June 22nd - July 5th 2009
TV Coverage: NBC, ESPN and Tennis Channel (anyone know how this works?)
Looks like NBC will be streaming the matches too

Seeds released: http://www.wralsportsfan.com/tennis/story/5372099/
iPhone App
Scores


Who's your pick?

For the guys I gotta go with Fed. He's got 5 wins there, is coming off his first French win....and Nadal is having knee issues and coming off his first ever loss at the French.
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/articles/2009-06-09/200906091244564970876.html

And for the women...I just hope Venus doesn't win. I'm gonna take the safe bet and say it'll be a Russian

6/17/2009 11:10:24 AM

nice, 5 days! federer ftw but i will continue to hope for a roddick miracle

i agree with all your stuff on the women's side, no venus, and yes a russian

6/17/2009 11:19:38 AM

i'm pulling for murray this year. he won queen's club. hopefully he can pull off the first british single's victory in generations.

6/17/2009 11:21:57 AM

at wimbeldon, pete samprass >>> all comers

6/17/2009 11:28:23 AM

im curious to see how Soderling plays here. I am assuming they have updated the world rankings and Soderling should be seeded in the top 15/16. The best finish he's had at Wimbledon was 3rd round, two times.

I think Murray will advance pretty deep but lose in the quarters. Could see a Murray/Nadal rematch.

The gentlemen's draw is selected at 10am on Friday morning.


Federer wins 2009 Wimbledon and breaks the record in front of watchful Pete Sampras. Federer etches his name as arguably the greatest single athlete of all time.


PS: i cannot believe that Federer is not the #1 seed. Nadal got it...that's shocking to me.


[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 12:01 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2009 11:59:42 AM

^greatest in tennis. if he say, won more titles than everybody else combined in one year, he would be better than babe ruth.

if you took away all his wimbeldons and he was still the highest on titles, better than wayne gretzkey

if the other player was allowed to hit him instead of the ball, better than say, johnny unitis.

6/17/2009 12:03:16 PM

Is Nadal's knees 100%? If not, got to go with Federer. If so, I think it's a toss-up b/w both of them.

6/17/2009 4:37:21 PM

i think Soderling's ranking after the French Open went to #12ish

6/17/2009 4:43:43 PM

rankings followed by seedings

1 Nadal, Rafael (ESP) 1
2 Federer, Roger (SUI) 2
3 Murray, Andy (GBR) 3
4 Djokovic, Novak (SRB) 4
5 del Potro, Juan Martin (ARG) 5
6 Roddick, Andy (USA) 6
7 Simon, Gilles (FRA) 8
8 Verdasco, Fernando (ESP) 7
9 Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried (FRA) 9
10 Gonzalez, Fernando (CHI) 10
11 Davydenko, Nikolay (RUS) 12
12 Soderling, Robin (SWE) 13
13 Cilic, Marin (CRO) 11
14 Monfils, Gael (FRA) 14
15 Robredo, Tommy (ESP) 16
16 Nalbandian, David (ARG) OUT
17 Blake, James (USA) 18
18 Wawrinka, Stanislas (SUI) 20
19 Ferrer, David (ESP) 17
20 Gasquet, Richard (FRA) OUT
21 Berdych, Tomas (CZE) 21
22 Stepanek, Radek (CZE) 24
23 Safin, Marat (RUS) 15
24 Fish, Mardy (USA) 28
25 Andreev, Igor (RUS) 29
26 Melzer, Jurgen (AUT) 26
27 Tursunov, Dmitry (RUS) 25
28 Lopez, Feliciano (ESP) 22
29 Hanescu, Victor (ROU) 31
30 Schuettler, Rainer (GER) 19
31 Karlovic, Ivo (CRO) 23
32 Troicki, Viktor (SRB) 30
33 Kohlschreiber, Philipp (GER) 27
34 Montanes, Albert (ESP) 32
35 Haas, Tommy (GER) NOT SEEDED

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this isn't the same it doesn't seem. just seems to be the seedings. that said, sharapova is 59 in the world and a 24 seed, which is the largest jump ever believed to be achieved at wimbledon.

