Tennis Discussion Thread

Well, that was a disappointing day in the women's semi-finals, for varying reasons.

Magdalena Rybarikova has had a wonderful tournament. She has shown courage and, at times, exceptional grass-court skill, to defy a lowly ranking of 87 in the world. However, today on the big occasion her touch deserted her. Garbine Muguruza leathers that tennis ball with such force, she quickly becomes the last player you want to face when you're having an off day. A combination of blistering baseline shots from the Spaniard and crippling big day nerves from the Slovakian meant there was only going to be one winner.

As for Johanna Konta, yes I agree it was a depressing, painful defeat and one that will hurt. Obviously from a British point of view it's understandably disappointing to see our last hope depart, but it also seemed a far less competitive scoreline than I was expecting. Mistress of Wimbledon ceremonies Venus Williams, who seems to flourish to a higher degree without her younger sister present, did an excellent job in silencing the crowd. She was able to dismantle Jo's game step by step in an exercise of control. I'm sure Jo will learn a lot from this loss though. She's now had the experience of painful defeat in semi-finals and she can learn from this. It will set her in good stead for future slams. I'm very confident that in Konta, Britain has a quality player of whom we can be proud.

Muguruza vs Venus should be an exciting battle in Saturday's final.

(13-07-2017 15:21 )snookered147 Wrote:  Konta was rather depressingly overpowered. The Williams serve at times resembled Fort Knox it was so inpenetrable .

At least boxing has the good grace to separate heavyweights from other divisions The Williams sisters have been a joke to tennis for years!

Well done to Jo Konta for getting so far, hopefully if she stays healthy she can outlast the Williams careers. If she can beat Halep (albeit closely), she ought to stay at least a top 10 and tournament winning prospect

She also beat Kerber at Eastbourne so she should go up in the top 10

Roger Federer has beaten Tomas Berdych 7-6 7-6 6-4 and will play Marin Cilic in the final on Sunday.

There will be a definite home nations winning player in the mixed doubles.
Jamie Murray and Martina Hingis on one side of rhe net.
Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen on the other.

Watson and Kontinen are unbeaten as a partnership at Wimbledon

^When I saw the names Wat/Kon on screen, I wondered if the Kon was a brother of Jo Konta (if she has one, and he plays tennis, and if he's any good at it).

But alas it just a big blonde Finnish guy

Venus Williams is getting Mugged in the Ladies Final by the Spannish girl.

First set to Muguruza

can someone help me find his coat!

Venus is looking all of her 37 years now, her serve and her spirit seems to have evaporated.