Straight-sets win: Bernard Tomic. Photo: Reuters Thursday at Wimbledon was the lull after the storm, and preceding the drizzle. Lightning didn't strike twice in this same place, and only one spark flew, when Bernard Tomic, in aside, said that Roger Federer might have gotten ahead of himself after Rafael Nadal was dumped from the tournament, leading to his own demise. Tomic is an authority on getting ahead of one's self. Above what on Wednesday was the smouldering ruins of this year's draw, there was a pall, but it was cloud, Wimbledon's permanent canopy, which duly became rain. No single-digit seeds upset, nor was there significant injury, and the only default was a variation on a theme,...
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