A tremendous opening day at the Championship. The unseeded Stanislas Wawrinka has rolled back the years to beat the 6th seed Grigor ‘Baby Fed’ Dimitrov in 4. Another seed out is 23rd seed Richard Gasquet losing to compatriot, the mercurial Gael Monfils. Wins for Big Kevin Anderson, Gilles Müller, Ivo Karlovic and John Isner.
A bit of a shock with recently crowned Halle champion Borna Coric crashing out to another highly rated youngster Daniel Medvedev.
I will catch the highlights later. Didnt think Stan would beat Dimitrov. Then again with Dimitrov you never know.
Sloane Stephens thought she could juat turn up at Wimbledon and win without doing any grass practice.
Odd you were bigging up this chap as the future of tennis.
That’s why he said it was a bit if a shock
Odd that he was bigging up a lad who got dumped out in the first round.
Coric best the GOAT in Halle last week. He was one of the in form players. That’s the Championship for you though. Anything can happen.
You got it wrong. I told you Coric was a nobody.
For fuck sake Coric is 21 and has just broken into the top 20. His win in Halle would suggest he would go to at least the second week.
I have a sneaky feeling for Djokovic. He has come into some form and is coming with no expectations on him. I wouldnt be surprised to see him go all the way, then again he could go out in the first round.
That’s the Championship for you. A nobody like Daniil Medvedev made a name for himself today taking out the Halle champion.
He’s done nothing to deserve the praise Boycott was putting on him. He’s a nobody now.
An ATP 250 champion?
He won in Halle one of the most prestigious grass court tournaments.
You’ve been bigging up Dominic Thiem. Nearly 25 years of age, has never even made a Grand Slam quarter final in proper tennis and no Masters series win.
It’s an ATP 250 tournament. It’s not prestigious.
Dominic Thiem was in a grand slam final only a month ago.
I see the vastly overrated Dominic Thiem crashed out in the first round yesterday to 33 year old unseeded veteran Marco Baghdatis. Thiem has never made a quarter final at the Championship or either of the hardcourt Grand Slams.
Seeds crashing out all over the place. I think it is 21 seeds have gone in the first round.
Thiem was injured, mate.
Loads of aces today I imagine.
Just the 19 aces for Ivo Karlovic today.
@GeoffreyBoycott, I see pre tournament giraffe/dinosaur karlovic has been knocked out. So much for having a big serve guarantee you a semi final at Wimbledon.
Oh yeah and other big serving giraffe/dinosaur is into a 5th set. @Cicero_Dandi is being made a fool of here bigging up karlovic before the tournament
He was knocked out by another 6ft6 dinosaur who coincidentally has now reached the furthest he’s ever done at a slam tournament, on grass of course.