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Federer has withdrawn from montreal citing a back injury-rare for him.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

we have just dismantled dd2's cot bed and put it in the loft. We acquired a proper single bed from a friend who couldn't fit it in her new house. No more babies

First set Del Potato!

, Raahh. She will always be your baby though.

Crunch time for Del Potato.

I know she's only got out twice and is now asleep

C'mon Del Potato!

Oh, Del Potato!!

Just got in ds2 on boob, ds1 and dd got out monopoly, tennis on ipad for me = evening sorted looking forward to rafa!
Crowd is really getting behind isner

I suppose home support is an advantage.

C'mon Del Potato!

Twice is good going. My aunt had to move her youngest from a cot when she learnt to climb out. We'd be sitting downstairs eating and you'd hear 'thud' as she hit the floor. Was much safer in a bed even if she never stayed put.

Potato might be in trouble here. Come on El Potato.

Oh Potato!! Don't give up! (though I like Isner, I want Juan to win)

I think Isner maybe winning the battle of the giants.

His serve is massive. It's usually difficult to break him. I think this might be the end for Potato.

for Del Potato.

VAMOS Rafa- his record against Berdych is very good- Berdych last beat him about 7 years ago!

Yay first set rafa

VAMOS

Vamos Rafa. First set won.

VAMOS

Rafa/Isner final. Solves my fence sitting problem nicely.

I fell asleep. Somehow, refreshing a screen doesn't keep me awake the way a live match would.

VAMOS! Rafa!

So- 5.30pm start for the final? I hope Rafa can do it, but I have a niggly feeling Isner might cause an upset. He'll have the crowd-and a 9 inch height advantage

It's his serve that's the problem. He doesn't really have much of a game other than that. He's capable of winning almost every service game on his serve alone and it's difficult to find a break. It's why so many of his matches go to tie breaks in every set and a ridiculous number of games in the final set.

A 9 inch height advantage helps as well. I think you're right about an upset though.

It's funny about the serve thing-there have been a lot of heavy servers over the years, who have never really made it. They've made top 10,but never won major titles. Karlovic springs to mind- another 6ft 10 giant

I hope we are wrong about an upset, he's never beaten Nadal (hasn't played him that often though, and twice they met on clay). I'm strangely excited, for something I can't even watch!!

and they're off
VAMOS RAFA

VAMOS Rafa.

VAMOS !!

I bloody hate tie breaks