TENNIS THREAD - The clay season is in full swing, and it's onwards to Roland Garros!

[Raahh]

Shiny new thread.

Hopefully we will see some players return from injury in the next few weeks.

Munich/Istanbul in play this week amongst other tournaments.

Madrid week beginning the 7th (hopefully with Delpo playing)

It is a good match - difficult to call it now it’s gone into a fifth set but I think fognini seems to have the momentum now. I could very well be wrong though!

Just remembered it would be on the ITV app
What's Foggy doing wearing cap?

Oh I think we can guess Raahh

Jane

Raahh totally agree, i have no real reason to not like Pouille, I just find him fairly boring to watch.
5th set is tense both foggy and Edmund are looking nervous.

That was a solid hold. Fingers crossed.
They should definitely shoe the conclusion of an exciting match rather than the opening of the next one.

I'm happy

The commentary regarding Fognini's mental health is a bit off.

Well Eurosport 2 is showing the Nadal match. And they have just shown a very stupid talky bit with McEnroe. Which apparently was meant to be funny. .

Did anyone just see the weird John McEnroe thing on Eurosport 2 saying that because Rafa doesn’t want a roof at RG there has been a Spanish conspiracy to delay the roof until Rafa retires - it was very odd!

I'm glad Foggy won.

Fizzy yes, it was utterly stupid. Mac's a Roger fan, anyway. Probably why he thinks there should be a roof .

He was also ranting about Lendl beating him at the French Open - that man holds a grudge longer than I do!

I didn't have the commentary on. What did they say? I mean he can be a bit volatile but nothing major usually.

Some more upsets. Sharapova has absolutely hammered Pliskova and Kontaveit has just put out Kvitova 🙁

Fizzy

Oh rubbish- I really wanted Kvitova to do well.

And I really don't want Shrieky to get too much further. Even if it means Serena winning.

Bloody hell- I looked away for one minute, and they moved from Euro 2, to Euro 1.

Wilander is citing a match from 9 years ago as hope that someone can beat Nadal? That sounds like desperation.

Rafa has started very quickly

I'm glad he's won a game.

ferrier they said something along the lines that the trainer should tape up his head to keep it steady. Then after the match they said he has another side which is bonkers and other little digs here and there. I just don't like the type of language they use. They could just say he's a bit eccentric at times

Gasquet clearly needs me. It was 5-0 when I switched over to see what was happening. And then we won his service game to 0 and is now 0-30 on Nadal' s serve. I dare not look away!

Oh Jane they're always like that. I actually had a go at one of the commentary teams on Twitter once and suddenly they started being a lot more respectful in commentary. I like to think it wasn't a coincidence.

Phew! Richard had him rattled though.

Good for you. I'm not on Twitter because I would probably spend all day giving out to everyone. The joys of middle-age.

I can't work twitter But there have been many times during Wimbledon I have wished I did.