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 http://www.wimbledon.com/ The fortnight begins Monday, June 25 and ends Sunday, July 6. TV coverage being at 7am ET everyday on ESPN, switching to ESPN News 11:30am-4pm ET due to the World Cup, but you should just watch on http://www.watchespn.com/. Wimbledon also has complete radio coverage available on their website and app. Here are the draws:   Top 8 Men's Betting Favorites (Ladbrokes) Novak Djokovic 7/4 Andy Murray 10/3 Rafael Nadal 9/2 Roger Federer 11/2 Stan Wawrinka 20/1 Grigor Dimitrov 20/1 Tomas Berdych 33/1 Milos Raonic 33/1 Top 8 Women's Betting Favorites (Ladbrokes) Serena Williams 5/4 Maria Sharapova 5/1 Petra Kvitova 12/1 Li Na 16/1 Simona Halep 14/1 Eugenie Bouchard 14/1 Victoria Azarenka 16/1 Agnieska Radwanska 16/1
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I would love to have one of the umpire jackets and Panama hats, but they're too drat expensive. I mean, look at this hot poo poo: 
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Jun 20, 2014 13:33
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Can't wait for the Rosol vs Nadal rematch.
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Jun 20, 2014 18:58
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I feel like Djokovic is maybe due a slam, it's hard to believe he's lost five of his last six finals.  He's actually down to 6-7 in major finals now. Hard to pick a favorite for this one since you can put a question mark over all of them for one reason or another. I'd love for Murray to defend it, though.Maybe time for Radwanska to win one of these too. edit: Nadal actually has a pretty tough draw. Sway Grunt fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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Jun 21, 2014 17:33
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If Nadal gets knocked out before the semis, it's Fed's tournament to win since Djoker and Murray will wear each other out in their semi. Serena is probably pissed about Roland Garros so I expect her to blow through the tourney, winning without dropping a set.
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Jun 23, 2014 04:14
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Can Rosol do it again? (I doubt it) But Nadal didn't look good in the first round and was terrible against Dustin Brown in Halle. e: Well Rosol's a third of the way there! Sodium Chloride fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Jun 26, 2014 12:50
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drat if Nadal doesn't get a good first serve in he's just getting blown off the court. Rosol ends up in the middle of no mans land and Nadal is 3 feet behind the baseline running around. Then Rafa turns it around. Still only a tiebreak and not a set win, but doing much better. Democratic Pirate fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Jun 26, 2014 14:04
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Rosol with a double fault to end the second set. Hopefully he can keep up his level for the rest of the game.
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Jun 26, 2014 14:42
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Gasquet/Kyrgios is awesome.
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Jun 26, 2014 15:26
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Kyrgios finally broke! Gasquet had dozens of chances to break and deserves to lose. e: he did it 
Sodium Chloride fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Jun 26, 2014 15:37
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Wow. Super win for the youngster. Love the hyper offensive game style.
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Jun 26, 2014 15:39
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I'm an extremely casual tennis watcher. Taking that into consideration, are there any real-time updates on whose matches are when? I'd love a tablet/smartphone app/site to allow me to follow my favourite players and it telling me when I need to be in front of a TV to watch them. Wimbledon's site is kind of garbage for that. I mean, I can get the information out of it but I have to cross-reference several pages to find out. edit: Actually it looks like the official Android app can do exactly that. Remains to be seen how the notifications work, though. Dessel fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Jun 26, 2014 23:00
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Dessel posted:I'm an extremely casual tennis watcher. Taking that into consideration, are there any real-time updates on whose matches are when? I'd love a tablet/smartphone app/site to allow me to follow my favourite players and it telling me when I need to be in front of a TV to watch them. The app is much better than the website for some reason. All the mid tier guys I picked in my bracket are losing wtf. My gut tells me isner will have a good tourney but my brain disagrees.
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Jun 27, 2014 13:20
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Venus/Kvitova a good battle. I really like both of them but it would be awesome to see Venus have a good run here. On the plus side I don't think I've seen her look this healthy for years.
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Jun 27, 2014 17:07
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Dimitrov and Dolgopolov have a pretty good tilt going right now too. On serve in the 4th, Dolgopolov up 2-1. Makes me wonder who the world #1 is going to be in like 5 years time. Nadal/Djokovic/Murray won't be entirely past it by then (though they'll all be around the same age that Federer is right now), but I can't see any of the new generation of guys like these two guys, Milos, Nishikori, Janowicz, etc being good enough to be sure that one of them is a future #1.
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Jun 27, 2014 18:14
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Man Dimitrov/Dolgopolov has cycled between being great and dreadful. The third set by Dimitrov with all the doubles was terrible and now Dolgo has done the same in the fourth. They have had some amazing rallies and winners though so it's kind of evening out. I want Dimitrov to win but it wouldn't be so bad if Dolgo wins either. Both guys are really fun to watch and I hope that they both start making a bigger impact in majors.
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Jun 27, 2014 18:23
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Berdych has been a whiny poo poo all through this match. Oh gosh they're going to play the tie break. It's quite dark and I'm surprised the players didn't complain. e: Cilic wins in the darkness! Sodium Chloride fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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Jun 27, 2014 21:30
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Berdych was being whiny but holy poo poo that tiebreak shouldn't have been played. When it gets so dark that even the tv cameras make it look dark you are in trouble. The cameras make everything lighter but it was still hard to see the ball even on tv.
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Jun 27, 2014 21:41
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edit; wrong topic
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Jun 27, 2014 21:49
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Petkovic vs Genie finally about to start  Time to wake up!  EDIT drat you rain! 
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Jun 28, 2014 13:18
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Does the roof favor the top players who are playing on Center Court---i.e. their matches don't get delayed while others do, so they will get a normal amount of rest between matches while others might have to finish late into the night Saturday?
