Wimbledon, Day 4 (aka TOW Tim Henman lost. Again)
Heard in and around Court 2:
"Tim's gonna lose, isn't he?" (Tim Henman is two sets and a break down in the third)
"Yeah, a large part of Canada's electricity comes from hydroelectric power."
"Was he asleep the first two sets, or what?" (Some girl to her mother on Tim Henman, who's just fought back from two sets down to level the match)
"Yeah, these look like kids. I think that 'dj' guy is serving. They're just nameless faces." (Some annoying guy, speaking about 4th seed and current world number 5, Novak Djokovic. The Serb defeated American world number 67, Amer Delic)
"Bloody Henman, that's it, he's not gonna win, is he?" (Tim Henman has been broken twice and is 1-5 down in the fifth)
"Yeah, those are the VIPs, the suits and ties. We're the masses. I way prefer to be the masses." (Same annoying guy, expounding his blue-collar pride)
Silence. (Tim Henman has just lost to Feliciano López 6-1 in the fifth)
Meanwhile, elsewhere around Wimbledon....
Serb superstar, Ana Ivanovic, beat American Meilen Tu 6-4 6-3, Svetlana Kuznetsova beat extravagantly-dressed American Bethanie Mattek 7-6 6-4, Slovak 10th seed, Daniela Hantuchova, defeated Russian Elena Likhovtseva, and Chinese Taipei's third seeds Chan and Chuang beat Ivanovic and Hantuchova 7-6 6-4 in the ladies doubles late in the day.
"Tim's gonna lose, isn't he?" (Tim Henman is two sets and a break down in the third)
"Yeah, a large part of Canada's electricity comes from hydroelectric power."
"Was he asleep the first two sets, or what?" (Some girl to her mother on Tim Henman, who's just fought back from two sets down to level the match)
"Yeah, these look like kids. I think that 'dj' guy is serving. They're just nameless faces." (Some annoying guy, speaking about 4th seed and current world number 5, Novak Djokovic. The Serb defeated American world number 67, Amer Delic)
"Bloody Henman, that's it, he's not gonna win, is he?" (Tim Henman has been broken twice and is 1-5 down in the fifth)
"Yeah, those are the VIPs, the suits and ties. We're the masses. I way prefer to be the masses." (Same annoying guy, expounding his blue-collar pride)
Silence. (Tim Henman has just lost to Feliciano López 6-1 in the fifth)
Meanwhile, elsewhere around Wimbledon....
Serb superstar, Ana Ivanovic, beat American Meilen Tu 6-4 6-3, Svetlana Kuznetsova beat extravagantly-dressed American Bethanie Mattek 7-6 6-4, Slovak 10th seed, Daniela Hantuchova, defeated Russian Elena Likhovtseva, and Chinese Taipei's third seeds Chan and Chuang beat Ivanovic and Hantuchova 7-6 6-4 in the ladies doubles late in the day.
Labels: Ana Ivanovic, Bethanie Mattek, Chan Yung-Jan, Chuang Chia-Jung, Daniele Hantuchova, Elena Likhovtseva, Novak Djokovic, Svetlana Kuznetsova, tennis, Wimbledon
posted by CCT at 12:30 pm
4 Comments:
Yeah, a large part of Canada's electricity comes from hydroelectric power."
This is, in fact, true.
Also, what's the obsession with this Henman guy? No-one outside of the UK has heard of him..
RS
Well, you may not have heard of him, but in Wimbledon, he has his own cult. There's even a hill named after him (Henman hill, which is, in truth, more like a slope...) facing a huge screen outside Centre Court, where masses of devout followers can watch him lose year after year....
What are you going to do now that Wimbledon is over?
Well, yes, life hardly seems worth living now that Wimbledon is over..... I'll just have to count the days until the Zürich Open in October...
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