{"id":21,"date":"2009-07-07T04:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T04:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-02-08T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:41:29","slug":"breaking-down-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"download-2\"<\/a>There\u2019s been a less-than-pleasant bed bug infestation at the humble chateau de Bisbee\/Duah. It began as a minor disturbance, a hole in the screen we thought, undoubtedly allowing in some pesky mosquitos. But my negligence to nip the problem at the bud resulted in the realization of great bed bug civilizations and a few nights ago I was roundly bludgeoned into a schizophrenic mess. I\u2019ve remained this way since, basically\u2013 sleeping on the living room floor while visions of human-sized arthropods and Hanley Ramirez batting lines dance through my head\u2026<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve gotten about three hours of sleep over the past two nights. With this being said, here are some thoughts on Wimbledon:<\/p>\n

As I lounged on the sofa today awaiting the arrival of an unreliable exterminator, I had the good fortune of stumbling upon Wimbledon tennis on NBC. I watched parts of four matches: V. Williams vs. Safina, S. Williams vs. Dementieva, Roddick vs. Hewitt and a bit of a re-run from yesterday\u2019s Federer\/Karlovic match. I was struck by the mind-boggling contrast between the men\u2019s and women\u2019s game. Women\u2019s tennis is so much more enjoyable to watch!<\/p>\n

Williams\/Dementieva was a three-set classic that, with some different wind patterns or a slightly adjusted net height, could have gone Dementieva\u2019s way just as easily. Each player consistently hit well-placed, deep ground strokes. Granted, there was the occasional unforced error but, compared to the men, Williams and Dementieva were paragons of steadiness.<\/p>\n

V. Williams\u2019 match was, admittedly, not much of a classic. Venus thoroughly shellacked Safina 6-1, 6-0 using a combination of powerful forehand winners and the reliability of Safina\u2019s timely blunders. Despite Safina\u2019s miscues, though, and the constant lambasting by the folks in the NBC booth, I thought the match was enjoyable enough to watch. They had some good points, Safina just ended up blowing all of them.<\/p>\n

Bringing me to my point\u2026 do I have a point?\u2026 yes\u2026 tennis is only fun to watch if the points go on for more than a fraction of a second.\u00a0I was almost bored to tears watching Karlovic ace his way to a game, then Federer, then back and forth until the match was over and the entire stadium was aroused to wipe the spittle from their lips. Roddick and Hewitt had slightly better rallies but on average I would guess each point lasted no more than four shots back and forth. These are all incredible players whose serves could strip the varnish off a flagstaff but I would rather watch a Sandra Bullock romance\/comedy than sit through another two hour serving clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s been a less-than-pleasant bed bug infestation at the humble chateau de Bisbee\/Duah. It began as a minor disturbance, a hole in the screen we thought, undoubtedly allowing in some pesky mosquitos. But my negligence to nip the problem at the bud resulted in the realization of great bed bug civilizations and a few nights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,82,83,81],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andy-roddick","tag-serena-williams","tag-venus-williams","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}