Wimbledon 2017

#I'mWithHer

I am #PISSED about Tsonga. He should have had that.

Happy Rybarikova blasted through!! I LOVE a player designed for grass. Such a comeback this tournament for her.

Garbage Muguruza was actually playing very well today! I don't think she was challenged too much but her form is looking genuinely strong and that's coming from a h8er. If she keeps this up I might have to start calling her Grassbine Muguruthless.

It was nice that Angie Kerber didn't shit the bed for once as well. I was rooting for Shelby Rogers and it was such an incredibly close game (she could have wrapped it up if not for some unfortunate UEs in the second set). Ah well.

Kontaveit is confidently putting away The Woz right now and I think she should be starting to be looked at as a real contender for a place in the final four.

My man Gael Monfils is torturing me with this arduous match.

Credit to Woz for fighting back from such a perilous position but Kontaveit should have wrapped that match up quite easily. Her forehand strokes were giving Caroline nightmares and even though the effectiveness of those shots subsided as the game wore on, it still should have been enough to finish her off. But like I said, credit to Woz for using that world class mentality of her's to overcome what looked like a foregone conclusion.

I still think Johanna Konta has looked the most impressive of the Women though, and obviously rooting for my fellow Brit to go as far as possible. I just hope she doesn't have to face Queen V, or else there's going to be a huge dilemma. 

Totally agree that the mens draw is pretty dry at the moment.
Nadal is looking good (especially in the earlier rounds). But really who cares.... there's an open women's draw with about 10 genuine contenders for the big prize.

Kontaveit's choke is one of the worst i've seen honestly. I don't know what happened, she just laid an egg after the first set. The Woz was just doing her normal pushing and it worked though, can't discredit her for that. Of the non-Venus players, i'll happily accept Halep as a winner (it's felt like she deserved one for a while and her French loss was upsetting for her), Rybarikova (who is playing beautifully and a great tribute to this surface), Svitolina (who has had arguably the most consistent year of all the ladies in the draw), or even Mamarenka doing a Kim Clijsters and breastfeeding her way to victory (i'm not much of a fan but it would be cute). Konta is nice too and rumour is that Aga Radwanska could retire if she surprises us all and wins.

Tomorrow's matches are going to be nail-biting! All 8 Round 4s for the womens, only Veesus Christ and Konjuh's match is on center court though.... are going to make guesses on who progresses? (that rhymed you guys).

Muguruza v Kerber
Radwanska v Kuznetsova

Rybarikova v Martic
Vandeweghe v Wozniacki

Konjuh v Venus
Ostapenko v Svitolina

Konta v Garcia
Azarenka v Halep


1st Quarter:
- In terms of form, Mugu is playing some of her best and Kerber is barely scraping by. But maybe the confidence from turning her year around is enough to help out her game, and Garbine loves to shit the bed when we get to the business end of the tournament.
- Kusnetsova hasn't dropped a set but she also hasn't really been challenged so far. The fact that Aga has had to fight so hard in the first 3 rounds will be more of a help for her game than a hindrance, I think... but she's barely won any games this year at all. I think her train stops here, i'm guessing we'll see Kusnetsova vs Muguruza in the quarters.

2nd Quarter:
- Rybarikova should clean up Martic. I'm guessing she takes it in two.
- The second match is harder to pick, Vandeweghe in general can either dominate proceedings or destroy herself with unforced errors.... but The Woz has never made the QF here and CoCo, like Vee and Rybarikova, seems to do a lot better on grass than elsewhere. Coco vs Rybarikova QF.

3rd Quarter:
- Is Konjuh not exhausted?? She's STILL competing in the singles, women's doubles, AND mixed doubles competition... You go gurl. She's still very inexperienced though and if Granny Vee is serving as well as she was against Osaka, ol' girl should be able to take this (especially with the two days recovery).
- The other match is arguably the most competitive here... could have been the final. Ostapenko has what almost everyone else on the WTA lacks: blind confidence (and it's the reason she wins most of her matches even when she's hitting the ball out constantly). I think this one is going to go to 3 sets, Jelena is the logical bet here but I think Elina will upset her dream run, we've had so many upsets lately I have to pick at least ONE in the 4th round. Venus vs Svitolina.

4th Quarter:
- This is a tough quarter to pick. I'll be rooting for Konta, but there's more pressure on her to deliver than anyone else here and her game is MUCH better suited to faster surfaces. She does have a strong reliable serve though. I love Garcia and to be fair to her she HAS won a grass tournament (Mallorca) where Konta hasn't, as well as beating Konta at Indian Wells... it's hard to pick when they've both had the easiest draws so far to get here. Pretty much a coin toss but I think this one is Jo's.
- Mamarenka has had a great run, but Halep has won 21 of her last 24 matches, and more prize money this year than any other female. She also has something to prove after RG, and will want to chase that #1 ranking that only she and Kerber can get back. If she can't beat Azarenka who is just beginning to find her form again then something is wrong (especially seeing as this will be quite a jump in difficulty from Vika's previous matches). Konta v Halep.

Guy doesn't like grass at all, and still manages to produce the shot of the tournament here basically every time he shows up lately   He is arguably even more frustrating than Gasquet, and Tsonga, because they've both proven time and time again that for all their game they're mental midgets who'll choke when it matters most no matter how well they're playing. Gael just seems to check out of matches when he gets bored. It really did seem at last years US Open where he had that amazing run not dropping a set through 5 rounds that maybe he had finally grown up, that maybe turning 30 helped him turn over a new leaf... Then up against Djokovic in the semi finals he didn't even show up for the first two sets.

