If you like oogling tennis players, then you'll love this thread. WARNING: first pic can cause you to jizz in your pants. Unless you don't have pants on.

I love the first few days of Wimbeldon as we get to watch British players lose again and again. Each of them doing just enough to raise expectations (say, by winning the first set) and then dashing them with greater and greater failures. Six lost today. Oh well, at least Murray got through. If we don't have any upsets we should get a Murray-Federer final. Obviously you'd expect Federer to win what with him being the greatest tennis player of all time on his favourite surface, but Murray can be tricky; he tends to search for an opponent's weakness and then punish it. Still, Murray has a better chance at the US open.

As for the women, I am always suprised by how little quality there is in woman's tennis. I saw a game today where I think there were four break points in a row. Safina is the world number 1 and she hasn't won a grand slam yet! I hope Sharapova goes the distance, at least she looks like she wants to win.  And we get to argue over female players grunting again. If you haven't heard Michelle Larcher de Brito find a video of her on youtube.

Also, I really don't know what to make of this, but I felt it very important to share.

I'm not a devout fan of tennis but Roddick and Federer are playing a top-shelf match right now.  Fifth-set "tiebreaker", Roddick hasn't been broken once, and Federer has about 400 aces.  This could potentially last a very long time.

This match will only be decided when one of the two literally passes out on the court.


I'm not saying that hindsight's 20/20, but just how surprised are you now, Tim?

We are at 14-15 now, and it seems Federer is getting the upper hand (but only slight)

But it is an awesome game, and i hope it will go on for a long time, it is amazing to see how good these guys are after over 3 hours of tennis

Still wasn't as long as last year's final with Nadal. Also wasn't as good a match. Federer didn't play very well today but I think in the end his superior fitness pulled him through. Also a ridiculous number of aces.

And yeah Codespyder, I was pretty fucking surprised. But then, if you just look at those last 30 games in set 5, would you predict Roddick breaking a Federer service game?

As an aside, in that second set tie-break when Federer was a set down and losing 5-1, I bet a quid on him to win the match with some rather tasty 3/2 odds. That's probably the only time you'll get better than evens when betting on Federer to win a match.

To be fair, I held the same opinion as you before the match. Roddick fighting back in the 4th set and holding his own in that last one was really impressive, but it was a matter of time before Federer got the upper hand. I was surprised at how neither broke serve for basically the entire final set. 

Nonono, Nadal is the android, Federer is more like a demi-god. This is the essential duality at the top of tennis.