognini (ITA) /
 Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
def.
Jamie Delgado (GBR) /
 Tara Moore (GBR) 7-6(2) 6-3

Time for Laura Robson!

Gulbis and Paire out - have the organizers bribed everyone in the bottom half of the draw to lose early?

Thanks sb

Youzhny through. Him v Murray will be interesting if anything.

summerblues wrote:Gulbis and Paire out - have the organizers bribed everyone in the bottom half of the draw to lose early?

The relatively slow court players are losing to the players who play better on fast courts.

Verdasco, Youzhny, Kubot (a pretty good doubles player). BanBro had commented that courts are playing relatively faster than last year.

Gee that was quick. Was looking forward to see both of them playing but out already in straight sets

Now you have a 4th round between 2 guys outside of the top100!

This Gasquet - Tomic match doesn't look like it's being played at full speed. It's like a jolly old hit in the sunshine between two friends at the local club.

The round three for the bottom half of the draw is now completed.  Murray plays Youzhny (seeded #20) the next round.  And that is the highest seed he can meet before the final!

I think Murray needs to be careful against Youzhny.  Youzhny has been in decent form lately, and his game can work on grass.

The Special Juan wrote:This Gasquet - Tomic match doesn't look like it's being played at full speed.  It's like a jolly old hit in the sunshine between two friends at the local club.

Simon-Monfils matches usually look like that too.

Kenny de schepper dispatch monaco in straight sets to make the 4th round of a slam for the 1st time.
Was expecting a few frenchmen to do well but not him or mannarino!!

summerblues wrote:

The Special Juan wrote:This Gasquet - Tomic match doesn't look like it's being played at full speed.  It's like a jolly old hit in the sunshine between two friends at the local club.

Simon-Monfils matches usually look like that too.

"After you dear chap"
"Oh no no no no no you first"
"Oh no, you hit a winner first"
"No, after you"

Forgive my pessimism but I'll be surprised if Laura wins this one.

Richard , need to do better the next three sets

Come on Robson you silly girl. You is better than this yo

Anderson takes the first 6-3 v Berdych

Berdych down a set.

Come on Robson!!! 

Nice to see how quickly some of these matches are played.  Nishikori vs Seppi in the fifth set after playing just over 2.5 hours.

Robson is getting mashed up out there .. Crowd help her out FFS

Laura started really poorly. Slipped early on and has looked in disarray since. 5-1 down first set. This set is over but she needs a foothold.

As we all know with Laura, she's more suceptable to defeat against a lower ranked player on a smaller court than she is against a top tenner on centre!

Start of this set vital. Come on Laura, hold in this first game and then take a swing on her serve.

I see Erakovic slipped, but she can't blame that on the grass, because there's no grass at the baseline - just a patch of dirt on the ground worn by the plethora of baseliners in today's game.

Robson is back in this.

Go Girl..

Gasquet saving 3 break/set points in a row. Good effort for someone like him.

Got to hold her serve. If she loses it she's toast.

Come on Laura, hang in.

whocares wrote:Good effort for someone like him.

Ouch

Dammit.

Go out swinging Laura. Just unload and see what happens.

Well done Richard, two more please.

I am actually quite liking this match - especially from Gasquet's side.  It has some good serving, some rallies, some net play.  And it moves along nicely too, the guys are not waiting around forever to hit the next serve.

The Special Juan wrote:Forgive my pessimism but I'll be surprised if Laura wins this one.

You and I know more about women's tennis that the vast majority of the British media, which has really fired up Kiwi Erakovic, talking ad nauseum about a potential quarter-final with Serena, overlooking the fact that Robson has to play Erakovic first, and that in the H2H, Erakovic beat Robson on grass at Birmingham last year....

The media can be so disrespectful sometimes, and it can sometimes be to the detriment of the British players...this is the first time I've seen Erakovic so focussed.

Berdych will serve for the first set at the very least. He's turned up now and I expect him to win in 4. Kei's out that, beaten in 5 by Seppi. That's a bad loss for him.

The Gasquet v Murray is the most dominant memory I have of Gasquet at W.

Should a young Tomic win, it would bode well for the next few years, would you agree SB?

shivfan wrote:

The Special Juan wrote:Forgive my pessimism but I'll be surprised if Laura wins this one.

You and I know more about women's tennis that the vast majority of the British media, which has really fired up Kiwi Erakovic, talking ad nauseum about a potential quarter-final with Serena, overlooking the fact that Robson has to play Erakovic first, and that in the H2H, Erakovic beat Robson on grass at Birmingham last year....

