Thank Thor, not another Fedal post.

What on earth!? - did MJF have her baby?...I swear she lost 15 lbs between yesterday and today. Jeeze, I guess Mary Jo REALLY doesn't look good in blue.

Nadal?

Who needs Thor with White Fang & Chia Pet Man around to entertain us?
I do actually, he ows me 20 bucks that bastard!

Well, I agree with Bismarck - who unaccountably lingers on the old thread..but I think, the SQWUAK aside, and a couple of Dfs...there has been some right fine tennis so far in this match.

GREAT hold for silent Kim! Including sensational return off the return..

Go Vika!
Thats my Girl
Just one more set
Gee I am getting better
On my friends IPAD

Vika's serve has been
on fire tiday.I knew
that it would be vital
Kim too many ufe in the
1st set.

Great first set from Vika, showcased everything she's been doing brilliantly for the past whatever and then some.

Unfortunately, Kim was starting to get the playbook on how to win here. I'm worried. And yes, 0-30 on the Vika serve.

And, yep. Welcome to the Kim show. Bleurgh. Bvadr, in fact.

first really weak game of the match for vika. couple of BH errors and then kim puts pressure on her FH to break at love.

and now kim with a trademark topspin lob...

Gauloises
I am live
is this the
right post?

Incredible match so far. Didnt' think Azarenka could match Kim from the ground. Super impressed with her FH and serve.

Yeah Kim! several spectacular points to get the early break.

DIES

Absolute nuts. Vika well on top of that point at 30-30, having got there with a lovely return, and smashes the overhead wayyyy long.

Trademark of this AO, that is.

Kim giving up a lot of second serves though...which is giving AzaRENKA a lot of chances...one of which she just hugely blows!

Mad scramble from Kim elicits the error on the overhead.

But I can't tell you HOW impressed I am with Vika's FH, she's NEVER hit it with that high depth XC that I've seen before, really superb. I love Kim but if Vika earns the victory I will tip my hat to her, she's really stepped it up.

Addressing this match - Djokovic v. Murray - the different approach for Murray is between the ears. That's what Lendl's there for. We'll see if it shows up. Cranial consistency.

2nd set, up a break

Mommie Dearest doesn't go down meekly.

(:-D)

Rallies so intense!!! *frazzle* And Vika is actually controlling most of them.

Kim really digging deep showing her champion qualitites

How the hail DOES Kim do those splits!!?...its been so long since I have seen her play, I had sort of forgotten the anatomical impossibility of it all..

Bvadr! Vika had her chance to stop Kim's momentum, but that overhead (and the forehand that shaded long earlier in the point) mean no dice.

Going three? Going three :(

Kimmy!

The rash of overhead misses makes me feel better about my game. Ha!

ai. superb FH angles from vika, superb FH dtl approach but then misses the putaway smash (against the sun, but still).

could be a bad thing if vika were to lose confidence in going forward...

3-0

You show them, mommy Kim.

I Hate Tennis

Only Novak can match Kim in doing those splits.

Kim starting to move a little better...quicker off the mark.

Uh oh, Azarenka receiving coaching? I dont like the sound of that. And Kim, put some back into that slice!

Love Sam in
Designer sunglasses
He stays soo calm

Alright...I'm warming up the new seat.

No mistake at the net there from Azarenka...she has a game point. She really needs to take this game to keep it close on the scoreboard.

No one serving very well. The birds agree.

Vika your serve
has gone AWOL

Del Pony,

If you are around Victoria is showing her Secrets.

Ugh my ESPN stream quality is so sucky. This is why I wish I had "real" ESPN on TV.

Come on Vika, keep this thing close.

Oohhh hottie Eva Asderaki in the chair. Yummy.

That's the umpire who was bullied by Serena at USO, right?

Serena's favorite ump is in the chair!

Vika doing her best to hang tough here and take the game. Was a gnat's whisper from collapsing into a morass of unforced errors. Could still happen.

Can somebody get a first serve in

Nam...I was thinking the same thing. Pretty sure that's her. I like that Ump.

haha MagicVilas.

Vika is spectacular when she's on. Tenacious youth and power in lovely motion.

Somehow I don't mind Vika's Secrets showing so much as her straps are "thinner," but Petra's thick white bra straps showing so clearly at the back of her outfit really disturb me for some reason. I mean, girlfriend is about to be #1 in the world, can't they get her a better top???

Well, goodnight all...I leave you with site posting guidelines for your reading enjoyment and handy dandy reference.

http://www.tennis.com/info/posting_guidlines.aspx

And, hopefully...some "magic in the night."

:-)

"Oohhh hottie Eva Asderaki in the chair. Yummy."

+ a really big number.

Vika you gotta
Move
I Hate Tennis

Gnat's whisper anyone?

4-0

On that note, I am going to bed.....

Enjoy Fedal everyone.

Stay civil.

KIm no wonder
your hips are weak
Vika please channel
your 1st set back

I wonder Del Pony if she gets teased in the locker room. I remember reading a story that Claudia Schiffer was teased by the other supermodels when she was new for wearing "granny panties"

Yeah, you'd think the 'women have boobs' memo would have reached the Nike design department by now. It's not Petra's fault though, she can hardly dispense with her sports bra.

It's all going wrong for Vika and I am getting very sad.

Hmm Vika got broken again. Assuming Kimmy holds here, Vika really must hold in her next service game, not only to avoid the humbling bagel but also so she can serve first in the 3rd set. It is an advantage for sure.

well, third set quite likely now, eh?

vika in a bad patch, kim exploiting that well.

Keeping It Moving is up 4-0. Yes yes yes!
side eye to Vika!

Vika's gone walkabout ... hope she doesn't blow it ...

Asderaki may be unattractive on the inside, but she looks great on the outside!

The New Jersey Mom is kicking Az in the second set.

If they allowed non-medical timeouts in tennis, this would be a good time for Vika. Kim will keep going at eight hundred miles an hour till Vika can somehow shift the momentum.

Vika just
get yourself
together for
the 3rd set.

Ohhh man Claudia Schiffer...now she was a smoking babe. Yumm-o!

5-0 for Kim, like I said, Vika REALLY needs to hold in this next game to get some small momentum for the third set on her serve and, more importantly, serve first in the 3rd set.

Although Kim could still go walkabout in the 2nd set. Usually she saves that for the third set, though.

"Asderaki may be unattractive on the inside, but she looks great on the outside!"

Lol. Oscar Wilde was a fool!! :)

This is the ultimate tennis fantasy after that first set.

Agree Deb...hot ump.

She needs to calm down and focus on executing her own game first and foremost, to make Kim beat her (which she still probably would, but that's not the point).

A steadying hold here to set her up for the third set is what the doctor ordered. Paging Dr. Bis ... prescription needed ...

I get the feeling that Kvitova is just not one to pay attention to those kinds of details. I think Chrissy said something about sponsors or the powers that be will be encouraging her to glam it up. Not fond of that idea but she does need to get rid of that harness she wears.

Really liked the slice forehand there from Vika at net. She has really improved in the "variety" department from, say, 2009. Still a ways to go though.

Seems the thought of getting to her first Slam final is getting to Vika

Kim is playing much better as well

"I get the feeling that Kvitova is just not one to pay attention to those kinds of details."

Love that about Petra.

Fernando says White Fang does everything Djoker does....just not as good. Djoker has a better BH, forehand, serve, plays more aggressive and is more consistent. Do not be fooled by Fang's domination of second tier or hiring of Lendl. Fand is still Fang and

Fernando is Fernando

That was Vika's best serve for a while. Will she hold? Will she escape? Come on ...

Del Pony. get in with the style. That is sports bra top of Kvitova. I think she looks kind of nonchalant and cool with her looks.
Kim playing more like herself. Hope she creams Aza baby.

