Wimbledon 2023

[pecan]

Wimbledon is the only championship I get to watch on tele. Everything else I have to find other means lol I wish sports didn’t get locked to specific platforms. TENNIS FOR EVERYONE

 

[Fanny Muchmore]

he was probably waiting for djokovic in the changing rooms tbh.
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also, i love how excited he is to get his membership card

On his knees

 

[Slopslinger]

The way he said something about how he had won matches he should have lost ‘so it’s even stevens’ or something kinda ruined it for me. Hinting that he should have won today…which he didn’t as he wasn’t the better player!
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I can create it if anyone’s game? Pardon the pun

I took it as he was just trying to say that he's been lucky in the past to win when he should have lost. I don't think he was trying to diminish the achievement. Just that a lot of matches could go either way and do. Like obviously you get players saving match points and going on to win

 

[Giggling Squid]

The BBC news summary is much less biased than Andrews commentary,

 

[Yel]

i love how excited he is to get his membership card

What exactly goes on there the other 50 weeks of the year? Surely the courts are unusable most of the time and the Michelin starred chefs aren't there.

 

[LaBlonde]

I took it as he was just trying to say that he's been lucky in the past to win when he should have lost. I don't think he was trying to diminish the achievement. Just that a lot of matches could go either way and do. Like obviously you get players saving match points and going on to win

yeah, i think it was maybe a poor phrasing choice but i’ll give him (and anyone else speaking in their second or third language) a pass. which is as nice as i’ll ever be about novak

i want to see him seeing his parents not the royals!
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What exactly goes on there the other 50 weeks of the year? Surely the courts are unusable most of the time and the Michelin starred chefs aren't there.

but, yel, a MEMBERSHIP CARD!

i truly don’t know and i’ve been to wimbledon quite a bit when the tennis isn’t on. maybe he can just go and have a wander around.

 

[Yel]

The moment you get rid of Andrew castle talking nonsense, Clare balding comes on to continue the crap

 

[Slopslinger]

yeah, i think it was maybe a poor phrasing choice but i’ll give him (and anyone else speaking in their second or third language) a pass. which is as nice as i’ll ever be about novak

i want to see him seeing his parents not the royals!

Exactly this. The language barrier too even though his English is very good. Apparently Novak and Andy used to be very good friends in their youth and then had to distance themselves when they started competing. I remember Andy saying they would be pals again properly when they both retired

 

[LaBlonde]

and he’s only 20 (and only just 20!) - i wonder how many slams he’s going to win.

i liked him before but have to say his interview made me a bigger fan. he may fill a tiny part of the rafa shaped space in my heart.

 

[Yel]

i truly don’t know and i’ve been to wimbledon quite a bit when the tennis isn’t on. maybe he can just go and have a wander around.

I guess he can jump the queue to buy a rosewater dish replica in the gift shop.

 

[LaBlonde]

I guess he can jump the queue to buy a rosewater dish replica in the gift shop.

and he just got a tie! so, worth it

that was very lovely of the djokovic family - and of carlos acknowledging his son

 

[Emperor]

Really enjoyable match, alternated between that and the equally exciting women's Ashes match.

 

[PillowsofFluff]

Oh god he's adorable. So friendly and puppy-ish, I love it haha

 

[londongirl2001]

What exactly goes on there the other 50 weeks of the year? Surely the courts are unusable most of the time and the Michelin starred chefs aren't there.

Well according to Roger, you can have tea with the club president, but not without your membership card (love that Carlos knew all about that story)

 

[Yel]

Clare just said raz then corrected herself, I'm not sure I can deal with 10 more years of this

 

[HaloGirl]

I wish Clare Balding wouldn’t commentate on the part as they go up the stairs and meet the Royals etc. They used to let us listen in. I find her really annoying. Sorry Balding fans.

Carlos is a cutie.

 

[LaBlonde]

Clare just said raz then corrected herself, I'm not sure I can deal with 10 more years of this

i thought of you when she did that
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I wish Clare Balding wouldn’t commentate on the part as they go up the stairs and meet the Royals etc. They used to let us listen in. I find her really annoying. Sorry Balding fans.

Carlos is a cutie.

i cringed when she went “ooooo good, princess charlotte is there!” like that’s what we were all waiting for

 

[londongirl2001]

Oh god he's adorable. So friendly and puppy-ish, I love it haha

He really is. I hope he can stay this way a little longer. But I love that we get to watch him now at this point of his career, where he’s already winning big tournaments while being very young. He’s going to grow up before our eyes.

 

[Yel]

Sorry Balding fans.

I think even fans of Clare know she's terrible at this whole tennis thing.

 

[HaloGirl]

What a fabulous new champion. He is sweet!