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Sunday 8 June: As it happens
Sunday, June 8, 2008
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2.44 pm: Off go the band, having played that bit from Aida that I like for the second day running which was very kind of them. On No2 meanwhile the all-Romanian battle will have a third set after Bogdan raced to a 7-3 win in the tie-break. It's strange isn't it, the way someone can come from 5-1 or 5-2 down to lead 6-5 and then all of a sudden, the pressure is on them and it goes to a tie-break. The human psyche is a fragile thing…
Gabriele Sabatini is out on Chatrier (in the stand I hasten to add, she hasn't come out of retirement so don't get all excited out there).
2.37 pm: Ooh, tie-break to decide the girls… final, as was the case in the boys…. Meanwhile the band is already playing on Chatrier. Will I be at Wimbledon, I hear you ask below. Yup, certainly will be! There's even a Wimbledon preview article here.
2.34 pm: Amazing comeback from Bogdan who is now serving at 6-5 to take the match into a decider! She was 2-5 down and has broken and held twice since! It's deuce at 6-5 on her serve…
2.18 pm: Halep is a break up in the second set meaning that Bogdan is now serving to stay in the match.
1.50 pm: Halep takes the first set from Bogdan. Any Romanians out there… Write in! Revel in your bright women's tennis future!
12.50 pm: Weather report - the all-important climatic conditions. Cool and a little bit windy. If it stays cool and the wind drops, I reckon we have Federer conditions here. Messrs Borg and Wilander are also talking him up. I'm not convinced. Rafa in three. Unless…
12.40 pm: And we have a champion! Yang takes the tie-break 7-5. And it's an all-Romanian final in the girls… next up on No2 with No10 elena Bogdan playing No9 Simona Halep.
12.30 pm: In the boy's singles, Polish No12 seed Jerzy (pronounced yezra apparently) Janowicz lost the first set to unseeded youngster Yang Tsung-Hua from Taipei but has taken it to a tie-break in the second.
12 pm: Good morning, Gruezi wohl and hola - today it's Switzerland v Spain and above all the world No1 against the seemingly unstoppable king of clay. You can read all about the Roger Federer - Rafael Nadal match-up on the site: how Roger and Rafa won their semi-finals, a full preview and of course the biographies of Messrs Federer and Nadal.
Let's have your predictions and of course all your opinions about what you think will happen today and what your overall highlights of the tournament (other than this blog of course, ho ho!) have been so far. Get posting!
By Drew Lilley
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