Wimbledon 2013
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
It really is retrostyle today - big guys banging in serves and cleaning up at the net. Normal service will soon be resumed.
It's dreadful. Can't believe you've said this.
Keep up your muppetry mate, quite comical
Truth ain't muppetry tbf
Fed's serve is saving his arse here. Murray will take care of Fed this year so long as we don't have the roof closed.
Keep up your muppetry mate, quite comical
What's comical is you thinking the women's game is in a great place. The top 3 are good, but have a look at the rest of the top 10: Radwanska, Errani, Li Na, Kerber Kvitiva, Wozniacki and Kirilenko. A pathetic bunch of players. Now compare that to say, 2005:
1) Davenport
2) Clijsters
3) Mauresmo
4) Sharapova
5) Pierce
6) Henin
7) Schynder
8) Dementieva
9) Petrova
10) V Williams
It's not even a debate. This era flat out sucks for women.
Really?
Wow
There are more stunners on the tour these days, but that's all that has improved.
Because he's 32 in a weeks time Boris, you plank.
Edit - month, rather.
Edit - month, rather.
Stakhovsky takes a 2-1 lead now. Playing some brilliant stuff here. Even though Federer isn't at his best, he's hardly been awful. He's just been up against someone playing some fantastic tennis.
If Fed loses here, it will very anti-climatic. Especially after all the hooplah over the men's draw.
Stak's been great, never seen or heard of him before. It's mad that Darcis and this dude may take out Nadal and Federer in the first round.
Don't think Federer has had a Grand Slam without a 5 setter in like 5 years now......riding his luck though.
Then it's pointless debating it with you (or anybody who just rushes in with laughing smiley faces). Claiming players like Kvitova are pathetic is quite a distance more laughable than me saying the women's side of the game is in a great place (great might be a bit overboard in fairness, very good then).
It's all overshadowed simply because we have basically the greatest female player currently competing and because she's so dominating, people get this idea that the rest are shit, when they're actually far from it.
If Stakhovksy keeps serving this way then Federer will have to tie-break his way to victory. Federer looked this poor in the early rounds last year and still won the title.
Federer is the greatest male player ever and I don't see him strolling to Grand Slam titles in his thirties. Players like Errani and Kirilenko should be nowhere near the top 10, Wozniacki and Radwanska aren't much better either. It's been pants since Henin retired.
Serena is not the greatest female player ever.
Federer will never win another Slam outside of SW19. And looking at him right now, I fail to see him doing even that.
What a hold that was. Bravery from him.
Stakhovsky's really playing without fear here and is going for it. Generally seems to have the upper hand and doesn't seem nervous. Has to be careful not to over-commit sometimes though.
I'm not really a Serena fan, but she did miss a long time through illness and would probably have won a few more Grand Slams if not.
Age doesn't help him at all either. While the likes of Djokovic could come back fairly easily from a 5-setter a day or two later, you wonder if it's now going to take even more of a toll on Federer if he does make it through this match.
The Stakh has started to crumble.
Want Fed to complete a great comeback, but want Murray to win Wimbledon as well...
Federer just starting to get into it a bit more now. Among all the fantastic tennis he plays, the guy has an incredible mentality too. Even with Stak playing well I just didn't see him winning this set so easily without Federer giving some sort of response again.
Federer a tad frustrated there. Good response on his own serve from Stakhovsky.
Fed and Djoko to go out. Murray to laugh his way to the title. Please...
Federer is such a twat, a small gesture of apology would suffice.
He was certainly a bit over the top there. If it was after the break perhaps then it'd be mildly understandable if he were to apologise, but he'd not long broken and was right back in the game too.
Thing is though, the quality isn't that good or exciting to watch, they do more fist pumping and screaming than actually playing good shots, they look up to their trainer after every point half the time like they haven't got their own braincells. I watched Pektovic or something the other day and she screams BEFORE the hits the ball, like, well before, there is no need.
There are some exciting players coming through who aren't in the top 10 though. The top 10 isn't really great imo, most of them are very inconsistent and aren't totally focused on the game either. The next 3 or 4 years should be more interesting in the womens game though, the younger lasses and lesser knows are starting to look a lot hungrier. I think this generation of "top players" in the womens game have let the glamour get to them a bit. At the minute though, it's nothing amazing to watch, you get a few good games here and there on the womens tour, but nowhere near the quality of watching the mens.
What happened?
When Stakhovsky won his service game to make it 4-4, Federer basically hit a frustration shot which was obviously going to go out and came close to hitting Stakhovsky. As I said, was a bit unnecessary given the circumstances.
The Stak is down.
Federer's luck is in today.
This guy has some balls. Fantastic save from 30-40.
This guy has 10 stone bollocks to do that set point down.