Why is Rafael down a double break??????

Come on, Tomas, you need to find your first serve, NOW

Federer drawing Berdy in -- Tomas needs 1st serves.

Rafa match so far is just totally nightmarish

Come on Berdych you didn't even more for that passing shot it was well within reach.

WOW HUGE DEFENSE THERE FROM BERDYCH!!!!

Big D from Berdy!

yes!!!!!!!!!!!OMG i thought he missed! hehe

OMG...I just checked the score...Rafa is 0-4 down to Soderling????

Oh well...I can't even frazzle for the Fed match....just grim acceptance.

wow, the defense by Berdych...I thought Fed had that point won!

Berdych blunts Roger's attack, and takes the point -- 30-all instead of 15-40. Huge.

wow Rafa...are you awake????

Don't choke don't choke don't choke don't choke...

its going to be Fed and Rafa out of Wimby. Darren Cahill was right!

MP

5-0 Soderling. Unreal, Nadal has not hit a winner yet.

Match point for Berdych.

COME ON TOMAS!!!

MP!

Just like that it's 5-0!

Rafa try to get onto the board in the 1st set

Also try to serve 1st in the 2nd set

Your looking very flat at the moment

omg..MP

finally a first serve!

Oh gosh, Rafa...

Don't Blink Birdman!!!

Fed fights off 1 MP. We're at deuce.

I'm tempted to call this a "nervy set." :)

Its all over for the Fedal era!!

It was good while it lasted.

oh my... Robin is gunning for bakery products...

a bagel would be embarassing for Rafa, no?

YES!!! GO TMF!!!

What a bizarre point, not sure why PMac is saying Tomas handled that well, he really just pushed the ball back.

Surprised Berdych didn't challenge the 1st serve out call.

Too tentative there on the inside in forehand, didn't hit it with enough pace, could see that one coming. COME ON BERDYCH!!!

Get up and hit a first serve please.

Come on Fed....break...for heaven's sake break....

Just break....TMF pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

Oh, Tomas, why would you go to Roger's FH?

The Fed era ain't over yet. He gets a BP.

Feeling the nerves, maybe, Birdman?

will Rafa be bagelled?

This is ridiculous Rafa.

Rafa just might get bagelled here.

WTF was that return?!?!?

no first serve in sight for Tomas. Come on! Don't get tight...

ANOTHER MP!

Im lost for words. Rafa...lost. for. words.

MP for Berdych...

MP Birdman, First serve in please!!!

WTF Rafa? Why oh Why did Xisca have to come to Wimby??

:(

Hugs fellow Fed fans.

Sod with another bp:( I can no longer watch

WHEW Fed completely gifted that ball. Tomas gets a 1st serve in and it's MP #2.

Rafa's movement looks just awful, I wonder if he'll even last the whole match.

YES!!! Berdych wins!!!

Upset of the tournament!

i don't remember rafa being bageled ever. that's some conviction from the marquis.

wow, Fed's out and Rafa is playing like sh*t!

Congrats, Tomas. Good for you.

He does it. He bloody does it. Well done Berdych, and congrats to his fans on the well-earned victory.

Commiserations, to put it mildly, to Fed fans.

oh no. fed.

wow!!!!

Congrats to Berdych and fans, commiserations to Fed and his millions of fans.

Rafa on the verge of being bagelled in the 1st set.

HUGE CONGRATS TO BERDYCH!!

Wow. Hugs and strong liquor for Federer fans.

there it is, the upset. Congrats to Tomas fans

Commies to many Fed fans...

Wow. Go Berdych!

finally! a game for Rafa

Another TB on Court 2 b/w Moodie/Norman and the Bryans.

Expect red meat post from Pete on Tomas win.

In the words of Dick Enberg... "OH MY."

Congrats to Berdych for holding his nerve and serve there. Sorry, Roger fans. Instead of the Andy/Venus victory bus, you all can jump on board too and we should drive far, far, far away from Wimbledon.

Commies to Roger fans and congrats to Tomas's fans.

Robin to serve for the set, please no letdown.

Federer..nnooooo!!!! Why? Why? Why?

Congrats Tomas you have bgeen playing the best tennis of your career lately

Well done and you played soo well and deserved the win.Good luck in the s.final

Bad luck Roger you are a class act and waited for Tomas to walk off the court

Commies to all Roger fans

Sorry Fed fans and Rafa fans....This is like the Twilight Zone.

Fedrer's reign at Wimby comes to an end. I am more sad than I can express!!

Looks like it might be a good day for FOOPs, huh?

Oh, Rogi.

This hurts.

Congrats to Berdych...this time he did it.

Nice smile for Berdych...

Roger...say goodbye to the ranking this year. Something is wrong with you...please fix it by Wimby next year, will ya?>

Okay...I am officially rooting for Rafa now...vamos Rafa! The Fedal era ain't over yet...

