Wimbledon 2009

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:22 am

Should be great. Federer has the momentum, the pressure on Murray will be enormous, Nadal is still not confirmed (he WILL play, Uncle Toni always likes to get in the excuses early in case he loses)

The draw is out:

Juan Martin Del Potro ARG (5)
v
Arnaud Clement FRA

Lleyton Hewitt AUS
v
Robby Ginepri USA

Rajeev Ram USA
v
Philipp Petzschner GER

Mischa Zverev GER
v
Dmitry Tursunov RUS (25)

Radek Stepanek CZE (23)
v
Alejandro Falla COL

Potito Starace ITA
v
Jose Acasuso ARG

Fabio Fognini ITA
v
Denis Istomin UZB

Kevin Kim USA
v
David Ferrer ESP (16)

Nikolay Davydenko RUS (12)
v
Daniel Evans GBR

Victor Crivoi ROU
v
Bjorn Phau GER

Frederico Gil POR
v
Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA

Alex Bogdanovic GBR
v
Tomas Berdych CZE (20)

Jurgen Melzer AUT (26)
v
Wayne Odesnik USA

Benjamin Becker GER
v
Roko Karanusic CRO

Grigor Dimitrov BUL
v
Igor Kunitsyn RUS

Jeremy Chardy FRA
v
Andy Roddick USA (6)

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Andy Murray GBR (3)
v
Robert Kendrick USA

Riccardo Ghedin ITA
v
Ernests Gulbis LAT

Taylor Dent USA
v
Daniel Gimeno-Traver ESP

Brian Dabul ARG
v
Viktor Troicki SRB (30)

Stanislas Wawrinka SUI (19)
v
Eduardo Schwank ARG

Pablo Andujar ESP
v
Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG

Christophe Rochus BEL
v
Pablo Cuevas URU

Jesse Levine USA
v
Marat Safin RUS (14)

Fernando Gonzalez CHI (10)
v
Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS

Oscar Hernandez ESP
v
Leonardo Mayer ARG

Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP
v
Mikhail Youzhny RUS

Fabrice Santoro FRA
v
Nicolas Kiefer GER (33)

Victor Hanescu ROU (31)
v
Ivan Navarro ESP

Nicolas Devilder FRA
v
Nicolas Lapentti ECU

Thiago Alves BRA
v
Andrei Pavel ROU

Bobby Reynolds USA
v
Gilles Simon FRA (8)

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James Blake USA (17)
v
Andreas Seppi ITA

Adrian Mannarino FRA
v
Marc Gicquel FRA

Paul Capdeville CHI
v
Vincent Spadea USA

Evgeny Korolev RUS
v
Igor Andreev RUS (29)

Tommy Haas GER (24)
v
Alexander Peya AUT

Michael Llodra FRA
v
Joshua Goodall GBR

Sam Querrey USA
v
Ivan Ljubicic CRO

Alberto Martin ESP
v
Marin Cilic CRO (11)

Tommy Robredo ESP (15)
v
Luka Gregorc SLO

Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA
v
Stefan Koubek AUT

Dudi Sela ISR
v
Santiago Gonzalez MEX

Xavier Malisse BEL
v
Rainer Schuettler GER (18)

Mardy Fish USA (28)
v
Sergio Roitman ARG

Jan Hernych CZE
v
Janko Tipsarevic SRB

Simon Greul GER
v
Michael Yani USA

Julien Benneteau FRA
v
Novak Djokovic SRB (4)

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Fernando Verdasco ESP (7)
v
James Ward GBR

Nicolas Mahut FRA
v
Kristof Vliegen BEL

Diego Junqueira ARG
v
Guillermo Canas ARG

Grega Zemlja SLO
v
Albert Montanes ESP (32)

Ivo Karlovic CRO (22)
v
Lukas Lacko SVK

Steve Darcis BEL
v
Frank Dancevic CAN

Simone Bolelli ITA
v
Daniel Koellerer AUT

Andrey Golubev KAZ
v
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga FRA (9)

Robin Soderling SWE (13)
v
Gilles Muller LUX

Marcel Granollers ESP
v
Andreas Beck GER

Nicolas Almagro ESP
v
Juan Monaco ARG

Karol Beck SVK
v
Feliciano Lopez ESP (21)

Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (27)
v
Florent Serra FRA

Ivo Minar CZE
v
Maximo Gonzalez ARG

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP
v
Agustin Calleri ARG

Yen-Hsun Lu TPE
v
Roger Federer SUI (2)

LL Cool Dude · Post by **LL Cool Dude** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:43 am

I will be patriotic and go for Murray but he needs to block out the hype that will follow him for Wimbledon. Not saying Henman would ever have won it but I reckon the hysteria went against him at Wimbledon and he didn't deal with it...

