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steamboat26 said:
probably because of my mom, she's a real tennis nut, and has never liked roddick. I don't know why :confused:
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yeah, i have a few family members that are big in tennis, including my mom. my uncle says he hates him.

he went through a stretch of not playing very good (basically since 2003, when he was number 1). but they say he's playing like that again (good). so we'll see
 
The Daily Mail said:
....the 20-year-old's trademark shriek reached a peak of 103.7 decibels - equivalent to the sound of a pneumatic drill.

Miss Sharapova's previous highest recorded grunt was 102.7db, recorded at Wimbledon last year and equivalent to a small aircraft landing.

The statuesque blonde - who won the tournament in 2004 - started yesterday's match shrieking at a relatively low-level - only 89.3db - but that rapidly increased as the match progressed.

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Miss Sharapova is recorded as being the loudest female player in world tennis.

Behind her is Venus Williams who has been registered at 102.8 db; third is fellow Russian Elena Dementieva at 95.3db and fourth is Venus Williams' sister Serena at 88 decibels.

By contrast Tim Henman registers 61.6 decibels, while even the noise of a rock band (80db) and a Harley Davidson (85db) would be drowned out by some of the players The threshold above which noise is painful is 140 db.
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Damn...that's loud!
 
i was at college and i watched it on the bbc website it was an awesome match, who do you want to see in finals for men and women?
 
Right, Nadal/Federer is about to start. If either wins it will be historic, Feds is going for 5 in a row to equal Borg which I must admit up until a few years ago I thought would never be equaled.

And if Nadal wins he'll also match Borg at the first since to win the French and Wimbledon consecutively.

I'm going for Federer in 3 sets. with one tiebreak set.
 
I don't play tennis, because I don't want to have to grunt every time I lift my arm about my waistline. :)

It is odd though that they can start off without grunting, but by the second set they can't stop it. I've never figured out if it's because they actually strain that much, or if it is a psychological part of the game.
 
dogbone said:
Right, Nadal/Federer is about to start. If either wins it will be historic, Feds is going for 5 in a row to equal Borg which I must admit up until a few years ago I thought would never be equaled.

And if Nadal wins he'll also match Borg at the first since to win the French and Wimbledon consecutively.

I'm going for Federer in 3 sets. with one tiebreak set.
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just finished watching the final, what a great match, who else watched it?
 
Silver-Fox said:
just finished watching the final, what a great match, who else watched it?
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Watched the whole thing. It was a really great final. And no rain which was also good. Not sure that the mixed doubles final (coming on now) will be so lucky. Where I am (on the other side of London to be fair) it's clouding over with some very dark clouds :(

Lot's of UK interest in the mixed doubles: there's a British player in it (amazingly)...
 
What a great final. I couldn't decide who I wanted to win, but I feel that it's nice for Federer to win 5. What a way to end it too, on an overhead smash at net.

@robbieduncan: Jamie Murray is in the mixed doubles with Jelena Jankovic. Is that going to be on TV next?
 
robbieduncan said:
Watched the whole thing. It was a really great final. And no rain which was also good. Not sure that the mixed doubles final (coming on now) will be so lucky. Where I am (on the other side of London to be fair) it's clouding over with some very dark clouds :(

Lot's of UK interest in the mixed doubles: there's a British player in it (amazingly)...
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im not to keen on doubles. i thought that final match was awesome i like you watched the whole thing, i would have like to see Nadal win though he played really well
 
psycoswimmer said:
@robbieduncan: Jamie Murray is in the mixed doubles with Jelena Jankovic. Is that going to be on TV next?
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Yep. Next match on Centre. It's going to be on BBC1 in a few minutes. They altered the schedule to show it! Looks like the weather is still OK over Wimbledon from the TV.
 
robbieduncan said:
Yep. Next match on Centre. It's going to be on BBC1 in a few minutes. They altered the schedule to show it! Looks like the weather is still OK over Wimbledon from the TV.
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I'm going to check if it'll be on NBC here. I haven't watched any mixed doubles since Martina Navratilova and Mike Bryan won the U.S. Open.

It looked like some ominous clouds were hanging over head though.
 
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