Just second day into it, Olympic tennis event at Wimbledon is proving to be quite a different affair from its Slam Edition.
Apart from the obvious - colour scheme shift from green to hot pink and players wearing non-white gear, here's what caught my eye:
Grass very slippery, resulting in many falls. Nobody injured so far
Crowd very loud and definitely non-tennis at that. People moving in and out throughout the points, babies crying during points, lot of noise in general. You can see that some people got the tickets and are clearly there just because it's Olympics, not because they follow/like tennis. Shame.
Lots of empty seats. A big worry. Somebody somewhere should know the answer to my next question: why?
Grass on Centre Court mid through day 2 ALREADY BALD worse than at the end of the 2 week slam version Wimbledon. Why? I shudder to think what it's going to look like next Sunday.
Poor scheduling. Number two seed playing on court one.
The atmosphere: loud and cheerful, very different from "normal" Wimbledon. A nice change.
What are your impressions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_2lqnTuxjg
Olympic Wimbledon, Hit or Miss?
posted on 29/7/12
I'm not enjoying it as much as I thought I would,for much of the same reasons
Its doesnt even feel like the Olympics let alone pro tennis tournament.At least with Beijing it had a similar feel to the WTF at the 02,this tournament isn't looking serious enough to take it seriously
What is upsetting me the most is seeing so many empty seats...I would love to have a ticket to see a match,what a waste!!
I find the purple/pink so tacky and those olympics signs on the nets which keeps falling off is embarrassing
Also the Olympics sign flashing on t.v with that weird noise after every single point is very very annoying
posted on 1/8/12
Scoreboards much easier to read.
posted on 1/8/12
the website is a horror-show, though....live-score lagging about half an hour...it takes me ages to find live feed on the bbc website...
I manaed to grab one link by sheer accident, bookmarked it and use it all the time.
posted on 3/8/12
Nole how's it going pal. I'm back in Majorca for 2nd week of summer and again Andy is at business end of tourney. I wish Nole none of the best. Mon Andy lol
posted on 3/8/12
Polby, me old mucker!
DIdn't throw yourself off that hiking cliff after all
Good!
You shouldn't do it Majorca either