Murray into Semi-Finals

Like most of the country I spend two weeks a year as a big fan of Tennis, there is always a chance in a World Cup or European Championship year that football will over power the annual tennis fest that is Wimbledon, however due to England's poor performance I was able to pick up a bit of tennis yesterday.

Andy Murray came through two opening tie break sets on his way to a four set victory over Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, it ended up as a relatively easy victory for Murray but looked to be quite different during the second tie-break when he could have slipped to a 2 set deficit.

This was a good result for Murray, but his reward is to get a Semi-Final against Nadal on Friday which will be a mountain to over come if he is to become the first British Wimbledon finalist since 1938.

Personally I want Murray to make it to the final as it will be good for British Tennis to have a winner, for a change. Personally as a player I prefer Nadal as he is without doubt the best player in the world today, I would have quite liked a Federrer - Nadal final again, but that is not possible now, after Federrer went out.

There are many English people who do not want Murray to win due to his perceived anti-englishness. This all seems to stem from a comment he made in 2006 when he said that he hoped anyone won the world cup except England. However this didn't bother me as Murray is Scottish so I do not expect him to support England.

Well hopefully he can do it, if for no other reason than if we have a champion we will not have to endure all the comments about how long it has been since there has been a British Champion.

Longest Match at Wimbledon

Taking a break from Football and the world cup for a second there was an Epic (In fact Epic does not seem to cover it.) Match at Wimbledon this week. 23^rd Seed John Isner beat Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3), 70-68. The match which lasted over three days had a combined on court time of 11 Hours and 5 Minutes and spread over 3 days. In the process they have set the record for The Longest Match, The Longest Set, The Most Games in a Set, The Most Games in a Match and currently sit 1^st (Isner - 112) and 2^nd (Mahut 103) for most Aces in a match. I would also suggest they hold the record for most records in a match as well.

For Mahut there is at least the knowledge that although he has lost he will go down in Wimbledon history, For Isner however he takes on Thiemo De Bakker in round two today who I would expect was rubbing his hands in glee as the match stretched on.