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Post by ray51 on Jun 24, 2011 12:49:31 GMT 1
Some really good tennis , so far ; any bets or predictions ?
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Post by 3lions on Jun 24, 2011 21:38:45 GMT 1
it would be nice to see Djokovic win, break the Federer/Nadal stranglehold, although I think they are great champs, but Federer seems to be getting past his very best.
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Post by ray51 on Jun 24, 2011 22:14:24 GMT 1
Just saw Ivan Ljubicic lose in 4 sets to Andy Murray ; it was a really decent effort , hats off to a 32 yrs' old guy , who will probably retire from playing any day now . Very odd , in tennis : when you are 30 + you are considered a pensioner ; yet you have examples like Kimiko Date at 40 , playing wonderfully and competitively ; the same in table tennis : the best player of all time Jan-Ove Waldner of Sweden played so well for so long , that he is idolised not only in his native country and elsewhere in Europe , but even in China ( where they call him Ben-Wa = old Waldner ) . And then you get those others , who retire very young , any excuse .
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Post by 3lions on Jun 25, 2011 1:36:20 GMT 1
I think the mens game is too intense for players to go on for that long now. Nadal won't ever match Federer's career record because of his style of play which relies heavily on shere muscle power and is giving him too many injuries.
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Post by ray51 on Jun 25, 2011 9:57:07 GMT 1
To him and to too many others ; look at Del Potro , Gustavo Kuerten , Nalbadian , Kevin Curren , many others...to miss out on so much , so young . Maybe it's the start-stop , start-stop nature of the game ( quite unnatural , as a man is long-distance runner IMHO , when fit for it ) ?
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Post by ray51 on Jun 25, 2011 17:58:59 GMT 1
Watched more of the tennis and the men's matches were great ; the commentary on the BBC 1 and 2 , the never-ending silliest annoying chatter , irritating and empty and repetitive , stating the bleeding obvious , again and again ? was as rubbish as anyone couldn't even imagine ; to tell us every few minutes that it's a Saturday , and it's sunny now ( hey it's TV , not radio , so some of us catch a glimpse of the blue skies on our screens ) and once we have seen that the set ended 6 : 3 , what exactly is the point of repeating the fact throughout next sets ? someone should tell BBC that not all of the viewers are distraught illiterate backward imbeciles . And then , unelievably : they managed to even lose the signal for some minutes , "due to loss of power" for which they kept apologising ( welcome to the 3rd world ) ; very good at apologising politely , verbally and in writing , ( of which I have ample experience of ) but nothing much works well IMHO .
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Post by 3lions on Jun 25, 2011 20:46:35 GMT 1
...Wimbledon is great, its the best tournament in the world by a long stretch.
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Post by ray51 on Jun 25, 2011 21:13:30 GMT 1
I probably agree ; pity about such poor BBC commentary , though . One almost feels : hey , these guys get paid tons of sterling and so they feel the need to never stop talking , never mind what trivia and how often they repeat it .
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Post by 3lions on Jun 25, 2011 22:06:07 GMT 1
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Post by ray51 on Jun 26, 2011 6:03:52 GMT 1
So true !
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Post by ray51 on Jun 28, 2011 19:59:03 GMT 1
And then again , If you care to switch your TV on : you find another bloke in a dark pin-striped suit ( Mafialike but tie-less , gotta be the latest fashion ? ) ; and he can talk and talk everyone off their minds and never stop talking about : nothing really , except repeating the known facts , those few the he happens to know ( but BBC uses many TV minutes for such exercises ) . Charming , ain't it ? When I lived there , I always objected having to pay the licence , for the 5 channels of such crap ; no help ! they took my money and the crap gets worse ( so , for good No of reasons : I don't live there anymore ) .
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Post by ray51 on Jun 30, 2011 15:14:07 GMT 1
So far , it really was good ( play ) on most days ; and they were quite lucky with the weather , mostly ; then ( to kill the time ? ) you also get the likes of Tracy Austin , Lindsay Davenport , John McEnroe , Pat Cash , Tim Henman , Boris Becker , Jimmy Connors and who else not ( half a dozen of them , others , many : unknown and not distinguished at all ) to just chatter uncontrollably ; so : congrats to BBC , as we now have far more comentators then there are players left in last 3-4 days' stages ; jeez , and they all love to talk endlessly , makes one go get up and look for a drink .
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Post by prkbrk on Jun 30, 2011 21:39:39 GMT 1
So far , it really was good ( play ) on most days ; and they were quite lucky with the weather , mostly ; then ( to kill the time ? ) you also get the likes of Tracy Austin , Lindsay Davenport , John McEnroe , Pat Cash , Tim Henman , Boris Becker , Jimmy Connors and who else not ( half a dozen of them , others , many : unknown and not distinguished at all ) to just chatter uncontrollably ; so : congrats to BBC , as we now have far more comentators then there are players left in last 3-4 days' stages ; jeez , and they all love to talk endlessly , makes one go get up and look for a drink . switch it off then or turn down the sound if you cant stand them- personally i like the comments as they recognise that Wimbledon is THE biggest tennis tournament in the world
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Post by ray51 on Jun 30, 2011 21:56:39 GMT 1
Yes , I agree ; and we all love it to bits , absolutely ( have been to SW19 personally ) ; tomorrow to Sunday , all eyes ( incl. mine ) will be on it and every decent bar in Bruxelles has it on biggest sceen , too ; so maybe we enjoy more of great Wimbledon atmosphere and of good play , in exchange for somewhat less of that silly chatter , by too many ?
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Post by marie on Jul 1, 2011 14:57:00 GMT 1
I really love BBC commentary too, think it is excellent. Most of the people they use really know what they are talking about. Imagine if it was on another channel???
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