Tennis Thread- It's the US OPEN already, we're prepared for late nights, (and Amazon Prime is making us cross already)

[Raahh]

I can't believe it's nearly September, really. I'm sure the Australian open has just finished.

I'm going to spend the morning labelling school uniform . I really am.

I probably won't

So not much a toddler but a puppy.

Yes a very untrained one!

The female commentator on Kerber's match (is it Martina?) is getting so frustrated at Angelique's game plan. I'm finding it very amusing.

ugh the towel thing! I get the rage when Isner sucks his shirt, too.

Maybe I'm just old.

And yy- lovely lingering shot of smiley happy Lendl before- I do like Ivan though.

I have Virginia Wade commentating. I can't stand listening to Virginia Wade.

Me too Raahh - I think I like him because he’s grumpy

But I'm going back to Zverev in a bit. Living dangerously today- although it takes a good 3-5 minutes to get from match to match.

But that's an improvement on Monday when it was taking forever.

Oh, I definitely relate to the miserable resting face, FIzzy.

I've realised now that the sun isn't so sunny, that Kerber is wearing a top and skirt.

Just though I'd mention that.

It sounded like the male commentator called the lady Virginia but she's not British so I wonder if it's Virginia Ruzici (who I hadn't heard of before today but we share a birthday so she's obviously marvellous).

Virginia Wade has a slight South African accent still, from living there as a child. But she is British.

I'm miffed now that, as expected, Kyrgios appears to have turned the match around.

I'd complain, if I was Herbert. The little chat was borderline coaching (in a 'pull yourself together ' way) and that isn't meant to be allowed.

Kerber finally takes it. The final set had some great tennis.

Ah, thanks Raahh.

Well done Kerber!

I always wondered about her accent, Grouchy (because it kind of annoys me), which is the only reason i know!

Ooh- Milkman is doing well I see.

Foggy and his crazy outfits are out

And Mahut- in his last slam- but at least he got a chance to play.

Apparently the USTA is going to look into" the conduct of the umpire in the Kyrgios match not sure if it was mentioned in commentary as I only saw the end, but I thought that was v interesting given all your comments!

Private when watching it, they did kind of say they thought it was interesting, but really I felt it over stepped the mark. He's a well respected Umpire- but it really looked like (and I missed what ever happened just before the conversation) he had stepped in to prevent a total Kyrgios tanking situation- that seemed to be the gist of the 'pep talk' which is how the commentators described it. After it, Nick was a different player.

I believe, if he wanted to faff around, and lose, then they should have let him. They are still talking about it during the Ostapenko match- and the commentator there disagrees the umpire should have been involved. Kyrgios wasn't warned , he got a little motivational chat. A.k.a coaching. .

I mean- can you imagine Murray putting up with that? (and they've shared a roller coaster).

I didn’t see it either Private but it doesn’t sound like normal umpire behaviour. Surely not fair on his opponent.

Wonder which umpire it was? Kygrios is annoying me and I'm not even watching!

Raahh have you started an X Factor thread yet?

Of course, it could be that the Umpire is part of a betting syndicate - and has placed bets on Kyrgios doing his tanking thing against Federer in the next round, and he was just protecting his investment.

I HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO BASE THIS ON OBVIOUSLY

Ooh controversial!!