Is Querry About To Beat Djokovic? Just Starting Now, Novak Two Sets Down.

[ladybirder]

On BBC in a mo.

[anneasquith]

Lb. Its a tournament , no guarantee Murray will get to the final.

[Prudie]

Now more likely than ever though and as this isn't a come on Andy thread I feel quite entitled to say this has really peed me off.

[jim360]

Quite a shock result on paper, but Djokovic looked nowhere near his best and couldn't seem to play consistently OK when needed. Well-deserved from Querrey though, I've never seen him play better either and his took his chance brilliantly!

[ladybirder]

Made easier for him now though.
Pity. I think Wimbledon will be the poorer without him. If he had been playing at his best and got beaten, for me, it wouldn't be so bad but he just wasn't himself today. Oh well, that's it for me.

[diddlydo]

Best result of the tournament so far. It was about time Djokovic got his come-uppance.

[ladybirder]

Come uppance = A punishment or fate that someone deserves. Why do you think, diddlydo, that Novak Djokovic deserves punishment? Whatever has he done, besides being a brilliant tennis player, possibly the best ever, to deserve his come uppance?

[jim360]

Djokovic is presumably unlucky to an extent. He doesn't inspire the loyalty that Federer does, he arrived too late to be the natural rival to just one person as Nadal did, and he isn't the saviour to a passionate but perennially disappointed tennis nation as Murray is. But he is nevertheless one of the best of all time, and at his best is a pleasure to watch (although I'm heartily sick of him being better than Murray the last few years).

[ladybirder]

So you don't think he deserved his "come uppance" then Jim?

[diddlydo]

I think things will emerge about Djokovic and his rather too good performances some time in the future. Remember Lance Armstrong?

[jim360]

No, not really. I'm glad to see him lose a match in one way, as it makes things interesting when the clear favourite loses, but I hardly see how he deserved it, or why it was some sort of comeuppance. Those are reserved for the bad guys. Is Djokovic one? Sure, sometimes he engages in gamesmanship of a sort (the Aus Open 2015 final springs to mind), but... no. No. He's just a stupidly good tennis player.

[ladybirder]

He sure is, can't argue with that.