Breakfast at Wimbledon - four Americans left

[malaise]

17 year old Coco Gauff; 20 year old Sebastian Korda, 23 year old Taylor Fritz and 26 year old Madison Keys. Madison and Seb play on Monday.


Coco and Taylor coming up shortly. Don't see Taylor beating Zverev here but who knows.

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1. Coco's match just started

All games were delayed - rain

[Voltaire2]

2. Why should I care what nationality they are?

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3. Well it's July 4 weekend - spoiler

Coco gets the 1st break

[spanone]

4. K&R

🎾

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9. Hey you spoiler

WOW1 18 year old Emma Raducanu becomes the youngest Brit to make it to the round of 16

[spanone]

11. That win was great!!!

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13. Felix gets a walkover

Kyrgios injured

[Cracklin Charlie]

12. Emma is fun to watch!

Good win for Coco.

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15. Agree

Good going by the Fed so far

[marmar]

5. Fritz will barely be able to walk. Sasha in an easy 3.

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7. Not sure he should have played here

Let's go Coco!

[tishaLA]

6. I haven't seen Coco play since the pandemic starred

I guess and I need to o go back and watch her from 2019 because I don't remember her having such an extreme western grip on her forehand. She might have and I just missed it, but it's not something you see with most American players.

[malaise]

8. Great serve but she has to sort out that Western grip

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10. Spoiler

Coco makes the Round of 16 in two

[marmar]

16. I've never seen a 17 year old that poised and level-headed.

[tishaLA]

14. Sad to see Kyrgios default

I know some people hate him, but when he's not acting like an ahole he's so talented and entertaining. He was also playing mixed with Venus Williams.

[marmar]

17. I think he's talented and entertaining.....

..... but he garners way too much attention for someone who's achieved so little.

[malaise]

18. So true -Spoiler

Zverev wins and the Fed loses the 3rd set. He'd better hope this doesn't go to five sets.

[tishaLA]

19. And Fed's 4th set is tight so far

I've been watching on BBC 1 and 2 which is great because there's no Brad Gilbert

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20. ROFL

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25. Spoiler

The Fed moves on

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22. Can Barbora Krejčkov win back to back slams?

Your thoughts

[Raftergirl]

21. The fewer Americans left in the draw the better

it is for me, as they clutter up the broadcast when there are more interesting matches going on.

Until they are mostly out of the draw I watch on ESPN + so I can pick the matches I want to watch, instead of being force fed a steady diet of American players - especially since most of them are Trumpers.

[malaise]

23. That is a profound observation

and we often miss some very good matches

[Raftergirl]

27. The comms are much better on the ESPN+

matches, too. They are a combo of the world feed comms and BBC comms (at Wimby.) Plus, they don’t talk nearly as much and never during points - and they don’t talk constantly talk about when they were players or ask stupid questions of the color comms. They also don’t repeat, as nauseam the same player stories over and over and over again. Some matches on the really small courts have no comms at all. That is the best.

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28. Tennis Channel has too many vested interests

[Raftergirl]

29. ESPN does too.

But at least they got rid of Patrick Mouratoglou. He is an attention whore. He’s even worse now that he has gloomed onto Coco and Tsitsi.

TC is owned by Sinclair and I really hate that I give my money to that awful company. But they have too many of the tourneys to be without it.

[spanone]

24. Wow....what a match...Federer!!!!

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26. Indeed