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?)

Maybe it's in the contract, that he has to keep drawing attention to his undies and his bum.

I used to like it when Rafa wore the sleeveless tops that showed off his biceps.

Argh. Logged out of MN and couldn't get back in again.

Think I've now managed to get the live scoreboard to work again so can get back to keeping up with the tennis.

Welcome to all the new posters on thread.

Hope your appointment went well for Dd Mama.

The TennisTv commentators have seen sense and adopted my approach to momentary, namely rambling on about irrelevances - anyone hear the discourse on Iron Maiden?! And does anyone else's feed go into a repetitive loop sometimes?

Djok just served two double faults in one game. And, I've not noticed before, but Andy does his fair share of crotch grabbing and pants adjusting. So there.

Juan- he does -a lot of them do. For somereason, it's only Rafa gets stick for it. But I'm not drawn to Murray's crotch the way I am drawn to Rafa's

Come on, Nole! As they say in Serbia....

Oh. Just some controversy about whether Djok played a foul shot ( racquet over net) but missed it cos ds3 decided to come in for the fifth time since he's been sent to bed.

First set to Djok.

Andy having a go at umpire now in changeover. From what I can gather Djok agreed his racquet was over the net but the umpire is claiming that's ok.

Raah. I think you mean "Idemo!' (Serbian equivalent of Vamos!). Just sayin'

She's doing great thanks Juan though predictably howled the second I put her down to be examined, great for attachment not so great for the ears!

Yep djokovic definitely agreed with Murray and said he felt his racquet was over the net but the umpire said not....
Think the commentator is right though when he says it's definitely taken the edge off the match, at least at the moment.

purple !

we need a list - so we can encourage all the players. I like to be inclusive. I learnt how to say it Polish last year- but I've forgotten .

See, we don't just do tennis, we do languages too. Cultured, we are.

That's good mama (the "doing great bit", not the howling bit) :)

Andy's just had a game where he served two doubles now.

I only know cos another Serbian player used to say it on twitter all the time (Janko Tipsaravic if you're interested). I can tell you that in French it is 'Allez' (courtesy of Stan). Bet you didn't know that!

Murray just broken.

Yuck. Commentator referring to Murray's "silky hand skills".

Eww. wtf are 'silky hand skills'

On second thoughts, don't tell me

Well Djok just broken back, helped by Andy who served two doubles again.

I do not want to know.

I think we learnt it in German as well. I can't remember what that was either.

You're too young Raahh to be thinking about silky hand skills.

You learnt silky hand skills in German Clay? :)

German Silky hand skills?? Is it Boris?

No.

The equivalent of Vamos/Allez.

three's very quiet these days perhaps she's practising her German silky hand skills,

Commentators spending an inordinate amount of time talking about Adriana Lima or whatever her name is. So if you don't even have to talk about tennis o commentate then the job's mine.

oh yes- three will be helping Boris recover from hip surgery, with her silky hands.