The Chalkdust Chronicles: Wimbledon 2011 Day 2: Chardy v Djokovic

I took the opportunity to stretch my legs a bit and wandered off to chat to the Navy Warrant Officer and the younger RAF guy that were manning the gangway. We chatted a bit about the recent MoD cuts and how it was affecting the services, and of course having come from a seemingly never ending set of cuts in the corporate world, it was good (but a little weird) to hear the same from a world so far removed from what I do.

They wasted no time in getting the guys out – and I was checking twitter which had cancelled a lot of the final matches of the day but still had no word about Sharapova, who had been a “To be scheduled”… so we thought that if Nole could dispatch Chardy quickly, then we had a good chance of seeing her as an extra match.

The match started promisingly enough - going with serve, and neither player was giving away much at this point
Nole took a decisive break in the 9th game, and went on to take the set 6-4.

Chardy got himself broken early in the second set, and although he managed to get a game on the board, Nole was beginning to make this look like a routine hitting session, taking the second set 6-1, after an unfortunate DF for Chardy.

In a repeat of the second set, Nole broke Chardy early again to lead 3-0 at the start of the third. There was just no real consistency from Chardy; maybe some brief moments of fight and then an error-fest. As before, Chardy got a game but Nole steamrollered him to another 6-1 scoreline.