Roger Federer, Andy Murray, and Rafael Nadal landed in a tough bottom half of the bracket when the men’s singles draw at Wimbledon was announced on Friday. Murray and Nadal could face each other as early as the quarterfinals.
Meanwhile, No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic is in line for an intriguing opener against Philipp Kohlschreiber. Also in the top half the possibility of a third-round showdown between Milos Raonic and Nick Kyrgios.
Entire men’s singles draw at the Wimbledon website
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rafa alert!! bull on court….
rafa! what a point! talk about one more ball…..!
I’m struck as always, when watching him play exhos, apart from the odd pluck at his shorts the rest of the tics are abandoned. Would that he could tone it down in matches and lay to rest the whole time violation fiasco.
wow ed, so well noticed and said! if only he could……
Rafa moving very well, especially the point where he broke to go up 4-1.
I think Rafa has an okay first 4 rounds. It is not that bad could have been worse. THe Kyrgios, Rosols, Isners are all not in his 1/8th.
Is there anyone who can take out Murray? Any chance?
Fed Sock can be tricky too. If he could take a set off Rafa on clay..he can trouble Fed on grass. He has a very hard serve and slaps his FH really hard
Yes, he socks it.
Ye Karlovic, Stachovsky or Coric are there that can trouble Murray
esp Stachovsky and Karlovic
Tsonga can too but guess he is injured
murray is amazing against french flair players including tsonga….
Its not a given that Rafa will lose to Murray if they reach the qtrs. Anything can happen on 2nd Wednesday
I bet Rafa Murray wont train anymore on grass this year 🙂
You are thinking ahead! That’s a dangerous thing to do. Rafa and Murray both have to get through to the quarters. For me it’s one match at a time. 🙂
Cute pic
http://media.fyre.co/41iPdFYaSdO6oTu5qPeM_11150491_10204069892173610_1076070234909872286_n.jpg
Yes thinking ahead..bad bad
Only Belucci 🙂
wow rafa saying he has never watched the whole of the 08 wimby final, only highlights…..
Rafa seems to have an incredibly detailed memory of many of his matches… from the comments he made at various interviews, about past matches even long in the past. I wouldn’t be surprised if he remembers a lot of that match without reminders.
even so , you would think he would watch the whole match through at least once……
revealing about his mindset, no? ie part of his humility not to bask in former glories…
anyone else notice the rows of cougars there today eyeing up rafa like a piece of meat??
Yeah. Average age over 50 and testament to the art of botox, collagen, nips and tucks etc. etc.
Are they playing now? Because I can’t get it on the Boodles youtube channel. It just says – next on court!
have just finished rafa winning in straights….my stream kept dying on me but from the little i saw rafa looked very relaxed and solid in his game….
was heartening to see….
NNY: Wait a bit and it should come up in the list of replays.
NNY
If you haven’t already tracked it down, here is the link for the Nadal/Haase match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL_2J8envmM
ha ha weathermen at it again…’really hot air wafting its way up from spain next week…just don’t know quite how hot it will get..’
now saying it will be 32c in south east corner ie london next week
c’mon rafa capitalise on that spanish air…..
ed,
I just got back on here. I was out this afternoon. I had to leave right after I posted that I couldn’t get the match.
At least I know that Rafa won! Good news!
Thanks so very much for the link! 🙂
Good article on Rafa
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/26/rafael-nadal-wimbledon-2015-injuries-beautiful
nice article
despite more ‘ballet’ descriptions 🙂
…and Rafa resembles a capybara…what? and I think capybaras are super cute but wow, seriously?
Very insightful. The last paragraph quote from Rafa is also revealing…….
“I am seed 10 because I didn’t play well enough and because I was out injured for six months last year. I am where I deserve to be now, and I hoped to be in a higher position back here. I am going to work for that, but what gonna happen gonna happen. I need to do it my way.”
As Sinatra sang:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=I+did+it+my+way&FORM=VIRE6#view=detail&mid=646C3D8637B429586F78646C3D8637B429586F78
Love it! Sinatra’s My Way!
Thanks for that.
I do appreciate reading Rafa’s words.
So we have to let the man do it his way! 🙂
““It is obvious that he hits the ball easier than me, he serves better than me and he is able to do the things easier than what I do. So his talent is much better there.”
Take note that rafa says fed’s serve is better , he hits the ball easier than he does BUT he will never say things like federer has a better backhand or a forehand! As always, whatever he says, he means it. Most honest assessments.
Reblogged this on Tennis Abides.
I think Andy has the toughest draw, followed by Rafa, then Djoker, then Stan, then Fed. If only Stan and Andy had exchanged places!