What is going on at Wimbledon,
usually the first week of a grand slam is a warm-up for the top players as they
ease their way through the first three rounds and prepare themselves for the second
week.
But this year they’re dropping like
flies, usually you get a couple of surprises in the first week so when Nadal,
who was clearly not 100%, lost on the first day I thought that’s the surprise out
of the way, oh how wrong I was.
Yesterday must have been a record
for the most number of top players departing a grand slam all at the same time,
Federer gone, Tsonga gone, Cilic gone, Azarenka gone, Sharapova gone, I can’t
remember a day like it.
All this means Murray has got a
much easier route to the final, as anyone who might have caused him some
problems have now gone.
So don’t be surprised to see
another installment of Murray vs. Djokovic next Sunday, it’s been interesting to
watch the evolution of the different rivalries between the top four, first it
was just Federer, then it was Federer-Nadal, then it was Nadal-Djokovic, now it’s
Djokovic-Murray.
And unless one of them falls over
and seriously injures themselves, as they are more likely to go out this way
than actually getting beaten by their opponents, it will be the third time in
the last four slams that Murray and Djokovic will be in the final.
Having made several predictions for
Wimbledon and other tennis tournaments in the last year or so and having got
most of them wrong, i.e. saying Federer wouldn’t win another grand slam during
Wimbledon last year, saying ironically after Murray won gold in the Olympics that
he might have won that but I bet now he won’t win a slam, I’ve vowed to make no more
predictions and keep my mouth shut, after I make this last one, I do hope
Murray doesn’t win Wimbledon.
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