I thought I would note this one down – after a week of sunny Wimbledon tennis (normally quite a sporting event on TV here, but largely eclipsed by the World Cup this year) – we’ve got Andy Murray still in as the last Brit standing, and we’ve experienced the longest tennis match ever recorded. 

Both John Isner and Nicolas Mahut looked completely drained in the third day of their match, basically playing on autopilot.  The American Isner was the eventual victor, wining 6-4 3-6 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (7-3) 70-68 (yep, 138 games in the last set) after a playing time of over eleven hours.  Eek!  Kudos to both players on their grit and determination to take it that far.

All credit to Andy Murray, who lost today against Andy Roddick in the Wimbledon Semi-Final.  It really was a great effort to get this far.  Maybe next year for the final eh?  This year’s men’s final will be Federer v. Roddick, and I really can’t see anyone beating Federer.

Apparently it can take up to ten days for the checks that they have to do before I can rent a house. This is most annoying especially as it said on the form that it should be done in 48 hrs. I am annoyed. This will totally mess up my plan. grr.

A state of major disaster has been declared over the Arizona fires [news.bbc.co.uk]. State aid will now go to help the victims who have lost out to the fires.

Germany have knocked South Korea out of the World Cup [news.bbc.co.uk]. They won by one to nil. Bit of a shame, but I suppose mostly predictable.

In the tennis, Henman [news.bbc.co.uk] went through his match pretty easily, though his apponent was a qualifier somewhere in the top 300 in the world, so not a massive challenge.

Our other British showing Jane O’Donoghue [news.bbc.co.uk] fought a good fight but was seen off by Williams.