Wimbledon 2009

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:01 am

CAPSLOCK wrote:Quite clearly in the top 3 now is Murray

Nadal has serious injury issues, Federer will get bored

The best British sportsman will win a slam this year

But it might be the US

Aye but don't forget he's shit because he hates England and the England football team.

Oh and cos he's not a posh nice person like Henman!

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:03 am

I'm planning to queue up overnight to try and get show court tickets for Wednesday. Has anyone done this before or have any tips?

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:27 am

chris wrote:I'm planning to queue up overnight to try and get show court tickets for Wednesday. Has anyone done this before or have any tips?

Get there early?

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:02 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:Quite clearly in the top 3 now is Murray

Nadal has serious injury issues, Federer will get bored

The best British sportsman will win a slam this year

But it might be the US
Aye but don't forget he's shit because he hates England and the England football team.

Oh and cos he's not a posh tw*t like Henman!

Aye, when did people stop being able to make jokes? Yes he's a boring bastard, but feck me the boy can play. He's a winner, and as usual in this country, we can't have that.

FD · Post by FD » Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:05 pm

Come on though, he's clearly a c*nt.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:49 pm

FD wrote:Come on though, he's clearly a c*nt.

I kinda like him. I'd much rather have his straight talking than Tim Henman's nicey nicey b*llocks. When asked about British tennis, tells it how it is. I like that.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:09 pm

I like him too. Much more than I could ever have liked Choker.

The roof could have been his saviour and his downfall at the same time tonight. He got his match done tonight, but so has everyone else in the men's single draw who played on the "minor" courts. That saves him getting up and warming up for an hour before playing what could have been another two hours tomorrow. Alternatively, he has a lie-in tomorrow, and gives him as much rest as the other seven fellas tomorrow. And, of course, if the weather was considerably more inclement, then he'dhave an unfair advantage. Then there's the fact the the natural ambience of shade that kicks in can drop the court temperature by 10-15 degrees....

Not often you can talk about unnatural levellers in sport, but we can now....

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:13 pm

What a dislikeable arsehole Murray is.

Thought Wickxxwaka's backhand was beautiful

Di Stefano · Post by **Di Stefano** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:25 am

Bruno wrote:What a dislikeable arsehole Murray is.

Thought Wickxxwaka's backhand was beautiful

Have you actually met Murray in order to form this opinion?

chris wrote:I'm planning to queue up overnight to try and get show court tickets for Wednesday. Has anyone done this before or have any tips?

I'd say you're already too late.

Di Stefano · Post by **Di Stefano** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:28 am

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:I like him too. Much more than I could ever have liked Choker.

The roof could have been his saviour and his downfall at the same time tonight. He got his match done tonight, but so has everyone else in the men's single draw who played on the "minor" courts. That saves him getting up and warming up for an hour before playing what could have been another two hours tomorrow. Alternatively, he has a lie-in tomorrow, and gives him as much rest as the other seven fellas tomorrow. And, of course, if the weather was considerably more inclement, then he'dhave an unfair advantage. Then there's the fact the the natural ambience of shade that kicks in can drop the court temperature by 10-15 degrees....

Not often you can talk about unnatural levellers in sport, but we can now....

He also now has the advantage of having played under it, bit like us having played at Wembley 3 months before playing Reading there in '95. He did a superb impersonation of Henman tonight, quite took me back 5 or 6 years.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:37 am

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:I like him too. Much more than I could ever have liked Choker.

The roof could have been his saviour and his downfall at the same time tonight. He got his match done tonight, but so has everyone else in the men's single draw who played on the "minor" courts. That saves him getting up and warming up for an hour before playing what could have been another two hours tomorrow. Alternatively, he has a lie-in tomorrow, and gives him as much rest as the other seven fellas tomorrow. And, of course, if the weather was considerably more inclement, then he'dhave an unfair advantage. Then there's the fact the the natural ambience of shade that kicks in can drop the court temperature by 10-15 degrees....

Not often you can talk about unnatural levellers in sport, but we can now....

I like Murray too. He is focussed. He isn't a performing seal he's a tennis player. His personality simply reflects his desire to win! And lets face it, he was playing horrible tennis most of last night. His opponent was inspired. But Murray found a way to win through sheer desire and heart.

