Wimbledon: Quick Thoughts on the Men’s Quarters

Murray-Querrey: Chris Fowler kept expressing surprise that Murray wasn't serving more powerfully, but didn't seem to want to reach the obvious conclusion that Murray's hip was really bothering him. Big Sam played a solid match, but does Andy Murray really lose the final two sets one and one if he's one-hundred percent?

Djokovic-Berdych: Twitter was very angry with Wimbledon today, blaming Djokovic's retirement today on the fact that he had to play his round-of-16 match yesterday instead of Monday. I kinda doubt it. Sure, an extra night of recovery would help. Recovery always helps. But if his arm was so bad he had to retire two games into the second set, do we really think another twelve or fourteen hours of recovery was going to get him to one-hundred percent, or even close? I think not.

Cilic-Muller: I thought there was no way the Muller was going to have anything left in the tank to challenge Cilic with. Boy was I surprised. Only in the fifth set did it finally look like his legs were starting to fail him. An incredible tournament for him. I hope he finds similar success during the North American hard-court season.

Federer-Raonic: Hey, remember last year when Raonic beat Federer in five to book himself a spot in the final? Today's match looked absolutely nothing like that. Federer took Raonic apart for the first two sets before struggling a bit in the third, but overall, he handled Raonic's huge serve comfortably, and was far too good in all other aspects of the game.

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