Wimbledon has started

Hey folks,

Wimbledon has started. It goes from June 22nd - July 5th, 2009. Sharapova is out. Venus and Serena are still in it. Nadal of course did not compete this year at Wimbledon. Murray won the Queens, the warmup tournament for Wimbledon and may have a chance. Federer is the likely choice for the win on the mens side. We are about half way through the tournie. Grass is a very fast surface. Melanie Oudin 17 years old (USA) from Georgia beat No. 6 Jelena Jokovic. A great victory. We wish her the very best.

The new Roof of Center court has not been used yet but knowing the weather in England it will be. They built it in consideration of both rain and day light. No delays now and they can get the matches done. It was closed this morning and it will probably stay closed with Federer competing. It will be the first day it has been used. Good stuff.

Some other hard fought matches in the 3rd round -Svetlana Kuznetsova, the No5 seed, has been knocked out in the third round after losing 6-2, 7-5 to the 19-year-old German Sabine Lisicki.

Dinara Safin bt Kirsten Flipkens 7-5, 6-1

Caroline Wozniacki bt Anabel Medina Gerriques 6-2, 6-2

Sabine Lisicki bt Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 7-5

Amélie Mauresmo bt Flavia Pennetta 7-5, 6-3

Caroline Wozniacki bt Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-2, 6-2.

Ana Ivanovic bt Samantha Stosur 7-5, 6-2.

Venus Williams bt Carla Suárez Navarro 6-0, 6-4.

On the mens side: The Guys who won are as follows:

Round 3: Andy Murray (3) def Viktor Troicki (30)		6-2	6-3	6-4
Round 3: Juan Carlos Ferrero def Fernando Gonzalez (10)		4-6	7-5	6-4	4-6	6-4
Round 3: Gilles Simon (8) def Victor Hanescu (31)		6-2	7-5	6-2

Andy Roddick advanced to the third round by beating Igor Kunitsyn 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Lleyton Hewitt eliminated fifth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina to reach the third round at Wimbledon. Watch the highlights at

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4286842

In addition you can watch Tennis on the web if you are in the USA on Espn360.com or at this link

http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/channels?channel=3578790

Exciting stuff at Wimbledon........ Thanks for reading:

Coach Anderson

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