New TENNIS thread here! Montreal starts Monday at 5pm Sky sports 3!

[GameSetAndMatch]

Yipee! the Rogers cup. Live!!!!
lead up time to the US Open! Yay!

there is also WTA tennis on eurosport atm but i never seem to catch it live and when I put it on ita always Radwanska and Cibulkova match!.

Federer has withdrawn from montreal citing a back injury-rare for him.

dont know if rafas playing, havent heard hide or hair (or bum!) from him since Wimbledon .

and wheres Andy gone? must have finished his hols by now.

anyway cant wait for Monday!

now bagel the next set, my nerves are fraying

Just nipped out to Tesco 'quickly' and missed the end of the first set. Must make a note not to ever go there at this time on a Sunday evening.

Vamos Rafa. I have a feeling this is going to be a long match. Hope his knee can take it.

I hate tie breaks. Have I said that already?

Fortunately he has a week to recover before the US open starts- and hopefully will get a reasonably good draw.If he wins, he'll be second in the rankings, so I hope that is reflected in his seeding.

it's looking good....

YAYYYYYYY!!!
VAMOS

go Rafa!!

Yay Rafa!!

Strangely disappointed that there wasn't a third set. That would make sense if I was actually watching the tennis but I'm not. Just looking at a screen refreshing itself.

it reminds me of the good old days, watching Ceefax

Think I might have skipped that stage.

It was scintillating stuff, Clay

Williams/Azarenka in women's final at about 9pm ish. Not having to listen to Azarenka shreik might be an advantage of a refreshing screen over watching tennis live.

@ Clay

Yes- this 'scoreboard only' tennis watching has some advantages

All it needs now is some more interesting photos than head shots and we'd be set.

I have been reading a few accounts of the match- it seems Rafa's serve was just as problematic for Isner as the other way around. And after a week of failing to spell Cincinatti/Cincinati/Cincinnati correctly, I realise no-one can- hence it keeps getting shortened to Cincy

A week to the US open. A whole fortnight of scoreboard watching action to look forward to

One week. Where did that time go? Hope seize has got her sky trial sorted. Am guessing the chance of getting back for the US Open is slim to none.

First set of women's final is looking a bit one sided.

I take that back. One set each.

Jinxed that one completely. Go Azarenka.

Vamps Rafa
And sod not being able to watch any of it.

Tennis fans - one gigantic migraine later and I am back!
No baby as yet - the stinker is late.
I am calling Sky today clay Its on my list of things to do before I can't do anything because baby is coming - if she ever comes. She better flipping not arrive when I have got my free months worth of tennis meaning i am stuck in a maternity ward missing out on New Balls Please... Utterly selfish of me really!

Ooh, Monfils is playing at the Winston-Salem open- not 'seen' him in action since RG.

Winston-Salem you say. Was wondering what I was going to 'watch' this week.

I think I read somewhere that Tsonga was going to be out of US Open as well.

No, Tsonga out if US as well?

I hope it's nothing serious. I can't even remember waft he pulled out of Wimbledon with.

Waft?? What!

I'm pretty sure he didn't waft out

Knee injury according to this.

Turns out we missed International Apostrophe Day on Friday. We could have had load's of fun with misplaced apostrophe's.