Wimbledon update

Caught most of Roddick faltering to Gasquet this afternoon. Roddick was up 2 sets, serving to go up 5-2 in the 3rd set and then his mind wandered, Gasquet pulled it together and 3 hours later, Roddick was headed home. I thought once it got into the 5th Roddick would embrace the underdog role and pick up his intensity and he did from time to time. But he didn't have the consistency needed to finish it off. Roddick has talent but his will wanders and he unfortunately finds himself in the age of Federer where even his best work will only be 2nd best at best.
Gasquet has a terrific backhand and his serve was every bit as tough as Roddick's (who was broken only twice today). Hard to imagine Gasquet beating Federer but I suppose anything's possible.

Djokovic could give Nadal some trouble, they both have big booming games. Should be a good match.

Venus Williams heading into her 6th Wimbledon final was no surprise but Justine Henin's loss to Bartoli is a shocker. The commentators where struggling to come up with such an upset in recent history and on the women's side it's true a handful of women have dominated everything over the last 20 years or so. But on second thought, its funny how time changes our memories: not unlike everyone forgetting that the Patriots beating the Rams was a HUGE upset at the time, they may well have said all these same things a few years back when Maria Sharapova won her first Wimbledon. At any rate, I thought Henin would take Venus but I know nothing about Barolit. Got to go with Venus.