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

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Federer has withdrawn from montreal citing a back injury-rare for him.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

Seize you're back. about ferrer but pleased potato is still in.

Unless i can find an app I'm going to be a bit tennis free tonight.

murray is through unfortunately . Federer fought off Haas.

Fingers crossed for Nadal -VAMOS !! (might not be awake then).

oi. leave murray alone. vamos nadal. off to see if i can find a tennis app.
hang on. we seem to have . why no ?

Why have we got cake???

I am not a Murray fan, and refuse to be made one just because he's British

bloody cake

i have no idea. we still have the crown as well. just remembered i changed my google account settings and haven't added my phone as a device. so as im a complete numpty and cant use laptop either tonight i can't download apps from google play either.

no .

must remember not to let the electric run out in future.

does the work?

I need to go to bed. It's dd1's 7th birthday tomorrow- she's very excited. I need sleep to deal with her giddiness!

VAMOS

o ffs shoutapovas 'parted ways' with Jimmy Connors after just 1 match and a match she lost.

spoilt illittle brat. just wants to surround herself with yes people and Jimmy obv speaks his mind.

Shrieky is a spoilt madam. She is very talented. But her 'off-court' stuff seems far more important, and obviously lucrative, than anything she does oncourt. Which is probably unfair of me, but it's the way she appears. Like her relationship with Dimitrov- she'll probably drop him like a hot potato when someone better for her career comes along.

I like Jimmy. He can coach me.

Jimmy doesn't strike me as someone who would put up with her ego. Probably why they didn't last, the last time they hooked up.

And Del potato is inthe semi's , lovely. Just need Federer to play as indifferently as he has been of late, and Nadal will go through. Bet theis will be the day Fed finds his form!

And Djoko isn't having it all his own way against Isner!

Isner won! The King of Cincinatti has been de-throned.

ffs- I can't spell Cincinnati

and Berdych is winning his first set against Murray. Go Tomas

Great match from isner he really went for broke
Now c'mon rafa!

I'm gutted I can't actually watch. I like Isner. He's always on the fringes, plodding away(and will be forever connected to his match against Mahut). he has nothing to lose by going for it- I like players who play like that.

Me too. Thought isner was a very good sportsman at a couple of difficult moments too, Like to see that.
I treated myself to a tennis tv subscription

I might have to succumb at some pointwill sell a child

Woot!Go Tomas!

Bet Nadal loses now, will serve me right for being smug

but if Rafa wins the tournament, he goes up to number 2 in the rankings- VAMOS !

oh rubbish- what did i say? Roger is has won the first set, and is going to choose today of all days to remember how to play.

VAMOS

C'mon Rafa!!!

Nadal through, so that makes the semi-finals Isner v Del Potato and Berdych v Nadal. Both on at sensible times as well. 6pm for Isner/Potato and after 7.30pm for Nadal/Berdych.

But potentially it could mean a Del Potato/Rafa final- which is a shame. I want Nadal to win the tournament, but wouldn't be too sad if Del Po beat him.

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Looks like I the Nadal/Fed match was a good one. When they are both playing well,it's a classic match up.

I know. I haven't decided which side of the fence I'm going to be sitting on if it's a Rafa/del Potato final. I think I'd put my money on Rafa to win.

Wimbledon looks like it might have been a blip. Maybe he just can't do grass with that knee. Is going to make the US interesting with Rafa having beaten Djok in Montreal and Djok and Murray going out relatively early in Cincinnati. Especially if Fed has remembered how to play.

Wimbledon was definitely a blip,imo, and it's known that the grass is the worst surface for his knee. That and playing half a dozen or so tournaments since his comeback and getting to final of all of them. It's not a bad statistic. He could have chosen to skip Wimbledon, he gave it a go.

No doubt the dissenters will be spreading the drugs rumours, if he does well here and at the US open.

I hope if Rafa and Del potato make the final, they will do it topless. Since I won't be able to watch, I will just imagine that they are.

Just watching the athletics at the moment. The sound of the crowd is phenomenal.

I keep missing the athletics

Am so glad Mo Farah did well.