I Am A Swede

I don't see Ashleigh Barty's game as boring. Quite the opposite actually. She has a good first serve, a fine second serve, and she has a more varied style of play than a lot of other players who rely more on power. In that respect she reminds me a little of Martina Hingis. She didn't rely on power either. Barty is not the most charismatic person, I can agree with that, but frankly, neither is Roger Federer....

I just watched the Barty-Tomljanovic match and found it hilarious how our Swedish commentators were so enamoured with Barty's tactic of slicing, then running around and dominating play with her forehand. Gee, it just felt like I have seen that before..... 🤔 Yes, now I remember! Steffi Graf did it to perfection 30 years ago! 🙄 😁

Disappointing for the home crowd that Raducanu had to retire. That means of course that we will have an Australian woman in the semi-finals since Barty will face Tomljanovic in one quarter-final.

How tragic. Only 24 years old.

Can anyone stop Novak Djokovic from winning Wimbledon and thereby tying Federer and Nadal with 20 Majors? And perhaps even more interesting, can anyone stop him from joining Donald Budge, Rod Laver, Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court and Steffi Graf as a winner of a real Grand Slam in singles?

Ridiculous. Thankfully Ostapenko's childish attempt to throw Tomljanovic off balance didn't work and she lost. Happy for the home crowd that Emma Raducanu is through to the fourth round. 👍

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That's great to hear.

Outrageous! Unfortunately he's not the first, and he won't be the last, to get off on a technicality. Shut the f*ck up, b*tch! The only miscarriage of justice in this case is that this rapist is released!

Aww, this is so sweet and charming. Babs and Kermit.

I got my first dose of vaccin yesterday (Pfizer), and I haven't had any reaction to it, at least this far.

This day, Midsummer's Eve, is practically a second "unofficial" National Day here in Sweden. My guess is that more people celebrate this day than our official National Day, June 6th.