Sunday, June 22, 2014

The Championships, Wimbledon 2014 Begins Monday!


All England is back for business for the Championships starting Monday! The only grand slam played on grass. Although defending women's singles champion Marion Bartoli won't defend the title (she retired shortly after her win after a critic made comments regarding looks), Andy Murray will defend his men's singles title there. Murray became the first Brit since Virginia Wade in 1977 to win at All England in singles competition (in general). It was also Murray's second grand slam. Will he repeat?

Notable first round singles matches of interest
GENTLEMEN
(1) Novak Djokovic v Andrey Golubev
(2) Rafa Nadal v Martin Klizan
(3) Andy Murray v David Goffin
(4) Roger Federer v Paolo Lorenzi
(5) Stan Wawrinka v Joao Sousa
(6) Tomas Berdych v Victor Hanescu
(7) David Ferrer v Pablo Carreno Busta
(8) Milos Raonic v Matthew Ebden
(9) John Isner v Daniel Smethurst
(10) Kei Nishikori v Kenny de Schepper
(11) Grigor Dimitrov v Ryan Harrison
(12) Ernests Gulbis v Jurgen Zopp
(13) Richard Gasquet v James Duckworth
(14) Jo Wilfried Tsonga v Jurgen Melzer
(15) Jerzy Janowicz v Somdev Devvarman
(16) Fabio Fognini v Alex Kuznetsov
(17) Mikhail Youzhny v James Ward
(18) Fernando Verdasco v Marinko Matosevic
(20) Kevin Anderson v Aljaz Bedene
(21) Alex Dolgopolov v Samuel Groth
(22) Philipp Kohlschreiber v Igor Sijsling
(23) Tommy Robredo v Lukas Lacko
(24) Gael Monfils v Malek Jaziri
(25) Andreas Seppi v Leonardo Mayer
(26) Marin Cilic v Paul Henri Mathieu
(27) Roberto Bautista Agut v Steve Johnson
(29) Ivo Karlovic v Frank Dancevic
(30) Marcel Granollers v Nicolas Mahut
(31) Vasek Pospisil v Robin Haase
(32) Dmitry Tursonov v Denis Istomin
Lleyton Hewitt v Michal Przyieszny
Gilles Simon v Konstantin Kravchuk
Radek Stepanek v Pablo Cuevas
Julien Benneteau v Gilles Muller
Sam Querrey v Bradley Klahn
Sergiy Stakhovsky v Carlos Berlocq
Jeremy Chardy v Daniel Cox
Bernard Tomic v Evgeny Donskoy
Jack Sock v Pierre Hugues Herbert
Donald Young v Benjamin Becker
Edouard Roger Vasselin v Filippo Volandri
Benoit Paire v Lukas Rosol
Dustin Brown v Marcos Baghdatis
Andrey Kuznetsov v Daniel Evans
Adrian Mannarino v Pere Riba
Nick Kyrgios v Stephane Robert

LADIES
(1) Serena Williams v Anna Tatishvili
(2) Na Li v Paula Kania
(3) Simona Halep v Teliana Pereira
(4) Agnieszka Radwanska v Andreea Mitu
(5) Maria Sharapova v Samantha Murray
(6) Petra Kvitova v Andrea Hlavackova
(7) Jelena Jankovic v Kaia Kanepi
(8) Victoria Azarenka v Mirjana Lucic Baroni
(9) Angelique Kerber v Urszula Radwanska
(10) Dominika Cibulkova v Aleksandra Wozniak
(11) Ana Ivanovic v Francesca Schiavone
(12) Flavia Pennetta v Jana Cepelova
(13) Eugenie Bouchard v Daniela Hantuchova
(14) Sara Errani v Caroline Garcia
(15) Carla Suarez Navarro v Shuai Zhang
(16) Caroline Wozniacki v Shahar Peer
(17) Sam Stosur v Yanina Wickmayer
(18) Sloane Stephens v Maria Kirilenko
(19) Sabine Lisicki v Julia Glushko
(20) Andrea Petkovic v Katarzyna Piter
(21) Roberta Vinci v Donna Vekic
(22) Ekaterina Makarova v Kimiko Date Krumm
(23) Lucie Safarova v Julia Goerges
(24) Kirsten Flipkens v Tamira Paszek
(25) Alize Cornet v Anna Schmiedlova
(26) Anastasiya Pavlyuchenkova v Alison Riske
(27) Garbine Muguruza v Coco Vandeweghe
(28) Svetlana Kuznetsova v Michelle Larcer de Brito
(29) Sorana Cirstea v Victoria Duval
(30) Venus Williams v Maria Teresa Torro Flor
(31) Klara Koukalova v Taylor Townsend
(32) Elena Vesnina v Patricia Mayr Achleitner
Vera Zvonareva v Tara Moore
Tsvetana Pironkova v Varvara Lepchenko
Heather Watson v Ajla Tomljanovic
Christina McHale v Chanelle Scheepers
Monica Puig v Madison Keys
Bojana Jovanovski v Johanna Larsson
Karin Knapp v Karolina Pliskova
Casey Dellacqua v Anett Kontaveit
Silvia Soler Espinosa v Olga Govortsova
Alexandra Cadantu v Camila Giorgi
Mona Barthel v Romina Oprandi
Virginie Razzano v Irina Camelia Begu
Johanna Konta v Shuai Peng
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v Alla Kudryatseva
Misaki Doi v Elina Svitolina
Kristina Mladenovic v Zarina Diyas
Vania King v Yvonne Meusburger
Lauren Davis v Alisa Kleybanova
Yaroslava Shvedova v Kristyna Pliskova

Radio Wimbledon is back for the next two weeks! Follow the action on the Wimbledon website. Here in the states, it's on ESPN networks exclusively and DIRECTV mix channel (I think for this week only).

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