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

[Raahh]

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

Looking forward to Monfils/Federer

that game was shorter, that should read.

I'm tired.

Stan has a break.
Could we maybe end up with a Stan/ Raga final? revenge match- my money would be on Rafa

Rafa.
I hate this phone

I don't like watching tennis with other people around. Ds2 has decided to sit and chat. Since in all his 17 years I can count on one hand the number of times he has chosen to sit and chat his timing is somewhat dubious. And MN is playing me up again.

Anyway, Stan is having a good match.

Stan should be ashamed of himself for those shorts, though Fed's are hardly better.

I am finding MN difficult at the moment.

They are flipping awful shorts. he needs to change whichever sponsor makes him wear them.

This applies to both players.

I am pleased to report that Tsonga is winning the second set 5-1.

Allez!

Excellent! He is fun to watch when on, ahem, Tsong.

Brilliant, looks like Ken is going home.

Prompted by the mention of "new balls" ds2 and dd are conducting a conversation about prosthetic, er, balls.

Maybe Fed isn't out of this set yet.

I love Stan's backhand.

Blimey, that bloke got off lightly. He could have been skewered.

Oh my goodness, I'm just catching up on what has happened on Chatrier.

That could have really caused damage.

I bet it was a Nish fan as play has been suspended

Those spikes looked lethal, didn't they?

Hi all. agree re. Stan's shorts. Terrible.

Bloody lucky only one person was injured.

Hi all, I'm at work so can't see any tennis. Can someone fill me in on what's just happened on Chatrier please?

Part of the big tv screen fell on someone in the crowd, who is fortunately ok, apparently. It's very windy out there. Play is suspended while they clear up and make sure it's safe.

Thanks Majestic. That's awful, thank goodness they are OK.

A big length of metal, studded with spikes (to stop the pigeons "defecating" as John so delicately termed it) was dislodged by the wind. It landed in the crowd but only one man was injured on his arm. Play was/is suspended.

ooh they are back out.

John has just answered what I was thinking- have they cleared the area?

If they need to move people, I'm sure there are plenty of empty seats/corporate ones who haven't paid for their ticket anyway

Sounds like a miracle nobody was seriously hurt.

Hello all.

I'm majorly pissed off.

Did you hear ?

Rafa V Novak is the match ONLINE tomorrow.

I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't run behind, so its not 'live' and they didn't look like playdoh people.

Not a happy bunny.

Stan is having a great day at the office.