Where does Wimbledon '13 rank in terms of history?

tacou

tacou

G.O.A.T.
Greatest Player of All Time suffers worst loss at a major. Check.
Greatest Grass Player of All Time suffers worst loss at Wimbledon. Check.
Longest major QF streak ever ended. Check.
Greatest Clay Court Player of All Time suffers worst loss at a major. Check.
77 year drought for British men at Wimbledon ended. Check.

Add in all the other upsets, unusual amount of injuries/withdrawals, and the longest Wimbledon semi final of all time, and I've got to assume this is one of the most "historic" majors in a long time.

Where would you rank it?
 
Wimbledon 13 surely was not one of my favorites.

My personal highlight: Djokovic- Del Potro in the semi final.
 
Don't forget 'Wipeout Wednesday'.

But no, I won't remember this year. Really didn't like this Wimby at all.

It also didn't help that I was queueing for almost 8h only to see no more than 5 minutes of tennis before rain stopped play for the day.
 
tacou said:
Greatest Player of All Time suffers worst loss at a major. Check.
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Rod Laver wasn't playing. :p

tacou said:
Greatest Grass Player of All Time suffers worst loss at Wimbledon. Check.
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Pete Sampras wasn't playing either. :p

tacou said:
Greatest Clay Court Player of All Time suffers worst loss at a major. Check.
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Nor was Bjorn Borg. :p

tacou said:
77 year drought for British men at Wimbledon ended. Check.
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Jonathan Marray won the men's doubles last year. :p


Regards,
MDL


Disclaimer: troll post
 
ark_28 said:
Crap tournament glad its over now thats it.
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I share your feelings. Seriously Wimby 2013 was probably the worst since I started to follow tennis in the 90's. The final was one of the most boring one I ever seen in terms of play style. I still cannot understand how much of a subpar performance Djokovic gave. I know some people like those long rallies and all, but to me, this isn't real grass court tennis.
 
Remembering it as Murray's first Wimbledon, and also the first time Fed & Nadal lost early may be fine but outside of the UK, no one really cares about any historicity.
 
Roddick85 said:
I share your feelings. Seriously Wimby 2013 was probably the worst since I started to follow tennis in the 90's. The final was one of the most boring one I ever seen in terms of play style. I still cannot understand how much of a subpar performance Djokovic gave. I know some people like those long rallies and all, but to me, this isn't real grass court tennis.
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I like Nole and Murray but not Nole AND Murray.
 
As a Brit, this Wimbledon was historic due to Murray's triumph.

Other than that (and maybe the Nole-Delpo semi), it will be remembered as a tournament of upsets and injuries.

I was glad to see Bartoli win though, always good to have a quirky/atypical personality and style win once in a while, rather than the usual suspects.
 
Phoenix1983 said:
As a Brit, this Wimbledon was historic due to Murray's triumph.

Other than that (and maybe the Nole-Delpo semi), it will be remembered as a tournament of upsets and injuries.

I was glad to see Bartoli win though, always good to have a quirky/atypical personality and style win once in a while, rather than the usual suspects.
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He's not english but a proud scottish
 
Roddick85 said:
I share your feelings. Seriously Wimby 2013 was probably the worst since I started to follow tennis in the 90's. The final was one of the most boring one I ever seen in terms of play style. I still cannot understand how much of a subpar performance Djokovic gave. I know some people like those long rallies and all, but to me, this isn't real grass court tennis.
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I agree with everything you say here, the tournament was ruined by upsets and controversy. Novak's performance in the final I also thought was unacceptable for a world number 1.


The only match of the tournament that I genuinely enjoyed was Djokovic v Del Potro.
 
babolat141 said:
He didn't say murray was English anywhere in that post.
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He said "as a brit". That's bs. No such thing as british proud.

Scottish despises britishness. Of course there is a lot of money at stake, so publicly he'll be politically correct, but all we know what he really feels
 
I won't argue that it was one of the more entertaining slams in recent memory, but Murray's victory alone makes it historic. Add in the fact that the two greatest players of the generation suffered their worst losses of all time at a major, longest Wimbledon semi ever, and a host of puzzling injuries/withdrawals...I feel like this Wimbledon will become something of a cult classic down the road.
 
Probably worst wimpledon in the last 20/30 years. Only good match was Delpo/Djoko. Most of the players that got to the 3rd round are atp 250 torenament players. The champion almost lost in straight sets to verdasco and only played a good grass player in the final, and played only against seeded 32, 20 and 24 to get there = a GS you can see in any other grass tournament.
 
Sorana fan said:
He said "as a brit". That's bs. No such thing as british proud.

Scottish despises britishness. Of course there is a lot of money at stake, so publicly he'll be politically correct, but all we know what he really feels
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Of course Murray is a proud Brit - did you see how much effort he put into the Olympics last year, winning one Gold and almost another in the mixed doubles?

I can assure you that I can be a proud Brit and glory in Murray's victory. :)
 
some epic defeats... uninspiring finals.. a few signature great matches.

If Djoker wins, it's completely forgettable on every level.

since Murray won, I think it's a notable Wimbledon.. 2 first time winners of the event.. Bryan Bros complete the Bryan slam.

It's more interesting than say the 1932 Wimbledon where Ellsworth Vines won his one and only Wimbledon
 
Sorana fan said:
He said "as a brit". That's bs. No such thing as british proud.

Scottish despises britishness. Of course there is a lot of money at stake, so publicly he'll be politically correct, but all we know what he really feels
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He feels that he is British and Scottish just as I am British and English. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland are all parts of a nation called Great Britain.
 
In terms of history, it will certainly rank high as the one in which a British man finally won it after a gap of more than three quarters of a century, the longest gap by far since a home guy won out of all the 4 Slams.

