Wimbledon 2013.

[Super David Silva 21]

Ivanovic has gone out, can't be doing without Sharapova going through.

 

[Akai]

and Sharapova is out as well.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

and Sharapova is out as well.

Gonna be a little quieter then!

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Wimbledon is trying to kill people this year

 

[tidyman]

Wimbledon is trying to kill people this year

Strawberries gone up again?

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Wimbledon is trying to kill people this year

Joe Kinnear was doing that 20 years ago.
They should get some decent trainers.
I played a bowls match on grass last week and never fell over once.
Actually that's not strictly true, as I toppled over on my way back from the curry house after 3 bottles of wine later, and demolished next door's fuchsia.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Wimbledon is trying to kill people this year

Strawberries gone up again?

Not sure, let you know tomorrow night

 

[jimharri]

Anybody else have a wank when they seen Maria's red pants.

You've been on here long enough, you should know the rules. Get on with it!

 

[Shands]

and Sharapova is out as well.

Gonna be a little quieter then!

Not really, this is the girl who beat her:

From The Guardian 2009

The tennis world will be hearing much more from Portugal's Michelle Larcher de Brito. The 16-year-old from Lisbon, a product of the Nick Bollettieri academy in Bradenton, Florida, is the latest in a seemingly unbroken line of shriekers and grunters stemming back to Monica Seles and encompassing Maria Sharapova. By comparison Seles whispered, and Maria Sharapova is sotto voce.

The crowd on the Philippe Chatrier court settled down in the bright Parisian sunshine for what many must have assumed would be an opening match of gentle pre-lunch sparring, or as gentle as any women's match can be in these days of clumping forehands and hammer-blow backhands, with scarcely a nod in the direction of the game's more delicate skills. Then came the first Larcher De Brito scream, which may have been heard in the Champs Elysées, and sent the pigeons at Roland Garros fleeing for cover, their wings over their ears.

She is not a large young girl in the mould of so many eastern Europeans and Russians, standing only 5ft 5in, which may count against her in the years to come. But inside this diminutive body lurks a pair of lungs of which any bull elephant might be proud. Add the fist pumps, and the racket swishes, and here is a little lady who will annoy the hell out of her rivals for years to come. And already is doing.

For Aravane Rezaï, her French opponent, who won this third-round match 7–6, 6–2, it was not a new experience. The two had played in Miami earlier this year when Rezaï complained about the noise on the other side of the net, and she did so again, a grand slam supervisor arriving like the police at a late night-early morning party. "I guess it was a bit of a tactic to throw me," said Larcher De Brito, who found herself booed and whistled off the court by a crowd not exactly renowned for its tolerance.

Both were unrepentant in their different ways, the Portuguese believing that what she does is "natural, part of my game", with Rezaï clear in her own mind, and she is the only player to have complained to date, that enough was enough. "She shouts really loud. It was really unpleasant." Rezaï was otherwise complimentary: "She's talented, she fights, and she's very young," though she sounded somewhat like her mother or elder sister when she suggested the Portugese was "just going through a phase". It is perhaps time that the WTA, the women's governing body, stepped in and did something, though given their history over such matters they will not.

Larcher de Brito, who defeated Britain's Mel South in the first round, has forced herself into the top 100 with her two wins here, and will clearly come under further scrutiny during the grasscourt season. Take your earplugs to Wimbledon, because the lady is not for quietening. "I really can't, all of a sudden, stop grunting, I just can't.

 

[waspish]

Federer is in trouble 1-2 set down