Faulkner

Another tournament, another first round loss for Sock. I wonder if he’ll repeat last year and vulture a late-season title when everyone else is injured. Hmm, Dominic, ya think? Good that he’s coming around to the realization that he needs to pace himself if he wants to succeed beyond the clay courts.

Former RHOBH star Yolanda’s ex David Foster is engaged to American Idol runner-up and now-actress Katharine McPhee: http://m.tmz.com/?viewer_country=US#!article/2018/07/03/david-foster-katharine-mcphee-engaged-getting-married/

The 51-year-old teacher Chuando Tan:

Thiem retired from his match with Baghdatis. I wasn’t watching, but I was wondering why it was such a routine beatdown from Marcos. Ebden also upset Goffin in straights, and barring a huge turnaround, Kvitova is about to go out with a third set bagel to Sasnovich. EDIT: Kvitova, the oddsmakers favorite, is out.

Steven Johnson

Yep, the staging was so cinematic. Very old school Hollywood. Now the show is so flat, both literally and figuratively.

Ngo Okafor

Kei makes me want to come through the TV screen and throttle him. This should be a straight sets win for him.

When she says, “How could you understand what I’m going through?” to Jill, Brenda sounded just like Claire Danes when she’s agitated on Homeland. Ah, the music. Why the producers felt like this scoring was dated and not timeless, I’ll never understand.

I *love* this song, but somehow I’d never seen this video. It’s a montage of preening supermodels (a year before George Michael’s “Freedom”) and features a young Veronica Webb and, 2:01 in, one Ms. Cynthia Bailey.

I generally agree (and I think it goes for the ATP as well, perhaps even moreso). Although I do think Vekic is better on grass than she gets credit for. Svitolina, I just have no words.

Oh ok. There was a bit of confusion amongst journalists about it today. They hold some rights to it currently, which aren’t permanent and will revert back to him at some point.

Svitolina out at ANOTHER slam. I know grass isn’t her thing, but what is going on here? Bemelmans looked like he was choking against Steve Johnson, but he managed to pull it out.

What’s going on with Grigor? Will he have a resurgent season from the hard courts on like he did last year? But his play so far in 2018 has been extremely disheartening and inexplicable.

Whenever Asian/black guys complain about white guys rejecting them, the first question that comes to mind is, “Would you yourself date another Asian/black guy? If not, how can you complain about white guys not finding you or others like you attractive?” That said, I know it’s difficult to be rejected for something you can’t change, especially when you don’t live in a diverse place. And straight Asian men can often have it particularly hard. This model Kevin Kreider talks about his struggles in the video below and in a longer HuffPost article.

Venus has found her game, thankfully, as she often does. But as always, you worry about her having to do this too many times before facing an inspired younger opponent like Muguruza. Mackenzie McDonald is cute. Looks like Borna is injured. And Grigor is beating the brakes off Stan.

LOL it’s just started. I will say Coric has been disappointing in this Medvedev match, given what he just accomplished at Halle.

Venus is really struggling. She’s taken a couple of nasty spills, and the serve is gone. She’s dropped the first set to Johanna Larsson, who has never won a match at Wimbledon. The hunky American qualifier Michael Mmoh has taken Gilles Muller to five sets.

Sloane is out.

Maybe Dusan just isn’t great on grass, but Fed is looking in epic form right now. He’s dropped Nike (surrendering his RF logo, which they own) for Uniqlo in a reported 10-year, $300 million+ plus deal. I know athletes can still be valuable past their active years, but how many of those does he intend to play? I’m assuming at least through the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Ugh, Sloane is in a deep hole against Donna Vekic, and Venus is struggling in early games against Larsson. I have more faith in Venus to switch to another gear, but neither have played since the French, right?