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Time for a Wimbledon sweat thread.

Where's the value this year?

Men;

https://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens/mens-wimbledon/winner




Women;


https://www.oddschecker.com/tennis/wimbledon/womens/womens-wimbledon/winner


5/1 the field for the Ladies, must be some value there somewhere?

For the Men, 7/4 Federer, 11/2 bar.

NOTABLE FIRST ROUNDS - GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES

Gael Monfils vs Richard Gasquet
Stan Wawrinka vs Grigor Dimitrov
Dominic Thiem vs Marcos Baghdatis
Andy Murray vs Benoit Paire
Daniil Medvedev vs Borna Coric

PROJECTED QUARTER-FINALS ACCORDING TO SEEDING

Roger Federer vs Kevin Anderson
Marin Cilic vs Grigor Dimitrov
Dominic Thiem vs Alexander Zverev
Rafael Nadal vs Juan Martin del Potro

NOTABLE FIRST ROUNDS - LADIES' SINGLES

Angelique Kerber vs Vera Zvonareva
Monica Niculescu vs Naomi Osaka
Belinda Bencic vs Caroline Garcia
Alize Cornet vs Dominika Cibulkova
Svetlana Kuznetsova vs Barbora Strycova
Donna Vekic vs Sloane Stephens

PROJECTED QUARTER-FINALS ACCORDING TO SEEDING

Simona Halep vs Petra Kvitova
Garbiñe Muguruza vs Caroline Garcia
Karolina Pliskova vs Sloane Stephens
Elina Svitolina vs Caroline Wozniacki

Andy Murray's projected Wimbledon route (For the record, I am not at all saying he will go that far...):

R1: Paire
R2: Chardy/Shapovalov
R3: Del Potro
R4: Sock/Goffin
QF: Nadal
SF: Zverev/Djokovic
F: Federer

ouch

Ladies draw is somewhat lopsided, all the players are still not listed in most bookies though and waiting for the quarter prices. Murrays draw not the best! But I guess it could have been worse.

Sloane Stephens has a good draw, but no bookie is anywhere near the Betfair price which kills the e/w angle.   Still can back her on bf at a reasonable price.

That third quarter looks the weakest. Quite like Sabalenka at 25s with 356 for the quarter. She is in the Eastbourne final this weekend.

Someone against Williams in 4th quarter?

Andy Murray has withdrawn.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/44675401


This was, presumably, half-expected?

I think realistically he had little chance of playing several five set matches in a row. But yeah, disappointing.

On the flipside. Jason Jung comes in as lucky loser to play his first Grand Slam event. Jason has a great blog about life on the Challenger tour
https://jasonjungtennis.wordpress.com/

Federer wears Uniqlo, ending a 10 year apparel deal with Nike. Reports suggests he's signed a $300m/10 year(!) deal, was rumoured to be getting $10m/year before.

nice to be sponsored to be retired!

very astute son

haha, it was value I'm sure

Desperate scenes. She was one of two Racing Post tips too.

BBC doing their usual awesome camera work to find every non white/middle england type in the crowd.  Truly iincredbile how obvious they make their anti racist approach to their camera work.  So much so it comes across as racist to me.  I would love to see attendance stats across the whole event of non white people attending the event as a % and compare it to the % of non white people shown by the bbc in their crowd camera work over the two weeks.

Well hopefully it may make tennis appeal more to BAME groups, like widening the footy punditry by including women aims to do.  If it makes you feel any better there was almost no covertage of the uk black lad jay clarke’s match against Gulbis.

Any love for Mihaela Buzarnescu in the ladies?  She plays Pliskova next and is an obvious dog in that.  After that her route to the final doesn't look so bad.  Possibly Venus Williams then there isn't anyone that strong who can meet her in the quarters.  The only seeds left in the 4th quarter are Serena Williams and Madison Keys.  I like Madison Keys a lot, but Serena isn't at her best.  80/1 to win, 40/1 the final e/w with Fred and the Tote.

Great story, former decent junior player, though never made the top 100 in the rankings.  Injured for years, got a PHD and came back to tennis late (she is now 30) and has been making it in to grand slams for the first time at 29.     

Backing Pliskova e/w is probably a safer bet, but that would be a touch dull.   

Wimbledon women's seeds, an update after two rounds:

#1 Halep
#2 Wozniacki - OUT
#3 Muguruza - OUT
#4 Stephens - OUT
#5 Svitolina - OUT
#6 Garcia - OUT
#7 Pliskova
#8 Kvitova - OUT

Can Serena win it again?

Buzarnescu dominated for a set and a half and got very close to knocking her out a couple of times in the 2nd set.  Her head went in the end after a few near misses and Pliskova dominated the 3rd set.  She is definitely one to watch if she can get more control of her emotions.   

#Wimbledon women's seeds, an update

#1 Halep - OUT
#2 Wozniacki - OUT
#3 Muguruza - OUT
#4 Stephens - OUT
#5 Svitolina - OUT
#6 Garcia - OUT
#7 Pliskova - into fourth round (vs Bertens)
#8 Kvitova - OUT
#9 Venus - OUT
#10 Keys - OUT

Anyone sold games at Wimbledon this afternoon on the spreads?  What a sweat if you have. 

Someone break, pleeeeeeeeeeeease. I want to watch Novak and Rafa.

More appendage than instrument by this point, the racket swung high above Isner’s leathery, sun-damaged face, thumping yet another ace.

“Game Isner,” the chair whispers into her mic, having lost both the game count and her will to live.

“Anderson’s serve.”

The year is 2022.

Will be under the roof surely to a finish approx 5am right?

Court 1 mixed doubles obv.

Never hear the #metoo crew talking about equal pay in tennis on a day like this.  Amazing.

It is health and safety gone mad.

If this was the grand national and they decided to extend it to 9 miles the animal rights loonies would be outside complaining.  Where are they for human rights?  Where are they saying men play longer should get rewarded/paid more?  These two done more today than the Women's winner will have done in 2 weeks and given themselves zero chance of winning the final recovery wise.

But is it entertaining?

Course it is but why do women get a much bigger hourly over the event for providing what a lot of tennis fans consider to be an inferior product compared to the men's product?  That's my question.  Why do the equal pay lobby never turn up for a debate on days like today?

Couldn't agree more.

Watching some entertaining tennis now.... at last.

I came home at 3.30 this afternoon to see the start of this match. FML if the two giants weren't still hammering 140mph serves at each other. Perhaps most amusing was the fact that the crowd were as one in cheering and clamouring for a service break - any service break - for the last couple of hours, just to be put out of there misery & to see some tennis with a touch more finesse. McEnroe could barely restrain himself from declaring the match a farce, particularly since it would most likely mean that the winner would be spent before hitting a serve in the final on Sunday.

On a positive note, I was taken aback by Kevin Anderson's humility; he was truly close to tears as he expressed his empathy for John Isner, his friend. Certainly a class act in real life.