That would be a hard pill to swallow for Ons Jabeur, I mean back to back finals, and giving so much fight to have come this far, I really feel it will be very unfair to think Vondrusova had it a bit easy, because she also faced very tough opponents on her way to the trophy, and for Jabeur it still shows her level of consistency too.

As for Djokovic vs Alcaraz, I don't understand the over confidence with most people here going with Djokovic because Alcaraz would definitely keep him on his toes all game long, and stand a very decent chance to me, to win the trophy.

I believe we all know the deal was going to be completed regardless, it was just a matter of time and how much Arsenal were going to be skimmed off eventually, but man £105 million for Declan Rice? After what they've paid for Havertz, they're being highly ridiculous with these fees in my very honest opinion, because they are multiple perhaps not better but reasonable other options than players with a maximum of 1 or 2 years at most left on their contract, because it is what it is, and they had better win the league next season, and make at least the champions league semi finals, any thing short of that would be an awful season to me.

Thinking about a revenge for RG would be his biggest mistake, because as for RG it could been a whole different ball game had he not been injured, but he wouldn't want to retired at such stage is what I feel because he got back into that right Djokovic had taken the first set, and I don't think Djokovic would underestimate him too, especially knowing Djokovic getting back to No 1, after Alcaraz 28 weeks at the top of the rank didn't last for too long, and the next ATP Tour 500 was all Alcaraz need to reclaim the top spot. I don't think Alcaraz will be anywhere near the level of Djokovic when it comes mental strength, because there is almost no situation in tennis that he has been in, but if there is any young lad that can put Nole to a strong test, I believe it's gotta be nobody but the Alcaraz, because he just doesn't give up on plays too, but Djokovic does know how to mess with his opponent mental strengths, reminds me of the Mourinho vs Arsene wenger back and forth words exchanges before every Chelsea vs Arsenal games and then Arsenal often ends up losing because there is always an Arsenal team coming into a game already psychologically demoralized with Mou's evaluations and antics, but in the case of Djokovic he sure knows how to make his opponent doubt their own abilities.

If Levy does feel that the €80m offered by Bayern Munich plus add-ons is lowballing on 30 year old Harry Kane, a player could potentially lose for free come the of the 2023/2024 season, then I don't understand the type football club owner he is because the club in the end stands to lose to the most at the end of the day. I believe Tottenham must have forgotten how they held Harry Kane from a potential move to Man City was it last season or 2 seasons ago against his will, I'm pretty sure that Harry Kane still carries that grudge around and only chose to be professional by honouring is contract with the club, but now that Harry Kane is in a better position to call the shots, not Tottenham, all he just needs is to playout the upcoming season, then he'll be at liberty of picking his next destination without any club owner being able to hold him in contempt for doing what is probably the best choice for his career.

I really don't know though, but one thing I know for sure is that whichever one of them wins the title have more than earned it here, you get. I really do love Djokovic too, and I love the fact that there is at least one veteran out there active in tennis showing these young generation players the need for consistency, because I can't imagine if the likes of Ruud, Rune, Tsitsipas, Sinner and co, are all we to compete against Alcaraz for the top ranks in tennis, that means there is becoming some level of decline in the sport quality over time, because most the mentioned players are top 10, and I don't believe I'm seeing distinct improvement in their level of competitiveness, not if a 36 years old Djokovic is having relatively easy against any one of them, I mean no disrespect Djokovic because he manage to keep himself fit and stay agile over the years, and this really should be the time that these young players begin to stress him according to his age, but they barely look as fit as Djokovic does.

Bayern Munich would be very dumb to have sold Lewandowski and now trying to get Harry Kane for twice as much the price while Harry Kane would also be 30 years old in a few weeks, so Bayern Munich would be better off with players like Kolo Muani or Victor Osimhen who is actually just 24 years of age and still have a whole career ahead of him, while Harry Kane have how many years left at most to perform at the top of his form. Tottenham would be the biggest loser here, because they'll lose Kane for free next season, and I strongly don't think a trophyless Kane would want to end his career at a trophyless club era, that make go down as the most unfortunate No. 9 to have performed at world class level and can rated as one of the top 10 centre forward scoring to have ended his career trophyless, Kane really deserves much better.

One of the easiest bet to place for me;

Sinner still being Sinner always failing to show up or stand up to the challenges at grand stages, I was at my most optimistic self sure he wouldn't force more than a tie break, but still fail to win a set, while I had Alcaraz vs Medvedev to game have no tie break, I was sure that even if they go all the way to 5 set there would still almost zero breakpoint imo.



I think the Alcaraz vs Djokovic final is best thing any could ask for, for this year's Wimbledon final, any other match up could be a one sided game as we've seen a couple of times in their route to the final, so I think this is the only match up that can provide the atmosphere we are looking forward to as spectators, probably a potential handing over of class from a old generation to the new era.

Yes, until Jannik Sinner learns how to play against the top players, he'll remain a player that just keeps getting eliminated at the semi finals or quarter finals, a title just synonymous to king of the underdogs.

He's a very good player and I think he has a great mentality too, but he needs to be less predictable and add more dynamism to his game that can make him adapt to any opponent style and other unfortunate scenarios.

It was quite a huge come back for Ons Jabeur, I really didn't see that coming, I thought oh, yeah here we go with another easy semi final just like the first one, seeing Ons fight back game by game was crazy impressive, and especially after being one set down, she really is mentally though, and it was that mentally toughness that saw her through to the finals today.

It's going to be one hell of a final between Ons and Vondrousova, because I don't see that fixture going one sided.