Thats why I'll always prefer him to Henman.

He won't win Wimbledon simply because Federer is too good here and he may well struggle after his 5 set marathon in the quarters or the semis!

But I don't get this dislike of him.

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:14 am

The Yanks, especially New Yorkers, like him

A fighter is Murray

And such is the British menatality, he's gotta get knocked for something

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:14 am

Neither do I, BWFCI. I like him because he's been willing to put the hard graft in to compete with the Nadals and Federers - his fitness now compared to 12 months ago is phenomenal, and I'd wager that his extra conditioning helped him through last night. Wawrinka is a very good player, just hovering outside the top ten, and having lost the first set quite comfortably, he didn't panic and was able to up his game when needed. That is (cliche alert) the sign of a champion. Though as CAPS says, I'd fancy his chances more at the US than here.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:30 am

Verbal wrote:Neither do I, BWFCI. I like him because he's been willing to put the hard graft in to compete with the Nadals and Federers - his fitness now compared to 12 months ago is phenomenal, and I'd wager that his extra conditioning helped him through last night. Wawrinka is a very good player, just hovering outside the top ten, and having lost the first set quite comfortably, he didn't panic and was able to up his game when needed. That is (cliche alert) the sign of a champion. Though as CAPS says, I'd fancy his chances more at the US than here.

Indeed. The fact is he was playing horribly last night against someone playing at times unplayable tennis. And yet he won.

He found a way. And the reason like you say he can do that is because of the work he's done on his fitness, game and mentality.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:02 am

Despite Henman being a nice-guy type I never felt he'd win Wimbledon. He just didn't have a full golf bag (yeah, all right). Neither, unfortunately, did Rudetski (sp?) Murray, now he's worked on his stamina and strength, does give me the feeling he can at least make the final. He came back ,when under real pressure against a good player, despite looking really knackered. Five sets in that heat can't be too much fun for anybody.

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:07 am

Di Stefano wrote:
Bruno wrote:What a dislikeable arsehole Murray is.

Thought Wickxxwaka's backhand was beautiful
Have you actually met Murray in order to form this opinion?

Don't need to. He's made his anti-Englishness fairly well known. I'm with Bruno on this - asshole.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:11 am

Worthy4England wrote:
Di Stefano wrote:
Bruno wrote:What a dislikeable arsehole Murray is.

Thought Wickxxwaka's backhand was beautiful
Have you actually met Murray in order to form this opinion?
Don't need to. He's made his anti-Englishness fairly well known. I'm with Bruno on this - asshole.

Sorry W4E but I call BOLLOX here.

At what point has he made this known?

Or are you just using the "tabloid" headlines as evidence?

jaffka · Post by **jaffka** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:13 am

Misquoted or anti-English?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... l#comments

Forgive me if you've heard this before, but before the last World Cup finals I interviewed Murray and Tim Henman together for the first time. Murray was late joining the conversation and dropped into his chair midway through a chat about the impending football World Cup.

Naturally, we immediately teased him about Scotland's absence from the competition. As Henman snorted with laughter, I asked Murray what he would be doing while we all watched the World Cup. Reading a good book, perhaps?

With the appropriate degree of sarcasm, Murray replied by saying he would be 'supporting whoever England were playing against'. So we mocked him some more and moved on. It appeared as a transcript in this paper, exactly as the conversation took place, and the entire exchange was obviously a joke.

Then another paper picked up the exchange a couple of days later, ran half-a-dozen paragraphs on a news page and from that point on the truth went flying out of the window along with any sense of perspective.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:19 am

To be honest, he strikes me as a guy who is purely focused on doing his job and nothing else. If we're to consider him as a Grand Slam Contender (c) is that a bad thing? To be honest, I find his attitude quite refreshing.

Also, whichever journalist asked Keothavong whether she felt she had "let the British public down" needs to be shot.

BWFC_Insane · Post by **BWFC_Insane** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:24 am

Why should Murray support the English football team anyways? He's Scottish?

I take it that everyone who dislikes him supports Scotland whenever they're playing!

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