Talk About Tennis 2.0

CENTRE COURT - 1:30PM

1. Brandon Nakashima v Nick Kyrgios
2. Paula Badosa v Simona Halep
3. Botic Van De Zandschulp v Rafael Nadal

NO.1 COURT - 1:00PM

1. Elena Rybakina v Petra Martic
2. Jason Kubler v Taylor Fritz
3. Amanda Anisimova v Harmony Tan

NO.2 COURT - 11:00AM

1. Cristian Garin v Alex De Minaur
Not Before: 1:00pm
2. Alize Cornet v Ajla Tomljanovic
3. Yifan Xu / Zhaoxuan Yang v Alexa Guarachi / Andreja Klepac
4. Jack Sock / Coco Gauff v Edouard Roger-Vasselin / Alize Cornet

NO.3 COURT - 11:00AM

1. Harriet Dart / Heather Watson v Lyudmyla Kichenok / Jelena Ostapenko
Not Before: 1:00pm
2. Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares v John Peers / Filip Polasek
3. Robert Farah / Jelena Ostapenko v Nikola Cacic / Aleksandra Krunic
4. Mate Pavic / Sania Mirza v John Peers / Gabriela Dabrowski

COURT 12 - 11:00AM

1. Alicja Rosolska / Erin Routliffe v Asia Muhammad / Ena Shibahara
Not Before: 1:00pm
2. Jonny O'Mara / Ken Skupski v Kevin Krawietz / Andreas Mies
3. Mingge Xu v Lucia Peyre

COURT 18 - 11:00AM

1. Ella McDonald v Victoria Mboko
Not Before: 1:00pm
2. Wesley Koolhof / Neal Skupski v Matthew Ebden / Max Purcell
3. Talia Neilson Gatenby v Annabelle Xu
4. Jean-Julien Rojer / Ena Shibahara v Matthew Ebden / Samantha Stosur

COURT 4 - 11:00AM

1. Rose Marie Nijkamp v Georgia Pedone
2. Edas Butvilas / Mili Poljicak v Louis Bowden / Matthew Rankin
3. Jack Loutit / Edward Winter v Patrick Brady / William Jansen
4. Liv Hovde v Anastasiya Lopata

COURT 5 - 11:00AM

1. Weronika Ewald v Nikola Bartunkova
2. Hugo Coquelin / Phoenix Weir v Alessio Basile / Peter Benjamin Privara
3. Irina Balus v Kayla Cross
4. Luca Pow / Henry Searle v Tanapatt Nirundorn / Jaden Weekes

COURT 6 - 11:00AM

1. Nishesh Basavareddy / Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez v Coleman Wong / Michael Zheng
2. Sayaka Ishii v Ella Seidel
3. Jonah Braswell / Dino Prizmic v Gilles Arnaud Bailly / Jakub Nicod
4. Luca Udvardy v Alexis Blokhina

COURT 7 - 11:00AM

1. Alexander Blockx / Leanid Boika v Dylan Dietrich / Kilian Feldbausch
2. Joao Fonseca / Juan Carlos Prado Angelo v Gonzalo Bueno / Ignacio Buse
3. Yu-Yun Li v Taylah Preston
4. Peter Nad / Martyn Pawelski v Mika Brunold / Nicholas Godsick

COURT 8 - 11:00AM

1. Johanne Christine Svendsen v Olivia Lincer
2. Mia Kupres v Celine Naef
3. Gerard Campana Lee / Jeremy Jin v Aidan Kim / Cooper Williams
4. Nikola Daubnerova v Isabella Kruger

COURT 14 - 1:00PM

1. Santiago Gonzalez / Andres Molteni v Denis Kudla / Jack Sock
2. Jasmine Conway v Ela Nala Milic
3. Matej Dodig / Borys Zgola v Gabriel Debru / Paul Inchauspe

COURT 15 - 11:00AM

1. Linda Klimovicova v Isabelle Lacy
Not Before: 2:00pm
2. Elise Mertens / Shuai Zhang v Nadiia Kichenok / Raluca Olaru
3. Qavia Lopez v Hayu Kinoshita
4. Connor Henry Van Schalkwyk / Martin Antonio Vergara Del Puerto v Sebastian Gorzny / Alex Michelsen

COURT 17 - 11:00AM

1. Martin Landaluce / Pedro Rodenas v Juan Manuel La Serna / Lautaro Midon
2. Alexander Frusina / Hayden Jones v Ozan Colak / Learner Tien
3. Lennon Roark Jones / Hayato Matsuoka v Jakub Mensik / Olaf Pieczkowski
4. Bor Artnak / Hynek Barton v Paul Barbier Gazeu / Arthur Gea


The Committee, while adhering as closely as possible to the order of play given, is unable to guarantee that it will be maintained in its entirety.
This may result in matches being moved from one court to another. GERRY ARMSTRONG - REFEREE

Nothing particularly exciting today....only good quality match would be Halep-Badosa...the doubles matches look good but I can't see them on any of my tv or ott channels..sigh...

I am actually looking forward to 4 matches on Day 8.

Anisimova vs. Tan as I want Amanda to advance.

I would also love Brandon Nakashima to beat Nick Kyrgios and knock his loud mouth out of the tournament.

Then there is the Taylor Fritz match who I think has a good chance of moving on against qualifier Kubler.

Finally Botic who I really think could give a major test to Rafa. Now I am not predicting the huge upset like I did with Cornet over Iga, but there is a chance for this to happen.

