Day 1 of Wimbledon

Nothing really ground-breaking happened today. I guess the biggest upset of the day was Andreas Seppi giving the boot to James Blake in straight sets. Other than that the day didn't have too many upsets.

"The Rog" started off shaky and hit form in the 2nd set to easily dispatch Lu of Chinese Taipei. Djokovic struggled with Julien Benneteau, losing the first set, then deciding to turn it up a notch and run Benneteau ragged resulting in him gimping his knee near the end of the match. Feliciano Lopez fell victim to a guy who lost in qualifying, but benefitted from Rafa pulling out at the last minute. Karol Beck beat Lopez 8-6 in the 5th to move on to the 2nd round. I'm not all that surprised by this result. I actually predicted a Beck victory. Lopez hasn't accomplished dog shit in the past year. He had a good run last year in Wimbledon, but since then he has been terrible. His ranking is going to fall like a stone after not being able to defend the points he got for his Wimbledon success of last year. "Nutjob" Janko Tipsarevic actually won a match and didn't puss out half way through, which was a shocker. Look for him to stub his toe or get stung by a bee and have to quit in his next match.... The rest of the mens matches pretty much went as predicted.

On the women's side Maria Sha-RAP-ova looked good in some chick named Kutuzova. I'm not familiar with her, so i don't know how much weight to put in beating this chump. Serena Williams smoked some goofy looking Portuguese girl. Alize Cornet did not finish her match, but the highlight for me was watching her whine to the chair umpire then the tournament director hoping to stop play due to darkness. They told her "one more game" and she started to cry while sitting during the changeover. She went out for the next game and while on the baseline waiting to receive serve she was wiping her eyes and still crying....Its not that dark out Alize, quit your crying. Just an example of her fragile mental state. I think she has been drinking the same kool-aid of Feliciano Lopez, they both have been playing shitty of late. Hopefully she can pull off the victory in the daylight. It will be tough down 4-2 in the 3rd.... Geezer American Jill Craybas advanced today to the 2nd round.....One of the upsets of the day was ::Pirate voice:: Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Sugiyama beating the 21st seed Patty Schnyder........ Midland "jobber" Stephanie Foretz was beaten by Gisela Dulko...... Alexandra Wozniak in true Canadian fashion rolled over and layed down for Francesca Schiavone......Peer and Petrova both won today and will meet in the 2nd round. That should be a battle between two tennis hotties. lol

All in all a pretty mellow day. No really huge upsets, no huge turn of events. I missed seeing if "The Rog" brought back his Wimbledon cartigan or cardigan. whatever. Both suck.

ESPN's coverage actually wasn't bad. Coming on at 7a.m. and showing live tennis for most of the day. Darren Cahill seems like a pretty cool dude, and a good announcer. The one confusing thing was Suzy Kolber was in studio. I have no idea wtf that is all about. She can barely say some of the players names. I guess they brought her in just so Bud Collins can drool all over her like fellow geezer Joe Namath. Pam Shriver was whining like the old cunt she is about something. I don't recall what she was pissing and moaning about, but i do remember thinking to myself "shut up bitch".

The one thing that pissed me off was in the early part of ESPN's coverage their score graphic was all jacked up. I couldn't see any of it. All i could see was EPPI and 30 I guess Seppi had 30, but other than that i had no clue what the score was. Also covering the Sharapova match and showing the finish live, then 3 hours later making sure to show you the whole 2nd set instead of some live tennis to finish out the day. There wasn't really any great matches going on, and it was pretty much the matches that didn't finish due to darkness, but LIVE TENNIS beats taped tennis already shown once any day of the week.

A lot more matches coming tomorrow featuring future legends Nicole Vaidisova and David Ferrer. :P