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Jun 28, 2014 14:12
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^ yes. There's no play on Sunday, so there will be some funny scheduling problems coming if the single matches do not get finished today. Nadal hasn't won a first set in three matches It's not like Kukushkin has played amazing tennis, he's just hanging in there.
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Jun 28, 2014 14:30
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Serena down a break to Cornet in the third set  e: down two breaks now  Cornet serving for the match.
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Jun 28, 2014 19:35
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Cones!!  Penalties Brazil vs Chile and Cornet wins against Serena. I like this saturday  EDIT Jara hits the post and Brazil is through.
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Jun 28, 2014 19:55
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I don't understand what happened to Serena in the second set. Before the rain break Cornet played well and was pushing Serena, after the break Serena stomped all over the first set and won easily. And then she looked confused, like she didn't even know what shot to play or where to hit it or how to hit it. Shocking.
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Jun 28, 2014 20:15
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So I guess Sharapova has to be the prohibitive favourite now. She's dropped all of 7 games through her first three matches.
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Jun 28, 2014 20:25
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colonel_korn posted:So I guess Sharapova has to be the prohibitive favourite now. She's dropped all of 7 games through her first three matches. I really hope someone else wins it, but yeah. Sharapova does have a tough path to the final, her half is pretty stacked. Bouchard and Halep might both get a chance to avenge their FO loss, and Kerber, Cornet and Lisicki/Ivanovic are all there as well.
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Jun 28, 2014 21:08
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So instead of playing on the middle Sunday, the organizers are just loving the bottom half of the mens draw. Anyone who was ready to play their fourth rounder has to wait until Tuesday. Someone like Nishikori, Isner, or Wawrinka may have to play three days in a row to make the semis. That seems kind of dumb.
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Jun 30, 2014 02:03
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ChaosReaper posted:So instead of playing on the middle Sunday, the organizers are just loving the bottom half of the mens draw. Anyone who was ready to play their fourth rounder has to wait until Tuesday. Someone like Nishikori, Isner, or Wawrinka may have to play three days in a row to make the semis. That seems kind of dumb. I'm always annoyed by the middle Sunday rest day thing at Wimbledon. It makes sense to have play on a Sunday which the majority of people have off. I could've spent the whole day watching tennis yesterday; as it is I'm about to head to work Monday morning and will instead miss a whole day of tennis. And as you point out, they'd rather stubbornly stick to that tradition than adjust the schedule so it makes more sense because of the rain delay, I don't think there's a good justification for that kind of inflexibility.
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Jun 30, 2014 08:13
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Glare Seethe posted:I'm always annoyed by the middle Sunday rest day thing at Wimbledon. It makes sense to have play on a Sunday which the majority of people have off. I could've spent the whole day watching tennis yesterday; as it is I'm about to head to work Monday morning and will instead miss a whole day of tennis. And as you point out, they'd rather stubbornly stick to that tradition than adjust the schedule so it makes more sense because of the rain delay, I don't think there's a good justification for that kind of inflexibility. It's Britain. Their judges still wear powdered wigs. So don't be surprised at sticking to irrelevant traditions.
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Jun 30, 2014 14:16
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why am I always overconfident with isner? he never plays to his ranking.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:39
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Jorghnassen posted:It's Britain. Their judges still wear powdered wigs. So don't be surprised at sticking to irrelevant traditions. I get frustrated with it every year all over again.  Also, Radwanska... I can't find a decent stream for the match so I don't know what's going on but she's 3-6 0-5 down to Makarova. Makarova is good, but Aga is better than this.  I guess she's choking again now that she's the top seed left.
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Jun 30, 2014 17:15
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Jorghnassen posted:It's Britain. Their judges still wear powdered wigs. So don't be surprised at sticking to irrelevant traditions. Actually, the powdered wigs and robes these days serve the purpose of rendering the judges visually distinct, meaning that they don't get recognised (and therefore harassed) outside the court room without them on  OT: Tsonga looks like an incredibly strong player (and he is) and Djokovic is clowning him. Terrifying. NtotheTC fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Jun 30, 2014 20:30
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Glare Seethe posted:Also, Radwanska... I can't find a decent stream for the match so I don't know what's going on but she's 3-6 0-5 down to Makarova. Makarova is good, but Aga is better than this. Halep is seeded ahead of her.  Eugenie through to the quarters  Looks like she'll get an extra day of rest over the winner of Sharapova/Kerber as well. Would be huge if she could avenge her FO loss to Sharapova.Bottom half of the women's draw is all kind of weird. Kvitova is the only player seeded higher than 20, and three out of the four quarterfinalists are Czech.
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Jun 30, 2014 20:42
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colonel_korn posted:Halep is seeded ahead of her. Yeah I shamefully forgot about Halep even though I'm rooting for her (among others...). Top seed in the bottom half, then! Was.
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Jun 30, 2014 21:21
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ArmZ posted:why am I always overconfident with isner? he never plays to his ranking. Hits 52 aces, loses the match, is John Isner.
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Jun 30, 2014 23:42
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ChaosReaper posted:So instead of playing on the middle Sunday, the organizers are just loving the bottom half of the mens draw. It's not so easy to arrange play on Sunday at the last minute, gathering staff and police. Unless your saying they should play on Sunday anyway. I really like the day off, especially with the World Cup going. With the other slams it feels like I am doing nothing but watching tennis for a solid 14 days.
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Jul 1, 2014 13:11
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What was that about with Wawrinka and Lopez? Also Sharapova having her customary short-term loss of ability right now.
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Jul 1, 2014 15:09
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Wish she'd lose her voice.
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Jul 1, 2014 15:22
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Holy cow this game is incredible.
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Jul 1, 2014 15:46
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