Anyone like Tennis?

I do remember Monica Selas grunting a lot, but not any women before that.

Arrrgghhhhhh..... Serena Williams out in the first round of the French. This was her year to win it all.

Yeah - got frustrated at herself when she lost the tiebreak, and melted down. Pity. She was playing so well...

The common wisdom has been that at 30 Serena is much better off than others before her whose results slowed down dramatically at that point. That wisdom might be off base.

Quite a match for both women, Serena Williams and Virginie Razzano:

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/47613895/ns/tennis/

I disagree with the title premise, re aging being the matter, though I suppose it comes into it.

I'm still bummed. I haven't been able to bring myself to click on the tennis news sites. She was the only player I was really following this tournament.

Ok, I have to follow a little. Joker barely survives the quarters only to easily handle Federer in the semis. Nadal gets an easy trip to the finals. Final pick: the battle hardened #1 going for his career slam or the best clay court player in the history of the game looking to break Borg's record for French Open titles?

I feel Djokovic winning is an inevitability but I'm hoping to hear Nadal does it. On the other hand, if Joker (that what they call him?) wins, he will have deserved it.

The Guardian tennis guy's play by play on the Djokovic-Nadal match:

(starts at the bottom of the page, last bit at the top)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jun/10/novak-djokovic-rafael-nadal-live

Can't believe we are rain delayed! Nadal walks all over Djokovic for 2.2 sets the suddenly Djokovic is completely unbeatable. Nadal finally wins a game and the rain kicks in.

I love to play both tennis and ping pong. However I get bored shitless while watching these and golf. Maybe its ADD.

Ahhh, called off, back mid day (there) tomorrow.

It will be very interesting to see how they come out of the locker room today. The story for Nadal is very straightforward. He's up, shown he can break Djokovic to get back into the fourth set and as long as the conditions are dry, that top-spin is just too much .... but if the conditions are a little wet, the heavier ball will not allow him the big top-spin shots and they will fall short and Djokovic will devour them. For Djokovic, he's played himself back into the match, is a break up in the fourth and can handle Nadal's serve pretty well ... but the strategy he came out with yesterday is not going to hack it. Yes, he won eight straight games in the drizzle but when the conditions are good, Nadal can outplay him from the baseline and it's worse when Djokovic gives up a lot of errors.

I wonder if we are going to see a different strategy from Djokovic or if he is going to double down on what was getting him killed yesterday.

Well, that answers that question. Nadal is the man on clay.

Enjoyed yesterdays match but couldn't see the conclusion today.

I nevah see much.
Kidding, but I only see stuff from newslines.

Nadal shocked in second round of Wimbledon by the 100th-best player in the world! I hear Nadal behaved rather badly at this one - bumping his opponent(Lukas Rosol - a Czech) at crossover, complaining to the ref...

Was it a cross-Czech? Or a bounced Czech?

The end of the world is nigh...(tennis players that have bad manners)

Wow! That leaves just the big two playing for the number one spot. If Federer wins it all and Djokovic looses in the semi's or earlier, Federer takes over number one. Nadal had a shot also but losing this early will cost him big points and there aren't many clay tournaments from here out to help him.

I'd been "watching" all day but broke off to do other stuff.

Chihuahua!!