CODE PINK: Here at Wimbledon, we were thinking of pink English cheeks, old school pink frocks, pink roses that are everywhere in London and nifty pink smart cars. Then Serena Williams told her curious tale of hurting herself when she fell off her pink beach bicycle in Flordia in October.
GO FIGURE: After the first set of her match against Francesca Schiavone, Marion Bartoli kicked her parents off the court.
AND THE MICK JAGGER YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT MEDALION GOES TO: Last year Andy Roddick said, “If I had Wimbledon, I’d have everything I want.”
HEADLINES
STRAWBERRIES AND SCREAM
RAIN, WIND AND TUMBLING BRITONS: IT'S WIMBLEDON
MURRAY BIDS TO UNITE THE NATION
SABINE SPARKS CRISIS IN CHINA
LISIICKI DUMPS NA AND BREAKS A BILLION HEARTS
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR RODDICK AFTER LATEST EARLY EXIT
LI IS LEFT A BIT SICKI
SERENA SURVIVES SCARE BEFORE ATTACK ON THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB
WIMBLEDON IS TWO SEXIST
SERENA COURT IN A STORM – IT’S ALL TWO MUCH
BLINGTASTIC SERENA!
CLASSY CAROLINE IS A SPARKLER ON COURT TWO – UNLIKE SERENA FEELING I CAN DO IT
RODDICK SUFFERS POWER FAILURE
THE LLEYT SHOW IS NOT OVER
WHY DOES IT ALWAYS SEEM TO RAIN ON ME AND LI
NEW BAWLS PLEASE
SUPER NOVAK IS STREAKS AHEAD
TIM WITS
C’MON ANDY’ IS NEW CRY AS CROWD TURNS ON HECKLERS
SERENA TAKES: Our two favorite takes on Serena (who cried, then spoke of being snubbed, then revealed she fell off a beach bike) went like this.
•“Just another day in the Wimbledon life of a Williams. A wobble, followed by breathtaking power wrapped up with a pop at officialdom.”
•“Last time, tears and naked emotion. This time, mild resentment and insinuation. All it took to muddy up Serena Williams’s dreamy Wimbledon comeback was for the organizers to stick her out by the fence again.”
BROUHAHA: A planned protest for Spanish democracy, complete with banners and spray paint and political T-shirts, was foiled by Wimby security.
THE TRACKS OF OUR TEARS: It has been one of the teariest Wimby’s in memory: among others Serena Williams, Sabine Lisicki, Heather Watson, Naomi Broady and we think Francesca Schiavone.
AS A MATTER OF FACT WE CAN’T: Serena said, “I always want to be lefty. Can you imagine?”
SERENA VOTES RAFA AS TOUGHEST: When IT asked Serena who was the toughest mentally, she said Rafa.
TENNIS’ MOST ACADEMIC ‘GANGSTA’ (WHO BY THE WAY IS SEEKING A SHAMAN): Heady German Andrea Petkovic first tweeted, “Anybody here studying ethnologhy or anthropology and creative and willing enough to teach us tennis players at Wimby an ANTI-raindance.” Then she noted, “I’m so gangster. I don’t switch off my iPod during take-off and landing.”
APPROPRIATE APP?: Reader Sue Taylor of Grantham wrote the Telegraph asking, “Is anyone developining an app that would enable you to to switch BBC commentators at Wimbeldon while continuing to hear the ball strike? It would earn a fortune.
GREAT SMILE, WICKED WIDE SERVE, LETHAL FOREHAND AND THE UNSPOILED INNOCENCE OF YOUTH, PLUS SHE’S A LEFTY: Laura Robson.
HYBRID LIGHT: There is such a natural color sensibility at Wimbledon, a celebration of soft greens and gentle emeralds. But Centre Court — under the still relatively new roof with its translucent covering — there is an odd, almost yellow tone, a diffuse combination of soft natural light and intense arena lights.
EXCITING TEEN PROSPECT, HIGH TENNIS IQ, FIERCE CONNORS-LIKE DESIRE, FAST AND CRAFTY, MIGHT NEED TO CALM DOWN JUST A BIT: Ryan Harrison.
GOOD QUESTION: Did Harrison drop his racket or his serve more often in his tough five set loss to the battling Spanish veteran David Ferrer?
BEST NEW NICKNAME: Andy Murray’s mother, Judy, sent this tweet relating to the hunky Lopez: “Ooooooooh Deliciano… looking good out there. As always.”
BEST NEW TERM RELATING TO A 6-0 BAGEL: “Trip to the Bakery.”
SEXIST, SEMI-SEXIST OR ‘SO WHAT’: Novak Djokovic said, “I don’t cook for my team here. I like to be in the kitchen sometimes but I leave it to the professional to do their job , to the women.”
GO FIGURE: Thirty-seven women weren’t born when Kimiko Date-Krumm first played Wimbledon…Rafael Nadal is 16-2 against Americans in Slams (he lost to Roddick and Blake at the ’04 and ’05 U.S. Opens)…26 players – 20 percent of the woman’s draw – have a name ending with ‘ova’. Our favorite — Barbora Azhazvova-Strycova.
COMPLAINT OF THE WEEK (NON-COURT TWO DEPARTMENT): ‘Come on, Tim’ being yelled out during matches.
OMG — EVEN MORE HEADLINES:
THE GRUNT GALS OF WIMBLEDON ARE TURNING OF US TO LADIES
TENNIS
MCENROE OUTS HIMSELF AS A CRICKET FANSHOWING
VULNERABILITY WILL ENDEAR SERENA TO PUBLIC
GRAND OLD LADY OF TENNIS GIVES VENUS RUNAROUND
NADAL WINS UNDER ROOF AND UNDER RADAR
SWISS DELIVERY IS THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS
