11/05/24
June 14, 2004
Roddick wins his 2d Straight Queen's Club: and his third title of the year. Is Roddick ready to break through at Wimby this year?
ahem: trophy... biggest trophy
posted by psmealey at 12:51 PM on June 14, 2004
Does he get to keep that thing?
posted by crank at 01:38 PM on June 14, 2004
Where would you put it? You'd have to buy it a house of it's own. Anyway we all know Tiger Tim is going to win Wimbledon this year. Yes, that's Wimbledon, not "Wimby".
posted by squealy at 01:57 PM on June 14, 2004
What's Wimbledon?
posted by psmealey at 02:11 PM on June 14, 2004
Much as I 'd like to wish the best of luck to Tim Henman, and hope for Agassi to win his 2d Wimbledon before he retires, I'm personally hoping for a real rivalry to develop between Roddick and Federer. The past few years, the men's game has been haunted by a lack of desire of any of these younger guys to stay at no. 1 once they get there (Hewitt, Safin, etc.). Maybe a bona fide 1-on-1 rivalry will get that going. I grew up watching the great succession of rivalries of Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Lendl, Becker, Sampras, Agassi, etc... wish we could see some semblance of that again.
posted by psmealey at 02:23 PM on June 14, 2004
It's where the Wombles live.
posted by squealy at 02:23 PM on June 14, 2004
Underground, overground, wombling free The wombles of wimbledon common are we Making good use of the things that we find The things that everyday folk leave behind
posted by BigCalm at 04:39 PM on June 14, 2004
But, more importantly, other than Lord Stanley's Cup, is this the biggest tropy in all of sport?
I mean, my goodness, it's FRIGGIN HUGE!