Wimbeldon Quarterfinals Discussion thread

Post #1 » by **Slava** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:47 am

Mens:

No. 1 Roger Federer vs. No. 20 Lleyton Hewitt

No. 2 Rafael Nadal vs. No. 17 Mikhail Youzhny

No. 8 Richard Gasquet vs. No. 12 Andy Murray

No. 13 Stanislas Wawrinka vs. Marat Safin

No. 10 Marcos Baghdatis vs. No. 31 Feliciano Lopez

No. 22 Fernando Verdasco vs. Mario Ancic

Janko Tipsarevic vs. Rainer Schuettler

Arnaud Clement vs. Marin Cilic

Womens:

No. 6 Serena Williams vs. Bethanie Mattek

No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Agnieszka Radwanska

No. 7 Venus Williams vs. Alisa Kleybanova

No. 2 Jelena Jankovic vs. Tamarine Tanasugarn

No. 8 Anna Chakvetadze vs. No. 18 Nicole Vaidisova

No. 21 Nadia Petrova vs. Alla Kudryavtseva

No. 5 Elena Dementieva vs. No. 24 Shahar Peer

No. 15 Agnes Szavay vs. Zheng Jie

All 16 games to be aplyed tomorrow, so its going to be a busy day for everyone.

My pick of the games would be Federer vs Hewitt. Hewitt a former winner and extremely consistent with his game, while Federer has been the undisputed king of grass so far. Should be interesting as to see what Hewitt makes out of it.

ALso interesting to watch should be Marat Safin's game. Will he go on to challenge big 2 in the semis and will his patience and attitude last that long? Interesting. Hope he becomes the next Goran Ivanisevic in terms of entertainment value.

Post #2 » by **Slava** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:08 pm

Another convincing win fir Fedex, well Hewitt has to accept now that he's not the elite anymore.

WEFFPIM · Post #3 » by **WEFFPIM** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:08 pm

Gasquet and Murray has been great.

Tomas_11 · Post #4 » by **Tomas_11** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:37 pm

Nadal and Federer cruise in straight sets. No surprise there.

Andy Murray just pulled off a great comeback down two sets. Almost lost it there in the third set, won that tiebreak and it was over for Gasquet.

Murray and Nadal is gonna be great. Both crowd favorites, and both been playing exceptional. I think Nadal is going to win though, but not in a dominating fashion.

Post #5 » by **suckfish** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:03 pm

WEFFPIM wrote:Gasquet and Murray has been great.

The result made it all that better.

Holmes · Post #6 » by **Holmes** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 2:22 am

Go Dementieva.

Vaidisova is back.

Jie Zheng is streaking.

No to an all Williams final. Ugh.

GQStylin · Post #7 » by **GQStylin** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 5:55 am

Holmes wrote:Go Dementieva.

Vaidisova is back.

Jie Zheng is streaking.

No to an all Williams final. Ugh.

But that's what will happen, because who else can beat them?

Also, loved the Murray comeback. Great match, but much like Turkey in EuroCup, his run to the finals is done against Nadal.

Post #8 » by **Slava** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 8:06 am

I like Safin's game right now. If there's anyone in that draw that can stop Federer, its him.

Andy Murray was amazing today. Great grit and determination to make that comeback.

Huge props to Feliciano Lopez too. He came through when it mattered and Mario Ancic is another player to look out for.

Post #9 » by **BlackMamba** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 1:24 pm

more surprises, kuznetsova and jankovic out!!! what's with the women in this tournament?

i think dementieva or one of the williams will win.

and for the men i think it's clear that it will be, once again, a federer-nadal final. it won't be easy for them to reach the final, but they will reach it.

Post #10 » by **Da Schwab** » Wed Jul 2, 2008 1:25 am

I hope Andy can take out Rafa, not because I hate Rafa or anything, I just want to see the entire nation of England lose it for someone/thing other than a soccer game.

Post #11 » by **Slava** » Wed Jul 2, 2008 11:34 pm

Andy has a good chance against Nadal and Safin can be the dark horse too. I'd love to see either of those guys make the finals to make it all the more entertaining.

GQStylin · Post #12 » by **GQStylin** » Thu Jul 3, 2008 6:34 am

j-far wrote:Andy has a good chance against Nadal and Safin can be the dark horse too. I'd love to see either of those guys make the finals to make it all the more entertaining.

Care to change that statement? :lol:

I picked Nadal to win like most people, but I figured Andy might put up a decent fight at least. But maybe his last match took too much out of him or something. Whatever the case, he got destroyed, just like Roger did to Ancic.

In the semis' Nadal has the guaranteed pass to the finals, and Roger is going to have a tough fight with Safin. Hopefully Feds can make it to the finals again. Here's to Federer/Nadal III.

Post #13 » by **Slava** » Thu Jul 3, 2008 6:38 am

yeah. Looks like its almost inevitable now.

Post #14 » by **suckfish** » Thu Jul 3, 2008 5:06 pm

Nadal was outstanding vs Murray. I thought Andy would have put up slightly more of a fight, but clearly Nadal was always going to come away with the win.

Post #15 » by **BlackMamba** » Fri Jul 4, 2008 1:22 pm

well mexican césar ramírez lost in the youth quarterfinals...