Wimbledon 2019 - OT - London Goes Nuts for Coco

[Mcfrank]

Yeah yeah yeah this thread is a week late. Sorry.


Monday 1 July 2019 and will finish on Sunday 14 July 2019

Defending Champions

Novak Djokovic

and

Angie Kerber (already lost)

Biggest Story of the Tournament:

15 Year old American Coco Gauff is through to the 4th round after defeating Venus Williams in the 1st round and surviving a 3-set epic in the 3rd round.

Lets talk tennis ladies and gentleman

 

[Geoff]

Not much on tennis but heard the end of Gauff's game on the radio earlier. Crowd were going nuts for her and all the pundits too. She's definitely the story this year. Also maybe the Serena/Murray mixed doubles team.

 

[Speevy]

What's the deal with Cocos

 

[Dispatch]

It took as long to get an OT as it does for Rafa to serve.

Zing!

Seriously, thank you for the OT. It will bring in even more conversation.

 

[Mcfrank]

It took as long to get an OT as it does for Rafa to serve.

Zing!

Seriously, thank you for the OT. It will bring in even more conversation.

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No shot clock at Wimbledon so the lateness was up to the chair umpire's discretion.

 

[Professor Quixote]

If you intentionally omitted loco from the thread title, bravo

 

[Mcfrank]

If you intentionally omitted loco from the thread title, bravo

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Was making a play on coconuts... Best I could come up with in the 15 seconds i gave myself.

 

[UltimateHigh]

in for coco.

 

[Professor Quixote]

Was making a play on coconuts... Best I could come up with in the 15 seconds i gave myself.

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lmao, i like the thread title even more now. You didn't go for the low-hanging fruit.

 

[Mcfrank]

Nerves of steel on this one.

 

[Speevy]

Does she have a chance in hell of competing against SImona Halep?

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Gauff is great, whatever happens this year it looks like she'll be a star for years to come. Brilliant to watch

 

[Mcfrank]

Does she have a chance in hell of competing against SImona Halep?

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She certainly has not played anyone of Halep's level yet, but the way she blew Venus off the court makes me think she has a chance.

 

[GestaltGaz]

It's Barty time.

 

[Mcfrank]

Crazy that someone who has played 3 matches at the Grand Slam level is already this much of a crowd favorite.

 

[Deleted member 9135]

Everyone loves an underdog story

 

[Wafflinson]

Finally a grand slam thread. TennisEra has been slacking.

Super hyped to see Serena/Murray doubles.

 

[Wally_Wall]

Crazy that someone who has played 3 matches at the Grand Slam level is already this much of a crowd favorite.

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Not that crazy. She's 15 and easy to root for. Great story.

 

[MIMIC]

Gauff's run at Wimbledon reminds me of Melanie Oudin's run at the U.S. Open from years back. We'll see how far she can go.

But Gauff saving that match point with a BH slice that skipped off the line was awesome.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Gauff's run at Wimbledon reminds me of Melanie Oudin's run at the U.S. Open from years back. We'll see how far she can go.

But Gauff saving that match point with a BH slice that skipped off the line was awesome.

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Poor Melanie. After that run she was struck with illness after illness. She finally officially retired from tennis last year

 

[Speevy]

Poor Melanie. After that run she was struck with illness after illness. She finally officially retired from tennis last year

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So you're saying someone is injecting our phenoms with a potent virus that makes them unable to compete in future tournaments.

 

[giant_frying_pan]

No shot clock at Wimbledon so the lateness was up to the chair umpire's discretion.

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He'll call him when he feels like it!

 

[OmniGamer]

Anyway to see this in 4k in the U.S.? I read it's being broadcast in 4K (and HDR?) on a BBC channel

Same question for the U.S. open in a couple of month if anyone knows.

 

[Niraj]

Does she have a chance in hell of competing against SImona Halep?

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Halep has had baffling losses before, so who knows. I'm going to guess she'll lose though.

