Man, you gotta see what the Serbs have come up with now! They say Wimbledon organizers want to sabotage Novak Djokovic. I mean, bro, the greatest player of all time, with seven grass trophies in his cabinet!
And how do they do it? Well, they scheduled his match against Russian Safiullin for Sunday at 3:30 PM our time. That's 1:30 PM there in England.
And, supposedly, that brutal London sun is gonna blind Nole. As they say, at 1:30 in the afternoon, the sun hits hard, no joke. Me, I keep hearing Mioara complain that at noon, on the stairwell, you can't see a thing because of the sun.
But let's be serious, bro! Djokovic has played at Wimbledon his whole life. He knows all about the sun.
He wears sunglasses on court, for crying out loud! Me, when I play tennis with the boys at Fane's on the terrace—I mean beer and backgammon, not tennis, 'cause I don't have a court, but whatever... The point is, the Serbs are complaining for nothing.
Nole is a monster: he got past Chinese Yibing Wu in four sets, destroyed Tsitsipas in three sets, and beat Rinderknech easily, 7-5 in the tiebreak. He's in form, bro! But Safiullin is no joke.
He's Russian, 28 years old, ranked 132, but he was in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon two years ago. And this year he eliminated Rublev, who's in the top 15! And he beat Menšík in three sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.
I mean, he wiped the floor with that 19-year-old kid. So the match is more balanced than it looks. The winner faces Auger-Aliassime or Davidovich Fokina in the quarters.
If you ask me, Djokovic is the favorite, but Safiullin could pull off a surprise. Anyway, I'm gonna put him on my betting slip at Fane's, let's see if it pays off. 'Cause, you know, I need some cash to buy Ioana an iPhone, 'cause that's what she wants too.
Come on, let's see what happens!