And the weather was mostly perfect too!

:)
 
Mainad said:
He feels that he is British and Scottish just as I am British and English. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland are all parts of a nation called Great Britain.
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Great Britain is an island. Great Britain is the biggest island in the British Isles, hence the word "Great". Virtually all of England, Wales and Scotland are on the island of Great Britain. Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland, a different island from Great Britain. The name of the country is the United Kingdom, its official name being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1922.
 
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This year's tournament will mark the beginning of the end for Wimbledon. I expect it to be obsolete and on par with the AO was circa late 70s/early 80s. Skipped by the majority of decent players. Players aren't going to put their lives on the line again.
 
adv-deuce_4ever said:
Which raises a question: why is there no national sports team called United Kingdom?
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Many sports initially became popular in the British empire, so thus pre-dated the international governing bodies like FIFA, hence why in football (soccer), there's England, Wales and Scotland, rather than the United Kingdom.
 
Mustard said:
Many sports initially became popular in the British empire, so thus pre-dated the international governing bodies like FIFA, hence why in football (soccer), there's England, Wales and Scotland, rather than the United Kingdom.
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I mean, even in those competitions where the British compete as a single entity, it's always Great Britain, and never United Kingdom.
 
Mustard said:
Great Britain is an island. Great Britain is the biggest island in the British Isles, hence the word "Great". Virtually all of England, Wales and Scotland are on the island of Great Britain. Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland, a different island from Great Britain. The name of the country is the United Kingdom, its official name being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1922.
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You are right, of course. But why then do the Northern Irish, or at least the Protestant half, always insist on being called 'British' when they are not part of Great Britain but part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain AND Northern Ireland? ;-)
 
TTMR said:
This year's tournament will mark the beginning of the end for Wimbledon. I expect it to be obsolete and on par with the AO was circa late 70s/early 80s. Skipped by the majority of decent players. Players aren't going to put their lives on the line again.
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Do you think it may get downgraded to 250 status like Queens or will it be forced to convert to clay in order to preserve its GS status so that then there would be two hardcourt Slams and two claycourt Slams and players wouldn't have to put their lives at risk by trying to play on grass?
 
Mainad said:
Do you think it may get downgraded to 250 status like Queens or will it be forced to convert to clay in order to preserve its GS status so that then there would be two hardcourt Slams and two claycourt Slams and players wouldn't have to put their lives at risk by trying to play on grass?
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They should make it a future and play it on ice with no skates, and i'm not joking.
 
Mainad said:
Do you think it may get downgraded to 250 status like Queens or will it be forced to convert to clay in order to preserve its GS status so that then there would be two hardcourt Slams and two claycourt Slams and players wouldn't have to put their lives at risk by trying to play on grass?
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I heard rumors Wimbledon is cutting a deal with Australia. Wimbledon gets grass everywhere, center court and court 1 and surrounding buildings will be demolished. Australia will get all the nets and other equipment and kangaroos will be sent to Henman Hill. :twisted:
 
hersito said:
They should make it a future and play it on ice with no skates, and i'm not joking.
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Nah....better still to abolish it altogether and erase all its records from history.
Just pretend it never existed. True tennis will be considered to have started at Roland Garros in the 1920s and at the USO and AO in the 1970s and 80s when they both switched to hardcourt.

Laver's proud boast to have been the only guy to have completed the CYGS will promptly disappear along with 4 of his Slams! That particular record now will remain to be claimed.

However, Federer's goathood will disappear because he will have to lose 7 Slams from his record while Nadal will only have to lose 2 so they will become equal on 10 Slams apiece. But Nadal has always got the potential of more FO titles to look forward to while Federer will now have to take his chances at the AO and USO with much less guarantee of success. So it's looking like Nadal will finally win the race for goathood after all! :)
 
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Mustard said:
Great Britain is an island. Great Britain is the biggest island in the British Isles, hence the word "Great". Virtually all of England, Wales and Scotland are on the island of Great Britain. Northern Ireland is on the island of Ireland, a different island from Great Britain. The name of the country is the United Kingdom, its official name being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1922.
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Really? I've always laboured under the illusion that James the 1st and 6th coined the term 'Great Britain' to describe the territory under his sovereignty after the Union of the Crowns. From wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_the_Crowns

The Union was a personal or dynastic union, with the Crown of Scotland remaining both distinct and separate—despite James's best efforts to create a new "imperial" throne of "Great Britain". However, England and Scotland would only continue to be sovereign states, sharing a monarch, until the Acts of Union in 1707 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne.[2]


PS to non Brits, our history must sound like Game of Thrones :)
 
batz said:
Really? I've always laboured under the illusion that James the 1st and 6th coined the term 'Great Britain' to describe the territory under his sovereignty after the Union of the Crowns. From wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_the_Crowns

The Union was a personal or dynastic union, with the Crown of Scotland remaining both distinct and separate—despite James's best efforts to create a new "imperial" throne of "Great Britain". However, England and Scotland would only continue to be sovereign states, sharing a monarch, until the Acts of Union in 1707 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne.[2]


PS to non Brits, our history must sound like Game of Thrones :)
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Being an Indian we all know what you did.No need to act so oblivious..:D
 
tusharlovesrafa said:
Being an Indian we all know what you did.No need to act so oblivious..:D
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And everyone else are angels?
Just look at the million people slaughtered in sectarian butchery during your partition of India.
Don't act so oblivious or is that one Britain's fault again?
 
Fedex said:
And everyone else are angels?
Just look at the million people slaughtered in sectarian butchery during your partition of India.
Don't act so oblivious or is that one Britain's fault again?
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I am not saying we all are angels...Who was responsible for partition.Tring Tring,ring any bells "Divide and Rule".
 
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