Wimbledon day 2

Henman is scared to death by Niemenin and finally wins in 5 sets to avoid being stoned by his home crowd! Why is he asked to play on centre court? Where is the merit? Surely, Hewitt qualifies a centre court appearance over Henman. I know, the crowds love him. If I may make an observation about the crowds on centre court over the years, they seem to have become more boisterous. Henman's appearance on court today brought out whistles and cheers. Can't remember that happening five years ago.

Other notables : Roddick cruises, Nadal sails past opponent,new GB sensation Andy Murray cruises past lucky loser Bastl. My dark horse for the semis - Tommy Haas retired with an ankle sprained while warming up...Idiot!! Gasquet,Coria and Stepanek through. Sharapova, Williams Inc. into the next round.
Queen's runner up Karlovic - out! How did he lose? "He serves from the trees", Roddick's quote. Presumably all you need to do after that is to be able to return your opponents serve well enough to get a break and you should be winning at least your first three rounds.

Upset of the day : Henin is out. She played a ghastly match. 43 unforced errors to lose to a very pretty looking 6'1" greek Eleni Daniilidou.

By the way, check out wimbledon's online IBM scoreboard and its new funky features. It gives you the stats and player profile which it did last year as well. This year's addition is the shot tracker which replays every point played on a visual of the court. It also gives a brief description of the point. VERY COOL. Check it out. As you can see, I spend most of my time in the lab in front of the computer checking tennis and cricket scores.

Is Collingwood as good as Sir Viv Richards? According to the English press, he is. For taking 6 wickets and a century against Bangladesh. Only Sir Viv has done it before against NZ. C'mon guys,lets put things into perspective here.... Sir Viv demolished attacks, Collingwood is a good utility player and really not in the same class.

Lots of other sports going on. Lions play the All Blacks on Saturday. Most of my portering shifts is taken up by poring over the rugby analysis. Consequently, I now know who plays at centre-half for England and am wondering whether Johnny will play at the no.12 position.

Ok, back to malaria and some mossies.