TENNIS FANS! New thread -With bouncier balls and clean towels...

[Raahh]

New thread for tennis fans, with or without the ability to watch on tv. Or even live and in person

(When should we start pestering for our back?)

love the hat

But- you listen to Andrew Castle? Dear, oh dear

Since I like the hat so much, I'll gloss over the rest of your last post, Juan.

But maybe the lovely hat can cancel out the nasty Castle habit? It's not so much that I listen to him, more that I listen to music. In fact, I realise now, I don't pay a blind bit of notice to what he says, I tune him out completely :)

Aww thanks Clay, you always did seem the reasonable sort :)

Let's just hope magi is as reasonable about it. You don't want her to end up accusing you of obviously not loving Pot enough because you've changed your allegiance to Andrew Castle.

I've just realised, we will not have the pleasure of listening to McEnroe call Pot ridiculous versions of his name this year at Wimbledon

I will love forever the commentator who slips up and calls Dolgopolov, Dogsbollocks. Unless it's Castle.

Can't be only us call him that, surely?

I fear we might be in a minority of about 5 or 6, Raahh. I don'tt hink it's a common nickname.

Shame. I like him- and I think it's a great nickname, better than 'the one with the greasy looking hair'

I'm not sure either are going to catch on. We could try e-mailing the BBC and asking if they could call him that.

Clay. Changed my allegiance? Have you learnt nothing about me over the years? . I'd trample dh and the dc in my rush to get at Pot. (Just in case you're reading this dh I don't mean it obviously).

Yeah, will be interesting to see if we hear any commentators letting slip a "Dogsbollocks" or a "bust-a-gut"!

That I could cope with. 2 weeks of Powtro/powcho/poncho might just push me over the edge.

I am the soul of reasonableness!!

But Andrew Castle? Pesky you do have low standards!

Martin Klizan beats Fognini (was a qualifier so great result for him!). Poor bloke wasn't feeling too old - felt sorry for him having to go though all the crap at the end. Still, I suppose the winner's cheque and the new BMW may have helped a bit :)

I've just seen that- that has got to knock Fognini's confidence going into next week.

I am sending Rafa positive vibes for next week

I am the least positive person I know, this might not help

Ad Berlocq has got a set back against Berdy after bagelling the first.

obviously, I'm not actually watching the match. Is Berdych injured? It's quite a match turnaround, otherwise.

And Djok has pulled out of Madrid.

Well done to Berlocq, then!

Shame about Djok. But Thiem through the qualifying rounds - meets Tursunov tomorrow.

Elena Baltacha has died.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/27280549

RIP

So sorry about Elena Baltacha. I'd heard she was ill but her death is a shock. She was such a fighter who has overcome so much.

[flowers}

I know she has been ill with a liver condition for years, but this does seem to have happened so quickly. I don't think it was that long ago that she was diagnosed with cancer.

Got the emoticon wrong in my last post.

So sad - too young. Her poor husband & her poor parents.

just seen this on BBC news.

sky news and sky sports news are more concerned with Oscar pistorius and the weekends footy ffs. not even on the headlines that pass at the bottom of the screen.

she wasn't exactly Martina famous or anything but she was Britains number 1 for a while.