[Douai]

Today, two French tennis players got stunning results in the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. First, Marion Bartoli, upsetted the first seeded female single player, Justine Henin (Belgique), in three sets (1-6,7-5,6-1). She will take on Venus Williams in the final. Bartoli, is from Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne. Then, Richard Gasquet (seeded 12th) beat Andy Roddick (3rd seed) in five sets (4-6,4-6,7-6,7-6,8-6). He advances to the semi-finals against world ranked #1, Roger Federer.

[Nanbawan]

Incroyable !!

I left Richard in the tie-break of the third set and decided not to watch with my proverbial 'scoumoune' (which does not affect football results strangely...) !

Another safe move !

And bravo Marion ! Well, I noticed she did gain some weight but obviously it's the useful kind of weight !

We can thank the French armada collectively. Nicely done people !

[Gotham PSG]

I started watching Gasquet and he was down 4-2 on the third set, and I was just waiting for him to lose... and damn he played great and won!
As to Bartoli, I can't believe Henin lost, but it's nice to see that after the disaster at Rolland Garros, and Mauresmo getting back to her old ways, some french players still can get to the top, and with style

[ilv2]

with gasquet it was always a matter of mind rather than talent, and you could see that the nerves only flared up once or twice when he got rolling. ~90 winners to ~20 errors is incredible.

of course as clever as he is, he's not nearly as cunning as federer - not yet at least.

oh and apparently we can thank pierce brosnan for bartoli's win

[Douai]

Originally Posted by ilv2

oh and apparently we can thank pierce brosnan for bartoli's win

lol. Yeah, I heard that Bartoli likes Brosnan.

[Nanbawan]

I think I like her !

OK, her body type is rather of the short and chunky kind but she's quite cute and fresh, especially in interviews. On such occasions, she also proves to be direct, outspoken, smart and well...cute and fresh...

Hopefully, she'll have more success.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/spo...85_16x9_nb.asx

[ilv2]

dunno man, she seems like a nice girl but still, she likes pierce brosnan films...

[Douai]

Originally Posted by Nanbawan

Hopefully, she'll have more success.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/spo...85_16x9_nb.asx

Yeah, hopefully she will.Marion was really disappointed with that loss.

[Nanbawan]

Originally Posted by ilv2

dunno man, she seems like a nice girl but still, she likes pierce brosnan films...

She said she liked Pierce Brosnan...Huge difference !

BTW, Sunday in Stade 2, she showed the letter Pierce sent her with the flowers before the finale because he couldn't attend...

♫ Caaaaaaaaan you feel the looooooooove tonight ! ♫♬

[ilv2]

nono!

MARION BARTOLI: Well, to tell you the truth, as I said on BBC a few minutes ago, I saw Pierce Brosnan in the crowd, which is one of my favorite actor. I love his movies.
wimbledon.org

man, brosnan, way to go the way of sean connery.

arnaud clément and michaël llodra won the men's doubles final in a huge upset over the bryan brothers. missed the end of that one, but apparently they threw all their racquets and clothing into the crowd after winning and had to borrow their entourage's clothes for the trophy presentation. classic.