Tennis - Wimbledon
 

OK. I'm watching the finals of Wimbledon as Fedorer could become like the best ever. They play 5 games or sets or whatever and Fedorer won 3. But now they're playing some sort of Overtime and the 5th games is like 10-9 or something rediculous like that.

I just can't quite understand how this works. I get how to keep score for the most part, but I am so confused why this game hasn't ended awhile ago.

I wikipediad tennis and read scoring on there and I still don't understand. Can somebody explain this shit to me in simple terms?

It's 2 sets each, they're playing the 5th.

Sensational serving.

Don't know how much longer Roddick can hold off Federer though.

Son of a bitch

amazing match

Great to watch but I still don't quite get it. If you have to win by two i don't get why some of the games were 7-6, some the winner had 6, and then in the 5th game there was a 7-6.

So in simple terms do I have this right. Each set you have to get 6 but must be by 2, hence the 7s. You can't get more than 7, 7 is the highest even if it's 7-6 which is a win by 1. Is this right?

The championship is a best of 5. You must win 3 games. However, the 3rd game has to be won by 2?

Nooooo...damn you Roger!

In the 5th set there is no tie break, if there is a tiebreak in the other sets, then the set will end 7-6 to someone if they win that tiebreak.

They have tiebreakers in the first 4 sets if the set goes to 6-6. Tiebreaker is the first to 7 seven win by two. Federer won two tiebreakers hence the two 7-6's.

In 3 of the Grand slams they don't have a 5th set tiebreakers. Hence why you just got like 14-16 or whatever. The U.S open in the only Grand Slam that has a 5th set tiebreaker fyi.

Roddick's gonna spend a fair while wondering what woulda happened had he nailed that second set tiebreaker, amazing final overall though, fair play to Federer, it's pretty hard to argue with his record.

You have to wonder if Roddick has ever thought of having Federer taken out.

Ivanisevic did it in 2001 as a 30 year old wildcard, Roddick's still got a chance imo, he played better this year than I think he ever has, at least in terms of the variety in his game. Saw him coming to the net against Murray in a way which he has basically never done so yknow, who knows:?:

Federer is amazing. How he isn't beating Tiger Woods in better athlete is beyond me.

Roddick will have nightmares about that tiebreaker for a loooooooooooooooooong time, dammit I wanted Andy to pull through

Yeah honestly Federer is superman on a tennis court, he reads the game that much better than his nearest competitors, he gets to balls and makes shots consistently which you see any other guy make once a tournament, he seems to do it every set of every match, amazing tbh.

He's like a robot. He doesn't have that killer instinct and rarely shows emotion because he's just that damn good.