1 Dinara SAFINA (RUS)
2 Serena WILLIAMS (USA)
3 Venus WILLIAMS (USA)
4 Elena DEMENTIEVA (RUS)
5 Svetlana KUZNETSOVA (RUS)
6 Jelena JANKOVIC (SRB)
7 Vera ZVONAREVA (RUS)
8 Victoria AZARENKA (BLR)
9 Caroline WOZNIACKI (DEN)
10 Nadia PETROVA (RUS)
11 Agnieszka RADWANSKA (POL)
12 Marion BARTOLI (FRA)
13 Ana IVANOVIC (SRB)
14 Dominika CIBULKOVA (SVK)
15 Flavia PENNETTA (ITA)
16 Jie ZHENG (CHN)
17 Amelie MAURESMO (FRA)
18 Samantha STOSUR (AUS)
19 Na LI (CHN)
20 Anabel MEDINA GARRIGUES (ESP)
21 Patty SCHNYDER (SUI)
22 Alize CORNET (FRA)
23 Aleksandra WOZNIAK (CAN)
24 Maria SHARAPOVA (RUS)
25 Kaia KANEPI (EST)
26 Virginie RAZZANO (FRA)
27 Alisa KLEYBANOVA (RUS)
28 Sorana CIRSTEA (ROU)
29 Sybille BAMMER (AUT)
30 Agnes SZAVAY (HUN)
31 Anastasia PAVLYUCHENKOVA (RUS)
32 Anna CHAKVETADZE (RUS)


[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2009 4:47:02 PM

Nadal is taking this thing. back2back.

Good article in NY Times Sunday Magazine about Rafa's journey to the top of the tennis world:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/magazine/21nadal-t.html?ref=magazine

6/17/2009 7:37:52 PM

no way nadal wins this. i'm not 100% on federer winning it. but nadal has shown a lot of weakness recently. maybe it's just injury. but either way he's not taking wimbledon. he had to play one of the best matches of his life to win it last year when he was at the top of his game. and he's down right now. i don't see it.

6/17/2009 9:32:01 PM

Nadal lost 4 and 3 to Hewitt. says he will decide friday.

Monfils pulled out with a wrist injury

6/18/2009 5:02:15 PM

^good, i hate that doucher because of the french roddick match

6/18/2009 5:08:26 PM

damn sharapova is back in to the top 25 already

man I have some mild premonition that roddick might actually be able to take this, only if fed gets eliminated beforehand though

[Edited on June 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM. Reason : k]

6/18/2009 5:37:51 PM

Quote :

"damn sharapova is back in to the top 25 already"

no shes 50-something. shes only seeded in the top 25...

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/tennis/story/5372099/

6/18/2009 5:49:56 PM

Fed ftw!

6/19/2009 10:34:32 AM

nadal out

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=4272537

6/19/2009 2:31:20 PM

ah damn that sucks, I guess that means fed can prob take back the number one spot which I'm pretty sure the anaylsts were saying very rarely happens

6/19/2009 8:24:51 PM

what, someone taking back the number one ranking after losing it? if so, i don't think it's that rare. the williams sisters have both done it more than once.

6/19/2009 8:35:25 PM

I think had Nadal had an easier draw he would have tried to defend his title.

But he wants to win the US Open to complete his career grand slam.

6/19/2009 11:13:52 PM

that'd be insane if he did

two players completing the career grand slam in the same year

6/19/2009 11:19:42 PM

Quote :

"what, someone taking back the number one ranking after losing it?"

I think it was players in the past that have had huge number one runs and then lost it and getting it back again so soon or something (or maybe they were talking about going on another multiple year long run) ah well I'm too lazy to look it up

6/19/2009 11:51:34 PM

i think nadal should have tried

dont over aggress anything to compromise the us open or any future events, but just go out and try and do what you can

but then again yes,,, i dont feel his knee pain and what it possibly is or is not

6/20/2009 12:16:14 AM

Quote :

"dont over aggress anything to compromise the us open or any future events, but just go out and try and do what you can"

he did. he played against hewitt and lost. that shouldn't happen.

