Wimbledon, England - enter the gates of the All England Club on Thursday morning, I was expecting to see something, anything, that will reflect the exotic and dangerous events of the day before.
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But there was nothing: not being reached on the green wall panel Wednesday to celebrate the wild, nor upset victims of trauma and confusion treatment, and orange-soled shoes visible inside what the British call for the dustbin.
Instead, it has been to restore order at Wimbledon, even if Roger Federer, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Victoria Azarenka are no longer around to appreciate the comforts, and even if Maria Sharapova was hanging around just to watch her boyfriend, Grigor Dimitrov, digging deep into the fifth set before the end of rain commentator for the night.
Jingle Thursday still includes a few more slips on the slick grass, as well as two more cases of retirement - French veteran Michael Llodra and Paul-Henri Mathieu - which brought the total to 12 tournament after two rounds.
But there was no sign of electricity on Wednesday, the sense of possibility that made stars feel weak and strangers feel as if this day was simply to be a day that could crash the party.
In the afternoon Thursday, it became clear that for all the surprises and excellence - called Coach Nick Politira the 81-year-old Wednesday "craziest easily on tennis I have ever seen in my life" - and Wimbledon has not kicked that far from bars after all.
Although Rafael Nadal and defending champion, Federer, out after two rounds, the No. 1 seed, Novak Djokovic, and No. 2 Andy Murray did not lose a single set. Djokovic progress on Thursday with a 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-1 victory over Bobby Reynolds, a qualified U.S. aged 30 years old, who left the United States with no men in the third round in singles to leave the first time since 1912 (When I played any American men at all).
As for the women's competition, Serena Williams, the favorite and defending champion overwhelming, still hale and hearty. She stressed the pecking order with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Caroline Garcia, 19, of France, who acknowledged Wednesday that given her, but for a brief period, a little more zip in their step.
, "But it gives you ideas," she said.
But Williams was each other, and she closely followed the unrest.
"The first thing I do is, I'm like, 'OK, Serena, and stay focused," she said. "This happened before. I do not know when. Want to say that it was the U.S. Open, though. A lot of players were losing. Thought, definitely want to stay focused and stay serious. This is what I did again yesterday."
Garcia raised her eyes to the sky well before it reaches the ball tosses to serve, and in the end seems like a good idea to seek help from above in the light of the current form of Williams. Williams rolled to win 33 in a row and also won 28 straight sets, which means that after all the drama tinged news and public apology pretournament, they can settle into a vein so much more fun on Thursday.
Included a discussion about to be a battle between the gender with Murray.
Open Question: "Andy Murray has challenged you to meet in Las Vegas. What is your answer?"
Williams: "It's a challenge to me?"
That led to the discussion of the long match Williams (defeat) against the German cigarette smokers Carsten Brash journeyman in Australia in 1998.
"I was really young; I'm a lot more experienced now," said Williams, before considering Murray.
"He's probably one of the top three people and I certainly do not want to play," she said. "But yes, maybe we can be a bit of confrontation. That would be fine. Get alleys. He gets does not serve. Get alleys serve my country as well. He gets any legs. Yes."
Williams will get a chance to feel young again in the next game to them, when they face Kimiko Date - Chrome, Japanese player Permanent, which was at nearly 43 is the oldest woman in the open era to advance to the third round at Wimbledon in singles.
The two have never played, and if anyone can throw Williams off the rhythm, it's history - Chrome, which chopped once, almost changed tactics enough to knock the other Wimbledon champion five times in the family and Williams (Venus) out of the singles.
";, And I think I lost four years of my life watching that game so I'll definitely be talking to Venus to see that match," said Serena Williams.
But even occur Williams about the future, there was still a lot of talk about the past (as of Wednesday); around fade increasingly clear Federer, about the revival (even if ephemeral) style of serve and volley that has more than one star ex- in middle age on the basis of lick blocks with what could be called in anticipation of nostalgia.
"We all want to see and hail return service," said Mats Wilander (48 years), the former world No. 1 from Sweden.
And again in full flow risk on Wednesday on the main stadium also decided 116 ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky that the only way to push the odds in your favor and was to deny Federer time by following the sending to the net, preferably after delivering a service to his weaker backhand wing.
This clarity can help tennis player. If you have only one option legitimate, sticking to this option is the easiest route to take. The surprise was enormous Federer, even in his waning 2013 the state, can not find a way to solve the puzzle, he will drop to No. 5 or worse in the rankings after the tournament.
His chances of winning titles in Grand Slam singles is not more than 18, but his days to do so is the candidate certainly seems to be done. Federer, the Wimbledon champion seven times, still hit some great shots, but he also hit too many of them fragile to avoid putting an exclamation point on a long, flowing, Fitzgeraldian sentence that was on Wednesday.
Thursday was more suited to Hemingway even if it ended in typical English fashion: under umbrellas.
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