Have your say & ask the experts

the_lhc:

I'd rather take the money for the TV and stick it on Federer now, Murray really didn't want a 5-setter at this stage of the tournament and on current form Federer will walk all over him.

Fingers crossed...

JohnDuncan:

Andy Clough:

Not sure my nerves could stand another match like that one, free TV or not.

Yeah but I'm Scottish and therefore am used to unfulfilled sporting expectation.

Oh I dunno JD, you managed to scrape a tough-fought draw with the Faroe Islands so it's not all doom and gloom

wait a minute, why not wait till just before the final to buy the tv,by  the time it arrives the match will be over so if he looses just return it? free chance to win a load of credit?

No free TV's i guess.....as if it was ever gonna happen!............ Murray winning-not the free tv's

Just when we get rid of Henmania another one arrives............will we have to listen to how Murray is the nearly man, golden boy of British Tennis, blah,blah,blah................ 

Okay, this annoys me. I challenge anyone who actually ever really followed tennis to be down on Henman or Murray's career. Henman got to 4th in the world and Murray is currently at 3rd in the world - if you ask me, that's pretty damn impressive. Okay, (so far) neither of them have won Wimbledon. But did you watch any of the matches they played in the other Grand Slams? Did you even watch the matches they lost on route to the Wimbledon final? In those, they actually played very well and just got outplayed by someone who just had that extra something. Does that deserve ridicule?

So what the hell is the whole putting them both down about? Do you hate tennis? Is that it? I'm really intrigued as I can't understand this attitude.

Torres09:

Just when we get rid of Henmania another one arrives............

"another one arrives" - So you'd prefer it if Britain had no leading sports men / women I guess? Then you wouldn't have to watch a part of the nation get excited that we might actually have someone who was one of the best in the world.

Given you're a Liverpool fan, I guess I can understand that.

professorhat:

Okay, this annoys me. I challenge anyone who actually ever really followed tennis to be down on Henman or Murray's career. Henman got to 4th in the world and Murray is currently at 3rd in the world - if you ask me, that's pretty damn impressive. Okay, (so far) neither of them have won Wimbledon. But did you watch any of the matches they played in the other Grand Slams? Did you even watch the matches they lost on route to the Wimbledon final? In those, they actually played very well and just got outplayed by someone who just had that extra something. Does that deserve ridicule?

So what the hell is the whole putting them both down about? Do you hate tennis? Is that it? I'm really intrigued as I can't understand this attitude.

Totally agree. Being Scottish I'm actually proud of this young man's achievement, and he is still young. Welcome to the UK, the country where we build you up only to knock you down.

professorhat:

Torres09:

Just when we get rid of Henmania another one arrives............

"another one arrives" - So you'd prefer it if Britain had no leading sports men / women I guess? Then you wouldn't have to watch a part of the nation get excited that we might actually have someone who was one of the best in the world.

Given you're a Liverpool fan, I guess I can understand that.

WOW, professor you take your tennis very seriously..........ah well you'll just have to wait another 12 months..

And no i dont prefer if Britain had no leading sports men / women,  its great to see  Jenson Button doing so well in the F1 after a few bad seasons, however i dont see 3 or 4 pages dedicated to him in the back pages of the papers,extended media coverage etc,etc  and he's actually winning races!.........

He just isn't good enough.

We are getting better players, but we still are not producing those with the big game ability. Murray is destined to be another almost.

And, he deserved a lot of stick for his ill advised comments about the English.

professorhat:

Torres09:

Just when we get rid of Henmania another one arrives............

"another one arrives" - So you'd prefer it if Britain had no leading sports men / women I guess? Then you wouldn't have to watch a part of the nation get excited that we might actually have someone who was one of the best in the world.

Given you're a Liverpool fan, I guess I can understand that.

Prof, no real need for that outburst. I don't feel the need to cheer someone on just because they are British. Murray and Henman are the most boring personalities. Mansell, Faldo and Lewis Hamilton are the same for me. Button has a bit about him - cheeky chappy maybe.

Murray did himself no favours when he declared that he cheered on the other side when England played football. I don't blame him for being like that but he as silly it would hardly adhere him to the English public, to which many fans of tennis belong.

At the end of the day, sport is all about having favourites and teams/people that you don't like - Murray is one of them. Not quite Man Utd, maybe more like Chelsea to me.

And your bit about being a Liverpool fan is lost on me. If you are saying that we don't have many English players in the team, what about the fact that we have an Italian as our national coach? I see it as nationality does not come into any of it. I like who I like.

i think ur find that was a JOKE!!! us english do it the scotish as well its called banter!!!

SAP7:

He just isn't good enough. We are getting better players, but we still are not producing those with the big game ability. Murray is destined to be another almost. And, he deserved a lot of stick for his ill advised comments about the English.

I think Murray will win maybe two or three Grand Slam titles in his career, the US Open is probably his best bet for a first major victory.

The whole culture in British tennis is getting better, but it's been perceived as an extremely elitist sport for far too long. If the UK is ever to produce a true World-dominant player (by that I mean someone as successful as Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, Steffi Graf or Venus Williams) they're probably not going to be the type who gets dropped off at an obscenely over-priced tennis club in Mummy's Volvo every Saturday morning.

murray_:

i think ur find that was a JOKE!!! us english do it the scotish as well its called banter!!!

Well, maybe he needs to improve his material - it wasn't funny!

No, seriously, I know what you mean but he just doesn't have that George Best, Seve, Higgins, Eubank about him. He is a very good player, obviously but he's never going to make me jump up and cheer him on.

Gerrardasnails:

Prof, no real need for that outburst

Agreed, and my apologies to all. The attitude some people have that British tennis players are rubbish still annoys me, but I realise now no offence was meant here - unfortunately I sometimes have sense of humour failures when I'm drunk

Gerrardasnails:

And your bit about being a Liverpool fan is lost on me.

Me too to be honest! I suspect I was trying to be clever - unfortunately, I'm not that clever at the best of times, let alone when I'm full of beer...

Okay, once again, I will try to enforce a forum ban after heavy drinking

EDIT - oh, and fantastic final wasn't it?! I was rooting for Roddick (always tend to go for the guy who's never won before like Nadal last year), but well done to Federer, a class player.

 

professorhat:

Gerrardasnails:

And your bit about being a Liverpool fan is lost on me.

Me too to be honest!

I think you were alluding to Liverpool's lack of Premier League titles recently.

HTH, HAND!