Wimbledon

[Nick Armstrong]

their forestroke

Serena Williams (nice Welsh girl)

[MrGongGong]

Oh. Well that applies to McEnroe, Borg and countless other tennis players doesn't it? In fact, apart from possibly Agassi I can't think of a single pretty boy tennis player and he was a bit too much aging rock star looks. And the women are hardly any better in the beauty stakes. Although as they are all lesbians they should be able to play 5 sets with no probs.

What about Pat Cash's legs ?

hang on a minute I thought I was a heterosexual ?

(I am but he did have lovely legs though )

[Nick Armstrong]

Serena Williams (nice Welsh girl)

Like Fernand O'Verdasco - good Irish lad

[Lateralthinking1]

CHAMPION!

[scottycelt]

I find, not being a tennis player although we did it at school and I was useless, I don't understand the scoring. I also find the grunting of the ladies irritating. However, as I came out in support of The Dour Scots Laddie yesterday I guess I'll watch the mens final. Is that a 3 set or a 5 set (I didn't know there were different rules for men and women), if it's a finish at 11pm job then I won't watch.

Yes, I found the ladies' grunting a bit of a turn-off as well, and not the sort of thing I was brought up to expect ladies to do (at least in public), but it did have the distinct advantage of drowning-out much of the BBC commentary.

So let some of our very valued (and ever-so-slightly bitter and twisted) English members be as rude as they like about Andy Murray, but let's not be too harsh on the grunting ladies, please ...

[MrGongGong]

Yes, I found the ladies' grunting a bit of a turn-off as well, and not the sort of thing I was brought up to expect ladies to do (at least in public), but it did have the distinct advantage of drowning-out much of the BBC commentary.

So let some of our very valued (and ever-so-slightly bitter and twisted) English members be as rude as they like about Andy Murray, but let's not be too harsh on the grunting ladies, please ...

ooooooer mrs
give me a grunting "lady" any day

[Mary Chambers]

no, I am biased because he lacks charm and isn't pretty.

No-one can help not being pretty - he is his mother's son, after all - but he could at least try to be pleasant.

I thought Tim was quite pretty when young, nice proportions and graceful.

Very sad that Radwanska didn't win this afternoon. For a moment I thought she might. I was only half watching, as always with the sound turned off most of the time.

[Nick Armstrong]

No-one can help not being pretty - he is his mother's son, after all - but he could at least try to be pleasant.

I thought Tim was quite pretty when young, nice proportions and graceful.

Rafa Nadal has an enormous...

...what's the word?

...

ah!

... following.

[Anna]

No-one can help not being pretty - he is his mother's son, after all

Mary, you are priceless and an adornment, etc.

[salymap]

Are lady tennis playe rs getting taller or is it my TV screen, now it's digital.? i always felt conspicuous as a kid, now they all out-top me by several inches.
AnywayI hope Murray wins,pretty or not.

[Lateralthinking1]

I felt a bit sorry for Radwanska but she has time on her side. It was a much better match than seemed likely at the end of the first set. What a great comeback for someone who was very ill just a short while ago and who does so much for charity in Africa.

I like the commentary. Today they had one of the best teams. I think though that Mac is getting a little carried away when he suggests that SW is the greatest player ever. That chart of Grand Slam wins of all time they showed was really fascinating:

1 Margaret Court 24
2 Steffi Graf 22
3 Helen Wills Moody 19
4 Chris Evert 18
= Martina Navratilova 18
6 Serena Williams 14
7 Billie Jean King 12
8 Maureen Connolly 9
= Monica Seles 9
10 Suzanne Lenglen 8
= Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 8
12 Maria Bueno 7
= Evonne Goolagong 7
= Dorothea Lambert Chambers 7
= Justine Henin 7
= Venus Williams 7

[Richard Tarleton]

Rafa Nadal has an enormous...

Did anyone read that hilarious interview by Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times last year? She has the sharpest pen in Fleet Street, well, Wapping, and I've never felt quite the same about him since. It really got to him, as he was heard to refer to her in uncomplimentary tones subsequently. She remarked to him that for someone who did underwear adverts, he appeared to, er, find his own underwear extremely uncomfortable.

[Nick Armstrong]

Did anyone read that hilarious interview by Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times last year? She has the sharpest pen in Fleet Street, well, Wapping, and I've never felt quite the same about him since. It really got to him, as he was heard to refer to her in uncomplimentary tones subsequently. She remarked to him that for someone who did underwear adverts, he appeared to, er, find his own underwear extremely uncomfortable.

[Anna]

tuk-tuk robots alert. New balls please.

[scottycelt]

Did anyone read that hilarious interview by Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times last year? She has the sharpest pen in Fleet Street, well, Wapping, and I've never felt quite the same about him since. It really got to him, as he was heard to refer to her in uncomplimentary tones subsequently. She remarked to him that for someone who did underwear adverts, he appeared to, er, find his own underwear extremely uncomfortable.

Shockingly sexist ... what does that stupid woman know about the problems of wearing men's underwear, which only men can properly understand? ... poor Rafa ... !