All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club

@wgomel21

 Yep, Svitolina broken 4 times. Saved 16/20 break points. First round she saved 10/12 and next 3 rounds combined saved 6/8. A total of 9 service games where she faced a break point. 

Rybakina saved 14/19 and had 11 games where she faced a break point. 

Over 21.5 games?

Let's talk about Rybakina vs Svitolina.......

Svitolina is coming off a highly emotional match (Putin's invasion weighing heavy on her mind) This has nothing to do with tennis but as we have seen previously in the WTA extreme highs and lows are a factor. Put beating Iga than absolutely taking a dump against Ostapenko. Navarro playing at the highest level against Coco and next match today looked like a completely different player. The question is does Svitolina do the same? As we know Rybakina's biggest hurdle is her health. She has an impressive 38-7 record this year with three titles, 3-2 against top 10 opponents.

This might be reaching a bit, but did Kalinskaya emotional exit contribute to Sinner's performance as he woke up this morning not feeling well? It sure would have been nice to know that tidbit of information before today's match. 

It's funny you say this, when I was watching that Kalinskaya match and they kept showing Sinner over in the box I thought about jokingly posting to go all in on Medvedev if she lost lol.

@bringit

No plays for me today. No reason to force a play. Let me know if you fire on anything. 

My gut is telling me Rybakina takes Svit to the woodshed but not willing to risk any money on a haunch.

And if you listen to Cahill, he thinks it will be a tough match. Not a good idea to go against killer 

I'm mostly going to just watch today. I have a pending bet on Siniakova/Townsend I placed yesterday. Still like that one but I've been pretty cold on my last few doubles picks. Ostapenko might be a bit more motivated in doubles if she loses this morning though, which looks probable at this point.

61-minute match 3 and 2.  No investment made but a nice confidence booster moving forward.

Nadal has arrived in Bastad for the Nordea Open which starts next week. He is playing singles and doubles with Casper.  

@wgomel21

 Going to be a great week in Bastad! Been sold out for months… Sinner withdraw not sure who will take this place.

I think Ruud will win this…

Olympic is ok clay right for the mens as well? 

@Bjorn_Borg

Hard to go against him in this event. He is well rested that is for sure.  The reigning champ Rublev is an emotional wreck right now and cannot be trusted until he gets his confidence back. Pretty excited to see Nadal back in action. Nadal/ Alcaraz at the Olympics is a MUST WATCH on the clay. 

@bringit

 Nice easy W Siniakova/ Townsend . Speaking of doubles Barbora Krejcikova had a long three set match that lasted over three hours. In addition to the time spent on court against Osapenko. That is a lot of time on court on the eve of her semifinal.

@wgomel21

 I'm a bit worried about that 3h match as well... I hope she will have time to recover and play it close so the over hits a least. 

She will have a break after this before the Olympic starts 

Siniakova/Townsend have looked really good their last two matches and seem to be getting into a good flow here. Hsieh/Mertens will be an interesting matchup. They have looked great as usual and they did against Gauff/Pegula but the Americans looked about as good as me and one of my buddies would playing at Wimbledon. 

I switched over to the Barb match after Siniakova/Townsend was over and ended up taking Routliffe at plus money after it went to the third set. It definitely looked like Barb may have tanked that final set. The whole match Barb was serving just like she's been serving all tournament and they were winning those games easily. Then the Siegemund serve was their problem every time with multiple games in the final two sets lasting 10-13 minutes on her serve. Then in the final set they break Siegemund early but then Routliffe gets broken back and Barb is serving at 4-4 in the third. Barb uncharacteristically double faults twice, loses the game to love, and Routliffe serves out the set 6-4. It was a long match that lasted late into the evening and her total time on court yesterday is definitely concerning going into a semifinal match today.

Thoughts on first semi....

Paolini has become everyone's darling for good reason as she has been hot as a firecracker this season. The fans are behind her, and Center court has yet to see Vekic this season. Shriver indicated yesterday she would get her on Center court this morning for an hour to hit balls. Paolini has been great playing as the valued dog but this match she is a favorite -160 to -175 area. Paolini's biggest scare was Keys and Vekic does have allot of similarities. Can Vekic handle the big stage is my biggest question? 

@wgomel21

 Vekic has played some great tennis on grass this year but perhaps the pressure got to her in the Bad Homburg final and she also had losses to Greet Minnen and a pedestrian Jess Pegula, although Jess did somehow go on to win that tourney.

My opinion is biased though.

@bringit

I hope you guys win but if Vekic can control her nerves and serve well this could be a bankroll buster. Pass for me.

Don't blame ya. Save the funds for Dabrowski/Routliffe tomorrow lol.

Yeah Donna has been over 80% on 1st serve, but at the same time haven't played the best returners.

I think we will see 7-6, 6-2 Paolini again 

Incredible match to watch. No vested interest in the match and was still a ball of nerves for each player. Not sure why Vekic continued to attempt the drop shot. I felt like I was watching an episode of Rocky. No pain, no pain. Congrats to the Italian Stallion and to our Paolini backers. 

@bringit

What line did you lock in at? I am showing -210 too juicy for me to fire but thank you for the play.

I took win 1st set+match @ -125

I really want to play Siniakova/Townsend too but that match is a bit scarier.

@bringit

 That's more like it     Time to do some homework on the Siniakova/ Townsend match. 

What a day with both players coming back from a set down. I'm seeing a very early line right now of Barb -140, Jasmine +110

After Paolini won her match her future was still at +275 so that's a huge change with Rybakina going down.