Sunday, 5 July 2009

Update

1. I backed Cancellara at 100/1 to win the Tour de France, see Kickingbets for the reasons.

2. I spent an hour on a bike at the gym the other day and pulled my arse. Won't be spending that long on one again!

3. There are still a few things I want to mention from the Roddick v Murray game:

  • Andrew Castle is the most biased commentator I've ever heard. He must be getting paid to make so many pro-Murray comments, even when they're entirely unwarranted (ie he's playing badly). Why can't the BBC just give unbiased coverage?
  • I'm fed up of hearing how 'young' Murray is. It seems whenever he loses they keep going on about how he's 'only 22'. Well let's just compare Murray to his main competitors. At age 22 Roger Federer had already won Wimbledon, whilst Rafael Nadal had won four French Opens plus Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic had won the Aussie Open. So can everyone stop telling me how young Murray is please.
  • An example of a stupid Castle-ism from the Roddick game: "the pressure is showing on Roddick here; you can see the amount of sweat dripping from his cap". It was a scorching afternoon, was Castle actually serious?
  • John Lloyd then started saying that Roddick's groundstrokes were the best he'd ever seen them. Fair enough, they were very good. But I hate these ongoing conclusions the commentators keep making that if anyone takes a set off Murray then they're automatically playing the best tennis of their careers, or they have the best backhand in the world, etc etc. Also, why is John Lloyd so pro-Murray? I thought he'd dislike him seeing as he's always pulling out of Davis Cup games.
  • Last thing: it was hugely annoying how Murray kept celebrating literally every point that he won. Fist-pumping, shouting 'yeah' each time. Then the BBC would show us a tornado-cam of Murray doing the fist-pumping, or shouting! For God's sake, at least use the tornado cam to show him doing an actual tennis shot!

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