Wimbledon Day 1 - Seen and Heard Around

by Savannah

Well ESPN360 has commentary. The good news is it's the BBC feed. Virginia Wade calling a match is heaven. It's all about the match and the asides are match related. They were late putting up Serena Williams match so I had to tune into the ESPN feed. Insert vomit smiley here.

Feliciano Lopez and lucky loser Karol Beck played a hell of a match. It was out on Court 18 and the fans were literally hanging from the rafters. Lopez lost due mostly to some poor shot selection at crucial points in the last set but when both men were playing well it was beautiful tennis.

Victoria Azarenka won her match via walkover. Severine Bremond slipped on the grass and I can tell you knees are not supposed to bend the way her left knee did. To her credit Azarenka did check to see if Bremond was okay before retiring to her chair and discretely asked the chair for balls to practice her serve while medical evaluation was made.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga didn't look like a bull on ice today. He had to play harder than he anticipated against Andrey Golubev though. Where has he been? The first tiebreak between the two men was a thing of beauty and showed how powerful, and graceful Tsonga is at his best.

I'm sure you'll hear all about how wonderful and strong and dominating the Monogram was today. Just keep in mind his opponent is ranked 65th in the world.

The same can be said for #24. Her opponent is ranked #79 in the world. Even at her real ranking of #59 she should've won today and did.

Michelle Larcher de Brito is as mouthy as ever. When asked about her yowling she made the following comments that were posted by @wimbledon on Twitter.

De Brito says she wasn't asked by the AELTC not to grunt before 2day's match and says "If the body needs to grunt more, it grunts".

"I'm here to play, I'm here to win, if people don't like my grunting they can just leave."

Go on with your bad self.

In what must be a sign of the Apocalypse Fernando Verdasco played with no product in his hair. He looks a thousand times better.

I'm glad to see that the women are keeping it simple this year. Serena has her coat jacket.


And Nadia had this number.

So it was up to the men to strut like peacocks.


Miscellany

Vera Zvonareva took the court with a heavy wrap as well as a brace on her right ankle.
Vera Dusevina served a steaming hot bagel to Alize Cornet.
Mathilde Johannson won in straight sets over British player Melanie South.
All three matches were called due to darkness.
Laura Robson was overcome by emotion in her loss to Daniela Hantuchova.
Julien Benneteau took a nasty slide into the back wall at the end of his match against Novak Djokovic. There was a lot of slipping and sliding on the grass today, much more than there was at Roland Garros. Of course none of the sliding today was part of anyone's game plan.

Day 2 Order of Play

CENTRE - SHOW COURT - 1.00 PM START

1. Venus Williams (USA) [3] 33 vs Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 34
2. Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 31 vs Andy Roddick (USA) [6] 32
3. Andy Murray (GBR) [3] 33 vs Robert Kendrick (USA) 34

COURT 1 - SHOW COURT - 1.00 PM START

1. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) [5] 1 vs Arnaud Clement (FRA) 2
2. Dinara Safina (RUS) [1] 1 vs Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) 2
3. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) 53 vs Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 54

COURT 2 - SHOW COURT - 12.00 NOON START

1. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [9] 17 vs Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN) 18
2. Michael Llodra (FRA) 75 vs Joshua Goodall (GBR) 76 T/F 4/6 7/6(5) 0/0 0-0*
3. Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) 23 vs Tomas Berdych (CZE) [20] 24
4. Bobby Reynolds (USA) 63 vs Gilles Simon (FRA) [8] 64
5. Akiko Morigami (JPN) 31 vs Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) [5] 32

COURT 3 - SHOW COURT - 12.00 NOON START

1. Julia Goerges (GER) 63 vs Jelena Jankovic (SRB) [6] 64
Tommy Haas (GER) [24] 73 vs Alexander Peya (AUT) 74 T/F 6/7(5) 7/6(0) 6/3 4/4 0-0*
2. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 3 vs Robby Ginepri (USA) 4
3. Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 55 vs Nicolas Kiefer (GER) [33] 56
4. Amelie Mauresmo (FRA) [17] 9 vs Melinda Czink (HUN) 10

COURT 4 - SHOW COURT - 12.00 NOON START

1. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) [12] 17 vs Daniel Evans (GBR) 18
2. Patricia Mayr (AUT) 27 vs Anne Keothavong (GBR) 28
3. Radek Stepanek (CZE) [23] 9 vs Alejandro Falla (COL) 10
4. Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 47 vs Ana Ivanovic (SRB) [13] 48

COURT 5 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Victor Hanescu (ROU) [31] 57 vs Ivan Navarro (ESP) 58
2. Marta Domachowska (POL) 23 vs Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) [20] 24
3. Taylor Dent (USA) 37 vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP) 38
4. Kristina Kucova (SVK) 11 vs Aiko Nakamura (JPN) 12

