Wimbledon 2011 thread 20 June - 3 July

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Is anyone fluent in Pub Team language?

Someone translate

Im a winner winner winner.

Taxi for Ach, he has had a shocker today and needs a lie down to get over it.

[Master Splinter]

Taxi for Ach, he has had a shocker today and needs a lie down to get over it.

Ach

Awful WUM.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's funny how Borg spent so long away from Wimbledon, now he's there every year.

I think he is slightly drunk today too.

Borg.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Now we have a piece on Fred Perry.

[Coney]

It's funny how Borg spent so long away from Wimbledon, now he's there every year.

I think he is slightly drunk today too.

Borg.

Wasn't he pissed off for a while because after being out for a while they did not offer him a wild card automatic place and asked him to complete in the pre-wimbledon play-offs to earn a place in the finals? I seem to remember him being annoyed that a multiple Wimbledon champion would have to do that.

[Coney]

Now we have a piece on Fred Perry.

Note the tennis brigade not wanting him because he was not the right sort - not from the right background, the working class oik.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wasn't he pissed off for a while because after being out for a while they did not offer him a wild card automatic place and asked him to complete in the pre-wimbledon play-offs to earn a place in the finals? I seem to remember him being annoyed that a multiple Wimbledon champion would have to do that.

Yeah I think you're right.

[Master Splinter]

Garry Richardson asking Rafa what it feels like to have his name up alongside Becker, McEnroe, etc.

They should be honoured to be there with him. He's much better.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I think they were fishing for him to praise Wimbledon.

Also, the players are coming out on court now.

[Coney]

Garry Richardson asking Rafa what it feels like to have his name up alongside Becker, McEnroe, etc.

They should be honoured to be there with him. He's much better.

Maybe. Thing is, it is like comparing the 1971 double side with the invincibles. Games move on - if McEnroe, Becker and Borg had been players in the current era, how would their game techniques have changed? Impossible to say. All we can say is that McEnroe, Borg, Becker, Nadal, Federer, Sampras and Laver were truly great players of the game.