Tennis 2012

[rutski]

proud of andy murray today.
the french crowd booed him onto the court, he was playing one of theirs richard gasquet, and got booed relentlessly through the match.
they departed during the then whipping their man got from murray and when won gave it them big time!
i do love to see the french get well and truly owned!!

[KevinGage]

Epic QF going on at the moment between Djokovic and Charles N'Zog's cousin. 

[The Left Side]

The 5th set was a bit of an anti climax but a great game nontheless

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Was looking forward to settling down to watch the rest of the final this morning, but don't think ITV are even showing it. Any idea whats going on anyone?

[The Left Side]

7th French open for Rafa, he aint bad on clay is he.

[Legion]

David Nalbandian gets a little bit stressed

[cdbearsfan]

Never seen that happen before.

[rutski]

petulance at its greatest!

[The Left Side]

David Nalbandian gets a little bit stressed

What a plonker

[Ad@m]

David Nalbandian gets a little bit stressed

I don't understand how he hasn't been roundly condemned for that.

He assaults a line judge, drawing blood; blames the ATP at the end of the game whilst failing to apologise to the line judge or his opponent; and from the majority I've heard in the press, most commentators appear to be trying to make excuses for him - one guy on Radio 5 accused the line judge of play acting!!!  Am I missing something?

He should be banned from Wimbledon for that.  It's disgraceful.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm with Ad@m on this. Disgraceful and yet some seem to think he was harshly treated by not being allowed to finish the final. Life ban, fuck him.

[Dave Cooper please]

He was rightly kicked out of the match but a life ban or being kicked out of Wimbledon? Really?
Bloody hell, it was a bit of frustration at losing a point, he didn't mean to injure the line judge. Very often we see players smash a racket or fire a ball into orbit after a bad point, both of which could easily injure someone if they were unlucky.

[Ad@m]

A lack of intent when you're negligently reckless is no defence. He may not have intended to injure the line judge but it was obvious that if he kicked the panel with that much force he'd follow through in to the line judges leg.

The guy's clearly a dick.

[spangley1812]

A lack of intent when you're negligently reckless is no defence. He may not have intended to injure the line judge but it was obvious that if he kicked the panel with that much force he'd follow through in to the line judges leg.

The guy's clearly a dick.

 I am with you mate, someone tried to justify it to me today by saying well they should have made the wooden panels tougher ?

[Dave Cooper please]

A lack of intent when you're negligently reckless is no defence. He may not have intended to injure the line judge but it was obvious that if he kicked the panel with that much force he'd follow through in to the line judges leg.

The guy's clearly a dick.

No, he was clearly very frustrated and took it out on the nearest object, in this case an advertising hoarding. Ever played sport? Never got annoyed whilst playing sport? If the line judge hadn't have inadvertently got in the way it would have been a code violation and at the most a one game penalty.
Did someone say life ban?!