Olympic Tennis

Mad old tory · 28 Jul 2012 at 16:21

So a win for Baltacha but she's against Ivanovic in the next round so that's the end of that.

It appears the men's tournament is best of 3? Seems a bit of a shame but I guess it's difficult to fit into 1 week (I assume) if they play best of 5.

Fed having a bit of a wobble losing his service game for the match as well...

Pigeon_Killer · 28 Jul 2012 at 16:28

Get in. Columbian takes the second set :cool:

Mad old tory · 28 Jul 2012 at 16:34

Called me old fashioned but I'm not sure I like players at Wimbledon not in all white.

qqg3 · 28 Jul 2012 at 16:37

Mad old tory said:
Called me old fashioned but I'm not sure I like players at Wimbledon not in all white.

It is a little weird.

Aesir · 28 Jul 2012 at 17:15

Stupid question but is it 3 sets or 5 for mens singles at the olympics?

Pigeon_Killer · 28 Jul 2012 at 17:15

3 sets until the final.

robfosters · 28 Jul 2012 at 17:48

Murray bros on now. 1 set up.

qqg3 · 28 Jul 2012 at 18:49

Wozniacki sure is something to look at, eh? Those Danes...

robfosters · 28 Jul 2012 at 19:07

Murray's are out

Aesir · 28 Jul 2012 at 19:21

Well I guess andy can focus on the singles now

Jamie was a bit of a lead weight maybe andy should have gone with marray instead

jrodga2k5 · 29 Jul 2012 at 20:52

Murray through with ease :cool:

6-3, 6-3

Novak and Tsonga through in 3.

Aesir · 29 Jul 2012 at 21:39

3 set matches does play to murray's strengths so hopefully we can expect a medal from him.

Beansprout · 30 Jul 2012 at 00:29

Is it me or have they made the grass extra-bright? Maybe given it special grass food? Or maybe it's just the garish purple spoling the lovely normal Wimbledon colours which is distorting everything...

HangTime · 30 Jul 2012 at 01:46

My guess is it probably looks different on TV due to contrast with the purple as you suggest, also worth bearing in mind it takes a bit of a pasting at Wimbledon very quickly especially around the baseline so gets degraded very quickly.

Tomsk · 30 Jul 2012 at 07:03

qqg3 said:
It is a little weird.

So is the purple.

Beansprout said:
Is it me or have they made the grass extra-bright? Maybe given it special grass food? Or maybe it's just the garish purple spoling the lovely normal Wimbledon colours which is distorting everything...

It's new grass around the baseline.
After the Wimbledon Championships, they removed all the turf around the baseline and laid down some new turf that they had been growing and maintaining elsewhere. (source - Wimbledon website)

Pigeon_Killer · 30 Jul 2012 at 14:31

Someone needs that rattle stuffed up their backside :mad:

sunny007 · 30 Jul 2012 at 15:02

What a return from federer!

Merlin5 · 31 Jul 2012 at 14:00

Andy Murray is on now about to start a match versus Jarkko Nieminen.

Firestar_3x · 31 Jul 2012 at 14:05

Murry vs Fed in the final...

Serious Deja Vu should that happen.

Tute · 31 Jul 2012 at 18:04

Doubt it, Murray can expect bronze at best.

[Edit] Hoping Laura Robson can do something against the grunter as well, can't see it though.