Wimbledon 2010: Teammate Love

Lots of love got exchanged between teammates today.

Petz and Melzer won the gentlemen's doubles championship at SW19 over Lindsteadt and Tecau (61 75 75).




Vania King, gamer gal, and her partner Yaroslava Shvedova came back from a break down in the first set against Bepa and Vezzy to take the ladies doubles (76[6] 62).

Rafa must surely have yelped and danced for joy. In the World Cup, Spain's David Villa scored the sole goal late in regulation (83:00) despite the Paraguayans clogging the middle for most of the game to neutralize the Spanish passing attack. Props to Casillas for saving a penalty kick. They'll play the Germans in the semifinals, who stomped all over La Pulga and Company (Argentina).

Dulko def. Allez Bitch

Well, my prediction for a Henin making it to the finals isn't coming true.

Allez Bitch loses to Dulko (6-2, 1-6, 6-4), and the stats reveal the key to the match.

	Henin	Dulko
Aces	1	1
DF	4	4
1st Serve %	43	67
1st Serve % Pts Won	9/12 (75%)	12/22 (55%)
2nd Serve % Pts Won	4/16 (25%)	5/11 (45%)
Break Points Saved	0/3 (0%)	2/4 (50%)
1st Return % Pts Won	10/22 (45%)	3/12 (25%)
2nd Return % Pts Won	6/11 (55%)	12/16 (75%)
Break Points Won	2/4 (50%)	3/3 (100%)
Total Service Points Won	13/28 (46%)	17/33 (52%)
Total Return Points Won	16/33 (48%)	15/28 (54%)
Total Points Won	29/61 (48%)	32/61 (52%)

Kudos to Dulko for taking advantage of her opportunities, and tough loss for Allez Bitch as a 2 point differential made all the difference. Clearly, her serve is still a work in progress as her 1st serve percentage was atrocious. In all fairness to her, she changed her serve from a platform stance to a pinpoint stance, and to stick to a change in your strokes in match situations takes awhile. That didn't stop her from playing in the Hit for Haiti, where she showed great touch in winning doubles with Navratilova.

In other news, Nails lost to Baltacha [7-6 (6) 2-6 7-6 (7)]; Sunshine survives a close one from gamer Vania King [5-7 6-2 6-4].