The media can be so disrespectful sometimes, and it can sometimes be to the detriment of the British players...this is the first time I've seen Erakovic so focussed.

That happens to Murray as well. It was the same with Fedal and then with Nadal out, how Federer would win the whole thing. These folks must eat really bad sandwiches to come up with such asinine comments. These commentators need to learn the difference between live commentary and an overnight newspaper piece.

The Special Juan wrote:Forgive my pessimism but I'll be surprised if Laura wins this one.

easy to say when she was 2 breaks down!!!

Can't see Laura breaking back, it will be remarkable if she can come back to win this. But she's improved from last year and I think the omens for the future are good

well she is at last chance saloon. Its do or die..

laverfan wrote:Should a young Tomic win, it would bode well for the next few years, would you agree SB?

Yes, but somehow or other I cannot really warm up to him.

He can make hitting big shots look so easy, but most of the time he plays an odd sort of game.  Even today, it is an awful lot of junkballing; I do not mind a bit of it, but he almost likes to base his game on junkballs.  I really liked the way he played the AO match against Roger, I think that would be the way forward for him, but he seems to have reverted to his more typical patterns here.

Hawkeye doesn't "vote in someone's favour", unless they are suggesting a conspiracy...

shivfan wrote:

The Special Juan wrote:Forgive my pessimism but I'll be surprised if Laura wins this one.

You and I know more about women's tennis that the vast majority of the British media, which has really fired up Kiwi Erakovic, talking ad nauseum about a potential quarter-final with Serena, overlooking the fact that Robson has to play Erakovic first, and that in the H2H, Erakovic beat Robson on grass at Birmingham last year....

The media can be so disrespectful sometimes, and it can sometimes be to the detriment of the British players...this is the first time I've seen Erakovic so focussed.

Funnily enough I was just away to post about the British media disrespecting Erakovic. She's having the year of her life and has won a title plus had a few other big wins this year. They took one look at her ranking (56?) and decided that Laura was going to win despite the negative H2H. I didn't hear the H2H mentioned once yet when it's Murray v someone any previous past loss is brought up immediately. Also, even more riling.................

Spoiler:

laverfan wrote:These commentators need to learn the difference between live commentary and an overnight newspaper piece.

In fairness to them, they are not in the business of providing accurate information; they are in the business of hyping things up.  They will not get paid if they write up a more accurate but less exciting sounding article.

That was chokey

Berdych breaks in the first game of the 3rd. He's motoring now.

"Hawkeye doesn't "vote in someone's favour", unless they are suggesting a conspiracy.."

Well on the mariginal calls it could be considered it may do. Hawkeye can not be 100% accurate. Possibly 99.9% accurate and a great system.. But a marignal call may be very very rarely wrong.

Laura right back in this!!!!

CLASSY ACT LAURA!!

break back...

Crowd a tad too partisan, feel for the Kiwi

YESSS!!!

Come on Laura. 5-5.

Huge applause for an Erakovic double-fault...I hope the commentators remember this when they accuse American crowds of being rowdy.
 

Well broken back and that will mentally test Erakovic

As an aside, Gasquet and Tomic played two 7:6 and 5:7 sets in less than 90 minuntes

That was a choke of Sam Stosur proportions!! There's something about Erakovic which reminds me of Stosur too. The outfit and hair maybe?

The Special Juan wrote:

shivfan wrote:

The Special Juan wrote:Forgive my pessimism but I'll be surprised if Laura wins this one.

You and I know more about women's tennis that the vast majority of the British media, which has really fired up Kiwi Erakovic, talking ad nauseum about a potential quarter-final with Serena, overlooking the fact that Robson has to play Erakovic first, and that in the H2H, Erakovic beat Robson on grass at Birmingham last year....

The media can be so disrespectful sometimes, and it can sometimes be to the detriment of the British players...this is the first time I've seen Erakovic so focussed.

Funnily enough I was just away to post about the British media disrespecting Erakovic.  She's having the year of her life and has won a title plus had a few other big wins this year.  They took one look at her ranking (56?) and decided that Laura was going to win despite the negative H2H.  I didn't hear the H2H mentioned once yet when it's Murray v someone any previous past loss is brought up immediately.  Also, even more riling.................

Spoiler:

Where is that piece of journalistic bigotry from TSJ?