1. Zverev or Auger-Aliassime (on Court 1, A-A leads two sets to love) 2. Federer or Sonego (on Centre Court, about to start) 3. Medvedev or Hurkacz (on Court 2, one set apiece)
Fifth set coming up on Court 1, pushing back the Raducanu match further still. Raducanu/Tomljanovic at a major disadvantage to the rest of the women left in the tournament here.
Same disadvantage for both and I think the idea was it a good time for the home audience to watch it. I hope it doesn't affect Raducanu more though as she is so inexperienced
Same disadvantage for both and I think the idea was it a good time for the home audience to watch it. I hope it doesn't affect Raducanu more though as she is so inexperienced
The disadvantage is for the winner as they'll have less rest time.
Same disadvantage for both and I think the idea was it a good time for the home audience to watch it. I hope it doesn't affect Raducanu more though as she is so inexperienced
The disadvantage is for the winner as they'll have less rest time.
Yeah exactly.
No real disadvantage for this particular round. They will obviously schedule the Barty v Raducanu / Tomljanovic match as last on centre to even it up as much as they can.
Even then, it’s probably going to be 6-8 hours of lost rest for the quarter final. Not a massive deal if they were playing Wednesday but within 24 hours makes a big difference.
Do they take into account the men's matches are usually far longer? This is always the difficult part of the schedule for the women since they mixed up the matches rather than having just women's/men's matches on separate days
Such a shame for her. Slightly unfortunate in that first set in that she had 3 (or4) breakpoints and lost it on the first break point against her. Nerves got the better of her and I fear it was this that made her go into panic attacks and withdraw.
One can only imagine the pressure this young lady was feeling,One week ago she was virtually unknown,and then,on front pages everywhere,being tipped to be a future champion(even suggested somewhere she could win this year),talk of £10m sponsorship deals.She then has to wait all day to play,against an opponent who is streets above anyone she has ever played before.Many of the shots she was playing were winners against other opponents,last night they were returned with interest. I have no doubt she will recover from this and be a credit to her sport,but she needs taking out of the spotlight.
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1. Raducanu or Tomljanovic (on Court 1 after Zverev v Auger-Aliassime)
1. Zverev or Auger-Aliassime (on Court 1, A-A leads two sets to love)
2. Federer or Sonego (on Centre Court, about to start)
3. Medvedev or Hurkacz (on Court 2, one set apiece)
Would have been a time most of the top 25 were quite well known to me
Whoever did the scheduling for today is sweating now….
Shame Raducanu couldn't make one of her chances count earlier - it's impressive she's playing this well v a top 100 player though.
Tomljanovic has had four opportunities and won two of them. That’s been the difference.
I’m going on Wednesday and then fortunate enough to be going to Wembley for the game. Trying to work out how easy it is to get a taxi.
Will it be relatively easy to get in one at say 5.30/6.00pm (I’m assuming we’ll be leaving before play has ended)?
are there ubers etc knocking around and easy enough to get up and down there?
any general tips?!
I have no doubt she will recover from this and be a credit to her sport,but she needs taking out of the spotlight.