COURT 6 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 55 vs Na Li (CHN) [19] 56
2. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 29 vs Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) 30
3. Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) 35 vs Ernests Gulbis (LAT) 36
4. Alexa Glatch (USA) 51 vs Shuai Peng (CHN) 52

COURT 7 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Jelena Dokic (AUS) 43 vs Tatjana Malek (GER) 44
2. Fabio Fognini (ITA) 13 vs Denis Istomin (UZB) 14
3. Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP) 15 vs Flavia Pennetta (ITA) [15] 16
4. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [11] 49 vs Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) 50

COURT 8 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Olga Govortsova (BLR) 53 vs Tatiana Perebiynis (UKR) 54
2. Monica Niculescu (ROU) 59 vs Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 60
3. Brian Dabul (ARG) 39 vs Viktor Troicki (SRB) [30] 40
4. Eric Butorac (USA) and Scott Lipsky (USA) 31 vs
Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) and Marcin Matkowski (POL) [6] 32

COURT 9 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) 35 vs Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) 36
2. Benjamin Becker (GER) 27 vs Roko Karanusic (CRO) 28
3. Thiago Alves (BRA) 61 vs Andrei Pavel (ROU) 62
4. Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 29 vs Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) 30

COURT 11 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Oscar Hernandez (ESP) 51 vs Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 52
2. Nicole Vaidisova (CZE) 3 vs Rossana De Los Rios (PAR) 4
3. Christophe Rochus (BEL) 45 vs Pablo Cuevas (URU) 46
4. Vania King (USA) 13 vs Mariya Koryttseva (UKR) 14

COURT 12 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Samantha Stosur (AUS) [18] 41 vs Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 42
2. Kevin Kim (USA) 15 vs David Ferrer (ESP) [16] 16
3. Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) [19] 41 vs Eduardo Schwank (ARG) 42
4. Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 7 vs Agnes Szavay (HUN) [30] 8

COURT 14 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Katie O'Brien (GBR) 61 vs Iveta Benesova (CZE) 62
Vera Dushevina (RUS) 87 vs Alize Cornet (FRA) [22] 88 T/F 3/6 6/0 4/2 0-0*
2. Jurgen Melzer (AUT) [26] 25 vs Wayne Odesnik (USA) 26
3. Potito Starace (ITA) 11 vs Jose Acasuso (ARG) 12

COURT 15 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Petra Kvitova (CZE) 19 vs Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 20
2. Frederico Gil (POR) 21 vs Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 22
3. Sara Errani (ITA) 45 vs Stephanie Dubois (CAN) 46
4. Pablo Andujar (ESP) 43 vs Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG) 44

COURT 16 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Simone Bolelli (ITA) and Andreas Seppi (ITA) 63 vs
Daniel Nestor (CAN) and Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) [2] 64
2. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) and Ai Sugiyama (JPN) [6] 49 vs
Tamira Paszek (AUT) and Olga Savchuk (UKR) 50
3. Jarmila Groth (AUS) and Renata Voracova (CZE) 21 vs Gisela Dulko (ARG) and Shahar Peer (ISR) 22
4. Rogier Wassen (NED) and Igor Zelenay (SVK) 11 vs
Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) and Juan Monaco (ARG) 12

COURT 17 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Victor Crivoi (ROU) 19 vs Bjorn Phau (GER) 20
2. Sybille Bammer (AUT) [29] 57 vs Melanie Oudin (USA) 58
3. Rajeev Ram (USA) 5 vs Philipp Petzschner (GER) 6
4. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 37 vs Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) 38

COURT 18 - SHOW COURT - 12.00 NOON START

1. Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) [10] 49 vs Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 50
Vera Zvonareva (RUS) [7] 65 vs Georgie Stoop (GBR) 66 T/F 7/6(0) 4/6 0/0 0-0*
2. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) [32] 25 vs Sabine Lisicki (GER) 26
3. Jesse Levine (USA) 47 vs Marat Safin (RUS) [14] 48
4. Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 39 vs Kaia Kanepi (EST) [25] 40

COURT 19 - 12.00 NOON START

1. Nicolas Devilder (FRA) 59 vs Nicolas Lapentti (ECU) 60
2. Alberta Brianti (ITA) 21 vs Tathiana Garbin (ITA) 22
3. Mischa Zverev (GER) 7 vs Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) [25] 8

THE FOLLOWING MATCHES WILL BE PLAYED ON COURTS TO BE ARRANGED
NOT BEFORE 17:00 HRS

Elena Baltacha (GBR) 5 vs Alona Bondarenko (UKR) 6

Serena Williams (USA) and Venus Williams (USA) [4] 17 vs
Virginie Razzano (FRA) and Aravane Rezai (FRA) 18

Prakash Amritraj (IND) and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 23 vs
Stephen Huss (AUS) and Ross Hutchins (GBR) [16] 24

NOTE: Seeds are in brackets. The small numbers refer to the player(s) line on the original PDF's.