stranding said:
The film just finished & the match is still only 1 set all. Staggeringly SLOW....Boris is yawning in the royal box.
The film was great, essentially a study of class in the UK at the turn of the last century. How times have changed.
Stop press:
The match suddenly took off. It was quite extraordinary, unprecedented.
With all the yawning boredom, it was taking sooooo long that the bosses decided that the court would close at 11pm, finished or not. Something that Wimbledon Council had come up with, to do with health & safety & noise of home-goers waking up the people living nearby. This for an annual international event...
Murray suddenly woke up, stopped losing points because ... get this... balls dropped out of his pocket--- surreal!! Where did that rule come from?
(Edit: Erm, I was talking about the spare tennis balls for the serve, of course!)
Never has tennis been turned around & played so fast & furiously to get finished by 11. It got to 11pm exactly, the bosses relented to allow one more game, which Murray won to complete the match, finishing at 11.02pm.
One wonders, if it had been the other way round in favour of Baghdatis, what would have happened... Mmmmmm.