6/20/2009 8:43:01 AM

i think davydenko can make a good run.

roddick has a pretty easy ride into the 4th, but i expect him to lose there, as he always does.

again, i really want to see Soderling do well after his French performance. he could face Fed in the 4th rd. and Andy Murray could make a splash into the semi's with the draw that he has. then again, he could be the England's next Tim Henman. le sigh.

i usually love underdogs, but i really want Fed to win again, and then win the US Open. he is the quintessential champion, and to me belongs in the ranks of the greatest athletes of all time. i want to see him make history.

so pumped for the action this fortnight!!! check out espn's interactive draw to see potential matchups. pretty awesome

[Edited on June 21, 2009 at 7:37 PM. Reason : .]

6/21/2009 7:33:12 PM

you know roddick has reached the wimbledon finals twice....

6/22/2009 1:43:43 AM

no rafa means easy pickings for fed

BORING

6/22/2009 4:18:28 AM

damn one of the lineswomen in the djokovic/benneteau match has an unfathomable rack (for a lineswoman)

6/22/2009 1:30:04 PM

sharapova looked real sexy and played pretty well besides her serve, unfortunetly she hasn't lost a step in her shrieking though

6/22/2009 6:50:14 PM

6/22/2009 11:27:17 PM

that return of Murray's serve that Kendrick just made to win the 2nd set was sahweeeet

6/23/2009 1:34:43 PM

This is Britain's great white hope?

6/23/2009 1:37:30 PM

he's the only one, dude, what the fuck do you think

6/23/2009 1:38:15 PM

Doesn't have any answer for Kendrick's serve and looks rattled out there.

6/23/2009 1:49:42 PM

I don't know the results, but I'm going to guess that set was a fluke for whatever the american's name was, and murray won in 4

amirite? amirite?

6/23/2009 5:28:12 PM

roddick through in 4 sets i believe.

6/23/2009 9:32:24 PM

yep, and im sooooo glad ivanovic got through, barely

she is just too beautiful, hot, cute, athletic, all put together

6/24/2009 3:20:38 AM

Quote :

"I don't know the results, but I'm going to guess that set was a fluke for whatever the american's name was, and murray won in 4 amirite? amirite? "

Wouldn't say that set was a fluke, the whole match maybe was though. All 4 sets were close and Kendrick had chances to take control in all of them, but Murray is just the better player by a mile and Kendrick was playing above his head.

In more current events, Sharapova's opponent is serving for the match right now.

aaaaand it's over

[Edited on June 24, 2009 at 10:25 AM. Reason : :]

6/24/2009 10:14:54 AM

sorry dweedle, shes gone

6/24/2009 11:29:05 AM

sharapova's out?! WTF

6/24/2009 2:11:51 PM

^^i have this fetish when we're in bed and she's been working on a particular shriek

well, i heard the perfect shriek late in the 2nd set and sent her a text telling her which one...and for her to get back to me immediately before she forgot it

so yea she had to throw the 3rd set...sorry but thats the breaks

6/24/2009 10:03:21 PM

the girl that beat maria is kind of sexy though

6/25/2009 2:04:22 AM

i didnt realize that only the first 3 courts have hawkeye/shotspot capability

6/25/2009 2:39:02 PM

yeah they have to have lots of cameras and i guess that gets expensive when there are 20 courts.

6/25/2009 3:11:57 PM

im thinking a lot of it has to do with available angles to put cameras

6/25/2009 3:16:29 PM

are the french and english against playing tennis under lights?

6/25/2009 3:34:48 PM

yea, basically

6/25/2009 3:35:20 PM

Quote :

"the girl that beat maria is kind of sexy though"

Maria > Gisela

6/26/2009 1:17:27 AM

some good stuff on right now

6/26/2009 1:57:50 PM

^^dont be a douche, you picked the worst gisela photo and probably the best sharapova one

but yea maria is still better

gisela looks good too

6/26/2009 2:56:58 PM