Cilic has just collapsed here.
Ooh Garby’s in a spot of bother…
Wimbledon’s the charity pot anyway
To be honest I’m struggling to work out how the defending champion somehow ends up last on the order of play on court 2.
Do reigning champions automatically get seeded first?
Don’t quite know what you mean there, but put it this way: you won’t be seeng Roger on any court other than Centre or Court One this fortnight, and he’ll be first on every time.
I’m asking because I’m not sure she’s had a great season and may have been seeded further down the list, which might explain the choice of court.
Isn’t roger Federer like a 13 time winner of the trophy too? Not exactly the same is it
She’s still the number three seed. The court you could just about explain, but you could clearly attribute this rusty display to being made to hang around to the evening. They don’t normally do that for champs.
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Admittedly they relegated Nole to court two too, but also above her in the schedule were Anderson vs Seppi and Nishikori vs Tomic, neither of which is exactly box office.
The more I think about it, the more I think it’s because they thought it would be a cakewalk.
Which just goes to show…
Well if there’s one thing that we’ve learned recently it’s that Belgium are better at sport than Spain 
Big fan of the henman fist clench deployed by van uytvanck tbf
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I bet you any money she’s going to kick up a stink about the court and order of play.
She is playing utter trash though.
Has a reigning champion made such a poor return to the tournament? I knew she hadn’t been playing well, but looks like she’s had an absolute stinker of a season so far
She didn’t go out in the first round. That’s happened before. Hewitt and Graf from memory.
Some real WTA stuff in Keys v Rodina. Keys won something like nine points in a row to get a break up in set one, then from 5-2 up lost nine games in a row, playing some of the most utter toilet tennis I’ve ever seen. Then she remembers how to play tennis and wins seven of the next eight to level it up. Ghastly.
Struggling to keep up with the seedageddon
There were 5 seeded Americans in Serena’s half and she’s already the last one standing
here for Dr Buzarnescu beating Pliskova if that counts as another upset though
Except she didn’t.
This is an interesting side effect of this fantasy game I’m in. I now find myself watching matches I would normally sack off when it all starts going south, which is quite instructive. I watched almost all of Mannarino vs Medvedev, which was an intensely boring match. Like the old hacker that he is, Mannarino quickly twigged that if he took pace off the ball and just rallied midcourt then bizarrely Medvedev would join in, and every single time would be the first to make a mistake. And that basically went on for five sets, except for a few spells when he upped the pace, rushed the net or found some sort of angle. All the way through you could hear the exasperation in Peter Fleming’s voice as he constantly suggested that as a plan.
And as for Buzarnescu, well way to completely distract yourself during the crucial phase of play in the biggest match of your career. Frankly quite pathetic to see her raging into her racquet and flouncing around the court when all she needed to do was calm down and continue feeding Pliskova balls to make mistakes with, which she seemed right up for.
That and Keys completely mugging off, today has not been a good advert for tennis to me at least, with the sole exception of Monfils. I’m not doing this game again, no way should I be forced to root for Kevin Anderson to win a slam.