TENNIS Thread- C'est L'Open francaise -la seconde semaine! Allez!

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(Apologies to any French speakers and for lack of cedilla- hazy 'A' level French and an English keyboard)

Looking forward to Monfils/Federer

Think the only people cheering Berdy are his box.

Well at least Jo is trying to gee himself up. He needs to do something fast.

Oh Gilles losing too :(

looks like all the French supporters are at the Tsonga match.

The Stan/Simon match some what more one-sided than I would have thought.
You can never be sure which Stan will turn up to a match.

Right, come on Jo. You can break back.

I was in the kitchen- you can definitely tell when it is Tsonga who wins the point

Yay!

I like Stan but I'm not sure he has behaved very well towards his wife. Also, if the rumours are true about him and Vecic then that's a bit disturbing. Still, they are only rumours so I will reserve judgement. And I love his backhand!

Jo is back in the building.

Fantastic! Got to hold his nerve now though.

Tbh, I thought he had split up with his wife ages ago. They had certainly been apart so he could concentrate on his career, I remember reading.

Serve it out, Jo!!

Well, better late than never. Allez Jo!!

I can't imagine them putting Roger on now- the light can't be great there.

Oh fabulous :) Well done Jo.

He has to beat Nishikori. I will be seriously put out if he doesn't.

Stan needs new fashion advisors.

I will be gutted if he loses to Kei. But he will have the crowd behind him, which up to now is something Nish has avoided. A truly partisan crowd, not cheering for him, might put Nish off.

I really don't know why I dislike Kei,I'm sure he is very nice, but I find his game really pretty boring.
Ivanovic is another I can't stand. Very diva-ish, back when she was 'good'.

If this does get going, I wouldn't like to be the one who has to call it off due to bad light....

Petch and Jim are an odd looking pair.

Like muppets.

Jim and Mark are morphing into each other.

Tomorrow is going to be a great day. I have tried to avoid scheduling anything much this week. Have some things I can't get out of but not too bad.

Bloody hell- so there will be the Shrieky match, then the end of this one (which won't finish tonight) before Rafa comes on.

Won't look good for Murray, who is scheduled late.

Not sure what time Djok is due on, so if he is delayed until Tuesday, then that can only be good for Rafa. Although Djok is very fit, and I doubt Gasquet will give him trouble.

Well done Jo! Pity he couldn't have served like that at the end of the 3rd set.

Am recording the start of the Gael/Rog match whilst we eat.

I was hoping it would be held over for tomorrow so it would all be done in one . But I satill have the builders in next week so have to be in so will just have to watch all the tennis that there is!

Poor Pesky with her cracked mug - El Pot likes a flawless woman, comme moi!

still not satil! Where did that come from??

What's the weather forecast for Paris tomorrow? No I think Djok will make short work of Gasquet. Gael on the scoreboard.

I am flawless, it's Pot who has the crack in his bottom, not me!

After cooking and devouring a delicious roast pork dinner I'm now sitting comfortably to watch the Fed match. Monfils is very... mercurial.

Tomorrow looks ok, gets better as the day goes on, no rain. Tuesday much the same, but warmer. Some rain forecast for Wednesday, but early. I'm hoping the Rafa/Djok match will be a later one.