[MARTYM8]

Originally Posted by kingofcakes

http://www.flashscores.co.uk/match/8...#match-summary

According to that Nishikori has just won.

Yes - I was there along with a few hundred brave souls who ran into centre court when the match was called off on court 14.

We had several rounds of Mexican waves, a warm up and 5 points! Still we got seats right next to the court - albeit for all of 15 minutes

[barracuda91]

Seriously, I'm getting incredibly peed off the way they keep treating Kvitova. A women's singles quarter-finals - one with the last year's Wimbledon champion - should take precedence over a mixed doubles first round match. I don't care if it's Murray and Robson, that doubles match was scheduled for Court 18 this evening, they could've and should've put that on Court 2 instead. All quarter-final matches should be on a showcourt.

[CLL Dodge]

Originally Posted by alexgr

Match was moved to Centre - Nishikori broke Ferrer to win 6-4 in final set

Cheers for the update.

How many fans stayed to see the final game?

EDIT: ah, MARTY was there!

[CLL Dodge]

Originally Posted by barracuda91

Seriously, I'm getting incredibly peed off the way they keep treating Kvitova. A women's singles quarter-finals - one with the last year's Wimbledon champion - should take precedence over a mixed doubles first round match. I don't care if it's Murray and Robson, that doubles match was scheduled for Court 18 this evening, they could've and should've put that on Court 2 instead. All quarter-final matches should be on a showcourt.

Yes, I'd have put Petra's match first on CC (as Kirilenko has a doubles match scheduled later on court 14) with Azarenka/Kerber moved to 4th on C1 (Vika is still in the mixed but not scheduled to play in that event tomorrow).

[RepublicOfYorks]

Originally Posted by barracuda91

Seriously, I'm getting incredibly peed off the way they keep treating Kvitova. A women's singles quarter-finals - one with the last year's Wimbledon champion - should take precedence over a mixed doubles first round match. I don't care if it's Murray and Robson, that doubles match was scheduled for Court 18 this evening, they could've and should've put that on Court 2 instead. All quarter-final matches should be on a showcourt.

Well said. A Grand Slam champ should have more respect in scheduling for an Olympic Games. This seems more like regular AELTC / BBC scheduling actually, and not in a good way (get Murray on for the teatime audience), which confuses me even more...

Give Kvitova the show court, and put a BBC stream on for Murray/Robson on 2 or 3, everybody's happy? Or do they just want to avoid a situation like yesterday, Vika playing to an empty court, and everyone crowding onto a smaller court to see Serena and Venus?

[Mystical123]

Originally Posted by RepublicOfYorks

Forgive me if this has already been discussed, who is deciding the Order of Play? I suspect not AELTC, so is it ITF or IOC? Maybe cause Wozniaki's associated with a famous golfer, they think she'll get new viewers in. I dunno, everyone has different favourites, I like Vika, not many on here seem keen, whereas I've never been fussed either way about Wozniacki.

But I think Gasquet-Baghdatis would have got a show court schedule today ahead of, say, Ferrer, if AELTC had been doing it, as they're more attuned to who British fans enjoy.

Whoever's deciding the order of play is an idiot, that's about all there is to it. It's been all over the place, and whoever decided that a good place for a Williams sisters doubles match on Court 14 really needs to rethink that one, it caused a fair bit of chaos yesterday! And an empty court for the women's no.1...

I'd love to know the logic behind giving Wozniaki more Centre Court appearances this tournament than Federer though, I really would...

Originally Posted by petertard

Maria certainly in better form than she was at Wimbledon. The extra rest through going out early then has helped her now.

Do you think? Her serve basically disintegrated against Robson yesterday, and she really didn't look good at all. She stepped it up a bit in the end to win, but she was helped by Laura's serve having a similar collapse. It certainly wasn't vintage Sharapova.

Originally Posted by petertard

A Sharapova-Williams final is on the cards.

I doubt it - Serena certainly, I think she'll take the gold, but Maria will be lucky to medal. I'd guess at a Serena v Petra final personally, depending on whether Petra keeps her game up or not...

Originally Posted by alexgr

Tomorrow's order of play:

Centre: Azarenka, Djokovic, Federer, Sharapova

Court 1: Murray, Serena, del Potro, Murray/Robson

Kvitova plays her QF on court 2

Oh for god's sake! I can understand Azarenka on Centre as she hasn't played there yet (or since the 1st round, can't remember where she played that one...), and I guess it's fair enough to give del Potro a show court as he hasn't had one and he's a similar ranking to Petra, but she's a recent former Wimbledon champion and he's not. And Murray/Robson should be on Court 2 anyway. If they can put the Williams sisters on 14 then they can put the Brits on 2.

At least Petra is on Court 2 and not 14...

[MARTYM8]

Originally Posted by CLL Dodge

Cheers for the update.

How many fans stayed to see the final game?

EDIT: ah, MARTY was there!

Yes - a very surreal day of tennis today for me. Finally back home now.

Managed to get a centre court seat (up in the rafters) and had a great time watching Nole and Andy both win (eventually!).

