TENNIS THREAD- WIMBLEDON 2017 : Week 2 -quarter finals, semi finals and beyond...

[Raahh]

Thought we would need a new thread soon .

I unabashedly love Mirka's jumper and have a pair of jeans it would look perfect with. Glad to know that Primark is the place to look for that kind of thing.

Fed's tux is ... um ... interesting. Cobra of the Rising Sun is not where I expected him to go.

Would you pay that much for it though ,Grouchy? would you?

He was probably one of the most restrained at the Met Ball, though .

I love Mirka's style, really, I think it is the perfect foil for how pompous Roger sometimes looks. .

She looked quite wedding-y at the Champions dinner though. Again, like she did court side.

I've nearly survived Blue Monday.

and what did I find in my kitchen earlier?

A bloody flying ANT! .

I attacked it as though it were Inverdale commentating on a Rafa match...

Raahh poor ant

The fashion at the Met Ball is crazy and they have to navigate those stairs dressed in all sorts!

Still missing it

Aww Qui only 363 days to go (or thereabouts)!

I wish I could say I have achieved lots of things today.

I would be lying. .
It's still too warm.

I think I've seen off the ants.

I was thinking yesterday, as you do- there is both a Next Gen ATP Tour Final , and the 'Big Boys' Tour Final- and at the moment, Sascha Zverev looks like he could, at 18, qualify for both.(he's way ahead in the next gen one) Is that allowed? Were the organisers expecting that? I'm not sure, but I think one is just before the other.
He'd earn his right to be there, I suppose.

Inverdale gets paid more then CLARE BALDING. Think this calls for the first meeting of MAJI (Mumsnetters against John Inverdale).

Sue I saw this earlier

I am also surprised at how little (comparatively) Sue Barker gets paid, when you consider how many events she seems to crop up at (although she is stepping down from Question of Sport this year, I think).

Andrew Castle wasn't on the list I saw . Maybe he just does it because he loves the sound of his own voice?.

We need to storm the BBC in our MAJI t-shirts. If we ring Roger, he might tell us the name of the bloke on the market who printed his Ro8er t-shirts. We might get a good rate. It's a very worthy cause.

I need one of those MAJI t-shirts. I'd pay more for one than for Mirka's insanely cool jumper.

OMG about Inverdale!

As a previous poster said, he definitely knows where the bodies are buried!

I'll do both for a tenner

Brilliant Jane.

Yes Raahh they probably say "look Andrew, you can waffle on for 3 hours and you get sit next to John and meet all the big guns in tennis, aren't we really kind? Will you come along for free?" and he goes for it.

Jane Brilliant!

Andrew definitely works for free. After the travesty that was his stint in Strictly, he probably owes the Beeb money anyway.

I'm dying to know which matches are involved in this www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/19/three-wimbledon-matches-potential-match-fixing-tennis so that I can come to my own conclusion!

Interesting Jane.
I would love to know who it is. It says it's nothing to do with the injury retirements, it usually ends up being some one really low ranked . I would very much doubt anyone high profile would be involved.

Unless it's Djok, and he's really lost the plot .

Dogs and David Ferrer are in the final in Umag. Which is nice. Neither have had a good year.

I'm missing not being able to watch tennis 'live', always takes me a while to get used to only being able to score watch.

And I get my self confused 'watching' online...Ferrer and Dogs are in the final in Sweden, not Croatia.

I'm determined to waffle away til we fill this thread, ready for the hard court season anyway.

Hope everyone is having a happy Sunday. ( It's not raining here, which is good).

I've just seen that Hamburg is on Sky from tomorrow so hopefully I'll get to see some of it, yay!

live tennis on eurosport next friday! hope they show Hamburg on sky sports mix, i dont get any other SS.

still missing W. a week since the mens and mix finals. absolutley nothing on tv today! .

love the hard court season too, although they only usually show it on sky sports. then....the US open! .

btw who is 'dogs'?

Alexandr Dolgopolov Qui

Well done to Ferrer, winning in Sweden.
That's a good boost for him.

Can't believe it's only been a week! Seems like absolutely ages ago