Good morning. As usual, please use this space for discussing today's tennis-related events. As this week's clay events roll on, today Richard Gasquet and Agustin Calleri have booked semifinal places in Stuttgart. Fernando Verdasco and Tomas Berdych have done the same in Bastad, as has Alize Cornet in Budapest, along with Stanislas Wawrinka and Guilermo Garcia -Lopez (the latter defeating Mikhail Youzhny) in Gstaad. Currently (also in Gstaad) Marin Cilic and Igor Andreev are battling it out, with Andreev having taken the first set in a tiebreaker.
I've finally succeeded in uploading the pictures taken during (mostly after) the Wimbledon final (non-Rafa fans beware). Anyone wishing to see how the light looked towards the end should be able to get a fair idea from some of the later pictures here. Not all are of great quality, because the lighting conditions were difficult, but I hope that they at least capture the atmosphere. As always, click on any thumbnail to enlarge, and use the arrows to page through.
-- Rosangel Valenti
Note: As always, "Your Call" is the daily thread specifically for the purpose of getting together on the cyber-sofa to discuss or call ongoing matches, or hot tennis topics of the day; It's the"Crisis Center" thread for those weeks when there are no Grand Slams, Masters, or Fed or Davis Cup in progress. You can go off-topic here if you like as well. This makes it easier for you to stay on-topic at "premium" posts. For going off-topic, you also have Monday Net Posts and Deuce Club on a regular basis.