Just dont get it !
whilst Wimbledon may be one of the biggest sporting events World wide its just an instant turn page or switch over for me. Long time ago now but i cant remember anyone playing tennis at school and we did have courts.
The usual British media bollox today as well. Murray wins a game and head line of Land of Hop and Glory. When he loses he will be slated.
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Personally, I don't mind watching it but the grunting that happens all too often really distracts me from the match - that and the short skirts and pretty faces (of the women before you start).
This year it seems to concentrate more on what the bloody players are wearing rather than the tennis they are playing.
physically it is very demanding and for anyone interested in the psychology of sport it is a must see. The mental side of tennis is massively important at the top level.
Fancy meeting up Eltham park South in the week?
I'll kick you arse.
LOL
Definately mate, can you reach over the net though?
i used to love it when younger - loved watching Connors McEnroe, Becker etc. Havent got into it in years (apart from a few tiger tim games).
I'm with you there GH, it just leaves me cold. All them idiots going on about Murray Mount or something when the other year it was Henman Hill. Press reports about someone wearing shorts and someone wearing a raincoat and how many strawberrys they are going to eat; it's just tosh. Imagine if all the newspaper reports for Euro 2008 were about who was going to wear lederhosen and how much bavarian lager was going to be quaffed, the press would be a laughing stock.
We had tennis courts at school, in five years I never saw anyone play a game. The reason is because if you've got 5 courts between a class of 30 you're always going to have 20 people sitting out. Whereas games like football are always inclusive. One pitch - class of 30 kids, 15-a-side - easy. It is therefore a complete waste of time building tennis courts at school unless you got the space to build dozens of them, and of course that rules out the working class.
Tennis: a sport for people who don't like sport.
Tennis. Womans sport, 'tiger' Tim? Each to their own and all that but Danny Kelly has it right, we had a couple of big tennis court things that were used by the entire school for football, beatings etc but when it was the last two months of the school year, the hottest and sunniest and best to play football in the tennis nets went up and only those who wanted/could play tennis could use them. About 8 in total leaving the rest of us to do stuff that ended up in large chinks of us spending the best months to be in school expelled or suspended for stupid things as we weren't allowed to play football anywhere else and found other ways of entertaining ourselves.
Can't say I'm a fan of Murray to be honest, obnoxious Scottish tw**, but Federer and Nadal are quality players and worth watching.
give me strength....
i couldnt name the top 3 players and im glad. Its the sporting equivalent of Big Brother. If you like it and wanna watch it OK hate the coverage it gets as im totaly not intrested in it.
John Macenroe total ball less (not the tennis kind) wa**er. Once about 8 years ago he freaked at the hotel where i worked had the Customer Services lady in tears , so i had to deal with the wan*ker. Got in the lift with him to go to his room and he started to freak out again so i said to him from a distance of about 2 mm"i suggest strongly you dont talk to me like im a lump of S*it" . The blood drained out of his face and u could see the bottle being dropped ! I sorted out his problem and we herd no more of it. Macenroe hard man " You can not be serious".
Those games went way beyond simple tennis, it was also pure theatre, the two completely contrasting characters, styles of play and general approach to the sport and occassion created a Wimbledon era to cherish and never forget.
As we all know, as great a player as McEnroe was, it was Borg who always seemed to have the upper hand.
McEnroe would shout and holler at all and sundry if there was a disputed line call etc, whilst Borg would get across his point of view with the most fleeting of eye contact with a line judge or umpire if he felt they were wrong.
Believe you me, Borg used to wind-up McEnroe 'far far more' than the otherway around despite all McEnroes efforts, simply with his ice cool unflappable stance.
As I've already said....it was pure theatre!
Murray has always maintained he was taken out of context with the football comment when England were about to play Paraguay at the world cup. Read the 2nd comment down about 'anti-english'.
http://www.murraysworld.com/biography/
He can "get tae feck"