She actually was very pumped to start the game until it the game was 3-3, I believe the second consecutive serve lost for her made her mentality switched drastically and it went all downhill from there, Vondrousova broke her first to take a 3-2 lead, but Svitolina returned the favour instantaneously to make it 3-3, thereafter she couldn't hold serve again, until the did it became and easy one for Vondrousova. if as a pro tennis you break a player's serve in 2 consecutive serve and you don't get to win the set, I don't know how much mental boost you could have needed to win such set in the first place.

She started the game pretty well, but then after the first game her body language went from 100 to Love (as they'll refer to zero in Tennis), all her moves and game plays became telegraphed and it became an easy read for Vondrousova to counter all the efforts from Svitolina, I really would have loved her to go through, but today Vondrousova deserved it, honestly.

I might have jinxed it for Svitolina, but I had my money on her so it wasn't a facade support from me.

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I'm sorry to whoever I'm be going against with my choice, because I'm currently tuned in to Svitolina game in the semi final, and I going with her all the way.

It's been a wild west in Wimbledon this year, there have been so many upset and majorly in the WTA, but still ATP have also had its own fair share of upsets, from Ruud losing 3-0 Broady, and Eubanks making quite an impression for a player just making he's debut in Wimbledon, he was on the verge of ousting Medvedev too, just 2 days after his huge win against Tsitsipas.


I'm really rooting for Elina Svitolina to make the finals and possibly win the title too, If she can defeat Iga Swiatek in such a convincing manner, also get pass Vondorusova in the semi finals, I strongly believe she's going for the title, while it would be tough choice for me to chose who to root if Svitolina and Jabeur were to be the finals as those have been my favorite WTA players for this tournament, while I'll give anything to see a Djokovic vs Alcaraz final, because their last affair wasn't a fair one due to a weird and unforeseen circumstance.


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I understand that most of us participate in numerous pools that could make the amount rather cumbersome at a go, while some other would be pool selective and it's easier for them join those few pools, but in the end it would make sense to have something to worth fighting for through course of the duration of the league, so any amount decided for the entry fee would be fine and make sense in correlation to the participant numbers.

According to multiple credible and verifiable sources, The deal has between completed between both clubs, but Victor Roque will not be joining Barcelona until 2024, next year, however, it is still very unclear whether or not the player would join Barcelona in next January window, buy the end of the upcoming season (That's next summer).

The main reason behind Barcelona being unable to sanction the deal out rightly is due related FFP rules and protocols, so my very opinion on Barcelona spending as much as 74m on a player who is not going to be joining the immediately or have an immediate positive effect on the team, is another act of desperation, and that's how we found ourselves here in the first place some years ago with the Dembele and Countiho and Greizmann too iirc. The 74m is what could be used to bring in at east two players, to provide proper squad depth to areas such as the left back position, and midfield which was left by Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets, without proper and decent replacement for these players, Barcelona might actually struggle a lot for all season long.

sources:

1. https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/barcelona-chelsea-man-utd-psg-sign-vitor-roque-athletico-paranaense/blt95d9fc8a10c74859
2. https://twitter.com/fabrizioromano/status/1678858978648809472
3. https://dailypost.ng/2023/07/12/transfer-he-cant-be-compared-to-ronaldo-barcelona-confirm-deal-for-striker/

Svitolina really doesn't play like someone who had just had a baby around 10 months ago, she's mastered her craft since she returned, and she's done a really good job to deserve a place in semi final at Wimbledon, has she's to face a number of tough opponents too, so her semi final game being a match against Vondrousova made really she's probably destined to get to the final this because, she's got the fairest opponent for that regardless of would be outcome of the final 4 players in the remaining 2 quarter final fixtures. She's earned it having knocked out Swiatek in what could have been 2-0 in for her, I guess the third  3 round showed that her winning the match no fluke, and I've been keeping tabs on her since match against Venus Williams in the first round.

a.  SPFC
b.  2-0
c.  Under
d.  No 
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14. Holly Holm
13. Junyong Park
12. Walt Harris
11. Chelsea Chandler
10. Bassil Hafez
9. Nazim Sadykhov
8. Francisco Prado
7. Melsik Baghdasaryan
6. Viktoriya Dudakova
5. Melquizael Costa
4. Evan Elder
3. Azat Maksum
2. Alexander Munoz
1. Ailin Perez


NOT go the Full Distance 8

Haaland as far as I can tell has already found a home under Guardiola's system at Manchester City and has won every possible trophy under just one season with the team, and he's broken unbelieve number of records, meanwhile Guardiola rotation policy also helped him stayed fit for majority of the season, I really don't see why he would want to leave now, except if Guardiola is also leaving the club, then that could bring doubt about how well he would fit into the next managers plan.

As for a potential move to Real Madrid that could have been well on the cards before Haaland had joined Man City and had not prepared to bank on Mbappe from PSG, it would have been a handful for Real Madrid to afford both players and remained within the FFP rules and regulations having already splashed a huge fee on Tchouameni, another major factor as to why Haaland didn't consider a move to Real Madrid would most definitely have been attributed to Benzema being at his prime, and looked like Real Madrid aren't just going to drop him for Haaland then.

Can we players that are free the this cup round also feel the form, Just increase our thinking, prediction, insight and choice making skills, because as an athlete even when you're not playing you need keep training in order to stay and ready to when called upon or required to play 

And I believe last season, we had two cup rounds per week for the first few weeks, what changed ? or is it just a decision for this reason to have a singe cup tie per round?