At least Rafa won't get bageled.

Yay. Rafa won a GAME!

I'm not even that upset. Like ladyjulia said, just grim acceptance at this point. Roddick is gnashing his teeth somewhere. The good news is that my July 4th is free now......

nice try Fed, too bad would have been a great storyline...Murray is looking BETTER and better all the time, or will the pressure really get to him now..

i say Djoker has an amazing chance to sneak in here and get the title ... Berdy doesnt have a prayer in hail

Well, I guess now that the consecutive-Slam SF record is out of the way, Fed can keep working on an even longer quarter-final record.

I'm not sure what I think about Novak having to face Berdych again, though. Yikes.

whatever a Fed fan might feel right now, Captain Birdman has got a great and winning smile. Well done the guy!

are we seeing a new shift in men's tennis with the top two players simply being overpowered on the court. is the future bigger, taller and stronger players like Soderling, Berdych and Del Potro?

Well-deserved, richly-earned, and bravely fought, Tomas Berdych. A lifetime of tennis demons peel away from shoulders that no longer carry a huge burden. The 15-30 point in that last game was the stuff of a champion, as was the love-40 save at 2-3. Federer will rue his weak second-serve replies in key spots, but Berdych stood tough between the ears and persevered.

He's elated, and rightly so. Great moment.

Hugs to my fellow Fed fans.

Congratulations to Tomas Berdych, he was the better player today and he didn't let his history of head-casiness get in the way buy hung tough when he needed to. Commiserations to Federer and my fellow fans. He let his chances, and he had them, slip away again.

Congrats fellow Birdman fans....I knew when I woke up this morning, Birdman would take it in 4. I am so proud of you, I knew you'd keep your nerve and you did! Well done!!! :)

Commies to Fed Fans. He will be back for the Open for sure. ;)

A little opening for Rafa.

Draculing has materialized........

Wow, just wow. I can't believe I witnessed that.

Stay focused Robin!!!

That one will be a crushing defeat for Federer, hit off the court again today just like he was against Del Porto and Soderling.

"waited for Tomas to walk off the court"

agree, very classy from Roger...

Kudos to Berdy and his fans. VAMOS RAFA!

Thanks Rafa for getting on the score board

B/point now on Robins serve

Come on Rafa get into his head now and break him

"Looks like it might be a good day for FOOPs, huh?"

cpm--i've always meant to ask, what is an FOOP? :D

I'll be rooting hard for Murray to win this now.

I don't see why Berdych doesn't have a chance in hail.

Ugh, now Robin is having difficulty serving it out.

I suppose the good news is that my Sunday is free; I can sleep in!!

Just popping in to say this. How can people offer commisserations to us Fed fans when all throughout the match folks were cheering for Fed to lose. I dont get it.

Off again to drink beer. It certainly must be happy hour somewhere in the world.

Rafa's waking up...cmon Rafa..

(fed...)

Vamos Rafa, come on now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I guess this is what the inevitable decline is going to look like. The shots that Federer absolutely has to make he's not making with the same consistency. The serve is touch and go, etc. The brilliance is still there, as we saw in the AO, but it's not as reliable as it used to be.

I really wonder if there's some hunger missing now. This is different from desire. I have no doubt that Federer very very much WANTS to win his 7th Wimbledon. I also have no doubt that he's still training hard. But hunger is something different from desire. Hunger is part of what made him make the shots he absolutely had to a few years ago, even last year.

Is there a little subconscious voice saying "You don't REALLY have to make this forehand. You've achieved more than you ever dreamed of and everyone will still love you if you don't make this forehand."

Who knows, but I think this could definitely be a factor and one that is really beyond his control to some degree. Maybe a bad year (though Federer has said in the past than any year you win a slam is a good year) will bring some of that hunger back. Maybe it will push it further away.

In any case, Mr. Federer has certainly given this fan more than he ever hoped for again and again. I'm sad he lost this match, but I'm neither devastated nor angry.

Thank g-d the grass court season is over!

And hit off the court here at Wimbledon......terrific performance by Berdych, who was nothing short of marvelous today.

And Darren Cahill called it........again.

Me too, Or.

What's going in Wimbledon. Only Rafa can save the finals now.

Just wow from Berdy

So sorry Fed fans. Seems with Fedal and fans might all be getting pretty drunk tonight

Fed clearly hurting from my view, but he wont say a peep and he sure didnt call the damn trainer... all class, as usual...

tennis just took a hard right into the Power Era...again, Roddick must be drunk already, this must REALLY hurt him...

There is no joy in Mirkaville for mighty Roger has struck out. Woe.

Rafa breaks Robin back

Thats the way

Come on Rafa you have settled

seaweed,

"Fans Of Other Players."

Congrats to Berdych! Well done. Commits to my fellow and heartbroken Roger fans. Good to other players. Good night.