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:34 am

Yeah, if British media were less gay, I think Henman would have won at least one Wimbledon, somewhere in betweeen the Pete and Roger years.

Up until now it is kinda ridiculous to list Murray as the main favorite alongside Federer (as most British bookies have done), even if Nadal's knees are seriously fucked (which I doubt they are). He's been the male Jankovic. Great in best-of-3 Masters tournaments and mediocre at the Majors.

I think he could make the final but he might have a better shot at winning the USO than Wimbledon this year. It all depends on whether Fed is still hungry and Nadal physically fit.

He also needs to hit his forehand with more authority and stop the pushing shit. If he plays like he did against Nadal at last year's USO, he has a shot. If he once again starts pushing again, some big hitter will overpower him once again (see Verdasco at AO and Gonzalez at FO)

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:52 am

Alright my inevitable prediction-post:

iceedited with the new draw:

R4

Del Potro - Stepanek
Berdych - Roddick

Murray - Wawrinka
Gonzalez - Simon

Blake - Haas
Sela - Djokovic

Verdasco - Tsonga
Soderling - Federer

QF

Del Potro - Roddick
Murray - Gonzalez

Blake - Djokovic
Tsonga - Federer

SF

Roddick - Murray
Federer - Djokovic

F

Murray - Federer

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:04 pm

c'mon blake. you're not getting any younger.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:10 pm

So Nadal lost both exhibition matches, in straights to Hewitt and the super-tiebreak against Wawrinka. Apparently he was playing a lot better today though. Press conference to follow. He will not withdraw. No way.

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:18 pm

nadal might be one of the biggest whiners in tennis right now.

he has excuses lined up out the ass right now.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:59 pm

Yup, it's getting ridiculous. Uncle Toni is even worse. You can bet that camp Nadal will try to do everything to let the excuses pour in when he loses a match. He's practically never lost a match were he wasn't "tired and injured, no?" Big fucking deal, change your style of play or you're gonna burn at 24-25. It's that simple.

Trub320 · Post by **Trub320** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:08 pm

Gregg Popabitch wrote:c'mon blake. you're not getting any younger.

There is 0% chance that Blake will ever win a grand slam. There was never a chance even when he had that one good stretch.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:12 pm

Trub320 wrote:
Gregg Popabitch wrote:c'mon blake. you're not getting any younger.
There is 0% chance that Blake will ever win a grand slam. There was never a chance even when he had that one good stretch.

Of course not but he may at least reach another QF.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:15 pm

Damn, he did withdraw :copy:

LL Cool Dude · Post by **LL Cool Dude** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:51 pm

coldwatermusic wrote:Damn, he did withdraw

lol... its a Murray V Fed final

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:58 pm

Seriously, Murray's draw might be the easiest one ever now

Sucks that Nadal is not playing.

Cahill might be talking out of his ass but I can't help feeling there's some truth in this:

Darren Cahill: Well, firstly, I think everyone's extremely disappointed he's not going to be defending his title. I think the year that he had in the last 12-months and the match that they played between Federer and Nadal here last year, for me, was the best tennis match I've ever seen -- we won't get a repeat of that.

We sort of saw it coming, big surprise at the French Open, a loss to Soderling. And he's been complaining of knee problems for quite sometime, he played a really heavy schedule going into the French Open. I think if he could have his time back, he probably wouldn't have played Barcelona, his home tournament, or maybe even Madrid coming into the French Open; but he's done that. He's promised everybody that his knee problems are not chronic, it's not career-ending, he just needs some time off. But I think to me, just a gathering from the press conference here, it seems to be a little more mental than physical and he just knows that he's hit a wall at the moment. And with the knee problems he has he's not getting any better.