Oh, anisimova will advance but it will not be a high quality match

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:19 am Oh, anisimova will advance but it will not be a high quality match

I don't doubt there will be errors in the match. Both players are not very old. Harmony is only 24 and Amanda is 20 and either have that much experience so I expect the jitters, especially in the beginning of the match.

Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:13 am
I would also love Brandon Nakashima to beat Nick Kyrgios and knock his loud mouth out of the tournament.

C4C, I agree with you on this. I'm tired of Krygios and his antics, enough already!!!!!

I could watch all of these matches except Garin/de Minaur and Nakashima/Kyrgios. First sounds a little boring - I don't have a rooting interest and don't know much about either of their games other than de Minaur is a speedy grinder (right?). Maybe both are.

I keep thinking Botic could trouble Rafa with a big serving day, but Rafa will keep it away from Botic's forehand. Just can't quite say I believe Botic will play that well for three sets.

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:45 am I could watch all of these matches except Garin/de Minaur and Nakashima/Kyrgios. First sounds a little boring - I don't have a rooting interest and don't know much about either of their games other than de Minaur is a speedy grinder (right?). Maybe both are.

I keep thinking Botic could trouble Rafa with a big serving day, but Rafa will keep it away from Botic's forehand. Just can't quite say I believe Botic will play that well for three sets.

I hope Botic can do it.

Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:59 am

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:45 am I could watch all of these matches except Garin/de Minaur and Nakashima/Kyrgios. First sounds a little boring - I don't have a rooting interest and don't know much about either of their games other than de Minaur is a speedy grinder (right?). Maybe both are.

I keep thinking Botic could trouble Rafa with a big serving day, but Rafa will keep it away from Botic's forehand. Just can't quite say I believe Botic will play that well for three sets.

I hope Botic can do it.

I like Botic a lot, but I also want Rafa to do well here. And really want Rafa to make the semis in case Nick gets there. I'm worried Botic couldn't make the final if he beats Rafa, then they will both be out. Rafa beat him at the French easily. I know it's a different surface, but Rafa is very good on every surface, so I'm not sure it's going to be much different.

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:14 am

Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:59 am

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:45 am I could watch all of these matches except Garin/de Minaur and Nakashima/Kyrgios. First sounds a little boring - I don't have a rooting interest and don't know much about either of their games other than de Minaur is a speedy grinder (right?). Maybe both are.

I keep thinking Botic could trouble Rafa with a big serving day, but Rafa will keep it away from Botic's forehand. Just can't quite say I believe Botic will play that well for three sets.

I hope Botic can do it.

I like Botic a lot, but I also want Rafa to do well here. And really want Rafa to make the semis in case Nick gets there. I'm worried Botic couldn't make the final if he beats Rafa, then they will both be out. Rafa beat him at the French easily. I know it's a different surface, but Rafa is very good on every surface, so I'm not sure it's going to be much different.

You are right. I want the best possible player to be able to take out Nick Kyrgios. I hope Brandon Nakashima somehow upsets him tomorrow. I want him gone from the tournament.

Spoiler alert: The final will be Novak vs. Rafa. (Ick.) (AND, sorry, everyone, but I'd be fine with Krygios winning if it means neither of these two win.) (OF course, I get why everyone is sick of Nick. I give no excuses. But, having worked in the social services all of my adult life- I see such obvious mental health issues with Nick- which he's been pretty open about. So, I can't hate on him as much for this reason.)

The women's final- Probably Jabeur vs. Damned If I Know. (PS: Albeit, I wouldn't bet money against the diabolical Suliso's pick of a Badosa Wimbledon title.) (Seriously.)

Could be, but I expect Djokovic to beat Kyrgios in the finals...

nelslus wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:44 am Spoiler alert: The final will be Novak vs. Rafa. (Ick.) (AND, sorry, everyone, but I'd be fine with Krygios winning if it means neither of these two win.) (OF course, I get why everyone is sick of Nick. I give no excuses. But, having worked in the social services all of my adult life- I see such obvious mental health issues with Nick- which he's been pretty open about. So, I can't hate on him as much for this reason.)

...

Serious here (since you have worked with social issues all your life, you have more expertise than I do in the subject). In what way would winning Wimbledon make Kyrgios a better person on court? If he has had the depth of analysis to openly talk about mental-health issues in his life, how come he cannot see how detrimental to his public persona his pattern of behavior is?
Last. Somebody else mentioned that maybe Nick was the one that suffered from bullying. I find that hard to accept vis-a-vis. He is a big bloke, his older brother looks like a refrigerator. Big men with a support are not the ones that receive bullying, generally. And his family does not strike me as a family that does not support him. Again, the brother was very vocal early in his career on his unequivocal support for Nick ("Shut up and watch greatness" he replied to some people complaining about Nick's behavior), his mom was very frequently in the stands, obviously cheering, now his father is there for the first time and this man does not look as one of those domineering, un-supporting dad's (Jim Pierce, Yuri Sharapov, the tragic figures over Dokic and Lucic).
Again, serious question.

Kyrgios rubbing his shoulder with discomfort. At the speed he serves, and as his entire game builds up from that stroke, a bad sign.

Brandon on his way to do Rafa a HUGE, HUGE favor. First set to him. Kyrgios body language is showing no confidence. I say the chances of a RET are far from zero.

God I hope Brandon can pull this off.