Tennis

Hodders · 29 Jun 2026 at 15:32

Surely Ostapenko can understand that she would be a better player if she lost some weight? The few points where Dart has managed to get her moving she just looks slow.

It's yet another reason that women should be able to play 5 sets in slams. I know it would cause scheduling issues, but maybe the first couple of rounds for men and women could be 3 sets and then 5 sets for both draws from 3rd round on.

Alice In Wonderland · 29 Jun 2026 at 15:37

Oh poor Harriet

I thought Ostapenko was um, a bit chunky but wondered if she was that way by choice through strength training.

manic111 · 29 Jun 2026 at 15:56

We might just have seen point of the tournament there in the Sinner match. Absolutely fantastic.

Alice In Wonderland · 29 Jun 2026 at 16:07

manic111 said:
We might just have seen point of the tournament there in the Sinner match. Absolutely fantastic.

I don't like Sinner but appreciate he's an incredible player.

I've got Cam Norrie on BBC 2 but I'm not sure I feel confident he'll do that well but I hope he surprises me!!

manic111 · 29 Jun 2026 at 16:23

Alice In Wonderland said:
I don't like Sinner but appreciate he's an incredible player.

It wasn't him that won the point!

nightwish · 29 Jun 2026 at 16:59

Brits dropping like flies.

Sinner taken to 5. :eek:

Participant · 29 Jun 2026 at 18:26

nightwish said:
Brits dropping like flies.

I think they need to borrow Sinner's pharmacist.

GodAtum · 29 Jun 2026 at 19:34

So we have no hopes of a Brit winner this year WTF :mad:

Why have we got worse? We should be getting better each year, not regressing!

It's such a stain on this celebrated tournament that there's no British players who can challenge for a win.

Alice In Wonderland · 29 Jun 2026 at 20:18

GodAtum said:
So we have no hopes of a Brit winner this year WTF

Why have we got worse? We should be getting better each year, not regressing!

It's such a stain on this celebrated tournament that there's no British players who can challenge for a win.

It is very disappointing.

I missed Cam Norrie getting knocked out too.

Psycho Ned · 29 Jun 2026 at 20:32

GodAtum said:
So we have no hopes of a Brit winner this year WTF

Why have we got worse? We should be getting better each year, not regressing!

It's such a stain on this celebrated tournament that there's no British players who can challenge for a win.

We seem to have a load of crocks right now. Raducanu obviously whose whole career post 2021 seems to have been play about 6 matches then be injured for 2 months. Now Jack Draper who was our brightest light on the mens side seems to have a more worrying arm problem that has gone on for like a year which when you're a tennis player doesn't look good for your long term career!

Merlin5 · 29 Jun 2026 at 20:39

Alice In Wonderland said:
Oh poor Harriet

I thought Ostapenko was um, a bit chunky but wondered if she was that way by choice through strength training.

I didn't want to say anything earlier in case I offended someone but I was a bit shocked at Ostapenko, I thought she looked like pre weight loss Little Britain's Matt Lucas in a tennis skirt.

Judge Mental · 29 Jun 2026 at 21:16

GodAtum said:
So we have no hopes of a Brit winner this year WTF

Why have we got worse? We should be getting better each year, not regressing!

It's such a stain on this celebrated tournament that there's no British players who can challenge for a win.

Welcome to British tennis pre Andy Murray.

You'll get used to it.

Alice In Wonderland · 29 Jun 2026 at 21:24

I'm a bit confused with the Novak and Wu match and who exactly are the crowd booing?

ic1male · 29 Jun 2026 at 21:29

Alice In Wonderland said:
I'm a bit confused with the Novak and Wu match and who exactly are the crowd booing?

It's the same in snooker, a Chinese player called Wu. And the crowd shout "Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" in support of him.

And for the record, Djokovic is such a nob.

GodAtum · 29 Jun 2026 at 21:29

Alice In Wonderland said:
I'm a bit confused with the Novak and Wu match and who exactly are the crowd booing?

Wuuuing I think :cry:

Psycho Ned · 29 Jun 2026 at 21:29

Judge Mental said:
Welcome to British tennis pre Andy Murray.

You'll get used to it.

The end of the Henman era kind of overlapped with the beginning of the Murray one so we had a good 20 years where we had a player who was going to go deep into the 2nd week.

I remember the early-mid 90's though where Jeremy Bates making it to like Round 4 was headline news such was the derth of British tennis talent! Feels a bit like we're heading back to those times!

Reuben klang · 29 Jun 2026 at 22:39

nightwish said:
Brits dropping like flies.

Sinner taken to 5.

Yup, we’re just a bit meh at the moment across the board.

Sinner is such a weird one, he should be completely crushing these first two weeks of slams. Carlo being injured must be sitting there gutted, he’d have walked the FO and this. Could have won the GS if it wasn’t for the injury!

GodAtum said:
So we have no hopes of a Brit winner this year WTF

Why have we got worse? We should be getting better each year, not regressing!

It's such a stain on this celebrated tournament that there's no British players who can challenge for a win.

Is it lack of funding? Or hunger? Bit of both? I know they have improved the stuff in Stirling Uni for the tennis of the back of Andy but you don’t really hear anything else.

Judge Mental said:
Welcome to British tennis pre Andy Murray.

You'll get used to it.

Hopefully we don’t have to wait another 70 odd years…. most likely be longer though

ic1male said:
Djokovic is such a nob.

This, it’s just so cringe the way he still carries on.

Psycho Ned said:
The end of the Henman era kind of overlapped with the beginning of the Murray one so we had a good 20 years where we had a player who was going to go deep into the 2nd week.

I remember the early-mid 90's though where Jeremy Bates making it to like Round 4 was headline news such was the derth of British tennis talent! Feels a bit like we're heading back to those times!

I seem to recall when Henman got knocked out early doors Murray ended up going into week 2 and was the last remaining and it kind of kick started the passing of the bat.

Nabinium · 29 Jun 2026 at 22:50

Not sure how many games I'll be watching this year, but I've just caught up on Cam Norrie's game against Michael Zheng and it was quite disappointing.

It's a bit hard to stay optimistic, as British tennis is not doing great at the moment

Judge Mental · 29 Jun 2026 at 23:14

Psycho Ned said:
The end of the Henman era kind of overlapped with the beginning of the Murray one so we had a good 20 years where we had a player who was going to go deep into the 2nd week.

I remember the early-mid 90's though where Jeremy Bates making it to like Round 4 was headline news such was the derth of British tennis talent! Feels a bit like we're heading back to those times!

The pickings were slim back then. I remember Buster Mottram being the great hope, but, playing in the era of Connors, Borg and McEnroe, it was never going to happen.

As for Henman, I always felt he received a lot of unfair criticism. He did the best he could with the level of ability he had, just, there were players on the circuit who were a level above him.

nightwish · 30 Jun 2026 at 08:02

Nabinium said:
Not sure how many games I'll be watching this year, but I've just caught up on Cam Norrie's game against Michael Zheng and it was quite disappointing.

It's a bit hard to stay optimistic, as British tennis is not doing great at the moment

We have a lot of players to be fair. But with some of our best out due to injury, it's tough for the rest to compensate for that loss. If Draper and Raducanu can stay fit, the picture would look very different. Katie Boulter is getting there too and Cam Norrie can be good on his day. Some decent juniors coming through, that need time to cook. This tournament is already a big disappointment for British fans, but it's not like we have no players - they do exist, they just need to win a bit more!