It's Vika's twisted bra strap that's throwing her off! AM, get word to her coaching box.

Would women really tease each other in the locker room over
their sports bras? That's really petty.

On the other hand men tease each other about the size of their
genitals in the locker room. Well, the white guys do anyway.

(I ask you Gauloises, was this post just wrong?)

Great second serve for another game point ... YES! SHE HOLDS! Put that bagel back in the fridge or whatever!

That HAS to help Vika.

Okay Kim, don't play around with these breaks and close this set out!

Never understood the buzz about Schiffer. Now Laetitia Casta was a babe.

Yes Kim. Keep moving her. She may get dizzy. :P 5-1 as Kim nets a ball (stupid net). Dont let her go all Serena on you.

signed, sealed and delivered, gaul.

good hold, on the balance of it. now to get a couple of good return swings in, just to be sharp for the crucial start of the next set, to get the rhythm going again.

In spite of all the tennis expert proclaiming that Vika is a contender for every slam, there is a reason why she has NEVER played in a GS final. Never understood why she's considered a better player than a player who has almost double the titles she does, made it to more GS semi and made it to a GS final. Go figure!!

Kim is just blasting
winners off her racquet
Bra or Braless Vika
cant seen to do a thing

Vika just needs to calm down, she's been rushing too much.

Third set to settle it all.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

There's a quote for Andy Murray.

Anyway, Kim with the second 2nd. So far my Kim in 3 sets prediction can still happen.

I just hoping big old Kvitova has an off day and provides Maria with the assist she will need. Believe the big old girl will take her though.

Well, I am a woman and I'm not "teasing" Kvitty about her bra straps, merely pointing out that it's not the most attractive look. I have never found it "stylish" to be able to so easily spot a woman's bra straps, especially when it's something so plain and boring like a white sports bra.

If it was me on the court, I'd wear a racerback top with a built-in sports bra. Problem solved.

Set to Kim, 6-1. Excellent hold by her but this thing ain't over yet. Still pulling for Vika in 3.

BTW: best nickanmes for Murray:
(1) White Fang (love that one!)
(2) Twilight
(3) Mugray

Biz and G
We Gotta Keep
The Faith
I need Drugs

GSM...Laetitia Casta was my goddess. Great call...didn't they make her the face of France, and she's not French? You have to be really smokin hot for that to happen.

eh. kim holds in five secs flat to get the set.

With Alchol Too

and a Chair is just a Chair, and a house is just a home, and a Fang is still a fang, oh get me a bike, pass the booze, Fernando in da howse!

Should read I'm just hoping. The mighty Swedes ranking is going to take a hit after the AO, but Robin will play his way back to top 5. Kom igen, Robin! Miss him so much.

Phew! Finally Kim asserts herself. First set of Kim was unreal. Go Kimmy baby,get the next one.

"In spite of all the tennis expert proclaiming that Vika is a contender for every slam, there is a reason why she has NEVER played in a GS final. Never understood why she's considered a better player than a player who has almost double the titles she does, made it to more GS semi and made it to a GS final. Go figure!!"

SamE,

Gamewise Vika is a better Player than Caroline...the one thing that's holding her back for big Titles are her NERVES.

Beautiful backhand angle by Vika there ... disastrously followed by a double fault. Nuts. Bvadr.

Ugggh...Fernando. Now I gotta write another stupid Slender Gaucho post.
I'm really not in the mood. Don't expect much.

Saves break point with a great serve. Just hold here, Vika, and anything can happen.

She won't. It won't.

Slender Gaucho is feeling Slender Groucho. The end.

(l. casta is very much french to the best of my knowledge)

great BH angle from vika for 30-15. that's what she needs.
less great DF and FH error bring up BP though.
saved with the serve.

"there is a reason why she has NEVER played in a GS final."

Seriously, Samantha? Because Caro has racked up so many slam finals? :)

Yes! She holds!