The Bryan twins slap hands high-five style after every point, win or lose. When they win a really big point they chest-pump, jumping up in the air to bounce off each other's torsos It's an American thing. The most uncomfortable moment Roger Federer has experienced at Wimbledon came not on court but in a rain break during his match against Mario Ancic. Watching television in the locker room, he heard John McEnroe waxing lyrical. The 15-year-old Dane plans to graduate on to the full women's tour after playing the juniors at the US Open at the end of next month.. She already has the perfect present to show off to her friends in the form of the Wimbledon Girls' Singles Championship trophy she won yesterday. Wozniacki has been creating such a stir at home and throughout the tennis world that she already knows there will be no plan to defend her crown next year, even though she is young enough to defend her title another three times.
Judging by the size of her smile, Caroline Wozniacki will probably have a cracking 16th birthday party on Tuesday. As for Henin, attempting the most difficult double in tennis, winning successive major titles on the clay of Paris and grass of London in just over a month, turned out to be too daunting.. Eventually she emerged, and deservedly so, as the woman whose nerve held the steadier in a match of strangely variable quality, mishits and errors mixing with sumptuous winners.This second Grand Slam of the year following a rather hollow triumph by default over an ailing Henin at the Australian Open in January confirms Mauresmo's status as world No 1. "I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves any more," she said in her victory speech Nor will they. One decisive way to sweep away all your doubts about nerves and self-induced defeats is to go out and win Wimbledon. That is what Am?e Mauresmo did on Centre Court, battling back to see off the sturdy challenge of Justine Henin-Hardenne after being overwhelmed in the opening set. She needed two hours and two minutes to win 2-6 6-3 6-4, have a quick weep, climb up to the VIP box to embrace her long-time coach, Lo?Courteau, and then accept and cling on to the Venus Rosewater Dish as if she never intended to let go of it again.
Why, he was even holding his own in banter with John McEnroe on television on Friday night.. Perhaps the most important fact that Roger Federer and his wise old coach Tony Roche have taken aboard about this afternoon's Wimbledon men's final opponent, Rafael Nadal, is how quickly he learns. Not his speed, his athleticism, his confidence, his improvisational genius; they are already painfully aware of those But how quickly he learns. In six matches over the past dozen days Rafa has learned how to adapt his biff-bang, run-till-you-drop clay-court game to the more subtle demands of grass, and in case anybody harbours doubts about the lad's learning speed, just listen to his media conferences and marvel at how rapidly he has moved from pidgin English to the ability to understand virtually every question, with the exception of the most obtuse American ones, and to compose his replies intelligently and frankly. Yesterday, another Dutchman won at Wimbledon, but it was no surprise when the No 1 seed, Thiemo de Bakker (pictured), won the boys' singles.
