Talk About Tennis 2.0

2025 Week 26-27
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Tennis Watchers
Jun 28

Start pouring your Pimms and plucking your strawberries, we are set for the years third major—Wimbledon will kick off Monday morning. What better way to find respite from this stateside heatwave, than watching tennis indoors in the comfort of the AC!

In what is the last remaining fourteen day major, Wimbledon didn’t want to be completely left out of the schedule changes. This year the singles finals will shift back two hours, with the doubles finals to now start play on Championship Weekend.

As in past years, coverage will flip over to ESPN Networks for Wimbledon, with ESPN+ streaming first to last ball (subscription required). ESPN will kick off network coverage Monday morning, and air a daily wrap up show once play ends. Tennis Channel will air an afternoon highlight show and evening replays. In addition, Disney+ will stream day one matches, and for those with the Disney+ bundle, will be able to log in with Hulu Live to watch the rest of the tournament. This year, ESPN will also air Wimbledon Radio on its Sirius XM Channel

https://www.tennis.com/news/articles/20 ... -sabalenka

in case anyone cares what the 'experts' say..
I find Prakash' predictons the strangest .. Anisimova in the semis?! really?! She has to get past BHM (ok, doable), Noskova or Paolini (cant see that happening)

Similarly, the idea that Djokovic can beat Sinner here..and the idea that he can beat Alcaraz here, which he couldnt do the last 2 times - Alcaraz is getting better, not worse.
Bodo is not far behind: Muchova? meets Wang Xinyu in R1, I wuld expect Wang to beat her right there .. Muchova isnt really ready yet - for all her talent, she does need some match practice, which she hasnt had..whe wont be at even 75%, and Wang is in great form, apart from her great talent. strange, to me.
sometimes I wonder if these 'experts actually follow the game or just show up at grand slam time to make some random comments..

They may be saying: write Djokovic at your own peril.
The guy has won 7 times this thing. If he lifts the trophy in two weeks, are we really going to be so surprised?

The women's predictions are a bit more open. Maybe, that tour is so.

Write Djokovic at your own peril? Or write him off at your own peril

(I'm sure it's the latter but reads funny how you have it!)

Write him off, as you say. Hate when I do that

I don't know if anyone watched Roddick & Wertheim do their draws, but I had to laugh when they got to one quarter on the WTA side and Roddick just straight up looked at the camera and said "My draw is a dumpster fire." (time 11:29 at

Then on the ATP side...they both put Medvedev into the semis! Not that that is an impossibility, but...oops!

Via: Wimbledon (IG)

Fabio’s son, Federico, is a massive Alcaraz fan. Knowing Carlos, he probably gave his shirt to him in the locker room.