Serena v Lefty, Crying Game v Slicy in Wimbledon Women’s Semis

While your point about no one thinking Venus would lose is well taken, Serena is not Venus. For all their similarities, Serena is clearly a better player and competitor. Early in her career, Vee was lauded for her steely focus but lately you can tell she has major problems focusing a competing in big matches. Serena doesn’t have that problem. If this were a tour event I’d give Kvitova a much better chance but not in the semis of Wimbledon.

June 30th, 2010 at 11:11 pm

Impressed with vesnina/zvonareva..hope they go to win the doubles title. The williams sisters have dominated the doubled in GS..they have won what..was it 4 or 5 consecutive GS titles. incredible record.

great perfomance by vesnina/zvonareva to take the sisters down. Well done.

July 1st, 2010 at 12:12 am

While Alison Riske is till in the “Who’s got the funk” column, I must ask:
If a press photographer were taking some pictures, and told her how he wanted her to stand, would he be posing a Riske?

July 1st, 2010 at 7:25 am

Maybe Riske will be the next big thing. I’m assuming her ranking will go up next week.

July 1st, 2010 at 9:19 am

love pironkova style but too much power from zvonareva. 1st gs final..good on her. now go win it all..

July 1st, 2010 at 10:00 am

pathetic women’s tennis

July 1st, 2010 at 10:34 am

Is anyone watching the Serena / Kvitova match?

Every time Kvitova wins a point she does a little dog barking sound. It’s hilarious… and also a bit annoying.

She is taking it to Serena though but I don’t think she’s going to win. Her bark is worse than her bite ;)

July 1st, 2010 at 10:52 am

BT – it was a nice match, but she crumbled under pressure on set 2.

funny on the barking sound :)

July 1st, 2010 at 11:49 am

no matter what, serena’ll win wimbledon unless zvonareva exercises voodoo magic on serena!

July 1st, 2010 at 12:25 pm

WTA should start threatening to gag the shrieking players before allowing them on court.

July 1st, 2010 at 12:29 pm

Colin, whilr we’re on the subject of funk and trunk, have you heard of the “dumb-ass British slang” “wash out your knackers” cos I surely haven’t. Staff, I’m afraid my ripostes would be too rude for the genteel columns of tennisx, thus I merely bite my thumb at you.

July 1st, 2010 at 12:31 pm

Congrats to the two ladies’ finalists: Serena W. and Zvonareva.

July 1st, 2010 at 12:45 pm

It would be nice if Zvonareva could finally win one before she retires and becomes a UN sports ambassador for Russia.

July 1st, 2010 at 12:56 pm

apparently after williams sisters lost their doubles match they refused pressed conference. i heard this morning that they have been charged..

July 1st, 2010 at 2:02 pm

Margot, no I haven’t heard of that expression, which is another example of the crude and frequently ignorant style of whoever writes the Funk and Trunk column. He (surely it’s he) doesn’t seem to know the word “knackers”, which is coarser than he thinks. It means “balls”.
The American idiom that puzzles me is the (to my ears) very ugly “get-go”. I know what it means, but what the hell is its origin? Why not say “outset” or “start”?
On a more serious note, how well the two outsiders played today, for at least part of their matches. As so often, the difference is the top players’ consistency. It’s consistency Andy Murray will need against Rafa – in spades! I’m cautiously hopeful.

July 1st, 2010 at 2:40 pm

The article about the men’s quarterfinals goes over 500 posts.

This is the 16th post on this article about the women semis.

Nuff said.

July 1st, 2010 at 2:55 pm

Colin: I love zvonoreva, she wears her heart on her sleeve and I love kvitova how gutsy is she, a future champ I think.
As for our Andy, if his serve is clicking he has a chance, if it’s not Rafa will eat him alive.

July 1st, 2010 at 3:12 pm

Let’s hope Vera Z can win doubs because I don’t think she can take down Serena.

July 1st, 2010 at 4:14 pm

Margot, I found an online slang dictionary and learned that “get-go” was simply a contraction of “get going”. It dates back to the 1960s and, surprise surprise, was African American. Yet another example of stealing from black Americans in order to feel cool. High fives, anyone?
The scary thing about the prospect of the Rafa-Andy match is this: Murray’s style and attributes – indeed his very strengths – mean that if he does lose it will be the death of a thousand cuts, long rallies ending with Nadal winning the point. At least Tim Henman didn’t keep us in suspense for about 20 strokes!
What’s needed is the kind of serving Andy produced to close out the Tsonga match, three aces and an unreturnable.
Kimo, your stats are concerned with POSTINGS, so they provide information not about the matches, but about the people writing the comments.

July 1st, 2010 at 4:19 pm

To answer the question, nobody cares who will lose to serena

July 1st, 2010 at 9:23 pm