And then the real fun began venturing onto the outside courts:

saw the end of Isner vs Tipsy on a half empty court 2 - Serbian fans on one side and Team USA on the other side. Due to the lack of stewards some young girls started running around the back of the court right in Tipsy's eyeline as he was serving at a crucial time. He blurted out 'seats please' - and if looks could kill! An amazing (14-12?) tiebreak then ensued with Isner won.

then spent about 30 mins watching Juan Martin del Potro play mixed doubles with a crowd of mad Argie fans in the stands - something I doubt I will ever see again. They were overjoyed when he and Dulko beat the Russians.

then (due to the awful singles scheduling) stood around court 14 watching Nishikori and Ferrer who still hadnt finished their match which had been due to take place on court 1. At 5-4 in the third and 5 minutes to nine they called' play is suspended' due to the fading light. Security then marched both players out - nearly knocking me over as Ferrer brushed past.

We thought all was over for the night - and then people started running into centre court as the match was being transferred there under the roof. About 200 of us 'crammed' in in the front rows on a sit where you like basis - a mixture of Japanese, mad Brits and Spaniards. I was sat between some eccentric British ladies on a Thomas cook package and two Japanese fans taking pictures.

Cue mexican waves - then the two players appeared at 10 past nine and by 9.25pm it was all over as Ferrer lost his serve and the match.

I doubt I will ever experience quite another day like it watching tennis - it was as close as you could get to chaos at Wimbledon!

[Abriel]

Originally Posted by MARTYM8

I doubt I will ever experience quite another day like it watching tennis - it was as close as you could get to chaos at Wimbledon!

Sounds it! Thanks for the report.

[CLL Dodge]

Roof closed on centre court even though there is play on the outside courts.

Maybe a forecast of showers to come.

[bunk_medal]

Murray's serve is pretty impressive today, in fact his whole game is. Almagro throwing a tantrum.

[CLL Dodge]

Vika edges the first set vs Angi.

[CLL Dodge]

Murray into the last 4.

Only 3 medals to be won though.

[bunk_medal]

Murray's ball striking was pretty incredible there, it's a pity not that many people will have seen it on TV. He hit 81% first serves as well. Ok Almagro had some problems, but still.

[Mike Teevee]

Originally Posted by CLL Dodge

Murray into the last 4.

Only 3 medals to be won though.

erm... have you only just figured this out

joking aside, nice solid win from Andy. Guaranteed two more matches, hopefully he'll be fighting for gold rather than bronze though

[CLL Dodge]

4th place gets a "diploma", as do the losing quaterfinalists.

[CLL Dodge]

Vika through despite the netcord coming to Kerber's assistance twice on match point (after which Vika hit the ball away in anger, risking disqualification if it had iunjured someone).

[Mystical123]

Serena's already a break up on Wozniacki, this might not take long...

ETA: Make that a double break, Caroline hasn't won a game yet...

[barracuda91]

For me, the Azarenka-Kerber match has been the best of the tournament so far. It was such a high quality match and some of the rallies were outstanding, such great tennis by both players. I'm disappointed it didn't go to a final set but I'm happy for Vika, even though I was hoping Angie could win it. She can hold her head up high though, she didn't go out easily and is a great fighter.

Great day for tennis coverage, especially if you like the doubles. All 5 courts are being televised so lots of tennis to watch today.

[kingjeremy]

What's the reason people seem to dislike Azarenka?

From what I've seen she seems like one of the better characters off the court. I know she is noisy but it seems the dislike of her goes beyond that.

[Erica Cartman]

Serena brushing the pusher aside. Take out the trash please.

[Erica Cartman]

Originally Posted by kingjeremy

What's the reason people seem to dislike Azarenka?

From what I've seen she seems like one of the better characters off the court. I know she is noisy but it seems the dislike of her goes beyond that.

Her annoying grunt and the fact she treats the ballkids like crap.

I like her offcourt personality though.

[Irishguy123]

Wozniacki is so frustrating the way she only starts to play well when she's coming from behind!

[Irishguy123]

Originally Posted by kingjeremy

What's the reason people seem to dislike Azarenka?

From what I've seen she seems like one of the better characters off the court. I know she is noisy but it seems the dislike of her goes beyond that.

Her attitude is terrible. Also her grunt (which doesn't bother me) annoys a lot of people, and she remains completely indignant about it.

[Damien.]

Originally Posted by Erica Cartman

Serena brushing the pusher aside. Take out the trash please.

Really do not understand the dislike for Wozniacki.

[Mystical123]

Originally Posted by Damien.

Really do not understand the dislike for Wozniacki.

I don't dislike her as such, but the amount of favouritism and publicity she gets despite not being a great player is astonishing. She's good when she's on form, but not great (I reserve that label for the likes of Clijsters and Serena), and she really should have taken one of her Grand Slam chances, that's what's let her down badly in terms of reputation. That and the fact that her form is so topsy-turvy, even in one match, but that can be said of a lot of players these days, even the better ones like Sharapova...