Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Live - Wimbledon 2010

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By Piers Newbery
BBC Sport at Wimbledon

0940: Also on Centre Court today, we'll see Caroline Wozniacki play Kai-Chen Chang before Rafael Nadal takes on Robin Haase. That means Serena Williams' hopes of showing off her new curtsy in front of the royal box have been dashed. "I'm working on it," she said earlier in the week. "It's a little dramatic and I'm trying to tone it down. I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced." Serena is out on Court Two in the third match against Anna Chakvetadze, although the world number one might get her chance if she is one of the players presented to the Queen in the morning.

The Queen
0932: Anywhere else it might be difficult to upstage the longest match ever, but not at Wimbledon. The Queen will visit the All England Club today for the first time since she saw Virginia Wade win the title in 1977. Her Majesty will pay a visit to Henman Hill (or Aorangi Terrace if you prefer), watch some junior tennis and meet some famous players past and present, before taking her seat in the royal box to watch Andy Murray take on Jarkko Nieminen in the second round.

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From Lindsey in Paris via text: "Re yesterday's epic match, my response in limerick form: 'There was a tall player named John, whose first round match lingered on, he'd serve up an ace, Nico'd return with great pace, before long they'll have both scored a ton.'"

0922: OK, two more things on the match from the end of the world. Firstly, have a look at Tom Fordyce's excellent summation of the madness of Court 18 - "Ball-boys became ball-men" - and enjoy a limerick on the epic encounter....

Latest scores
0916: Some stats from Isner-Mahut before we move on: The fifth set lasted over seven hours, the previous longest match was six hours 33 minutes; Isner had 98 aces, and Mahut had 95 (both totals eclipsing the previous high of 78); Isner had 218 winners, Mahut 217; 881 points have been played over the 10 hours of the match. So far.

0910: "The game is over when Fats says it's over... I came after him and I'm gonna get him. I'm going with him all the way." Not the words of Nicolas Mahut, but the words of Paul Newman in The Hustler. The pool game in that celluloid classic lasted 25 hours and only ended when Newman's Fast Eddie character polished off an entire bottle of bourbon. Watch out for that at the changeovers on Court 18 today.

The sun is out
0904: BBC Breakfast's Carol Kirkwood: "The weather is looking absolutely gorgeous today with blue skies over Wimbledon and termperatures set to reach 26C, although we will see more cloud around this afternoon than we did yesterday."

It's good news for a Briton
0900: Morning all, and welcome back to Isner-Mahut 2010. Some would say this is day four of Wimbledon but we all know that, in reality, it's day three of 'the longest tennis match in history.' Big John and Nimble Nic will resume their first-round match at 59-59 in the final set, and they've been scheduled to return to Court 18 'not before 1530 BST'. So, a morning off for the lads. They should pop into town, see the sights, maybe take in a show...

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