Great analysis Gets me even more pumped for the single greatest day of tennis of the whole year (barring rain)

Garbine and Kerbs should be a close one. We'll see if the turnaround Kerbs made in the last round will help spur her on, or if it'll be more of the same mediocrity she's produced most of the year. They played a hell of a match here two years ago, and long before she was winning slams Angie has liked playing here, so I would never write her off, but the form is with Garbine for sure.

Radwanska also likes the grass a lot, but Sveta's got the weapons to blow her away, and I hope that she does. I love how she has elevated herself back into the top 10, she deserves it so much after still being so damn consistent after all these years, and she has always had the better of Aga, so here's hoping.

I'll be very happy for whoever wins the Rybarikova-Martic match, and it'll be a dream result for either. Can't help rooting for Martic following her great in Paris. To have to have qualified there, and then done so well, and then to qualify here, and have another good run... She deserves it.

In the case of the Pusher vs. the Trumper whoever wins we all lose, but this is probably the one time in my life I will be siding with one of the latter.

Konjuh has knocked out two of my favourite players, so I'm kind of mad at her, but I still want her to win this match. Doesn't really seem very likely, but here's hoping Venus' legal issues taking a turn for the better cause her tennis issues to take a turn for the worse

Ostapenko and Svitolina might be the match up of the round. Svitolina did sooooooo well to come through that match with Barty the way that she did, that was probably one of the best matches of the first week, and Ostapenko's win against Giorgi was a rollercoaster. I kind of feel like Svitolina will win, she's beaten better opponents more convincingly, but here's hoping Jelena's dream run continues.

I liked Jo Konta a lot, and that run to the semis in Australia gave me so much hope for her, but she's kind of gotten on my nerves a little bit since then... She's playing REALLY well this grass season, but here's hoping my favourite Frenchie is not overawed by the occasion. Her scalps so far haven't been particularly impressive, but I reckon nerves are getting to Konta, and I think this will be close.

Vika and Halep is the other contender for match of the round. Halep has the form, but Azarenka has the championship class, and the true grit. If she plays well I think she might just have too much aggression for Simona to handle, but these whack ass grass courts are going to help Halep out plenty.

Mugu is my girl so hopefully she pulls through, and I think she will if she doesn't randomly decide to be terrible again like she likes to do. At this point I'm convinced Kerber's #1 ranking only happened to give every player on tour a chance to say they've beaten the world #1. I really enjoyed watching her when she was on fire last year, but whatever Serena hexed her with clearly worked.

Not really invested in Sveta v Aga. I think Sveta will take it, but Aga's really entertaining when her weirdness is working so I don't really care either way.

Rybarikova shouldn't have any problems, and I don't know enough about Martic to really want either to win over the other.

I can't stand Coco and Woz is just inoffensively boring, so hopefully Coco is in error mode.

Obviously going for Grandmother all the way. I haven't seen much of Konjuh this tournament so I don't know her form, but She is playing well and was born of a grass seed so I have faith.

Ostapenko apparently doesn't know what pressure is and just beats every ball to death, and I'd like to see that continue so hopefully she makes it.

I hate how Konta bounces the ball on her serve and for that reason I will never support her.

When the seventh seal has been broken and the last of the trumpets has blown, Victoria Azarenka's honk is that sound that will call down the end of days. She must be stopped. I believe in you Simona.

I guess I can understand why Konta is the bookies favourite. She has played a really good grass court season, though I do think it's a stretch to call her outright favourite, and nationality bias has to factor into it... While, the crippling weight of expectation brought on by being the home court favourite is apparently forgotten now that Andy Murray has won it twice.

But Coco as second favourite? Over Venus, Kerber, Muguruza, Halep, Azarenka? All people who have actually won slams/played major finals... Hmmm. Maybe the Russians have fixed it. It would explain why Sharapova decided not to play. Methinks a conspiracy is afoot.

I am surprised you can still hear these noises after so many years of watching Venus Williams!

Kerbs and Garby are playing an amazing first set. Keep it up, and it'll be a match of the year contender. Garbine just has to cut out the dumb errors. Ostapenko is just unstoppable *knock on wood*

Excuse me Vee's serve grunt has the beauty and grace of a Whitney Houston ballad. 

I look like a madwoman in my loungeroom right now! Flipping between two matches on the TV, one on the computer, one on my phone... I can't keep up. 

Oyster-pancake was playing so well against a defeated-looking Svito, but at the moment she's smacking her way out of the match. Needs to work on that 2nd serve too. I still think she can win the whole thing but her attitude is putting me off (what was that shit with the ballgirl?), not to mention the Lleyton Hewitt-esque 'come ons'. And tactless pushing will work against a lot of players but between her and Coco, it's not as enjoyable to watch as someone like Rybarikova.

Speaking of Magda she really let Patric make a meal out of her in the 2nd set. Just checked out. Good to see that she's back though because the game is competitive when they're both playing at their respective peaks. I haven't watched much of them though because it's too hard to keep up with all the matches. 

Garbage was looking Muguruthless at the start of the match but you can see that this is the first real challenge she's had this tournament and it's exposing her game. She really needs to work on her net play. :/ I still think she can take this because it's clear Angie is only a threat when she's playing at 100% level... this is the first time i've been confident she's anywhere near that this year. 

There was some fight in the 2nd set but from what I saw Kusnetsova just made Aga her pigeon. Nothing to report there.