 

[Mcfrank]

Anyway to see this in 4k in the U.S.? I read it's being broadcast in 4K (and HDR?) on a BBC channel

Same question for the U.S. open in a couple of month if anyone knows.

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Maybe when abc takes over on the weekend? I don't think espn broadcasts in 4k.

You could a vpn and use iplayer - https://www.whathifi.com/us/news/bbc-confirms-4k-hdr-broadcast-of-wimbledon-2019

 

[perfectchaos007]

Konta takes out Stephens for the second consecutive slam. Federer's match about to start now

 

[giant_frying_pan]

Konta's done very well to recover in this match with Stephens. Serving for the match now.

Murray and Herbert were just outplayed by a more cohesive doubles partnership in Mektic and Skugor.

Rafa sailed through against Tsonga.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Barty only dropped 2 games today. She seems poised to pull off the rare euro slam double

 

[miserable]

 

[perfectchaos007]

Welp, thats another fine coming for the Fog. Last time it was for making sexist remarks in Italian, this one will be for verbally wishing for a terror attack in Italian?

 

[Stinkles]

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Probably mad that melodramatic flopping serves no purpose in tennis.

 

[Mcfrank]

Wow, Rafa does not want to talk about Kyrgios

 

[miserable]

Wow, Rafa does not want to talk about Kyrgios

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why should he?

 

[Mcfrank]

why should he?

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He shouldn't. It was just a funny interview.

 

[giant_frying_pan]

350 slam victories. Incredible.

If he gets to the final, it'll be 100 at Wimbledon.

[EDIT - Murray/Williams vs Mies/Guarachi on Centre Court now.

The last-minute pairing go a break up in the first game.]

[EDIT 2 - Second set starts just as the first did - a break for Serena and Andy.]

[EDIT 3 - And now up two breaks.]

[EDIT 4 - And that's the match! Just over an hour an a quarter and Serena's power and Andy's backhand proves too much.]

 

[lazybones18]

did Serena win her 3rd round match?

 

[Mcfrank]

did Serena win her 3rd round match?

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Yes

 

[henhowc]

😂

 

[Deleted member 15227]

Nerves of steel on this one.

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Serves Hercog right for being a dirty pusher.

 

[Deleted member 20284]

Well this umpire call is interesting to say the least -

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Apparently they celebrated too soon before the double bounce and lost the point immediately due to "hinderance". They would have gone up 6-5 in that set but ended up going on to lose the match.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Well this umpire call is interesting to say the least -

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Apparently they celebrated too soon before the double bounce and lost the point immediately due to "hinderance". They would have gone up 6-5 in that set but ended up going on to lose the match.

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That tweet isn't available for me in the USA. Sucks that even tweets these days are region blocked.

 

[Deleted member 20284]

That tweet isn't available for me in the USA. Sucks that even tweets these days are region blocked.

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I get the commercial aspects of TV rights etc but it shits me to tears having region blocking these days.

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Secretly it's kinda funny it's not happened to me this time, always happens downunder

Here's an embedded video on Yahoo mate.

 

[Mcfrank]

That tweet isn't available for me in the USA. Sucks that even tweets these days are region blocked.

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Nevermind. I was dumb.

 

[CesareNorrez]

Very impressive from Ali Riske. She's really been getting her mental game together lately.

 

[darkwing]

let's go Coco

 

[Mcfrank]

Nervey start, hopefully she will settle in.

 

[Mcfrank]

Come on

 

[Peru]

I was at wimbledon with a ground pass the two first days of the tournament —- absolutely brilliant experience I want to repeat asap.

Now watchig Gauff in what should be her toughedt challenge by far.

 

[Peru]

Big Tennis so far, but that's also Halep's speciality

 

[Mcfrank]

I was at wimbledon with a ground pass the two first days of the tournament —- absolutely brilliant experience I want to repeat asap.

Now watchig Gauff in what should be her toughedt challenge by far.

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Did you have to wait in the queue? What was that process like? After doing Roland Garros this year I'd like to do wimbledon sometime in the next few years.