So I think it's quite a lot psychological and not so much physical, to be quite honest.

eternalreflection · Post by **eternalreflection** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:14 am

beginning of the end for him, injuries start piling up, gets a little older and boom he only competes at RG and Wimbledon and wins 0-2 more GS

hustler · Post by **hustler** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:40 am

glad to hear. hate that faggot pussy ass bitchmade nadal. hes even gay for a tennis player.

dware94 · Post by **dware94** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:13 pm

How many majors has nadal won? Im not a big fan of him either, stoked to see Feds go after #15.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:36 pm

dware94 wrote:How many majors has nadal won? Im not a big fan of him either, stoked to see Feds go after #15.

6 (4 FO, 1 Wimbledon, 1 AO)

I'm gonna miss that fucker. I'm obviously a Federer fanboy but having Nadal creates great drama and I love rooting against him. Another Fed/Nadal final would have been great especially after what happened last year.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:59 pm

coldwatermusic wrote:
Trub320 wrote:
Gregg Popabitch wrote:c'mon blake. you're not getting any younger.
There is 0% chance that Blake will ever win a grand slam. There was never a chance even when he had that one good stretch.
Of course not but he may at least reach another QF.

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:01 pm

Also:

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terrible quality but the only clip on youtube yet

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:48 pm

coldwatermusic wrote:
coldwatermusic wrote:
Trub320 wrote:
Gregg Popabitch wrote:c'mon blake. you're not getting any younger.
There is 0% chance that Blake will ever win a grand slam. There was never a chance even when he had that one good stretch.
Of course not but he may at least reach another QF.

it's terrible when your favorite player isn't good enough to win anything.

RacquetballGangsta · Post by **RacquetballGangsta** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:12 pm

i like nadal a lot better than faggot ass federer.

somehow i just feel like there will be an upset this year...dunno why

RacquetballGangsta · Post by **RacquetballGangsta** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:34 pm

lol wtf
blake goes out in the first round

LL Cool Dude · Post by **LL Cool Dude** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:59 pm

Murray wasn't to impressive today but thats cool as it's all about next week

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:10 pm

blake

faggot ass federer? Nadal wears capris!!!!!!

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:29 pm

Gregg Popabitch wrote:blake

faggot ass federer? Nadal wears capris!!!!!!

good point even though Roger's Wimbledon outfits are tough to justify:

RacquetballGangsta · Post by **RacquetballGangsta** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:04 pm

Gregg Popabitch wrote:blake

faggot ass federer? Nadal wears capris!!!!!!

he the only nigga that could make a wedgie inducing pair of capris look g'd up

thats exactly why he's UNgay

in other news, wifey is out in the 2nd round again

Money Gripp · Post by **Money Gripp** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:08 pm

Sharapova was lookin' real good. It's a shame.

Yohan · Post by **Yohan** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:40 pm

Sharapova even put a lot of risk in her game when she was broken in the last set. Was a pretty intense game, especially the ending.

RacquetballGangsta · Post by **RacquetballGangsta** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:54 pm

lol @ wilbon. he's just like me. if sharapova or ivanovic aint in it, we cant watch it

umm except when maria looks like this...luckily she dolls up for the matches apparently

the pic of ivanovic wouldnt come up
:(

how much money would i pay to have ivanovic sit on my face tho?

coldwatermusic · Post by **coldwatermusic** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:26 pm

Goddamn, Murray is so fucking boring to watch 90% of the time. He's obviously smart and knows which opponents will self-destruct but his game puts me to sleep.

Usually I'd say that his shitty loopy forehand and pathetic 2nd serve will not cut it here (see AO, FO) but looking at the draw he could probably only play sliced forehands and still make it to the final.

Del Potro is out, Hewitt is in decent form but still a washed-up has-been, Roddick may pose some problems but is simply not good enough on return, Stepanek's groundstrokes are too weak and Wawrinka and Gonzalez are not nearly as dangerous on grass as on other surfaces. The top half of the draw really is atrocious.