A fantastic performance by Britain’s number one Anne Keithavong sees her facing Olympic champion Elena Dementieva tonight in the third round. She is long odds but the gritty Hackney girl will be bouyed by her form and the hope that Dementieva has good and bad days.
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A dating site has voted Andy Murray top gay tennis icon of 2008. The gay-parship.co.uk rated Murray ahead of Australia’s Mark Philippoussis with a quarter of the vote. Andy Roddick was third, Roger Federer fourth and Raphael Nadal fifth with just 14% of the vote. Spokesman Adrian Gillian said Murray “is slightly vulnerable and there’s something sexy about that Scottish accent.” Of course, they may not have had the chance of glimpsing our rarther fetching portrait of Nadal practising before Wimbledon…
Andy Murray with his trophy after beating Novak Djokovic for the second time this summer. Cincinnati was his in straight sets, on two tie breaks in the heat. Next stop the Olympics…
Centre Court Wimbledon. The first set took 69 minutes. Anne Keothavong matched Venus Williams serve for serve with 62% and 61% of first serves in apiece. venus hit one that was 124mph. The best Anne could manage was 109mph. Strangely Venus made the more unforced errors but after 7-5 in the first set it was 6-2 in the second in 35 minutes.
“I really felt I was with her in that first set. And, you know, it was just a few points here and there. You know, I really believed I could have won that match today”, said Anne afterwards.
After four minutes Anne was 2-0 down, but she had eight break points to potentially get back into the match.
When your mum says you won’t win this year. And your pal Svetlana Kutzenova says not this year, but maybe in the future. And you have a bad thumb. Prospects for British number one Andy Murray look - cloudy, plus the draw has pitched him against Rafael Nadal potentially in the quarter finals. But in the Wimbledon betting he is fifth favourite, albeit at 40/1.
Murray– who missed the grand slam tournament last year because of a wrist injury and has recovered from a thumb problem which forced him out of the Artois Championship at Queen’s – will face France’s Fabrice Santoro in the first round.
The 21-year-old Scot, ranked 11 in the world, could then face Xavier Malisse, the Belgian wild card who has been struggling with injury this season before possibly meeting 23rd seed Tommy Robredo in round three. Murray was fortunate to avoid two-time Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick, who is also in the bottom half of the draw and, if all goes to plan, the Scot could line up against Frenchman Richard Gasquet – a 2007 semi-finalist – in the fourth round.
Murray, seeded 12, has never progressed into the last eight of a Grand Slam, and would face world number two Nadal, if all matches went to form.
Andy Murray is the British favorite. Taking part to the Queen’s Championships, he won against Sébastien Grosjean in only…2 games as the French gave up. He wishes all the games were that easy… Britain could thus at last have a British winner of Wimbledon – the last Britton to win the men’s tournament was Fred Perry in 1936. Nevertheless, Andy has got his chances: grass is his favorite surface and he will be supported by the whole nation and the Queen. Would he be able to break the curse the gods of tennis casted on Britain 72 years ago?
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Sadly the English number one Anne Keothavong is bottom of the Wimbledon betting at an astonishing 490/1 against her winning the title this year. She was originally from Laos but raised and still lives in Hackney and has career winnings to date of £350,00 which is not bad. She is in fact the first British girl to earn her place automatically in the Wimbledon draw since Sam Smith in 1999 and thanks to some wins and finals in smaller tournaments has broken into the top 100. The bad news is…she does not like playing on grass.
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