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Tennis anyone?

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Jason A said:
Another great prediction by me . . . :rolleyes: ;)
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That caught everyone off guard. I didn't see the match - how would you explain this? Did Stosur simply lose her edge after going against tougher opponents? Did Schiavone play out of her mind...?

I can't imagine how insane the odds were of her winning this thing when it started.
 
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It looked to me like Schiavone played the match of her life. She could do no wrong in the second-set tiebreaker.

Nadal-Soderling on serve early in the first set.
 
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How could anyone possibly play well enough to even win two sets against Nadal today, let alone three? Soderling would crush a ground stroke and Nadal would take it behind his body and simply direct it into the only open spot on the court for a winner. W.T.F.?!

Federer and Nadal are huge favorites at Wimbledon, with Roddick third IMO, Soderling and possibly Tsonga (and maybe Berdych) as darkhorses, and Murray and Djokovic wild cards (their games seem messed up right now but they have the talent to advance deep). That's my take, anyway.
 
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That's just it. Nadal is so good at defense - you can kill a shot, but if he gets to it, he's so good at getting depth on those desperation shots (well, for anyone else they're desperation shots) that he's right back in the point.

I can't imagine what it's like to play against a guy who forces you to ace to hold serve and hit clean winners on every other point.
 
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amherstblackbear said:
I can't imagine what it's like to play against a guy who forces you to ace to hold serve and hit clean winners on every other point.
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I imagine most of the ATP has nightmares about it.

A perfect match combined with Nadal being off his game is the only way he loses to anyone on clay.
 
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The DirecTV lineup:

701 - Mix Channel
702 - Network Feed
703 - Centre Court
704 - Court #1
705 - Court #2
706 - Court #18
707 - Court #14

Andy Roddick is second on Court 1 tomorrow.

Schedule:

Centre Court

13:00

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Roger Federer(SUI)[1] vs. Alejandro Falla(COL)

Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Laura Robson(GBR) vs. Jelena Jankovic(SRB)[4]

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Novak Djokovic(SRB)[3] vs. Olivier Rochus(BEL)



No. 1 Court

13:00

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Kevin Anderson(RSA) vs. Nikolay Davydenko(RUS)[7]


Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Rajeev Ram(USA) vs. Andy Roddick(USA)[5]

Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Rossana De Los Rios(PAR) vs. Venus Williams(USA)[2]

Court 2

12:00

Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Kim Clijsters(BEL)[8] vs. Maria Elena Camerin(ITA)

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Mardy Fish(USA) vs. Bernard Tomic(AUS)

Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Francesca Schiavone(ITA)[5] vs. Vera Dushevina(RUS)

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Maximo Gonzalez(ARG) vs. Lleyton Hewitt(AUS)[15]

Court 14

12:00

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Feliciano Lopez(ESP)[22] vs. Jesse Levine(USA)

Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn(THA) vs. Andrea Hlavackova(CZE)

Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Yanina Wickmayer(BEL)[15] vs. Alison Riske(USA)

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Philipp Kohlschreiber(GER)[29] vs. Potito Starace(ITA)


Court 18

12:00
Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Julia Goerges(GER) vs. Marion Bartoli(FRA)[11]

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Dustin Brown(JAM) vs. Jurgen Melzer(AUT)[16]

Gentlemen's Singles - 1st Round
Denis Istomin(UZB) vs. Stanislas Wawrinka(SUI)[20]

Ladies' Singles - 1st Round
Anna-Lena Groenefeld(GER) vs. Melanie Oudin(USA)[33]

All times GMT.
 
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We might be headed for our first upset. #28W Kirilenko lost the first 6-2 and just staved off a break point at 4-4 in the second.

#17M Ljubicic lost his first set 7-5 and is on serve at 3-4 in the second.
 
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Someone want to let Federer know Wimbledon has started? His stunt double lost the first set.
 
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What's going on???

I was watching earlier and they were on serve in the first. Federer was making some errors and Falla was hanging in there.
 
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This morning the ESPN crew was laughing about how easy this match would be for Roger.
 
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5 points away.

0-40 on Roger's serve. 4-4 in the 3rd

Edit: Roger comes back and holds. That was some amazing tennis.
 
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