Grass court tennis/Queens championships thread

[purpleprincess]

Looking forward to a great few weeks of tennis!! Should we be asking MNHQ for some balls!!

So who is going to do well this year? Stan has tough first round match against Kyrios......and Nadal is playing Dolgo I think?

Being absolutely trivial here, Roger Rashid should stop dying his hair

bagel

yay! Rafa up next!

Rashid does look seedy - doesn't he?

Kyrigos was v pissadointing!

Rafa's ranking hasn't dropped just because of form- his ranking dropped due to being unable to defend nearly 6000 points in the second half of last year, due to surgery.

magi it was.

Stan looked good though. Although the tv coverage started when he'd already played a set.

Very pink headband there Rafa!

I am, of course , not focussing on his shorts. Oh no.

Hi, settling in for a couple of hours. Haven't seen Dogs for ages.

I'm fine now Clay, thank you - getting there, anyway!

Bearing in mind that the commentators all pronounce "Dolgopolov " differently wouldn't it be only sensible for them to adopt our eminently more sensible version of "Dogsbollocks"? Someone ring Sue up and tell her.

I had high hopes of Dogs. He hasn't lived up to them.

And of course he beat Rafa in Halle last year.

He won't win today.
if they don't shut up about his ranking. I will throw something. He is a victim of the success he had in 2013 - he couldn't defend the titles, he slipped down the rankings. Relatively speaking, his form this year ( pre RG) didn't matter as he had far less to defend.

Ooh, us, juan you should. He seems a nice bloke, he won't mind.

Don't chuck anything Raahh, violence is never the answer

I'll text my new mate Andrew and ask him to adopt the MN pronunciation.

oh flip.
.Vamos

I do not want the first time I have seen Dogs all year, be the day he beats Rafa. That would be rubbish.

He won't beat him. He's just off to a good start is all.

Rafa always takes a while to warm up.

So I'm told

Slow starter eh?

Who was the mnetter who had a house near Rafa's on Majorca? And can anyone remember which part of Majorca it was?

oh, I can't remember! That would be amazing. think of the stalking opportunities

Well he is finding his serve ...

and then he double faults.

I need to stop watching

oh crumbs.

No this is fine. We don't want Dogsbollocks to look silly so now he's got a set he can relax and let Rafa have the next two. Sorted.

Eek, that poor woman having her nose broadcast up close to the nation. I'd sue.

you are right Juan . He is making it look like a match.

I can't watch.