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Appropriate timing.

A shocking amount of seeds out already, and surprisingly more men's seeds are gone then women's! Some aren't really a surprise (Zheng Qinwen went out R1 the last two years as well, Ostapenko is so inconsistent that she's always a good bet of an early upset), but Pegula had worn a warm-up tournament just last week, and I'd expected Alexander Bublik to have a deep run based on recent performance. Pretty boring first match for Draper, in that he was never under threat even before his opponent got injured.

Such a decline for M3GAN, but it's just mirroring the decline in quality from first movie to second. I was so disappointed. As for where it went wrong for the sequel, I can't say that I've seen posters about for it, so I think marketing has been poor. Maybe also a crowded market (with '28 Years Later' doing good numbers, as movies that could be fighting for some of the same audience)? And maybe fans of the original were just less willing to spend a heatwave going to the cinema idk.

Will definitely enter this now I've seen it, but will take a couple of days to ponder some answers on the more open ones, don't let me forget!

Krejcikova has been really unlucky with injuries since winning last year, and I don't think it can be a good sign that she had to pull out of Eastbourne this week (if she makes it to her first round match, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a second year in a row of the reigning Czech champion being defeated in the first round, as her opponent is a teenager who is on the rise and has made it to the Eastbourne final) Dreadful draw for Raducanu, certainly won't be seeing her in the fourth round again. Would come up against Aryna in the 3rd round if she got that far, but the second round would be against someone who won a title on grass last week. I think it has got to be Sabalenka's to lose. Her record looks worse because she's had to miss two of the past three editions, but she reached the semi-finals the past two times she's been at Wimbledon. Draper managed to get fourth seed to avoid having to face Alcaraz or Sinner before the semi-finals, only to have Novak as a potential QF opponent, but also the in-form Bublik as a possible third round match-up ffs

Imagine if Poland had gone ahead and sent her this year...guess she would've been too busy for that CBB stint to happen 👀

Some interesting stats from the past couple of days Carlos Alcaraz is now on the longest winning streak of his career (think it's 16 following today's victory at Queen's) - surprised that it's now, not at a time when he's world #1 Alexander Bublik's victory in Halle yesterday was the first time that Jannik Sinner has lost to someone not named Carlos Alcaraz since last August (although we must remember he had three months earlier this year when he didn't have the opportunity to be losing to anyone!), and the first time he's lost to someone ranked outside the top 20 since August 2023

What an intriguing chart run for "The Ballad of Wallis Island"! Has it been expanding into more cinemas, or just benefiting from really good word of mouth? Heard some great things about it, so might go and see it midweek!

So the women's final will be contested by the top 2 seeds - the last slam that happened at was the 2018 Australian Open, not as far back as I thought it might have been There's a strong chance it'll be the same in the men's draw. I'll be rooting for whoever comes through the Alcaraz vs. Musetti semi-final.

I wasn't able to get a pre-order, but I went onto the Argos website yesterday morning and was able to reserve one for collection later in the day, so Mario Kart World got played on launch day

Brilliant hold for Lilo & Stitch, and a great opening for The Salt Path (though you'd hope so with how much I've been seeing the trailer for MONTHS now)

I think "Luktelk" is fine (overrated by fans, but I can still bop to it if it comes on), but yeah, the rest in this section are all dreadful. I'm surprised "We Are The Winners" made it as high as it did in your ranking, I would have it with this bottom lot. The very worst kind of novelty, comes off far too smug. I'd say my top 5 for Lithuania would be "I've Been Waiting For This Night", "Stay", "When We're Old", "Happy You" and "This Time" ("Attention" and "Little by Little" just missing out, they're both underrated) Would be happy to see Estonia and Latvia, or a ranking of any country from 2000 to 2025

If you've put "Children of the Universe" this low

No, seriously, you MUST be erasing "Even If" from memory now if Olly and Mae have both been. Agog (but not as appalled) that Electro Velvet have yet to appear either!

Just had a skim through to see things are placing. Engelbert is a fair enough choice for last, but I've not seen Andy Abraham pop up yet, so I assume that you correctly decided that he was so awful, he doesn't even deserve an acknowledgement at the bottom of the rankings?