User blog:Theplait/Who'll Win Wimbledon? Tip: Don't Ask Me...

So, guess what...Wimbledon starts today and I have one tip: DON'T ASK ME WHO'LL WIN. Not until the finals at the earliest.

It's not because I have dodgy form. It's just because ten years ago (yes...it really is 10 years ago), I wrongly predicted an Aussie would win Men's Singles. To be fair on me, he had made the final and seemed to be in good form. And I knew nothing about his opponent, name, nationality and seeding included, who obviously was in good form because he ended up winning. And I was 10 at the time.

Only when the Australian ended up FIVE MATCH POINTS DOWN did I think things were getting a little dicey.

He then hit match point #3 into the net, terminating the match. Whoopsy.

For those of you who are wondering about the opponent (whose name I did find out, but of course when it was too late, and got the wrong spelling to boot (I was only one letter out!), he is still around. In fact he is at Wimbledon and has a match today. It's the first match...on Centre Court. Double whoopsy.

Why fail, guys? If you fail, make sure it's EPIC.

OK, so it wasn't exactly bright. I don't know how I did it. And I'm still living it down. But I have learnt one valuable lesson:

Never underestimate the unknown. Respect it.

Now you know where I went wrong  all those years ago. However, despite some pretty amazingly dodgy form that day, I did accurately predict the results of Mixed Doubles. Yay!

''Addendum Notice: Regarding Australian's Opponent: now officially in second round. The hapless unfortunate he was playing got mullered. As I always knew he would.''